Waco Mail from Charlotte Siegfried

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Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 19:42:53 -0700
From: Charlotte Siegfried <csieg@kconline.com>
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You state in your so-called "Holocaust" site:

"The tiny sect called the Branch Davidians, reviled in the 1990s, were
as worthy of protection as the Jews of Europe, reviled in the 1940s."

How dare you make such a blazenly thoughtless and irresponsible
statement!  The Jews had no emotionally questionable and dangerously
manipulative leader, no mind-controlling techniques, hoarded no
semi-automatic guns, practiced no morally questionable behavior and
psychologically scarring behavior.  The Davidians had no history of
senseless persecution century after century, had no justifiablly
ingrained sense of caution, and DEFINITELY were not the scapegoats of
every single ill in our society.

To say that just because the Davidians were "reviled" (by whom, I don't
know) is no reason to dishonor or tarnish the memory of thousands upon
thousands of dead Jews.  Muslims (American and Arabic) are "reviled,"
communists are "reviled," hell, even our own government is "reviled."
Does that make their situations similar to that the Jews faced in the
1930s and 1940s?  To be reviled and killed, that doesn't make you
"Jew-like."

I shouldn't be surprised at these words, I guess.  It's just the same
kind of right-wing fanatical rhetoric that unfortunately is becoming
more common.  I weep for both your reason and your heart.


Reply

To:        Charlotte Siegfried <csieg@kconline.com>
From:      "Carol A. Valentine" <SkyWriter@Public-Action.com>
Date:      Fri, 18 Apr 1997 21:07:00 -0500
Subject:   Re: How dare you!

At 07:42 PM 4/18/97 -0700, you wrote:

>You state in your so-called "Holocaust" site:
>

Why "so-called" Holocaust site?  Get a good English dictionary, or two.  Look the word up.  You will find that the word has been in the English language for many years--long before the advent of Hitler.  Holocaust means annihilation through burning.  Check it out.  I have used the word correctly.

>"The tiny sect called the Branch Davidians, reviled in the 1990s, were
>as worthy of protection as the Jews of Europe, reviled in the 1940s."
>
>How dare you make such a blazenly thoughtless and irresponsible
>statement!  The Jews had no emotionally questionable and dangerously
>manipulative leader, no mind-controlling techniques, hoarded no
>semi-automatic guns, practiced no morally questionable behavior and
>psychologically scarring behavior.

Jews, like all humans, are subject to flaws.  Surely among those Jews who died during Hitler's reign there were some less than perfect human beings.

>  The Davidians had no history of
>senseless persecution century after century, had no justifiablly
>ingrained sense of caution, and DEFINITELY were not the scapegoats of
>every single ill in our society.
>
>To say that just because the Davidians were "reviled" (by whom, I don't
>know)

See your statements, above.  You have answered your own question.  YOU revile them.

> is no reason to dishonor or tarnish the memory of thousands upon
>thousands of dead Jews.  Muslims (American and Arabic) are "reviled,"
>communists are "reviled," hell, even our own government is "reviled."
>Does that make their situations similar to that the Jews faced in the
>1930s and 1940s?  To be reviled and killed, that doesn't make you
>"Jew-like."
>
>I shouldn't be surprised at these words, I guess.  It's just the same
>kind of right-wing fanatical rhetoric

My concern is non-racist humanitarianism.

 that unfortunately is becoming
>more common.
>

I notice you don't talk much about the evidence, or the concept of "Equal Justice Under Law," which is the theme of the Museum.  Among the murdered Davidians there were many races.  One Davidian was an Israeli Jew, Pablo Cohen, who had converted to Davidianism.  Should Pablo's murderer be brought to justice, because Pablo was a Jew, or allowed to go unpunished, because Pablo was a Davidian?

Thus we see what happens when we allow racism to interfere with even-handed administration of justice.  I believe that all persons should be treated equally under the law.  Again, "Equal Justice Under Law" is the theme of the Museum.

> I weep for both your reason and your heart.

Do you also weep for the Davidian children?