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Subject: Re: Arndt on Hitler
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> I agree that freedom of speech is a fine right.  I agree that, as Rich Rosen
> says, many non-thinking people vote - but don't gloss over what happened in
> Germany under Hitler as something having nothing to do with reason.
> Read Albert Speer's SPANDAU DIARIES.  He tells how he fell under Hitler's
> spell.He went to a rally expecting to see a funny little man dressed up in a
> uniform raving and shouting like a loonie.  Well, he found a quiet well
> spoken, sincere man in a business suit (he was addressing businessmen) talking
> about the sad shape Germany was in (all too true) and how he wanted, with
> their support, to DO something about it.  My point being that Hitler was no
> dummy.  Don't let the newsreels fool you.  He tailored his speech and manner
> to the audience.  Just like today's pols.  If Gobbels had had T.V.!!!

...he'd be Jerry Falwell!!

> They were trying to build a new world.  Many of them were 'good' men as well
> as good Germans.  So easy to be pulled along and join up.  The horror came
> soon enough.  But the first SS men British troops met behaved honorably.

Sounds a good deal like the goals of the Moral Majority, no?

> Evil men fool good men with 'reason', eh?  I like that line from the old 
> 'Secret Agent' TV series title song: "A pretty face can hid an evil mind."

From the same song:  "They've given you a number, and taken away your name."

> Well, a reasoned platform can hid an 'evil' program.  Can't an emotional
> platform 'hide' a good program???

Read the signature line.  Not likely.  If they have to resort to emotional
appeals, how substantive can the platform be?
-- 
Anything's possible, but only a few things actually happen.
					Rich Rosen    pyuxd!rlr