As he stated in his Washington
Post op-ed, FBI Director Comey was sincere about sending all FBI officers
to the Holocaust Museum to see how bureaucracies can run amok. It alerts FBI officers to the evil that they
are helping to stop, and alerts them not to be sucked into the banality of
evil, of accepting evil orders unquestioningly. But he unwittingly pointed out
the dangers in carelessly accusing innocent parties of complicity in that
evil. He buys into a way of thinking
that Jews have encouraged, that anyone living within 100 or 200 miles of anything
connected to the Holocaust is tainted and should die or at least go to prison
for years and years.
By this standard, almost all Poles are complicit, and Comey
named them as “murderers and accomplices for Germany.” His doing so elicited a protest from the
Polish government, a Jewish columnist (married to the speaker of the Polish
parliament), and an apology from American Ambassador Steve Mull. The Washington
Post columnist, Anne Applebaum, wrote that the Germans destroyed the Polish
government, and introduced “the power of fear, the danger of lawlessness and the horror
that was made possible by a specific form of German state terror in the years
between 1939 and 1945 – a terror that convinced many people to do things
that they knew were terribly, terribly wrong.”
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