On Oct 8, 4:05 am, Stan de SD <
StanD...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > there is a big difference between a skeptic, or a denier. deniers of
> > many things seem to run in packs, like the tea party, which some in it
> > have nazi connections:))))))
>
> You have proof of this, or are you merely making up crap as usual?
yawn, its well known that the tea party has
nazi(CONSERVATIVE)sympathizers. this is just one of them. nothing made
up, you just refuse to accept reality.
here are the three 3 phases of conservative decay.
1.conservatism(policies always fail)
2. libertarianism(the drive for purity, the conservative polices and
those that implemented them, were not pure enough)
3. fascism(the rise of the strong man to ensure purity), the
strongman
will drive out the impure, liberals, jews, immigrants, trade
unionists, communists, socialists, those with mental and physical
defects,
gypsies, etc. this to fails on a huge scale. just look what happened
to the central european fascists. they collapsed their economies, and
came up millions of workers and soldiers short.
crank conservative/libertarian/fascist republican tea party nut case
idealizes the nazi s.s. typical conservative:Why is This GOP House
Candidate proudly Dressed as a Nazi?:click on the link for the pics
of
the proud conservative in his natural state wearing a nazi
uniform:)
click on the link for the pics of the proud conservative in his
natural state, wearing a nazi uniform:)
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/10/why-is-this-gop-h...
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9, 2010
JOSHUA GREEN - Joshua Green is a senior editor of The Atlantic and a
weekly political columnist for the Boston Globe.
Why is This GOP House Candidate Dressed as a Nazi?
OCT 8 2010, 10:00 PM ET
An election year already notable for its
menagerie of extreme and
unusual candidates can add another one: Rich
Iott, the Republican
nominee for Congress from Ohio's 9th District,
and a Tea Party
favorite, who for years donned a German Waffen SS
uniform and
participated in Nazi re-enactments.
Iott, whose district lies in Northwest Ohio, was involved with a
group
that calls itself Wiking, whose members are devoted to re-
enacting the
exploits of an actual Nazi division, the 5th SS Panzer
Division
Wiking, which fought mainly on the Eastern Front during
World War II.
Iott's participation in the Wiking group is not
mentioned on his
campaign's website, and his name and photographs
were removed from the
Wiking website.
When contacted by The Atlantic, Iott confirmed his involvement with
the group over a number of years, but said his interest in Nazi
Germany was historical and he does not subscribe to the tenets of
Nazism. "No, absolutely not," he said. "In fact, there's a disclaimer
on the [Wiking] website. And you'll find that on almost any
reenactment website. It's purely historical interest in World War
II."
Iott, a member of the Ohio Military Reserve, added, "I've always been
fascinated by the fact that here was a relatively small country that
from a strictly military point of view accomplished incredible
things.
I mean, they took over most of Europe and Russia, and it
really took
the combined effort of the free world to defeat them.
From a purely
historical military point of view, that's incredible."
Iott says the group chose the Wiking division in part because it
fought on the Eastern Front, mainly against the Russian Army, and not
U.S. or British soldiers. The group's website includes a lengthy
history of the Wiking unit, a recruitment video, and footage of
goose-
stepping German soldiers marching in the Warsaw victory parade
after
Poland fell in 1939. The website makes scant mention of the
atrocities
committed by the Waffen SS, and includes only a glancing
reference to
the "twisted" nature of Nazism. Instead, it emphasizes
how the Wiking
unit fought Bolshevist Communism:
Nazi Germany had no
problem in recruiting the multitudes of volunteers
willing to lay
down their lives to ensure a "New and Free Europe",
free of the
threat of Communism. National Socialism was seen by many
in Holland,
Denmark, Norway, Finland, and other eastern European and
Balkan
countries as the protector of personal freedom and their very
way of
life, despite the true underlying totalitarian (and quite
twisted, in
most cases) nature of the movement. Regardless, thousands
upon
thousands of valiant men died defending their respective
countries in
the name of a better tomorrow. We salute these idealists;
no matter
how unsavory the Nazi government was, the front-line
soldiers of the
Waffen-SS (in particular the foreign volunteers) gave
their lives for
their loved ones and a basic desire to be free.
Historians of Nazi
Germany vehemently dispute this characterization.
"These guys don't
know their history," said Charles W. Sydnor, Jr., a
retired history
professor and author of "Soldiers of Destruction: The
SS Death's Head
Division, 1933-45," which chronicles an SS division.
"They have a
sanitized, romanticized view of what occurred." Sydnor
added that re-
enactments like the Wiking group's are illegal in
Germany and
Austria. "If you were to put on an SS uniform in Germany
today, you'd
be arrested."
