Posted on 11/11/2010 6:27:00 PM PST by Nachum
What’s with all the recent inappropriate Nazi comparisons? On Tuesday, liberal radio host Mike Malloy likened George W. Bush to Hitler. Now, Glenn Beck has drawn the ire of the Anti-Defamation League by claiming that Jewish billionaire George Soros played a role in the Holocaust.
On his radio show yesterday, Beck gave his listeners a history lesson about Soros, who was born György Schwartz in Hungary in 1930. According to Beck, Soros’s father “is a guy who spoke Esperanza fluently—Esperanza was developed in the 1880s as the world’s first international language.” (He’s mistaken about the name of that language; it’s Esperanto, not Esperanza, which is Spanish for “hope.”)
Beck implied that there was something sinister about “Esperanza:” “It was the language of peace, like the U.N. is the house of peace. And it was developed so that everyone could speak the same language, and no one would have to come by their old, tribal language,” he said sarcastically. “We’d all have a new language.” He goes on to say that the Soviets, the Chinese, and Hitler himself all considered embracing Esperanto before discarding it upon finding that its proponents “were dangerous. They’re dangerous to everyone.” That’s right: even Hitler didn’t want to mess with the guys who spoke a made-up auxiliary language.
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How do you know if they haven’t “admitted” it?
Sounded to me as if Beck correctly said “Esperanto”, not “Esperanza.”
One doesn't have to be a practicing Jew to feel guilt and remorse over confiscating property from innocent Jews. One simply has to have a conscience.
Soros is actually a kind of sociopath.
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Beck should be careful with his conclusions. Had he left it at And George Soros used to go around with this anti-Semite and deliver papers to the Jews, and confiscate their property, and then ship them off. And George Soros was part of it. He would help confiscate the stuff., he'd have been on target.
He might have learned enough to describe Soros' complete ambivilence to what he did rather than state I am certainly not saying George Soros enjoyed that. At 14, of course he had a choice though admittadly a difficult one.
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Oh Christ, with your argument for Soros lets just release all serial killers from prison, they had a hard life too. Anybody that could stick up for this nazi butt boy and damn beck for telling the truth about him is an idiot.
“At 14, of course he had a choice”
SJ, you were going right to where I have been searching. “The Barefoot Contessa” was on TV last night. I’d never seen it. At one point, a S. American tycoon is speaking: “When I was 14, I had a choice.” He goes on to describe the choice of whether to be a good little boy or a bad one. He chose the bad, and he smiled an oily smile you see in the eyes of those people who have done bad things in their lives and know it.
I saw in the Soros footage that same smile. In that era of 1929-45, being 14 meant you had come through a Depression, straight into a World War. Childhood ended whenever you were cold and hungry enough to have to make choices. This still happens to children today, but they don’t usually have a national/international scene as a venue for displaying the results of their choices.
To the extent that wealth and goods and people are shipped off, redistributed, or otherwise destroyed, we are witnessing the selfsame events that sent millions of art works, furniture and artifacts to Neuchwanstein Castle and underground salt mines; now we are waiting to see where the people are slated to be sent and who’ll have to be the enforcers and informers, let alone those who’ll smile.
To the extent that Obama, Reid, Pelosi and other high-ranking RINOs, progressives and socialists READ their words well, they are simply acting out their parts in this new version of the movie, as seen in reality. The script and scriptwriters are yet to be associated with the concepts, but we are, if we step back and think, aware of the logic and implications of their words.
Metaphorically, there’s an eerie feeling of deja vu. Everyone is trying not to get caught before curfew or identified as wearing a gold star of David on their coats. The word ‘Nazi’ is thrown around because the recognition of what it really is now begins to reawaken, with revulsion and, apparently, fascination.
Yes, and if I've read all the internet stories about this correctly, he not only helped the Nazi's, he started accumulating his "wealth" at the young age of 14 taking gold, jewelry and other valuable items from the homes of Jews that were sent to the death camps.
I think he said something like it being the "best year of his life?"
Yeah, no regrets there eh George, sending your fellow Jews off to die while you get rich off of them.
There are two huge differences between Soros in 1944 and a serial killer in prison.
One, Soros was a child in 1944. A scared, confused child.
