Night by Elie Wiesel

Picture Source: Oprah.com

The horror and pain in their faces speaks volumes.

Today I sat still, not breathing, stunned as I watched Professor Elie Wiesel, walk arm in arm with Oprah and recall his first hand account of being a prisoner of the Auschwitz Death Camp at the age of 15 years, beginning in 1942. The miracle of survival told by this prolific writer, teacher, philosopher, and Nobel Peace Prize winning Author is profound.

I felt a physical weight in the pit of my stomach, a lump blocking my throat, and when I finally exhaled, my eyes released a well of tears... sad and burning hot.

The camp, now a preserved part of this horrific history that tortured and killed millions of innocent Jews, displays the suitcases marked with the names and birth dates of the prisoners who had no reason to believe that they would never need the contents. Those considered able to work, therefore allowed to live, had loved ones torn away from them, they were stripped of all belongings, stripped of their identities, and tattooed with a number. They were given striped suits which were a thin fabric, worn day and night, all seasons, never washed, never a bath or a shower.

The clothes and shoes of babies, children, women and men. Shoes that would never be filled, says Professor Wiesel, with the human beings who could have potentially cured cancer or AIDS. One pair of red women's shoes... Professor Wiesel determined they must have belonged to a dancer.

Then there was the hair. The heads of all, dead and alive, were shaved and the hair was sold to make fabric. Behind a window in a sealed display Oprah and Professor Wiesel stared at thousands of pounds of hair which had been discovered, ready to be shipped, when the camp was liberated. Some still braided.

The historic footage is grim. The faces of those who live only to breathe death day and night. Then there were the walking dead. Skeletons walking. Gas chambers where naked innocents were herded believing they would now get a shower after 10 days in a boxcar with hundreds of others and no food or water. Mothers clutching their infants. The terrified faces of the children. The frail and elderly losing all dignity. The crematorium where babies were heard screaming when they were thrown in alive. Hundreds of thousands of dead emaciated bodies bulldozed into mass graves and burned as the smell of their flesh penetrated the senses of their surviving loved ones.

To think of the little brat in my FLDS blog (comments section), found below, having taunted people on another forum with her "Sieg Heil" chant!!! I pray she is as ignorant as she seems because if that were done with intent, based on knowledge of the evil monster it is attributed too, she ought to be deeply, deeply ashamed, and hope that the people on the forum who lost relatives in the Holocaust will find it in their hearts to forgive her.

Professor Elie Wiesel says that there is no explanation; there is no understanding. True, so very true.

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FLDS Prophet, Warren Jeffs, Profiled on America’s Most Wanted

Warren Jeffs, who is the cult leader for the FLDS polygamist sect in Colorado City, AZ, was profiled on the FOX network's America's Most Wanted tonight (May 06 2006).

It showed clearly the sick and twisted relationships men in this "religion" are taught to have with little girls. When the decision is made for a man to have a certain girl child, the parents turn them over without question because they have been brainwashed to believe that this is God's way.

The show played tapes of Warren Jeffs teaching his followers that everything ungodly is created by Negros and homosexuals. There are videos of tonight's AMW episode on the link below. It also includes the case profile, photos, and information about this sick sexual perversion and the power and money involved. Check it out, and tell me what you think.

http://www.amw.com/fugitives/brief.cfm?id=33750

This polygamist religion is accomplished in huge numbers by psychological control. The followers are isolated and controlled through fear, coercion and deception. When they are raised this way from birth, they don't have the ability to question any of it. They are kept in guarded compounds and taught to fear the outside world and everything in it. I suppose that makes their sexual and physical abuse seem pretty minor until they find out that the world is not what they are told it is.

Some do escape or are rescued by people risking their own lives to get their loved ones out, but according to former member, Flora Jessop, who was interviewed by Nancy Grace on CNN, when females try to leave they are hunted.

...to be continued, but feel free to comment...

Writers Block!

Sometimes my tired brain just screeches to a halt. It has been one of those weeks, but that's when I use my time to do the mundane things like shopping, organizing, banking and housework.

I have spent some time on my motorcycle, walking, or just sitting to watch a movie, or some Arrested Development on DVD.

Work is great, and B is talking more every day. He has developed a sensitivity to spills, even drips from his straw onto the place mat, and it upsets him until they are cleaned up. We got another 15 truck books from the library, so that keeps him very happy... especially the one about garbage trucks! Fascinating to him; it makes me smile.

More later when I am back on my writing roll.