Posted on 03/19/2009 6:02:51 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Edited on 03/19/2009 6:08:36 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Germany's finance minister, Peer Steinbrueck, has been described by an MP in Switzerland as behaving like a 'jackbooted Nazi' for challenging banking secrecy in the country.
Mr Steinbrueck, whose government has campaigned against tax havens and has called for Switzerland to relax its code of banking secrecy, said that he had received hate mail after he was compared on Wednesday by Thomas Mueller to a "generation of Germans ... who went through the streets wearing leather coats, boots and arm-bands".
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Ping!
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OK.
He went right for the throat!
If he really felt the German was a jackbooted nazi, he’d have opened up his bank to support his cause, just like the Swiss did when there were real jackbooted nazis running Germany.
Or a Swiss official?
So true.
Which shows you just how effective the media is at pollvaulting Nazism to the atrocity forefront when Communism is even worse.
Why never a reference to a mass murderer like Stalin?
Kids aren’t taught anything about old Uncle Joe.
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