Two, a serial killer can control his own environment, and so bears responsibility for his own actions. Soros in 1944 was thrust into a hell not of his own making.
Bull, he was 14, not 4. He was well beyond the age of acountability. This idea that teenagers are just large kids is only a recently modern idea. Historically this has never been the case and even as recently as the 40’s this wasn’t the case, even here in America.
Your idea that Soros was a scared, confused child when he did this is based in emotions, not facts.
Beck also stated his number two guy was directly threatened by Soros number two. What's interesting is the millions paid to Media Matters, and that very night the MSNBC freaks were slandering beck to no end. Also one of those guys stated there needs to be an insurrection, possibly bloodshed( paraphrased0 regarding well, sorry didn't catch it all, had to projectile vomit. But I'm taking the "other side"( since they've declared war0 seriously in their threats. Soros is indeed a shady character. beck exposed ACORN, and others and was right. I think the leftists are truly coming out of the shadows and are po'ed enough to start trouble albeit to their own demise, heh, we own more firepower, screw them.
The quotes from Soros own books, magazine articles and TV interviews if in context, well they're quite dangerous, way worse than a Bernie Madoff( hedge fund dude, as Soros is), worse than a Pol Pot, and could be worse than Stalin, Hitler, or Mao. A lot of people have been killed in the past coups and if it's tried here, which it seems all of the news points toward some serious madness unless we wake up and really change the direction of the country, I fear there will be blood. Sorry for my lengthy diatribes, it's just the way I write and think through subjects.
I find it interesting that folks gave Christine O’Donnell a pass for some witch comments she made when she was 18-years-old, but yet are so quick to condemn a 14-year-old’s actions in the middle of the Holocaust.
No, dabbling in witchcraft does not equate with passing out deportation papers, and O’Donnell is obviously a changed person from back then, while Soros probably is not.
But as I said before, Soros went through a hell most of us can’t begin to imagine.
I am not going to speculate on possible future violence. Obviously, Soros will have a difficult time selling his poison in America.
People like to project doom and gloom. I prefer to look at the positives. Soros has been exposed. The communists he pays for are being exposed. They are losing credibility by the second. We can come back economically, even if he manages to screw with our currency. Americans are resilient.
He might find it difficult to spend his filthy wealth from a jail cell.
But he lived to tell about it and he sleeps well at night. His victims, not so much.
Soros probably learned a lot, at an early age about the weaknesses of people and how to exploit them for benefit.
Incidentally, I think what Beck is doing is pure Saul Alinsky. He knows Soros is only one personality, one facet of the New World Government business. What Beck is doing is picking a target and isolating it.
It'd be too confusing and overwhelming to take them all on. So he is starting with one and seeing where it leads. Soros is just the visible tip of the iceberg.
I have known many survivors of the holocost. I have family members murdered by the Nazis, a great uncle who ran to Cuba from Russia. What they suffered, Soros never came close to. He wasn't in a camp. He did not watch his friends and family tortured and killed. No. He just did what a number of others did. They pretended to not be Jewish and were ignored by the Nazis. 14 years old is old enough to know better.
None of them ever dreamed of the thuggery he has engaged him. Piss on this slime.
Practical atheists.
I am a son and quadruple grandson of Holocaust survivors. I am well aware that people did questionable things to survive. Even the proper thing to do haunts people. But only a sociopath contributes to killing his own and then calls it the best years of his life.
And Beck had to address this. His puppetmaster spiel would be called antisemitic either way. This way, people see taht Soros has no right to hide behind fallacious retorts of antisemitism. And we see that he is a sociopath, in his own words.
“Even the proper thing to do haunts people. But only a sociopath contributes to killing his own and then calls it the best years of his life.”
As I said in previous posts, Soros went through hell as a child of 14. He even survived that Battle of Budapest, which was on par with Stalingrad in its ferocity.
And so I do argue that we should not judge Soros the child but Soros the man.
But I will say that his statement about the war being the best years of his life puzzles me.
I actually think his war experiences left him mentally ill. Perhaps he was predisposed anyway and the war just solidified that.
So I do “accuse” the 14-year-old Soros of being mentally ill. But not a criminal, at that time of his life at least.
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