What's happened to our moral compass?

[OakRidgeStars]

[rlbellco72]

It went south OakRidge! Here is a link to the Web page dedicated to this great woman.

http://www.irenasendler.com/

What this woman did far outweighs anything Gore or Obummer ever did.

[Kreutz]

Nobel Prize committee doesn't publish nominees for 50 years after they're considered.

Something ain't right here.

[Reverenddel]

She's got her reward in Heaven. Pardon my french, but to Hell with the Nobel Peace Prize. When they gave it to Yassier Arrafat, I wrote them off.

[dorminWS]

She's got her reward in Heaven. Pardon my french, but to Hell with the Nobel Peace Prize. When they gave it to Yassier Arrafat, I wrote them off.

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I wrote them off on Jimmy Carter.

[saltydog]

Never heard her story. I find it amazing that she was not killed and lived such a long life.

[SpanishInquisition]

Ohhh... wait... she was saving JEWS! So the Nobel prize people are also now on the anti-Semitic bandwagon?

AlGore the Green won over this heroic woman? Travesty, I say! Somewhere in Sweden, Albert Nobel is still rolling in his grave over this.

[thekinetic]

Here's a question where's the proof any of this happened? There's a lot of holes in that story posted.

So if yall will excuse me there's an email from a Nigerian prince that needs deleting.

[OakRidgeStars]

http://www.irenasendler.com/thestory.asp

[Mindflayer]

Regardless of the Nobel Prize thing, her story is true.

Now we've become a world polarized by idiocy, where people drink from the fountains of the demagogues, and seek to ostracize those that are not part of a politically-correct, homogeneous culture.

How many of you would lift a finger if, say, the USA started shipping off people to camps? How about if they were black? Gay? Muslim?

[mamabearCali]

Unless they have been found guilty of a crime I'd raise whatever stink I could. That is not what we do as Americans.

Why are you insinuating that the good people of this board are uncaring evil people?

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[Mindflayer]

Unless they have been found guilty of a crime I'd raise whatever stink I could. That is not what we do as Americans.

Why are you insinuating that the good people of this board are uncaring evil people?

There's no insinuation. Just a question. Why are you making the insinuation that you are?

[mamabearCali]

You asked if we would lift a finger.....of course we would.

I am rather tired of the rhetoric that conservatives hate blacks, gays, and Muslims. I am quite tired of being called names just because of the shade of my skin and my faith.

If you meant nothing by that why did you not say would you lift a finger for red necks, Amish, and Buddists? It was a jab and I for one am tired of being jabbed.

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[Palladin]

We kill our millions here and call it pro choice.

[mamabearCali]

Yes, and I have stood in marches. Given $$, given time, prayed, written my representatives and done everything I can to end it. As I can I will gladly do more.

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[Wallace]

This about sums it up for me...

[Kreutz]

How many of you would lift a finger if, say, the USA started shipping off people to camps? How about if they were black? Gay? Muslim?

Definitely a little offended here, of course I'd lift a finger.

They're not going to herd themselves onto trains.

Duh.

[Mindflayer]

Haha, Kreutz!

Mamabearcali, you are missing the point. History is replete with good people standing by as bad things happened. When you're not one of "those people", it's easy to stand by. We say we would do the right thing, but when the poo hits the fan....

You said Buddhists? Yeah, that's happened. My people were herded in to internment camps here in the USA. So, yes, it can and HAS happened here.

It's not a ding on YOU. Don't be so damned sensitive or I might start thinking you're an Obamabot. (That's a joke!)

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[mamabearCali]

If the poo hits the fan I shall see to my family and will then do what I can outside of that. However as I am a Christian, a liberty minded conservative, and a gun owner I expect that if the cattle cars roll up that my family and I will be the ones running like rabbits for a safe den.

If I am sensitive then chalk it up to having been beat on for the past 5 months by progressives, rhino's, and those without a moral compass.

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[grumpyMSG]

How many of you would lift a finger if, say, the USA started shipping off people to camps? How about if they were black? Gay? Muslim?

Definitely a little offended here, of course I'd lift a finger.

They're not going to herd themselves onto trains.

Duh.

Kreutz, that wasn't even close to being funny. Mindflayer our nation has shipped people off to camps for years and years. The most recent was the internment of people of Japanese descent during World War II, One of the members, who posts a lot, said she was half Japanese (I might have the proportion wrong) in another thread. Would her family have been shipped off back then? Before that our Federal Government made treaties with Indians and broke them later.
http://www.history.com/topics/trail-of-tears

At our nation's founding, there was an elephant in the room, slavery. Some of our founding fathers recognized it and tried to end it there. A compromise was reached, the nation wouldn't have existed as it is today without that compromise. That is also what set us down the path toward the Civil War. I realize that I will draw the ire of some on here for saying that. They will immediately chant about "States Rights". So I will offer some proof that the biggest "States Rights" that were being abridged at the time were in fact related to slavery. Virginia's secession declaration even mentions it:

The people of Virginia in their ratification of the Constitution of the United States of America, adopted by them in convention on the twenty-fifth day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, having declared that the powers granted under said Constitution were derived from the people of the United States and might be resumed whensoever the same should be perverted to their injury and oppression, and the Federal Government having perverted said powers not only to the injury of the people of Virginia, but to the oppression of the Southern slave-holding States:

http://www.constitution.org/csa/ordinan ... ession.htm
To take it a little further, 4 states had Declarations of Causes:
http://sunsite.utk.edu/civil-war/reason ... 20Carolina
Not long before the Civil war, we had this wonderful incident happen in the Capitol:
http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/his ... Sumner.htm
Before that there were political enemies taking it the end, the duel between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton:
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/natio ... urr_1.html

We can't forget the footprints of an infamous Virginian, Doctor Joseph S. DeJarnette. Doctor DeJarnette's model was used by none other than Adolph Hitler:

A celebrated physician and psychiatrist during the early decades of the 20th century, Dr. DeJarnette is most famous for his support and involvement in the eugenics movement, which included support for sterilization of the “feeble minded,” alcoholics, drug addicts, and those suffering from other mental illnesses. He penned the pro-eugenics poem “Mendel’s Law” and lobbied prominently in favor of Virginia’s 1924 compulsory sterilization law. Dr. DeJarnette also served as an expert witness in the Supreme Court case Buck v. Bell (1927), which upheld the constitutionality of Virginia’s sterilization legislation. Though his deeds were revered during his lifetime, Dr. DeJarnette’s legacy is something most find rather repugnant today. Due to DeJarnette’s eugenics advocacy, the Virginia Department of Mental Health, Mental Retardation and Substance Abuse Services in 2001 changed the name of the DeJarnette Center for Human Development (formerly DeJarnette State Sanatorium) to the Commonwealth Center for Children and Adolescents. In 2002 Governor Mark Warner issued a formal apology for the commonwealth’s involuntary sterilization program.

http://www.virginiamemory.com/blogs/out ... ejarnette/

We have always had problems with our "Moral Compasses", it is nothing new.