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[genius]

These are the best talking points I've seen against Bush and something that even the Bush supporters need to think about before they vote. It covers almost every issue from the poisons in the food and water supply to jobs and war. It talks about how current and future children will one day see those who support Bush now.

I've spoken with Natasha, the girl who wrote it, and she said it was okay to print it and distribute it widely as long as the copies are complete and contain a copyright notice.


WILL THEIR CHILDREN FORGIVE THEM?
By Natasha (age 13)

Remember the Reichstag

A long time ago in a country far, far away, a rising dictator managed to use a national tragedy as an excuse (1) to round up thousands of suspected terrorists, imprisoning or deporting them, (2) to push through anti-terrorism legislation, (3) to solidify his power and gain popularity, making dissent unpatriotic, (4) to round up and imprison citizens without the right of trial, (5) later, to use his new-found powers to go to war and invade helpless countries for false reasons and take their resources and (6) to kill a great many of his countries soldiers in these wars and a great many innocent civilians, both in his country and around the world.

For decades a stigma or cloud has hung over the German people. Although Hitler is gone, the world remembers and still questions what kind of people could have sat still and just let it happen. You see Hitler did what mad, power-hungry leaders are supposed to do. He used every means possible to gain more power, even though it meant the loss of liberty and life. This was his role in life. Although the German people were told that they needed to stay the course for security because the enemy was out there, something inside of them should have told them it was wrong or that they needed to change leaders. Some were simply being patriotic or ignorant. But wasn’t there a duty on their part to learn the truth? Wasn’t there a duty to change the course to save their families and innocent people around the world? Though some blame Hitler, a great many more blame the German people of the thirties and forties for not doing what was in the interests of their immediate families, their country and their Earthly family.

Three of my paternal great-grandparents were killed in the Nazi death camps. My paternal grandparents left and became American citizens. But my grandfather went back as part of U.S. military intelligence. When my grandfather went back with Germany’s enemy, he was being more patriotic to Germany than any of the people who stayed and who allowed their country to become a vile and hated thing. Because of people like my grandfather (and not because of Hitler’s followers), Germany is now a country its current citizens can be proud of. As for my great-grandparents, Hitler could not have killed them without the willing acquiescence of all those people who didn’t want to risk terrorism from the enemy, who didn’t want to learn the truth about what was happening in their own country, who didn’t want to change horses in the middle of a crisis, and who didn’t trust a different leader to keep them safe.

Today, America is at a crossroads. How will my generation, when it finally wakes up and learns the truth (and it certainly will), feel about the adults of today? How will tomorrow’s children think about the Americans of today?


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[tomfodw]

1. Wow

Not much else to say.

[PROGRESSIVE1]

2. kick

[jgardner]

3. A 13 year old wrote this?

Wow.

[genius]

4. 13 year old Natasha is the youth chairman for the PHDC

She's very impressive.