Decuple: A word from Middle French via Latin and meaning “an amount ten times as much or as many”. (1)
A new national day of commemoration is in order, and a bill should be submitted to Congress to designate the occasion. The republic already has two holidays commemorating and honoring all of those who have died in its wars; Memorial Day – originally for the dead of the Civil War – and Armistice (now Veterans’) Day. Both days are set aside to rightly honor and mourn the nearly 700,000 Americans who have died in combat in the republic’s wars, necessary and unnecessary.
The Jewish-Americans’ recent commemoration of “Holocaust Day” set me thinking about a new American day of commemoration. So as not to distract from that somber Jewish day of remembrance, I thought it best to seek a different name for this solely American day of remembrance. After some reflection, I think the day could be named “Decuple-Holocaust Remembrance Day”, meaning “Ten-Times-the-Holocaust Remembrance Day”, Let me explain.
The world, as is well-known, has been the scene of mass-murders for almost as long as man has walked the planet. The Mongols’ sack of Baghdad and the Crusaders’ multiple massacres of Muslims in Jerusalem and the Holy Land are just two early examples. In the 20th century, however, mass murder hit its full stride. Hitler and his Nazis killed six million Jews, Gypsies, and others they deemed unfit or racially inferior. Imperial Japan mirrored the Nazis and killed at least the same number of non-combatants during its eight-year rampage in Asia. (Is there a day honoring these murdered Asians?) Smaller mass murders also have occurred in Africa (Rwanda) and Southeast Asia (Cambodia).
The big-genocide masters of the 20th century – Mao, Stalin, and their successors – never seem to get their due. Their regimes each arbitrarily killed about 60 million human beings, making Hitler and his murderous followers look like bumbling and underachieving amateurs. These c. 120 million executions surely have been marked and condemned by many nations of the world, but there were no Nuremberg-like trials for Stalin’s aged lieutenants and legatees when the USSR vanished, and Mao died in his bed, neither he nor his lieutenants, legatees, or executioners facing justice. Indeed, the United States and its Asian and European allies have not only ignored the thoroughly documented, seven-decade-old Chinese charnel house – save for boiler-plate calls for “human rights” in China – but they have lavishly assisted China to become a world-class economic and military power. (Are there days set aside to honor those murdered by Stalin, Mao, and their successors?)
Amidst the mass murders of the 20th and now 21st centuries, however, no people have suffered more from the phenomenon of arbitrary mass murder than the citizens of the United States. Since the installation of the natural successor to the Nazis’ anti-human Nuremberg Laws, in the form of the Supreme Court’s decuple-holocaust-producing Roe-v-Wade decision in 1973, more than 60 million innocent Americans have been murdered in the womb. (2) And these days, we are seeing the natural successor to Roe-v-Wade in the laws of seven states that sanction the murder of Americans as they are being born, or just after.
We Americans, as result, have more than enough to reason to designate a day of commemoration for the decuple-holocaust we have lived through over the past 46 years. Our 60 million arbitrary murders are a match for any of history’s other leading mass-murdering outfits. Indeed, no one but Mao and Stalin can hold a candle to the record accumulated by the United States via the scalpels and surgical scissors of the American Medical Association. Why just imagine for a moment that,
–The United States, using its own Nuremberg law called Roe-v-Wade, has murdered 86 times more American innocents than the number of U.S. military personnel who have been killed in combat all of the republic’s wars. (60 million to 700,000)
–America has out-killed Hitler and the Nazis by a ratio of 10 American innocents to one Jewish innocent. (60 million to 6 million)
–The United States has murdered a number of American innocents that is three times greater than the total number of civilian and military deaths in World War I. (60 million to 20 Million) (3)
–America has killed innocents in numbers that match – and now probably surpass — all of the civilian and military deaths in World War 2. (60 million to c. 60 million) (4)
–The United States has killed more than 300 times the number of innocents that were killed by the 1945 nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. (60 million to c. 200,000) (5)
All told, only the United States can match the mammoth holocaustian achievements of Stalin and Mao, and, now that the USSR is gone, Mao’s successors are America’s only real competitor in the field of exterminating innocents. Why should this staggeringly bloody American accomplishment go without recognition or commemoration?
