Lemmie does us a service by quoting Whinin’ Lou Midgley’s outburst against Helen Radkey. Here’s the fuller comment:
“I must admit that I do not have a high opinion of Helen Radkey, which is to say that I fear that she will do anything to cause trouble for the Church of Jesus Christ. And, while I have the attention of everyone, I must mention that my wife and I have very frequently visited that death camp at Mauthausen, perhaps a dozen times. We have taken our own family to that place. And also quite a few students at BYU. The guess is that three hundred and twenty thousand went up the stack at that dreadful place. Some were Jewish, but most were from all over Europe. My wife would not travel to Poland because she insisted that we would end up at Auschwitz-Birkenau, where 1.1 million were murdered.
My good friend Misha, who is a Russian Jew, who was trained to be a KGB agent but avoided making that his career, made it possible for me to visit Teresíenstadt, which was a former military fortress and walled garrison town very close to the line separating the Czech Republic from Germany. There are, if I remember correctly, about four thousand graves for Jews and also four thousand graves for those who were Christians as one approaches that place. I am confident that my wife would have gone there with me.
And very often, when my wife and I visited Heidelberg, I made it a point of going to the place where the Jewish community met to worship, which was destroyed on Kristallnacht--that is on November 9–10, 1938, when Nazis attacked Jewish properties and people. It made me ill to see the sign marking that place defaced.”
There are actually a few things to unpack here.
1) Helen Radkey was instrumental in exposing the Mormon church’s duplicity, dishonesty, and lying with regard to to baptizing Jews when they totes pinky promised they weren’t. Here’s a great Trib article on Ms. Radkey if you want a fuller understanding of her and her work:
https://archive.sltrib.com/story.php?re ... i_13926671
Basically, whinin’ Lou took a shot at her because he’s just a raging asshole.
2) Lyin’ Lou’s claim his friend trained as a KGB agent and got him access to Theresienstadt (note his misspelling above since he’s such a prick to others about spelling). I dunno. When did he go into this presumably Marxist-Leninist country when he would’ve visited thanks to his KGB-trained friend? This just seems like another fishy tale by a midglet who likes to boast and project self-importance.
3) His odd penchant to relate unnecessary and superfluous details when relating a tale, like he does with regard to to Kristallnacht. I suspect he does his wiki thing and then inserts these details to make it seem like he’s smarter than he really is. Judging from his frequent spelling and grammar errors, well, I’ll just leave that up to you to judge.
- Doc