Part IV of the "Polish Crosses" controversies shows briefly how the global press caught on and started giving it its spin. Several Associated Press article explained what happened after the Jews locked horns with the Poles:
* First, the Polish Government backed a proposal that would establish a 100-yard protection zone around the sites of former Nazi death camps.
* This -law-in-the-making was developed after "conservative Catholics" erected "hundreds of crosses" just outside of the former death camp at Auschwitz.
* Jewish organizations were "upset at the crosses, which they claimed "insulted the memory of Jews killed there."
* Besides Auschwitz, the bill was to cover "the sites of former Nazi death camps at Majdanek, Sobibor, Belzec, Treblinka, Gross Rosen, Sztutowo and Chelmno as well".
* The government lost a court fight to get the crosses taken down, but is appealing the decision. Government officials stated that they "hoped the new law would give them final authority to order the crosses removed".
Meanwhile a man, described by Reuters in a March 14 article as a "radical Roman Catholic who has angered Jews by campaigning for Christian crosses" called for two churches and a synagogue to be built at the former Nazi death camp.
Kazimierz Switon decided to camp out at the Auschwitz site in southern Poland, where he told reporters he planned to circulate a petition calling for the issue to be put to a popular referendum, Poland's PAP news agency said.
According to Reuters,
". . . Switon installed himself outside Auschwitz to prevent the removal of a seven- metre (yard) cross, beneath which the Polish Pontiff prayed during his 1979 visit to the camp. It marks a former gravel pit where 152 Polish political prisoners were executed by the Germans at the start of the war."
Jewish groups, who have claimed for some time that the Auschwitz-Birkenau complex is their "nation's biggest graveyard," let it be known that they believe it should be free of all religious symbols.
Switon rubbed salt in the wounds at an open-air Catholic mass by sugggesting that a Catholic church and an Eastern Orthodox church should be built at Auschwitz and a Jewish synagogue erected around the corner, at nearby Birkenau.
Meanwhile, "radical Catholics have planted about another 230 crosses there in response to Switon's appeal."
"I want my children and grandchildren to be free in their own Polish land without becoming Jewish slaves or hired help", PAP reported Switon as saying. "We respect them, but this country is going to be ruled by Poles."
In good old Holocaustomania tradition, Switon, known for his firebrand rhetoric, has now been fiercely and vociferously accused by Jewish groups of "anti-Semitism".
Tomorrow: "Get your ashes out of Poland!"
Thought for the Day:
"Anti-Semitism is so instinctive that it may quite simply be called one of the primal instincts of mankind, one of the important instincts by which the race helps to preserve itself against total destruction. I cannot emphasize the matter too strongly. Anti-Semitism is not, as Jews have tried to make the world believe, an active prejudice. It is a deeply hidden instinct with which every man is born. He remains unconscious of it, as of all other instincts of self preservation, until something happens to awaken it. Just as when something flies in the direction of your eyes, the eyelids close instantly and of their own accord. So swiftly and surely is the instinct of anti-Semitism awakened in a man...there is not a single instance when the Jews have not fully deserved the bitter fury of their persecutors."
(Samuel Roth, Jews Must Live, (1934), p. 64).