I would propose, then, that the Congress officially designate January 22nd – the day Roe-v-Wade was decided by the Supreme Court — as America’s official “Decuple-Holocaust Remembrance Day”. It would be a day of reflection, solemnity, and deep shame for Americans, who have thus far failed to stop the unprecedented slaughter, and now see that the process of annihilation begun in 1973 is progressing to the murder of the just born and the dismembering of these dead Americans so that their well-developed body parts can be sold for profit. It also will be day of wonder, a wonder focused on why most of those Americans who mourn their own losses on their own “Holocaust Day” can, at the same time, be full-throated, whole-hearted, and rhetorically vicious defenders of laws that authorized the murder of 60 million fellow Americans, and made the republic’s Decuple-Holocaust Remembrance Day a necessity. One can only conclude that, for those phony mourners, the public use of the phrases “never again” and “never forget” are simply theatrical, and so amount to meaningless cant meant to keep cultivating guilt in Americans and to extort foreign aid for Israel from the Congress.
This day of commemoration would be not a holiday, but rather a day that our ancestors called a “Day of Public Humiliation, Prayer and Fasting”. On 12 August 1861, four months after the civil war began, for example, the unchurched but hardly atheist Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation calling for a day of “public humiliation, prayer and fasting” on which, he said, it would be “peculiarly fit” for Americans “to recognize the hand of God in this terrible visitation, and in sorrowful remembrance of our own faults and crimes as a nation and as individuals to humble ourselves before Him, and to pray for His mercy.” Lincoln’s day of “public humiliation, prayer and fasting” was conducted on 26 September 1861. (6) Lincoln, in essence, believed that all Americans, by their deeds, words, and failure to act to end festering national problems, had contributed to bringing on the war.
Lincoln’s day of humiliation – and others he declared during the war – did not end the war as quickly as the president desired. It continued until 9 April 1865, just before his death. In the weeks preceding his assassination, Lincoln, in his second inaugural address, suggested that the blood-filled catastrophe Americans had brought onto themselves had run a course that the divinity had intended it to follow. “The Almighty has His own purposes,” Lincoln said on 4 March 1865,
“Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!” If we shall suppose that American Slavery is one of those offences which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through His appointed time, He now wills to remove, and that He gives to both North and South, this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offence came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a Living God always ascribe to Him? Fondly do we hope — fervently do we pray — that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue, until all the wealth piled by the bond-man’s two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash, shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said “the judgments of the Lord, are true and righteous altogether” (7)
A final thought on commemorating Decuple-Holocaust Remembrance Day. Over time, memories fade and attention wanders, and so some more substantial, visible, and enduring item would be a valuable means of making sure, as the saying of some goes, that the phrases “never forget” and “never again” remain strongly, honestly, and forever in the hearts and minds of those Americans who at last resolved to act in a manner, to paraphrase Mr. Lincoln, that ensures this “mighty scourge of Americans murdering innocents may speedily pass away.”
Whether a sizeable statute, a large mural, or a memorial like that of Mr. Lincoln, it must not be a fixture that seeks to comfort or promote forgiveness, but rather one that immediately reminds the viewer of the murderous horror that was once commonplace in the republic, and visually warns him or her of the eternally true fact that demented and worthless human beings have always walked the earth, still do, and have often gained arbitrary power over populations. On this issue, I lean toward a good-sized mural picturing Mao, Stalin, and Hillary Clinton joyfully striding — home at last, you know — toward a rapturous welcome at the mouth of hell, the perimeter of which is surrounded by a crowd of death-wielding American medical doctors, murderous feminists, pro-choice Jewish-Americans, and pro-choice Christians – priests, ministers, bishops, popes, and laity like Biden and Pelosi – individuals of a kind that surely must be among that abode’s most desired, respected, and honored inhabitants. The impact of seeing such a mural, and knowing that it presents an irrefutable truth, would be a fearsome warning, one not soon to be forgotten.
With the mass murdering ended, the prospect of retribution for the republic would still remain. If Mr. Lincoln believed that the republic’s unprecedented suffering in lives, limbs, treasure, and ruined land and cities was divine retribution for the holding of four million black slaves, what might the future divine penalty be on the same republic for allowing the murder of 60 million innocent Americans? That is a question whose answer may be pondered with some discomfort.
–Endnotes:
–1.) https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/decuple
–2.) https://www.lifenews.com/2018/01/18/60069971-abortions-in-america-since-roe-v-wade-in-1973/
–5.) http://www.atomicarchive.com/Docs/MED/med_chp10.shtml
–7.) https://cdn.loc.gov/service/mss/mal/436/4361300/4361300.pdf
