Posted on 07/16/2007 8:50:57 AM PDT by tobyhill
America's first Muslim congressman has provoked outrage by apparently comparing President George W Bush to Adolf Hitler and hinting that he might have been responsible for the September 11 attacks.
Addressing a gathering of atheists in his home state of Minnesota, Keith Ellison, a Democrat, compared the 9/11 atrocities to the destruction of the Reichstag, the German parliament, in 1933. This was probably burned down by the Nazis in order to justify Hitler's later seizure of emergency powers.
"It's almost like the Reichstag fire, kind of reminds me of that," Mr Ellison said. "After the Reichstag was burned, they blamed the Communists for it, and it put the leader [Hitler] of that country in a position where he could basically have authority to do whatever he wanted."
To applause from his audience of 300 members of Atheists for Human Rights, Mr Ellison said he would not accuse the Bush administration of planning 9/11 because "you know, that's how they put you in the nut-ball box - dismiss you".
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
As a Minnesotan, I’m confounded by a state with such conservative values packaged in a liberal voting bloc. Makes absolutely no sense, and is embarassing. Then again, we did vote in Jesse Ventura as our governor. I’m praying Norm Coleman beats Al Franken in the Senate race—I’ll have to move.
Bushs need to lose words like” Evildoer” and “warfighter” and use words that mean something.
Call radical Muslims what they really are, murdering dogs that need to be put down. Call Our soliders,oh,I dont know, what about soliders.
Use direct word and phrases, instead of clever word ploys. Like Patton said, give it to them plan and dirty..
Please see my #60!!!!
Hammer his dumb voters - not all of his constituents. The 3 conservatives in his district did their best by voting against him. Of which, I am proudly one of the three.
Personally - I would have preferred the independent liberal lesbian running against him. In my district having “DFL” after your name on the ballot ensures election.
I believe the nutball box is properly called Michigan.
Ok, the nutball box is called Minnesota! My mistake - but you could see how I could make that mistake, what with Conyers and Levin, etc. Hell, maybe I’m right after all! I think it’s the proximity to the canadian border that makes them like that.
Muslim congressman?....Oh brother!.....How can an idiot like this get even one vote?
Intel says AQ cells are on the way to the US. I believe they already have their first “plant”.
Yeah, he may very well be a SOB; but he’s our (sorta ours) SOB, and others can just STFU!
This should help: http://ellison.house.gov/
islam = rabies
If President Bush were like Hitler, the Muslims should love him...
But he’s not.
Some of us wondered about the intelligence of this congressman when he was elected.
Now we know, he’s an idiot as this confirms.
Whats really hilarious is he said this to a atheist group, which of course radical muslims would cheerfully execute on public television for their views.....
Yeah, you could invoke their own “Godwin’s Law” against them here.
Elison had no business being elected in the first place - CAIR and the Nation of Islam carefully chose that district to inflitrate. He’s a joke.
cant believe someone who is actually in congress is saying that kind of garbage
what a dope
dopes dopes dopes
islam= instant mental retardation
i am a firm believer in free speech but i almost view that statement by a congressman as a form of treachery against the united states.
he should be taken from office for suggesting the US attacked the US that day.
i doubt he believes that but he would like the rest of america to swallow it
FDR would have been considered “like Hitler” by the fascists in his day, too.
A Democrat, no kidding!
Is his entire constituency Muslim, or just brain dead?
Try certifiably insane with Bush Derangement Syndrome. As well as past the threshold Mrxist-Leninist-Stalinist. This is a congressional district where having a bumper sticker on your vehicle that does not follow the moonbat orthodoxy can result in your vehicle being extensively vandalized. There even has been a case of arson in Richfield MN (also part of the 5th Congressional District) just because of a Bush-Cheney campaign yard sign. And it’s all considered “constitutionally protected political free speech” - as long as the person exercising such “expression” is a DFL/Marxist. For years I have considered San Francisco not to be part of the United States. It is approaching the same for Minneapolis. Only thing with the latter is that it is only 4 miles away, and means I would have to sever a lot of business contacts (changing banks, equipment suppliers, etc.).
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