Something That is Important to Me:

Theodore Roosevelt once said ... "Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."

There is an Organization, called Birthright, That is trying to start a program to End Genocide in the whole World. Its a Huge calling, but if we can do it, if it can work. it will be history in the making.

I went to a rally on tuesday about this project. It is a Jewish-Backed project for now, but its a cause that is more than worthy of inter-religious attention. Unless your a Supporter of Genocide. In which case, get off my blog.

So Im attatching a copy of the Pitch. i just Joined the Marketing comitee for this project, and if i make headlines one day, at least you can say you knew me before i made history. or before i went down in flames:



thesixmillion.com pitch

In the next two minutes, I would like to describe for you what we have in mind to achieve, and invite you to join us in achieving it. Thank you for giving us your time and consideration.

We have four goals, and they are in no particular order:

- to ensure the Holocaust is never forgotten
- to create within people a pro-active, energizing post-museum relationship to the Holocaust
- to end genocide
- to unify the Jewish people to a cause that honors the Holocaust victims and improves the world

Starting with the most ambitious of these goals and deconstructing along logical steps we can ask ourselves how does one stop genocide. Well, if you can stop one genocide, then it’s reasonable the same process can be repeated and you can stop them all. How then do you stop one? It would seem reasonable that one person can not, but 47,000 members of the 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force, setting up six cities of refuge within an area where a genocide has been initiated can stop one. Okay. Now how do you get the Marines to set up these cities of refuge?

First, we get a ‘Genocide Law’ passed by Congress that mandates Congress to vote within forty-eight hours of a genocide being declared on whether to send the troops. They are not required to send them, just required to vote on whether to send them. Second, we need to convince Congress to vote to send the troops. So how do we achieve both of these steps? Well, if we had two million people rally in Washington on the days both are up for discussion, that would probably be enough political pressure to make that happen.

Getting two million people who care enough to go to Washington will be difficult, very difficult. However, it just may be that getting six million to go will be easier. That is correct. It will be easier to get six million, The Six Million.

How is that? Well, let’s say we got one and only one person to represent each victim in the Holocaust, and that we gave each of these ‘stewards’ the name, picture -- as large as possible -- and story if possible of this victim. We then say to them: ‘Look, of all the people in the world, you are the only one representing this child who was killed, now you yourself may want to go to the rally in Washington because you feel strongly about genocide, but the person you represent, this boy named Isaaq, aged twelve, or this young mother Rachel, aged 22 -- he or she has to go. If you don’t represent them, no one will -- and they and their picture will stay home that day. So bring this picture to Washington, and each of the six million will be there, and in an irony of ironies, not only will the victims themselves live on -- but they will be the ones who will make sure it never happens to anyone ever again.’

We believe that for many Jewish people the emotional connection between themselves and the victims of the Holocaust is so visceral, so strong that they will simply not allow a victim’s memory or life to be forgotten. We believe there will be many more who will want to remember the victims of other genocides in history, and that many of them will join this effort for the same reasons. We therefore believe that there will be six million people who will commit to representing a unique victim at a rally in Washington.

For a moment can you imagine how it will look when all the pictures are raised in the air at once? They, the victims of the Holocaust themselves will be united together for the first time in history! It’s about time we gave everyone of the victims a voice, and we let them speak, and they will say -- ‘Never Again!’ Can you imagine!?

So the only questions now are .. Will you be a steward holding a picture in the air or will you stay home? Will you be there on the day the world ended genocide? Will you?