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To: Lead Moderator
Exactly. But my point in bringing up the "illegals" status of Jews in Nazi Germany was that everything that Hitler ever did was all perfectly legal according to the then German constitution, and that the law is not a religion, and that people who are being dehumanized are in danger of being unjustly persecuted. Indeed, everyone is called to disobey laws which conflict with their consciences. The excuse of "only following lawful orders" is not a valid one.

Too often we see posts advocating or extolling the commission of felonies upon people who are committing misdemeanors, as if they therefore deserve any abuse or outrage committed against them, since they are "despicable people" and "all violent criminals" and "terrorists against our public treasury" and "illegals." It was against those cruel and unjust ideas that I brought up the sad chapter from the previous century, not to equate but to warn.

202 posted on 01/05/2004 6:18:15 PM PST by Cultural Jihad
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To: Cultural Jihad
Yeah but your entire point gets lost in the fact that there is simply no comparison between the two. I am going to use some words of Jonah Goldberg here.

"Show me the camps. Show me the millions of people being gassed. Show me the tattoos on people's arms. Show me elderly... men being beaten in the streets, their stores smashed, and books burned. Show me huge piles of emaciated bodies stocked high like cords of wood."

If you can't show me that, then the analogy to the Nazis is so not even in the ballpark as to completely overwhelm whatever point you were trying to make. It is the debate equivalent negation of "you had me at hello"- you lost me at Nazi.

It is needless baiting and we need to lose that approach on these (and other) threads.

204 posted on 01/05/2004 6:25:12 PM PST by Lead Moderator
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To: Cultural Jihad
Too often we see posts advocating or extolling the commission of felonies upon people who are committing misdemeanors, as if they therefore deserve any abuse or outrage committed against them, since they are "despicable people" and "all violent criminals" and "terrorists against our public treasury" and "illegals."

If you would read what you have written before posting, you'd never post 1/10th of what you do!

You, like Hillary Clinton make very little sense when you're emoting.

249 posted on 01/06/2004 11:47:06 AM PST by JesseHousman (Execute Mumia Abu-Jamal)
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