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http://www.worldjewishcongress.org/en/news/11411/opinion_menachem_z_rosensaft_a_neo_nazi_in_the_gop_where_s_the_outrage_from_on_high_01 March 2012
OPINION - Menachem Z. Rosensaft: A neo-Nazi in the GOP: Where's the outrage from on high?
The following article by World Jewish Congress General Counsel Menachem Z. Rosensaft was first published in the American online newspaper 'Huffington Post'. The views expressed in this article are those of the author.
Arthur Jones, a neo-Nazi, outspoken anti-Semite and Holocaust denier, wants to be a Republican Congressman from the Land of Lincoln.
This is neither a joke nor an exaggeration. The 64-year-old Jones, who organizes "family-friendly" celebrations of Adolf Hitler's birthday and maintains that "the Holocaust never happened," actually is a candidate in this year's Republican primary in Illinois's 3rd Congressional District.
Jones faces two other opponents in the primary, which means that he could theoretically become the nominee with just 35 percent of the vote.
white_wolf
(6,238 posts)Then I can officially call them the new Nazi Party.
GopperStopper2680
(397 posts)Yes-let's make it official. He can formally rename Congress 'The Schuttzstaffel' and the Senate 'The Gestappo' and then he can rename the Cabinet the 'Kammlerstab'. Hitler would be overjoyed indeed.......
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)Never mind running for Congress - they should consider him for V.P.!
GopperStopper2680
(397 posts)He's the perfect image for today's Republican Party. He embodies all they stand for: Bigotry against people of a different creed, machiavellian control of trade, a stranglehold on the flow of information, summary imprisonment of 'dissenters and seditionists'...
Wait...haven't I heard of all this somewhere before? Where...now let me see..
Oh yes! Nazi Germany!
HAHAHAH!
saras
(6,670 posts)GopperStopper2680
(397 posts)Indeed he is! He's the Republican's Republican!
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)intaglio
(8,170 posts)GopperStopper2680
(397 posts)What's a little Antisemitic Neo-Naziism in the Republican Party? They already have everything from money launderers to child molesters. I'm sure the GOP will welcome him right in with open arms. Unfortunately if people can't see the hypocrisy already present in the GOP the addition of a little bit of Hitler's own won't help them see it either.
Initech
(100,104 posts)And when an actual NAZI runs they're quite silent on the issue.
ellenfl
(8,660 posts)MrSlayer
(22,143 posts)From Ohio I believe. This is a new Nazi.