Posted on 06/21/2005 6:18:12 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
Senator Dick DUrbin has caught a lot of flack for his silly comparison of the well fed Gitmo terrorist detainees to the prisoners of the Nazis and the Soviets. The general consensus is that it is ALWAYS foolhardy to make comparisons of today’s America to the Nazi regime. Well, let me amend that to saying this is the general consensus everywhere EXCEPT in that asylum known as DUmmieland. In fact, the DUmmies seem to act like they have a proprietary interest in keeping the ability to make such absurd comparisons as can be seen in this THREAD titled, “Don't let them take the Hitler away from us!” It sounds like the DUmmies want copyright protection for using the Hitler comparisons. As usual the bizarre DUmmie comparisons are in Bolshevik Red while the commentary of your humble correspondent, assuring the DUmmies that they can keep “the Hitler,” is in the [brackets]:
Don't let them take the Hitler away from us!
[Okay! Okay! And you can keep the Stalin and the Pol Pot if it makes you feel better.]
Think about it this way. I say ALL Hitler comparisons are valid. Hitler is the quintessential example that is seared into our memories of the insane corrupt power of totalitarianism. It represents the ultimate evil - deception of good intentions. Thus Hitler comparisons are an essential comparison. All it says is "let us not get on that hill of ice again".
[FUnnie but the one who fell down the slippery slope was Dick DUrbin for his dopey comparison of the air conditioned Gitmo detainees to the prisoners of the Nazis.]
If, as has been suggested on The Daily Show and Lou Dobbs, Hitler comparisons are out of order, then it disables the most powerful and obvious comparison.
[I’m all for DUrbin and DUmmies continuing to make fools of themselves.]
The victims of the Holocaust and those who fought totalitarian power have earned the right to reference Hilterm a right that is being lost because it has been distorted by the retort that nothing could be as bad as Hitler - "it's not as bad as the Holocaust". Well, the fact that is shrouded is that it was a slow but steady march into fascism. Hitler wasn't as bad as Hitler when he started. We as their progeny have inherited the DUTY of making comparisons to Hilter where ever we see them.
[Ah yes! Before the Bad Hitler there was the Better Hitler according to the DUmmies which they use to justify DUrbinizing themselves.]
As soon as they take away our abaility to associate with that memory, it enables them to repeat it.
[Perhaps you should copyright “the Hitler” and charge royalty payments from all those who make Dopey DUrbin type comparisons.]
So, no, I say this frog will remain ready to jump if the temperature increases only slightly. We need to respect the slope before we start the slipping.
[I say that frog needs to respect the temperature of the pot he is stewing in.]
Our situation now is comparable in many ways to Germany in the mid to late 30's. We need to recognize our situation for what it is, and prevent it from getting worse.
[Is that you, Dick DUrbin?]
I agree. Hitler should remind us that it can happen ANYWHERE. Germany was a nation which ELECTED its public servants, It was an EDUCATED nation, A WORLD LEADER in SCIENCE and INDUSTRY...And look what happened there. All it takes is some fear-mongering, a crappy economy, and a "leader" without a consciense. Oh yeah, and FLAGS. Lots of flags!
[Oh, yeah and FLAGS. I shudder in fear of the impending fascism every time I drive past a car lot.]
The Hitler stuff is not only valid but its true. The USA is occupied by the Nazis..you can callem busheviks ,BFEE,neo-cons, traitors BUT its a nazi occupation and all the insiders like Dobbs know it.!!
[It sounds like your body is occupied by the meds.]
It's the old duck thing. If it waddles like a duck and it quacks like a duck...etc. Loyality oaths. Fascism wrapped snugly in the flag. Snipping away our rights. Forcing their morality down our throat. If there is just a sliver of justification for comparison, then we ought to do just what we are doing, speaking up. We're stopping evil before it gets to the point that it did back then.
[And in your case it is the old Daffy Duck thing.]
I believe he is as bad a president as we have ever had, and I believe his contempt for working Americans (including our military folk) is both infinitely malicious and probably without precedent. But a more historically apt analogy is to some of our own (incipiently fascist) political bosses -- especially those who, in servitude to the ever-expanding greed of monopolist overlords, played off one minority against another in the interest of maximizing oppression and exploitation (just as Bush plays off Dominionist/Fundamentalist Christians against women and gays). And fascism does not inevitably a Hitler make. Think not Hitler but George Wallace, Bull Connor or even Robert K. Shelton -- the third name that of the Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan during the Civil Rights Movement years, the aptness of the comparison growing from the fact Bush and his followers are surely as hateful to gays as Shelton and his night-riders were to blacks.
