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From: chabot@miles.DEC (High Anxiety Workstations)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Nazis and the burden of not speaking out
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Date: Tue, 4-Jun-85 15:47:09 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun  4 15:47:09 1985
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> The so-called Nazi's that Reagan paid respects to were victims of the
> Nazi party, just as the Jews were.  Aside from the SS, they were just
> ordinary citizens until Hitler came along.  

...and gave them the Nazi party to support.  Hey, I bet most of us were mild-
fingered little coders until net.flame came along...

But here we are, succumbing to peer pressure.  Shit.

> Hitler organized a youth group, comparable to our BSA.  Of course, though, 
> Hitler's youth group taught these young lads to think his way 
> (Brain-washing).  I feel that the BSA do the same thing.

[Attention: Hitler Youth was for young lasses too.]  However, today you won't
even be thought a flag-burning communist (or insert your favorite evil person
here) if you refuse join Scouting.

However, neither net.flame nor Scouting seem to be out to lock up or kill
innocent people.

Well, Scouting, anyway.  :-\

---
In a less flame-boyant vein, I recommend the Talk of the Town column in the
27 May 1985 _New_Yorker_ , specifically the letter starting on page 29.  It
discusses the disturbances caused by protestors and the audience's reaction at
a showing of "The Gods Must Be Crazy". 

    "'Look, I'm *not* part of this group, I paid for this movie just like
    everyone else here, but maybe it's important that we think about taking
    moral stand on issues that affect people's lives, instead of just
    wanting to be entertained.  If people had felt as strongly as this about
    protecting the Jews in Germany, my grandfather might be alive today 
    instead of having been gassed in Dachau.'  Then I heard a familiar voice
    saying, 'He's right, and you better not tell me to shut up.'  There was 
    my sixty-four-year-old mother facing down the entire theatre, and she
    was trembling."

L S Chabot   ...decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-amber!chabot   chabot%amber.dec@decwrl.arpa