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"It's painfully obvious what you're trying to do. Such may be acceptable in a strip 100 miles inland between LALA land and the Land of Fruits and Nuts. In the balance of the country, it's the mark of a true ass."

Why don't you explain yourself?

You know the rules:

"NO profanity, NO personal attacks, NO racism or violence in posts."

If you want to smear people with Nazi innuendo, it shows a profound moral bankruptcy, and an inability to rationally discuss any issues.

By quoting Hitler, you invoke his racism and inhumanity as your moral authority. And it is not being done in some scholarly sense; it is being done to smear me and others.

A couple of you claim some level of Christian belief. Hitler, too, claimed he was acting in behalf of the will of God and according to Biblical sanctions. In Mein Kampf he quotes from the Bible hundreds of times. By the exact same analogy used by GOPcapitalist, would it be fair for me to say that because you are Christian who believes the Bible, you are also an adherent to Hitler?

That sort of false logic pollutes Free Republic. I personally don't think "the boss" would appreciate it on his forum.

I am willing to put the question to Jim and see what he thinks. We have at least two of you on record as supporting the posting of Hitler (NC and GOPc). We haven't heard from a couple of others yet. If you support the practice, don't be a coward and just come right out and say so. The Hitler posts are offensive. If GOPc was any sort of a man, he would ask that the mods that they be removed. Since that won't happen, let's see what Jim thinks. I'm still waiting to see if the others want to chime in.

By quoting Hitler, you invoke his racism and inhumanity as your moral authority.

So, using your illogic, if I were to quote some goofy left wing off the wall statement by John Kerry and then say "hey everybody - look at this goofy off the wall left wing statement John Kerry made!" I would in fact be "invoking" Kerry's goofy off the wall left wingness as my "moral authority"? Strange.

What's even stranger though is this. You, capitan, have yet to answer my question: do you or do you not agree with the view of the union described by Hitler in that quote?

Hitler, too, claimed he was acting in behalf of the will of God and according to Biblical sanctions.

That is historically incorrect. At the very most Hitler invoked biblical claims early in his career and for propaganda purposes. Virtually all scholars who have studied him recognize that his true religious beliefs, if they can be called that, revolved around nordic/aryan occultism.

If GOPc was any sort of a man, he would ask that the mods that they be removed.

I do not ask for its removal because there simply is no credible basis as to why a quote by Hitler used specifically to demonstrate what an evil man Hitler was should be removed. You certainly haven't offered any beyond noting that Hitler was a bad guy, which was my point to begin with.

Of course we all know your real reason for claiming false outrage over seeing (gasp!) a Hitler quote in posts that are using those quotes to CONDEMN Hitler and those who share his beliefs. You want the quote to go away because you know deep down that it agrees with what you've been saying on this thread and you are embarrassed at the fact that you share a very specifically articulated belief with one of the biggest mass murdering socialist thugs of all time.

Why don't you explain yourself?

I just did, Net Nanny.

You're the one who needs to climb down off his high horse........considering who it used to belong to, and what he used it for.

OTOH, maybe we're about to have -- again -- that whole conversation about how triumphalism and teleology don't add up to a reason for doing something, or a justification either.

By quoting Hitler, you invoke his racism and inhumanity as your moral authority. And it is not being done in some scholarly sense; it is being done to smear me and others.

Sentence 1: Smear Gianni and others with Hitler.
Sentence 2: Turn around and claim it was them.

You've done it repeatedly. It is hypocritical. Your other tactic is claiming that others are engaging in ad hominem in the same post where you are the one so engaged.

Why don't you explain yourself?

I just did.

False analogy. It was capitan refugio who said that Lincoln was justified in using invented and unconstitutional emergency powers. When it was pointed out that others made the same claim to grab their power and overthrow the civil authority, rather than explain what protections were in place to prevent any such end in the case of Lincoln, you started trying to paint us as Nazis.

I am willing to put the question to Jim and see what he thinks.

Ping him if you wish, I will not since I suppose he is a rather busy man.