The Guilt of Silence

A letter to the Editor by Aaron Murphy... (my bro)

The Guilt of Silence

On April 11th 1944, U.S. troops liberated a German concentration camp called Buchenwald. Four days later, our troops gathered over a thousand local German citizens to tour the camp. The people of Buchenwald held handkerchiefs to their faces as they marched past piles of rotting corpses, rows of inhuman bunkhouses, and ovens.
Similar human extermination camps were discovered with names like Auschwitz Birkenau, Belzec, Chelmno, Janowska, Majdanek, Sobibor, Treblinka. When the war came to an end, over six million Jews, gypsies, and other defenseless people were slaughtered. The frightening thing is that most of this killing occurred under the nose of ordinary people like you and me. That is why our troops had to foresight to force the local citizens to view the results of their total indifference to the massacre of the defenseless. We don’t usually think of history as being shaped by silence, but, as English philosopher Edmund Burke said, ‘The only thing necessary for the triumph [of evil] is for good men to do nothing.’
Some people may say that it was cruel to force the citizens of that community to see the horrors of these camps. I say it was the best in humanity to force us to look inside ourselves in an effort to determine why we ignored the signs of evil.
Here is a look inside the extermination ovens in our country. From 1973 through 2005, more than 45 million legal abortions occurred. The vast majority of these abortions were conducted as a form of birth control. We are systematically exterminating the most innocent and defenseless among us. The remains of our young are going up in smoke rising from furnaces designed to destroy medical waste. When our Supreme Court validated the destruction of our young in 1973 case of Roe v. Wade, our mindset began to change. Today, some people believe it is alright to kill a baby moments before a normal birth. Certain politicians even resist measures to protect children who happen to live through the abortion process.
To make it seem OK, the Nazis painted the Jews as inhuman. Citizens who saw the atrocities and did nothing, took refuge from their guilt by believing the deception to be truth. Today, we attempt to assuage our consciences by calling a baby, a “fetus” or an “embryo,” avoiding the term “baby.”
Enough! The time has come to march by our holocaust. Let us examine the guilt of silence within our hearts and minds, and for the sake of us all, let’s stop the killing.