Even in Nazi Germany, they did not crucify one for expressing a viewpoint on an historic question, which had nothing to do with Hitler's current program. One could probably have expressed the view in 1938 that Kaiser Wilhelm I should or should not have done something in 1884, without fearing the Gestapo. But you, my arrogant friend, aspire to censor what opinions today's generation of politicians may have on what happened in 1948, and the consequences. And what is your justification? You think that the political enemies of the man you would shoot down, will make hay with his views.
Well they have made hay, all right. But it is from the reactions of so-called Conservatives, bent suddenly on internecine warfare to appease an absurd fantasy. That fantasy is that the public--the objective or not already committed public--will somehow be inflamed because one Senator expressed admiration for what another Senator did 54 years ago. Do you have any idea how silly that is? The people making all that noise about their outrage are the already committed verbal warriors of the Left. They are not people who were on our side who have suddenly shifted.
The correct response should have been to laugh in their faces and then denounce their irrationality for thinking the American people are so stupid that they would be taken in by this sort of contrived controversy.
Stop playing into the hands of propagandists who want to undermine your heritage by dividing its defenders on stupid diversionary issues.
William Flax Return Of The Gods Web Site
You have the right to speak your mind. You do not have a right to have the really stupid ideas you choose to express taken seriously and treated with respect. You have the right to keep silent and merely be thought a fool. You also have the right to open your mouth and remove all remaining doubt.