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Title: Ohio State Highway Patrol Cadets Study Holocaust
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URL Source: http://www.wcpo.com/news/2005/local/06/04/holocaust.html
Published: Jun 4, 2005
Author: N/A
Post Date: 2005-06-06 16:38:57 by 1776
Keywords: Holocaust, Highway, Patrol
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Comments: 16
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- State Highway Patrol cadets participated in sensitivity training based on a study of police in Nazi Germany, joining a small group of law enforcement agencies that used the tool. Last week, 38 cadets sat through a four-hour lecture discussing how the Nazis used police to harass labor leaders, teachers, clergy members, gypsies and the mentally retarded -- and eventually to kill Jews. Patrol Superintendent Paul D. McClellan decided to include the Holocaust education in the cadets' 30 weeks of overall training because he wants to show his cadets how not to perform when they graduate. "It's my job to set the tone for how we deal with our citizens," McClellan said. McClellan says law enforcement ethics has been a particularly relevant topic because of heightened security and privacy questions since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. McClellan said the training didn't use taxpayer money and was funded by a museum grant from Columbus-based Limited Brands. Staff members of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. conducted the seminar with the help of the Anti-Defamation League. "It makes us ask better question of ourselves and think about our role as human beings. If one officer stops and thinks, it will be worth it," said Lynn D. Williams, one of the museum's presenters. The FBI, police in D.C. and Maryland and a handful of other agencies have used "Law Enforcement and Society: Lessons of the Holocaust" in their training. The cadets, who take an oath of office as law enforcement officers, took note of how German police oaths changed after Hitler's rise to power. Before, police swore loyalty to uphold the constitution. When Hitler was in power, they swore allegiance to the Third Reich and the Fuhrer. "This whole thing is always going to be in the back of my mind," Jacquelyn Layson, of Toledo, said afterwards. Trooper Eric Williams, of Zanesville, took in the seminar out of personal interest. "It reminds me of the old saying, `Those who forget the lessons of history are destined to repeat them,"' said Williams, who studied the Holocaust in college. The White House says President Bush plans to speak at the State Highway Patrol Academy in Columbus next week as part of his push for renewal of the Patriot Act. Bush's appearance Thursday will be his fourth since winning election to a second term.
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#8. To: 1776, wbales, Bayonne, Jethro Tull, Zoroaster, Eoghan, Diana, noone222, NOLAJBS, Dakmar, itisa1mosttoolate (#0)
this is beyond absurd.
Anti-Defamation League. Meet our new rulers everybody!
#12. To: Diana (#11)
Which memorial was built first? The one to our American WWII veterans (16,000,000 of them) or the one to a people who were never American, who never lived in America and who did not die in America. BTW, how many among American Jewry signed up for WWII?
The impact of the holocaust, the misery and suffering of foreigners in faraway lands, has been adopted into American lore, a drastic improved version of the "eternally innocent Jew, or a diabolically new invention. The sanctification of the "chosen" is a fundamental fuction of mythology. It brings forth what Jews are and what they might be. For now they claim the land by creating museums, by teaching courses at police academies--they invest the land with the horrors of guilt and masochism to advance Jewish supremacy.
Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/LatestStaff members of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. conducted the seminar with the help of the Anti-Defamation League.
#11. To: christine, 1776, wbales, Bayonne, Jethro Tull, Zoroaster, Eoghan, noone222, NOLAJBS, robin, Dakmar, itisa1mosttoolate (#8)
Staff members of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. conducted the seminar with the help of the
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And shall there be a European Memorial to the ~40 million Europeans who died in WWII too then? Or perhaps one for the 20 million Soviets who died in WWII? (Not to be confused with the additional 20 million that Papa Stalin murdered).
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