Christopher Browning, a professor of history at the University of
North Carolina-Chapel Hill, said, "It is so unhistorical and so
apologetic that you don't know to what degree they've simply caught
up
innocent war memorabilia enthusiasts who love putting on
uniforms."
Iott says he does not recall exactly when he joined the Wiking group
(his name appears on a unit roster as far back as 2003), but did so
with his son "as a father-son bonding thing." He says his name and
pictures were removed from the Wiking website not out of concern that
they would harm his political career, but because he quit the group
three years ago, after his son lost interest.
Iott participated in the group under his own name, and also under the
alias "Reinhard Pferdmann," which has also been removed, and which
Iott described as being his German alter ego. "Part of the
reenactor's
[experience]," Iott said, "is the living-history part, of
really
trying to get into the persona of the time period. In many,
not just
in our unit, but in many units what individuals do is create
this
person largely based on a Germanized version of their name, and
a
history kind of based around your own real experiences. 'Reinhard'
of
course is 'Richard' in German. And 'Pferdmann,' 'pferd' is a
horse. So
it's literally 'horse man.'"
Asked whether his participation in a Nazi re-enactor's group might
not
upset voters, particularly Jewish voters, Iott said he hoped it
would
not: "They have to take it in context. There's reenactors out
there
who do everything. You couldn't do Civil War re-enacting if
somebody
didn't play the role of the Confederates. [This] is
something that's
definitely way in the past. ... [I hope voters] take
it in context and
see it for what it is, an interest in World War II
history. And that's
strictly all."
Rabbi Moshe Saks, of the Congregation B'nai Israel in Sylvania, Ohio,
a suburb of Toledo that sits in the 9th district, disagreed. "Any
kind
of reenactment or glorification of Nazi Germany, to us, would
be
something unacceptable and certainly in poor taste, if not
offensive,"
he said. "I think the reaction here will be very
negative. And not
just among the Jewish community, but the broader
community."
In a follow-up email today, Iott seemed at pains to address concerns
that his conduct may have alienated veterans groups but made no
specific mention of possible offense to Jews or human rights groups:
"Never, in any of my reenacting of military history, have I meant any
disrespect to anyone who served in our military or anyone who has
been
affected by the tragedy of war. In fact, I have immense respect
for
veterans who served our country valiantly, and my respect of the
military and our veterans is one of the reasons I have actively
studied military history throughout my life." He added that he has
participated in re-enactments as a Civil War Union infantryman, a
World War I dough boy and World War II American infantryman and
paratrooper.
The actual Wiking unit has a history as grisly as that of other Nazi
divisions. In her book "The Death Marches of Hungarian Jews Through
Austria in the Spring of 1945," Eleonore Lappin, the noted Austrian
historian, writes that soldiers from the Wiking division were
involved
in the killing of Hungarian Jews in March and April 1945,
before
surrendering to American forces in Austria.
"What you often hear is that the [Wiking] division was never formally
accused of anything, but that's kind of a dodge," says Prof. Rob
Citino, of the Military History Center at the University of North
Texas, who examined the Wiking website. "The entire German war effort
in the East was a racial crusade to rid the world of 'subhumans,'
Slavs were going to be enslaved in numbers of tens of millions. And
of
course the multimillion Jewish population of Eastern Europe was
going
to be exterminated altogether. That's what all these folks were
doing
in the East. It sends a shiver up my spine to think that people
want
to dress up and play SS on the weekend."
the republican party is simply running out of al bundy, homer simpson,
archie bunker types. people so stupid, they cannot even do basic math,
let alone come in from the rain.
the constitution of the united states was a anti-conservative
statement by the majority of the founders of the united states of
america.
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but upon careful examination "THE CONSERVATIVES" feeble attempts at
confusion and dishonesty does not stand up to the light. they live in
a counter-factual universe, the product of the hermetically sealed
"CONSERVATIVE" subculture. Trying to see the world through the lens
of
"THE CONSERVATIVE", is like looking at a fun-house mirror;
everything’s backwards and distorted.
"THE CONSERVATIVES" world view is flawed because its based upon a
small and particularly rosy sliver of reality. To preserve that world
view, "THE CONSERVATIVES" believe that people had morally earned their
“just” desserts, and had to ignore those whining liberals who tried to
point out that the world didn’t actually work that way. I think this
shows why "THE CONSERVATIVES" put so much effort into “creat[ing]
their own reality,” into fostering distrust of liberals, experts,
scientists, and academics, and why they won’t let a campaign “be
dictated by fact-checkers” (as a Romney pollster put it). It explains
why study after study shows that avid consumers of "THE CONSERVATIVE"-
oriented media are more poorly informed than people who use other news
sources or don’t bother to follow the news at all.