[Don’t let them take the Shelton away from us!]
Oh, my heroes!
Did I miss the loyalty oath memo? What the heck is it talking about?
I just love the "stripping away our rights". They sound like a broken record...I'm betting IRL (if they even have one) that they can't name one time during Bush's presidency when their rights had vanished. With the constant barrage of LOCK, BAN, DELETE! going on over there, DU resembles Hitler's regime far more than the government...and not one of them catches the irony. They protest freely and carry signs who's messages border on treason...but their rights are being stripped.
"Forcing morality" down their throats? In what way is this happening? Like most DUmmie "truths" all talk and not one of them can illustrate ONE incident to prove this...yet, one of their members runs a website called "thoughtcrimes.org".
Were we to really face a Hitler-like leader (nearly impossible unless they manage to get power back and completely destroy the constitution), they'd be the first to roll over instead of fight. Whining, moaning and bitching never won any battles.
Cindie
ROFL!!
Hey! That's not fair! Your post implies that people can make judgements about some things being morally "better" than others.
I mean, those people in the ovens were like, dead and everything, but, hey..it's been a long time. Maybe they WANTED to die in there...maybe somebody put them there, like later and all. But you imply with your pictures that we, not really knowing the facts, can say that, like the first pictures were "worse".
But b*sh and rove's gulag is much *worse*. Durbin said so. And so did a lot of other people. Now you take that back, and I'll give you a nice glass of Kool Aid.
Oh, and "Haliburton" - Ha! Take that!
And "verifiable paper ballots, except when they say b*sh won" - Ha!
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Sorry, guys. DUmmie infestation. Had to squash one - frothing at the mouth - all over my keyboard. Gonna take a while to clean this mess up!
What about Keith Olbermann? What, no mention of "Keef"?
"They" are always coming for someone over there. Remember, these are the idiots who are always wondering if " * " will declare "marshall" (sic) law - they NEVER spell that right - and cancel the elections. They wonder if they're going to be hauled off to "re-education camps" before they're able to escape across the border to Canada.
By the way, DUmmies, it's MARTIAL law, NOT "marshall" law!!! Geez.
...unless it's to attend some idiotic demonstration with other left-wing wackos.
They are trying to imitate the horrid over-the-top purple prose "style" of their self-appointed leader (the) Pitt(s). What is sad is they can't even meet THAT low standard.
Umm, they already did one. And it was very, very good.
Good heavens, he sounds like Lenin, ranting like this!
Nuts. I meant to sign it but got totally sidetracked and haven't had time.
sigh
I wouldn't be at all surprised that some Dummie even tries to make a connection with Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain...
Glad you liked it!
Hey, what if another Elders, namely Jocelyn, had been Lord Haw-Haw? "This is Berlin calling. Tonight, we're going to discuss the joys of masturbation..."
Oh, I don't know...I can't imagine they know who the heck he is.
Or how about Houston Stewart Chamberlain, a popular writer of the 1920s and 1930s, who lived with the widow of the composer Richard Wagner, and was an early and fervid supporter of Adolph Hitler; his books dealt with a subject near to the heart of DUmmies, the "decline" of the west and the "decline" of democracy.
Oh, I don't know...I can't imagine they know who the heck he is.
Wasn't he a hero of the "Civics" War? I'm sure he did not fight with my father in the Clone Wars....
(Sorry, couldn't resist...Resistance is futile)
I'd love to go up against these people... My family is from Germany, and I can tell you times under the Nazis weren't exactly like America. Neither was the post-WWI economy like our little recession. If you look at Marks from that period, they won't even have ink on them, because they weren't worth the price of the ink. Prices in bars would change from minute to minute. It was THAT bad. They have NO freaking idea.
These people need to take a German history course. Hitler GRADUALLY turned fascist? Hahaha! He had good intentions? The German people didn't know what they were electing? Hahahaha! Of course, in their defense, "Mein Kampf" is such a terrible book that it's hard to get through it. But I don't know how one could miss the multitudes of chapters dedicated to his plan to purify the German "Volk."
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