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To: AndyJackson
The best way to honor the victims you speak of is to eschew totalitarianism in all its forms. Advocating laws that prohibit dressing up dogs in goofy/offensive costumes (with penalty of prison) not only doesn't do that, it in fact embraces the very totalitarianism you claim to despise. Better rethink your position.
79 posted on 12/23/2007 1:49:51 PM PST by Mr. Mojo
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To: Mr. Mojo

I have not advocated anything, actually.


80 posted on 12/23/2007 1:59:52 PM PST by AndyJackson
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To: Mr. Mojo
On embracing totalitarianism.

I repeat that the authorities are like children. Trying to redress things by banal prohibitions. There are some brave souls that see it for what it is. Again, what was done in that war, was done. Nothing that they do in these cases mitigates it. It cannot be mitigated.

I know that even a few bars of the Horst Wessell Lied is enough to have the police out. This in Germany. Verboten. Yet it is a soldiers song. Funny thing though, the Deutchsland Uber Alles, "Germany Above All" is verboten, if the words are used. Yet the anthem to which they sang it, was sung in English schools in WW2. This as a hymn. I believe the tune is still the German anthem.

Yes, "Glorious things of thee are spoken" etc. One could continue in this vein.

81 posted on 12/23/2007 2:24:27 PM PST by Peter Libra
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