So You're a Conservative . . . You Must Be a Nazi!

Human Events Onlin ^ | August 31, 2005 | Rabbi Aryeh Spero

[hinterlander]

A Gainesville, Georgia, talk show host returning from visiting our troops in Iraq wrote a letter to the New York Times disagreeing with the paper's pundits' conferring on Cindy Sheehan, mother of a fallen soldier, the status of "absolute moral authority" regarding our involvement in Iraq. With sensitivity, Martha Zoller wrote that many mothers and fathers of fallen heroes, with equal moral clout, support our mission in Iraq.

To her surprise, this southern gal received a bundle of e-mails from the New York City area calling her a "Nazi" and "concentration-camp capo," the latter a pejorative used often by Jews referring to that small number of their brethren who collaborated with concentration camp Nazis. It's not a term one generally hears thrown around on the streets of Provo, Utah.

What could possibly be Nazi-like, capo-like, in simply expressing a sentiment that buttresses the opinions of families who've lost children yet still support the war? Actually, nothing! What such name-calling may show is a pre-dispositional belief, from upbringing, within a core of the liberal/progressive community that white, Southern Christians -- majority American types -- are inchoate Nazis.

Almost every policy advancing the cause of American nationalism is seen as grounds for using the N-word, Nazi, reminiscent of leftist race-baiters who stand ready to spring . . .

[Fintan]

I'm guessing it was the NYT editorial board that wrote those letters...

[FreedomPoster]

The rabid Left in this country is a total caricature of themselves. The best thing we can do is get them as much true medai exposure (not just scripted media events) as we can.

[2banana]

Washington Times Letters to the Editor June 7, 2000 - Arlington, VA

During the past several months in the American press, the Democrats have frequently denounced the Republicans as Nazis due to their attempts to control runaway federal spending. How very ironic. I remember the Nazis.

Let me share a little about them and recall some of their exploits.

First of all, "Nazi" was gutter slang for the verb "to nationalize". The Bider-Mienhoff gang gave themselves this moniker during their early struggles. The official title of the Nazi Party was "The National Socialist Workers Party of Germany". Hitler and the Brownshirts advocated the nationalization of education, health care, transportation, national resources,manufacturing, distribution and law enforcement.

Hitler came to power by turning the working class, unemployed, and academic elite against the conservative republic. After Der Fuhrer's election ceased being a political conspiracy and was transformed into afashionablesocial phenomenon, party membership was especially popular with educators, bureaucrats, and the press.

Being a Nazi was "politically correct". They called themselves "The Children of the New Age of World Order" and looked down their noses at everyone else. As Hitler acquired more power, he referred to his critics as"The Dark Forces of Anarchy and Hatred". Anyone who questioned Nazi high-handedness in the German press was branded a "Conservative Reactionary". Joseph Goebbels, minister ofcommunications, proclaimed a "New World Order".

The Nazi reign of terror began with false news reports on the Jews, Bohemians and Gypses who were said to be arming themselves to overthrow the "New World Order" and Hitler demanded that all good people register their guns so that they wouldn't fall into the hands of "terrorists and madmen". Right-wing fanatics of the "Old Order" who protested firearms registration were arrested by the S.S. and put in jail for "fomenting hatred against the Government of the German people".

Then the Reichstag (government building) was blown up and Hitler ram-rodded an "Emergency Anti-Terrorist Act" through Parliament that gave the Gestapo extraordinary powers. The leader then declared that for the well-being of the German people, all private firearms were to be confiscated by the Gestapo and the Wermotten (federal law enforcement and military). German citizens who refused to surrender their guns when the “jack-boots" (Gestapo) came calling, were murdered in their homes. By the way, the Gestapo were the federal marshals' service of the Third Reich. The S.W.A.T. team was invented and perfected by the Gestapo to break into the homes of the enemies of the German people.

When the Policia Bewakken, or local police, refused to take away guns from townsfolk, they themselves were disarmed and dragged out into the street and shot to death by the S.A. and the S.S. Those were Nazi versions of the B.A.T.F. and the F.B.I. When several local ministers spoke out against these atrocities, they were imprisoned and never seen again.

The Gestapo began to confiscate and seize the homes, businesses, bank accounts, and personal belongings of wealthy conservative citizens who had prospered in the old Republic. Pamphleteers who urged revolt against the Nazis were shot on site by national law enforcement and the military. Gypsies and Jews were detained and sent to labor camps. Mountain roads throughout central Europe were closed to prevent the escape of fugitives into the wilderness, and to prevent the movement and concealment of partisan resistance fighters.

