My heart goes out to all our Jewish brethren and all men and women of goodwill, who felt offended by President Duterte’s comparison of drug users and dealers (junkies) to Holocaust victims. I begin by saying that Adolf Hitler became Europe’s mad scientist whose Frankenstein monster was Nazism and the first victims were the Jews. It was a cruel time when Hitler played God without divine permission, like President Duterte who is considered by many to be playing God by deciding who dies and and who lives. The Nazi regime became Germany’s unstoppable monster, animated by Adolf Hitler’s ideology of Aryan supremacy, a racial theory that told the world: “All Jews were untermenschen (subhuman).” It was the basis for the murder of Jews, defective children in the womb, the comatose, inutile grandparents in the home of the aged, prisoners in the death row, etc. Maybe, just maybe, this sort of subconscious philosophy was in the President’s mind when he said that junkies were not humans. Charismatic, populist In Nazi Germany, it all began in 1935 when the Nuremberg Laws defined Jews by race and mandated the total separation of “Aryans from non-Aryans,” the social segregation of Germans and Austrians from the Jews. World War II then came rumbling. It marked the beginning of genocide in many parts of Europe. And in order to justify the mass murder of the Jews, the Nazis used both logical arguments and stereotypes. Jews “are disloyal citizens and a danger to internal security,” Nazis perpetually announced in public address systems. Evil genius Hitler gave birth to Nazism and Nazism gave birth to the xenophobic “voelkisch (people’s) movement.” Almost similar to Duterte’s mass support, the movement was made up of German scholars, thinkers and artists who viewed the Jewish spirit as alien to Germandom. I quote the Führer in his own words (from his Read More …
