Posted on 10/11/2008 11:13:07 AM PDT by KingJaja
VIENNA (AFP) — Outspoken Austrian far-right leader Joerg Haider, who sparked international outrage with comments praising Nazi policies, died on Saturday when his car veered off the road. .....................................
He was elected again but in 1995 said the feared Waffen-SS should be "honoured." New criticism erupted when he told the Austrian parliament that Nazi concentration camps were just "disciplinary camps."
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Media-savvy, he was rarely out of the limelight, offering recently to mediate hostage crises in North Africa with his friend Seif al-Islam, son of Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi, or forcibly removing bilingual street signs in Carinthia, which has a strong Slovenian minority.
The son of a bootmaker with avowed Nazi sympathies, Haider became involved in the extreme right in his early 20s.
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Very revealing about the European “Far Right” when their poster boy applauds National SOCIALIST statist labor policies (forced labor, mandatory work service for the state) and brown-noses Arab SOCIALIST tyrants like Saddam Hussein and Ghaddafi. Europe needs to grow a genuinly conservative movement. Not the Neo-Fascists rat-catchers on the fringe and faux “Christian socialism” which passes as mainstream conservative in Europe these days.
Did it (the car) veer to the left or to the right?
That’s right. Much of the European “right” in no way resembles American conservatism.
Most of the European “right” are of the Giuliani/Pataki variety. Whenever I hear Rudy the Crossdresser speak, he reminds me of the old Christian Democrats in Italy and Germany.
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