Most people feel the Hitler’s Holocaust was one of the most damning things a government could perpetrate on its people. During the time of the Holocaust, approximately 17 million people were killed. Of those 17 million people who were killed, approximately 6 million were Jews and one fourth of those 6 million consisted of children under the age of 15. In 1976 Poll Pot, became the Prime Minister of Cambodia, which was a Communist Regime called the Khmer Rouge. Under Poll Pot’s leadership approximately 2 million Cambodians starved to death or were murdered. Idi Amim was the President of Uganda from 1971 until 1979. It is estimated he had from 100,000 to 500,000 of his own people killed.

There is no question that these atrocities committed by these leaders and their government would be considered a horrific thing by anyone who had any feelings at all. In fact, when Human Rights groups talk about the horrible things governments and their leaders have done to their people, these circumstances are cited time and time again.

If you total up the number of people who have been killed by the governments of Hitler, Poll Pot and Idi Amin, it comes to 19 and one half million people. There is no question that is an appalling thing to even consider that governments and their leaders could be so heartless as to commit such ruthless acts against their own people.

On January 22, 1973 the Supreme Court of the United States passed Roe vs. Wade. That ruling gave mothers the right to end their unborn children’s lives, for the most part, when they wished. Since that time, in our country approximately 50 million children have not been allowed to live. In other words, the United States of America has murdered 50 million people. America’s Holocaust is almost three times worse than Hitler’s, Poll Pot’s and Idi Amin’s combined. So, the fact is that - what a large majority of people consider the most ruthless acts of leaders in the recent history - pales in comparison to what the United States citizens have committed against humanity. We, as a people, should hang our heads in shame!

Where are the Human Rights groups who complain about the torture and killing of innocent people? Where are the voices of pastors who proclaim that Jesus loves all people and that He especially loves little children? Where are the defenders of the Constitution who proclaim that “All Men are Created Equal and Have the Right to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness”?

Unfortunately, for the most part, all are silent. Why? The answer is quite simple. The Human Rights groups do not see any harm in the killing of the young. The pastors are more concerned with keeping their congregations happy than bringing up unpleasant things. Not only that, but the United States Government and liberal judges have warned pastors not to bring up the issue of abortion. And you and I just sit on the sidelines and say, “Oh well, that is just the way it is”. We have a party called the Democrat Party which states in its Platform that the killing of the young is fine. The Republican Party does not have that stipulation in it Platform. Our country also currently has a president who is, in all probability, the most pro-abortion president we have ever had. When then Illinois State Senator Obama was Head of the Health and Human Services Committee, he blocked a vote on the Born Alive Infant Protection Act. The passage of that act was an attempt by the Illinois Legislature to save the life of any child who survived an abortion. Was Obama’s action the action of a person who cherishes life? Also, President Barrack Hussein Obama on January 23, 2009 sentenced millions of potential babies to their deaths, when, by the stroke of his pen, his executive order released your tax dollars for the destruction of the most helpless in foreign lands.  In retrospect, former President George W. Bush had refused to release these funds that would abort children around the world.

What kind of people have we become? What has caused us to be so flippant about life? How could a people who have created so much turn around and, on the other hand, have destroyed so much? What is wrong with us?

We have elected leaders who have no concept of the value of human life. We as a people by the vote of 49% to 43% think aborting the young is just fine.

Frankly, I think our sense of values is one of the reasons our country is failing. We have lost our way. We have thumbed our nose at God and after a while, I imagine God gets a little tired of it.

I think it is time for us to take a hard look at ourselves and just think about what we have become. We have to think about who we have elected. Do these people we have elected share the values which made this country great? Do these elected people share the view of the right to life?

Yes, it is time to do some soul searching and that is exactly what I plan on doing. Why not join me and see what you come up with.

What the Supreme Court did on January 22, 1973 is the law. What is moral and humane is something else.

Jim Threlkeld is the author is “Where Roses Have No Thorns”. The book is available at amazon.com and other internet outlets.