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When Editors Don't Edit they Malign

The Washington Post prints something in this article about how citizens didn't flood the streets in Poland to protest to their government about the Nazi's treatment of the Jews. 

Well, Washington Post, the Polish government was in exile in London. Poland was under occupation, and therefore they were too busy dying with their fellow Jewish countrymen in those very same NAZI death camps. 

Others were too busy risking their lives to save thousands upon thousands of Jews - despite the fact that Poland was the only country in which helping a Jew was an offense that was punishable by death. 

Others were too busy fighting the Nazis in the Warsaw uprising - in which 200,000 non-Jewish Poles were killed while the Nazis used the Polish Soldiers' fellow countrymen as human shields - strapped to the front of their Panzers. Children fought. Women fought. They all fought valiantly to the end. Only to fall prey to the other evil empire - the Soviet Union - with the blessing of the US and Great Britain. 

Others were too busy participating in one of the largest and most efficient underground organizations the world has known, to resist the illegal occupation of their country by the evil Nazis. 

Yeah. They were a little too busy to stage a sit in. 

This:

http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-05-09/lifestyle/39131250_1_jacky-comforty-concentration-camps-jews

Plus this last year: 

http://m.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/post/obamas-polish-death-camp-gaffe/2012/05/30/gJQAJcAw1U_blog.html

Equals: Malice. Pure and simple. 

Ta Da!