To Prevent Another Holocaust

Actually holocausts are going on all the time.  Although the Jewish holocaust
of World War II was probably the the biggest and certainly the best publicized,
 there have been mass murders or exterminations in the Soviet Union in the
1930s, in Communist China during the 'Cultural Revolution, "  in Cambodia under
Pol Pot, and several times in Africa in the last decade or so.  Throughout
human history there have been countless attempts to exterminate members of
particular nations, religions, races, classes, tribes, ethnic groups, etc.  The
Nazis happened to be better organized than the others at doing this and had the
technology of a modern Western society at their disposal.

What is at the base of all extermination movements is collectivism: the
philosophy that holds that the individual has no rights and no value and that
individuals can and should be sacrificed for the alleged good of the group,
whether that group is the proletariat, the Aryans, the Catholic Church, the
Protestants , the Communist Party, the Hutus, the community, "the public
interest", etc.  And extermination movements usually don't amount to much
unless it is a government that is in charge.  The government is that
organization which controls the instruments of force within a given territory. 
Primitive nomadic people without governments cannot do much in the way of
exterminations.  Private individuals have very limited means for killing. 
Governments on the other hand have countless bombs and bullets and hundreds of
thousands of armed soldiers trained to kill at command.  Governments can drain
all of the assets of the society for war and destruction.  Government is a
necessary monster,  a vital institutution that is constantly trying to break
free of any moral, legal, or constitutional limits in order to go on a
nihilistic, murderous rampage.  To prevent further holocausts one must start by
understanding and supporting individual rights, by rejecting the concept of
group rights or the primacy of the group over the individual, and by
recognizing unrestrained government as the great enemy of human wealth,
freedom, and survival.

It is a pitiful irony that so many Jews have been supporters of collectivist
movements in the Soviet Union, in the United States, and in other countries. 
In the Soviet Union Jewish communists did their part to starve millions of
their fellow citizens to death, only to end up going to their own deaths after
the show trials that were used to purge the Communist leadership.  

Jake Drake