Monday 12 November 2018

Neo-Nazism rears that ugliest of heads once again.

Neo Nazism rears that ugliest of heads again.

They told us that it would never happen again in anybody's lifetime. And yet with the most repulsive motives it has. They look at their news bulletins and, hanging their heads with absolute horror, they see exactly why the abominations of yesteryear, so graphically illustrated in yesterday's Remembrance services across the world, have so offensively intruded upon our consciousness just as we thought they would never ever surface again.

Today, two members of the Neo-Nazi National Action were thankfully convicted in a court of a law of the most despicable of violent racism, white supremacists who have unforgivably attached themselves to vile nationalism and extremism while sneering, sniggering and smiling arrogantly in front of millions. Truly, this could not be made up. We know your names and you have now been publicly exposed but somehow the hideous faces of anti-semitism have reared their heads once again.

Just when you thought such disgraceful and utterly pernicious behaviour could ever be spewed up so blatantly on any TV evening news agenda it quite clearly has and you'd be forgiven for thinking that some of us are ever so disillusioned and dreadfully deflated. It's now well over 70 years since the end of the Second World War and the cancer of terrorism and hate crime has yet to be eliminated,  completely wiped off the face of the world here and now.

Still we are faced by a young couple and their baby proudly holding up the filthily abhorrent and disgusting Swastika, convinced in their own twisted minds that the Nazis failed to complete the job and that now seemed the most opportune moment to resurrect their sick ideologies and nationalist allegiances.

And just to make sure that things could not get any worse they emphasise all the gory details. The child now goes under the name of Adolf Hitler and insult has well and truly been added to severely damaged injury. How on earth have we come to the point where two people, hitherto regarded as intelligent and rational thinking, have not the only poisoned the clear waters of decency and civilised opinion,  have also left the foulest stench behind them? It is the most obnoxious smell and it is, quite obviously, intolerable.

Then they proceed to reference the Klu Klax Klan, that revolting band of cult followers who throw that most ghastly set of white robes over themselves and can only be seen through the narrowest of eye slits. Surely, this has to be a time when society has to take the most decisive action and put its feet down firmly and quickly.

For too long now we have tolerated the murderous thought processes of these appalling individuals with no concept of history, no appreciation of the horrendous savageries of the Nazi regime and very little in the way, seemingly, of any semblance of commonsense. How to explain the mindset of two people whose minds have been brutally brainwashed and revoltingly indoctrinated by forces that may have thought to be beyond their understanding.

But the truth is that once again the evils and depravities that once infected the smallest minority, are now dripping through the drain like the dirtiest of sewage water. In a world still affected by the volatilities and instabilities of a broken society, today once again underlined the very obvious. Racism of any kind and degree is still spreading and seeping into all corners of the globe and is now bubbling over into the latest news narrative of the day.

One day we will wake up and find that racism and its monstrous impact will simply cease to exist, that a rampantly deadly disease will be snuffed out for ever more. Under the circumstances this does seem the right moment to be both reactionary, furious and passionate. It is indeed the right time to rise up as one and express our fierce condemnation, our blistering anger and red blooded opprobrium because this cannot be  allowed to flourish in any law abiding community, country or city. A line has to be drawn in the sand and the sooner the better.

We can only rub our eyes with disbelief and amazement. We find ourselves surrounded by a young couple whose belief systems have now been strangled to death, young minds whose minds must have been so distant in school history lessons that maybe they should have been forced to listen even if they had no desire to do so whatsoever.

And so we get on with the business of living, haunted by the day's rather unsavoury turn of events. Underneath  the undercurrents of our everyday living is still that nagging anxiety about today's horrific developments. There are some out there who would willingly turn back the clock to a time that is still mentally raw and fresh in the minds of those who suffered and kept on suffering until it became unbearable.

Once again it is time to stand up against the deeply toxic forces of racism, to declare our utter revulsion in the face of anti-semitism, to say once again that enough is enough. The presence of Neo Nazism is both worrying and deeply troubling to some of us. For those of us who are grandchildren of Holocaust survivors it is time to remove this bleeding wound once and for all, this painful gash, this deeply ingrained hurt, this rotten canker that can never be healed unless we can sleep in the knowledge that it may never be mentioned at any time in a news bulletin.

There have to be discussions at the highest level, a collective determination to stamp out this most potentially lethal of all devastating illnesses. The very image of a Swastika is still one that evokes the most powerful emotions. It hardly seems believable that even though peace was officially announced in May 1945 there are those who would undoubtedly advocate yet more global destruction, yet more widespread slaughter of the innocent and the imminent outbreak of World War Three. Oh never, never never ever again.

Now is the time to show once again that the horrors of war and terrorism have to be ripped out, crushed into the dirt, never seen again and banished to a yellowing page in history. Neo Nazism has to be killed on the spot and in the light of what we've seen today, buried in the muddiest hole history can found.

I'm sure I speak on behalf of everybody here when I say that we must never be subjected to the lead story on today's BBC News. A cold shiver of fear briefly attacked my nervous system, a rising swell of resentment that came right from the pit of the stomach. We trust that we will never find that the name of Adolf Hitler will ever resound across the nation and that the atrocities he committed most disgracefully against the human race will never be repeated.

As the world gathers its final thoughts on the centenary of the World War's conclusion it is time to ask whether he can finally rid ourselves of racism, prejudice and unspeakable terror. Yesterday at 11.00 in the morning, a hollow but deeply respectful hush fell sombrely over Whitehall. We remembered of course of the hundreds and thousands of soldiers who sacrificed everything on the bloody battlefields of the First World War. We bowed our heads reflectively and prayed that the two wars that so scarred and traumatised so many would never ever be re-enacted. Never again should we ever hear the deeply chilling messages that Neo Nazism had so sharply reminded of us again. It has to be time to stop now and immediately. Peace has to be restored and preserved for ever more. 











  

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