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  • Impaled on a Historical Swastika

    http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/...ves/004981.php

    July 17, 2005
    Will Someone Please Teach Godwin's Law To Congress?

    Can ... we ... PLEASE ... get Congressmen and Senators to throw away the Nazi analogies? Rep. Frank LoBiondo (R-NJ) became the latest idiot to get impaled on a historical swastika when he attempted to paint Islamofascist terrorists as worse than Nazis. That may have escaped notice, but then LoBiondo decided to up the ante by crediting Hitler with a rational motivation for killing six million Jews:

    Congressman Frank LoBiondo apologized for suggesting that Guantanamo Bay detainees were worse than Adolf Hitler because the Nazi dictator "sort of had a political rationale about what he was doing."

    The New Jersey Republican made the remark on a radio talk show this past week, describing his recent visit to the Naval Base in Cuba. Muslim terrorists, he said, were more evil than Hitler.

    "Hitler, in his philosophy, was, you know, he hated Jews, he was murdering Jews, and there were some people he liked. But he never went to the level that these people are going to," LoBiondo said.

    LoBiondo had the intelligence to immediately retract the statement a few minutes later, profusely apologizing and completely abandoning the argument. That shows that LoBiondo has more political savvy than Senator Dick Durbin, who clung to his genocidal trifecta for days until Mayor Richard Daley stung him with a demand for an apology. However, that probably qualifies as damning with faint praise; getting compared favorably with Durbin doesn't take much besides being able to breathe with one's mouth shut.

    When will our politcians understand that Nazi analogies amount to an almost-certain political jinx? We don't need to debate the relative merits of one form of fascism and oppression over another; they're all bad, grown-ups know it, and those who don't won't learn anything from sound bites like these. Members of both parties have had their hands scorched playing with this particular form of rhetorical fire often enough in recent days that others should have already learned to avoid these analogies at all costs.

    We're not even asking for brilliance here, people. Just plain common sense. If you are an elected official, and the word "Nazi" starts to escape your lips, please please PLEASE squeeze them shut.
    "So little pains do the vulgar take in the investigation of truth, accepting readily the first story that comes to hand." Thucydides 1.20.3

  • #2
    Maybe they should hire people to stand next to them and stomp on their toes when they hear the Nazi/Hitler reference escaping.

    -dale

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    • #3
      Originally posted by dalem
      Maybe they should hire people to stand next to them and stomp on their toes when they hear the Nazi/Hitler reference escaping.
      -dale


      Yet they don’t even have to do that, just tie their shoelaces together to prevent them from putting their feet in their mouths!
      When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow. - Anais Nin

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      • #4
        "suggesting that Guantanamo Bay detainees were worse than Adolf Hitler because the Nazi dictator "sort of had a political rationale about what he was doing.""

        What is a "political rationale?" How is Hitler's reason for killing the Jews a better the terrorists reason to kill anyone? I want this idiot out of my party.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Leader
          I want this idiot out of my party.
          Good for you...
          No man is free until all men are free - John Hossack
          I agree completely with this Administration’s goal of a regime change in Iraq-John Kerry
          even if that enforcement is mostly at the hands of the United States, a right we retain even if the Security Council fails to act-John Kerry
          He may even miscalculate and slide these weapons off to terrorist groups to invite them to be a surrogate to use them against the United States. It’s the miscalculation that poses the greatest threat-John Kerry

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