I agree, I was just making a joke.
Posted on 01/21/2015 10:42:36 AM PST by LeoWindhorse
The head of German "anti-Islamisation" movement Pegida, Lutz Bachmann, has resigned after a photo of him apparently posing as Hitler emerged.Prosecutors opened an investigation after the photo was published on the front pages of German newspapers.
A Pegida spokeswoman sought to play down the Facebook photo as a "joke".
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Former Canadian PM Pierre Trudeau wore a Nazi uniform in Montreal when he was young, I guess that makes him a Nazi too.
But seriously, this smacks of Angela Merkel and the bleeding-heart German Media doing anything she can to tarnish the anti-Islam movement.
Clearly they’re worried.
Unfortunately,
something like this means that Pegida is finished. The media is going to bend over backwards from here on out to ensure that Pegida=Neo-Nazi is firmly fixed in the public’s mind. Likewise, expect the German Govt. to shut them down, and ban the organisation within days, and then start jailing its members.
Mission Accomplished. :(
Great. An otherwise valuable movement gets torpedoed by its leader’s stupidity. He should have known this would come out sooner or later and he should have resigned or taken a less prominent role earlier.
Hitler and his minions backed Muslim leaders in the Balkans and Middle East, over Jews.
Pegida, pegida, pegida, that’s all folks!
PEGIDA/LEGIDA should forge ahead ; select a new and blameless leadership and NOT back down .
It would become just like the Tea Party movement when they decided to leave the streets . Hardly any grass roots relevance anymore
Agreed. They left sure has our number.
That's got to be the greatest response I've ever seen on Free Republic!
I seem to remember that there was an all Arab SS division.
After all these years, Hitler remains a force in popular culture, even for those born since 1945.
It is better to distance oneself from him.
Those who try to mock him, such as Mel Brooks in The Producers do it at their own risk. Brooks pulled it off, but barely.
Hitler and Germany were so effective, that mockery often fails. To mock, you must remember. To remember, horror dominates.
The PawnStars will not trade Nazi items, even though there is money to be made. What other regime has this effect?
:’) Thanks!
He even looks a bit like Hitler.
It makes me wonder whether the original had a caption to the effect “How my opponents see me” or “How my opponents want you to see me”.
(It would make a nice triptic: How I see myself, with an ordinary photo; How my opponents want you to see me, with the Hitler mustache and comb job; How I hope Muslims see me, dressed as Charles Martel.)
If the European media and political figures had to worry as much (or more) about their own people using the same tactics against them that the Muslims use to cow the dhimmi elites into submission, perhaps Europe would not be in the process of being overrun.
In a few generations, when Europe looks like Turkey, with mosques where churches used to be, and the women wear veils, the oldest person who still remembers what Europe was like when it was European will say “Breivik was right”. It might even be a former liberal.
yep , the Japs really got a big pass .
In many ways they were are far tougher , if slightly less diabolical , enemy .
“Pegida, pegida, pegida, that’s all folks!”
I don’t think so. There are too many people showing up at the protests now, too many really angry citizens sick of foreign immigration from Muzzie countries. Plus, all it will take is one more terrorist incident in the EU and the crowds in Germany will get even larger. The German Admin can’t put the toothpaste back in the tube. Too late.
Yep. Done. Finished. Sprang der Hei.
All it was going to take an otherwise rational response to the Islamic take over of Germany was one fool to dress up like Hitler. There is one thing you do not do in Germany. Speak one word of Hitler or the Nazis in any sort of positive light. It is not only illegal but, as stated, it will be splashed on the front page of every news paper in the world. Merkel will now make a move to outlaw the organization. Guaranteed.
I agree, I was just making a joke.
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