Public schools rewrote history and Hitler youth groups taught the children to report their parents to their teachers for anti-Nazi remarks. Such parents disappeared. Pagan animism became the state religion of the Third Reich and Christians were widely condemned as "right wing fanatics".

Millions of books were burned first and then people. Millions of them burned in huge ovens after they were first gassed to death. Unmarried women were paid large sums of money to have babies out of wedlock and then given medals for it. Evil was declared as being good, and good was condemned as being evil. World Order was coming and the German people were going to be the "peacekeepers".

Yes, indeed, I remember the Nazis and they weren't Republicans, or "right wing", or "patriots" or "militias". They were Socialist monsters.

-- Thomas Colton Ruthford

[softwarecreator]

They've used the "N" word so often that it has become blase by now.  The lefties are a one trick pony and they've beaten it to death already.

[EagleUSA]

Right-wing fanatics of the "Old Order" who protested firearms registration were arrested by the S.S. and put in jail for "fomenting hatred against the Government of the German people...
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And history does repeat itself -- and you can imagine the government stance on firearms and other Constitutional freedoms if a power-crazed Marxist like Hitlery and her self-appointed Politburo got into the White House....

[Natural Law]

Another failure for the public school system. Nazis were National Socialists.

[sionnsar]

Then the Reichstag (government building) was blown up

Ummm....

[longtermmemmory]

This is "jamming". Leftist wackos try and intimidate those who stand up and write against the leftists by flooding them with THEIR NAZI style hate mail.

It is a simple matter of accusing the accuser of the same sin to cover up your own sin.

[fizziwig]

Hmmm, lets see, what was Hitler all about...

Did he like big government? Oh yeah!!!!

Did he advocate and implement severe gun control? You betcha!

Did he hate Christianity? uh huh!!

Did he support euthanasia and abortion? Like suspenders he did!

So what was Hitler? He was a lefty...left, left, left.

[Enchante]

"I'm guessing it was the NYT editorial board that wrote those letters"

Maureen Dowd, Frank Rich, Paul Krugman, and Bob Herbert also 'moonlight' by writing anonymous hate-mail when they are not busy writing their hate-columns.....

[Cicero]

I grew up with the connection between Nazis and the right so firmly implanted in my mind that I never questioned it. Only much later did I start to question this assumption.

It can't be said too often that the Nazis were National SOCIALISTS, and that Mussolini was trained as a Communist before he broke away to form his own party. Nazis and Communists were rivals, but they hated each other so much because they were so much alike. They both wanted to seize control in the name of the people and impose totalitarian state control on their countries. They spoke of progress toward a progressive Utopia, but their real interest was to seize and hold power for themselves over everyone else.

[Little Ray]

One of these days someone needs to ask Liberals what have against the National Socialist German Workers Party.
I mean, they were good environmentalists; they even used capital punishment on ecological criminals like poachers. They heavily regulated and controlled industries and did their best to insure that everybody had work, pensions, health care, etc.

Except for that little bit about nationalism, Liberals ought to LOVE Nazism and Fascism.

[Little Ray]

Actually, I think the issue between Fascists, National Socialists, and Communists was Nationalism. Fascists and Nazis were nationalists. Communism is "International Socialism."

[TBP]

Nazis are socialists.

Nazi=Communist.

[processing please hold]

I'm tired of being called a fascist.

[Redbob]

This T.C. Ruthford letter to the editor, while interesting, is so rife with misspellings as to make one wonder if the author really knows what he's talking about.

Or whether his hat's just on too tight.

[BenLurkin]

Cindy hates Israel.

It is no secret.

[PAR35]

Did he like big government? Oh yeah!!!!
Did he advocate and implement severe gun control? You betcha!
Did he hate Christianity? uh huh!!
Did he support euthanasia and abortion? Like suspenders he did!

You forgot:

anti-smoking
vegetarian
tree hugging
animal lover.

Hitler would fit right in to the democratic party.

[concrete is my business]

RE: "Another failure for the public school system. Nazis were National Socialists."

I think Ba'athists (sp?) are also a national socialist party. All the more reason to base success in Iraq on dissolving and disarming the Ba'athist Party.