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   From: jewbee@nytimes.com   
      
   As a "right-winger," I have been called a "Nazi." This is   
   totally absurd, and I have found a very interesting document   
   (below) which shows how the Nazis can also be seen as "left-   
   wing."   
      
   (Note: I am NOT saying that Democrats or liberals are Nazis!!   
   They aren't!! This document is provided for conservatives to   
   defend themselves when they are called Nazis, which often   
   occurs. Neither side should be labeled as "Nazis.")   
   Washington Times   
      
   Letters to the Editor   
   June 7 - Arlington, VA   
      
   During the past several months in the American press, the   
   Democrats have frequently denounced the Republicans as Nazis due   
   to their attempts to control runaway federal spending. How very   
   ironic. I remember the Nazis. Let me share a little about them   
   and recall some of their exploits.   
      
   First of all, "Nazi" was gutter slang for the verb "to   
   nationalize". The Bider-Mienhoff gang gave themselves this   
   moniker during their early struggles. The official title of the   
   Nazi Party was "The National Socialist Workers Party of   
   Germany". Hitler and the Brownshirts advocated the   
   nationalization of education, health care, transportation,   
   national resources, manufacturing, distribution and law   
   enforcement.   
      
   Hitler came to power by turning the working class, unemployed,   
   and academic elite against the conservative republic. After Der   
   Fuhrer's election ceased being a political conspiracy and was   
   transformed into a fashionable social phenomenon, party   
   membership was especially popular with educators, bureaucrats,   
   and the press.   
      
   Being a Nazi was "politically correct". They called themselves   
   "The Children of the New Age of World Order" and looked down   
   their noses at everyone else. As Hitler acquired more power, he   
   referred to his critics as "The Dark Forces of Anarchy and   
   Hatred". Anyone who questioned Nazi high-handedness in the   
   German press was branded a "Conservative Reactionary". Joseph   
   Goebbels, minister of communications, proclaimed a "New World   
   Order".   
      
   The Nazi reign of terror began with false news reports on the   
   Jews, Bohemians and Gypses who were said to be arming themselves   
   to overthrow the "New World Order" and Hitler demanded that all   
   good people register their guns so that they wouldn't fall into   
   the hands of "terrorists and madmen".Right-wing fanatics of the   
   "Old Order" who protested firearms registration were arrested by   
   the S.S. and put in jail for "fomenting hatred against the   
   Government of the German people".   
      
   Then the Reichstag (government building) was blown up and Hitler   
   ram-rodded an "Emergency Anti-Terrorist Act" through Parliament   
   that gave the Gestapo extraordinary powers. The leader then   
   declared that for the well-being of the German people, all   
   private firearms were to be confiscated by the Gestapo and the   
   Wermotten (federal law enforcement and military). German   
   citizens who refused to surrender their guns when the "jack-   
   boots" (Gestapo) came calling, were murdered in their homes. By   
   the way, the Gestapo were the federal marshals' service of the   
   Third Reich. The S.W.A.T. team was invented and perfected by the   
   Gestapo to break into the homes of the enemies of the German   
   people.   
      
   When the Policia Bewakken, or local police, refused to take away   
   guns from townsfolk, they themselves were disarmed and dragged   
   out into the street and shot to death by the S.A. and the S.S.   
   Those were Nazi versions of the B.A.T.F. and the F.B.I. When   
   several local ministers spoke out against these atrocities, they   
   were imprisoned and never seen again.   
      
   The Gestapo began to confiscate and seize the homes, businesses,   
   bank accounts, and personal belongings of wealthy conservative   
   citizens who had prospered in the old Republic. Pamphleteers who   
   urged revolt against the Nazis were shot on site by national law   
   enforcement and the military. Gypsies and Jews were detained and   
   sent to labor camps. Mountain roads throughout central Europe   
   were closed to prevent the escape of fugitives into the   
   wilderness, and to prevent the movement and concealment of   
   partisan resistance fighters.   
      
   Public schools rewrote history and Hitler youth groups taught   
   the children to report their parents to their teachers for anti-   
   Nazi remarks. Such parents disappeared. Pagan animism became the   
   state religion of the Third Reich and Christians were widely   
   condemned as "right wing fanatics".   
      
   Millions of books were burned first and then people. Millions of   
   them burned in huge ovens after they were first gassed to death.   
   Unmarried women were paid large sums of money to have babies out   
   of wedlock and then given medals for it. Evil was declared as   
   being good, and good was condemned as being evil. World Order   
   was coming and the German people were going to be the   
   "peacekeepers".   
      
   Yes, indeed, I remember the Nazis and they weren't Republicans,   
   or "right wing", or "patriots" or "militias". They were   
   Socialist monsters.   
      
   -- Thomas Colton Ruthford   
                         
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)