We are villagers but there are no villages.

Fred Engels died last week, at the age of 97. Fred was the Nazi SS officer who was tried for overseeing a massacre of Italian villagers in 1944. In his defense he told the court that he didn’t order the murders or do the shooting—-his job was to select the victims from a jail that the fascists had been using to hold people they didn’t like or suspected of sedition, sort of like Guantanamo Bay...

I don’t think the world noticed Engels’ passing. The “world� had already forgotten about Fred and all the innocent people he didn't murder but just stood them up against the wall. The war crimes tribunal was unable to convict Fred because they weren’t able to distinguish where guilt lay. This is like our inability to understand why some Moslem people regard Bush as a fascist and a murderer. With Cheney at least, there’s a smoking gun, and even so, it’s not the right gun. Many murders go unpunished.

Michael Winn
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