GOP Rep. Retracts Video Promoting U.S. Military From Auschwitz Gas Chambers

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo




By NICOLE LAFOND Published JULY 5, 2017 5:07 PM

Following criticism from officials at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum in Poland about a video he filmed inside the gas chambers at Auschwitz, Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA) retracted his video Wednesday. He said in a statement that his intent was to “offer a reverent homage to those who were murdered in Auschwitz” and remind viewers that “evil exists.”

<< “I filmed the Auschwitz message with great humility. My intent was to offer a reverent homage to those who were murdered in Auschwitz and to remind the world that evil exists, that free nations must remember, and stand strong.

“However, my message has caused pain to some whom I love and respect. For that, my own heart feels sorrow. Out of respect to any who may feel that my video posting was wrong or caused pain, I have retracted my video.

“The atrocities that happened at Auschwitz were truly despicable, and we must never let history repeat itself in such a way. I have always stood with Israel and all Jewish people, and I always will. We live in a dangerous world, and massive forces of evil do indeed yet exist. We must all stand united against those evils. My Auschwitz video has been removed, and my sincere apology for any unintended pain is extended.” >>

Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/gop-rep-retracts-video-promoting-military-from-auschwitz

[George II]

1. I can't believe he said this:

"...the deaths at Nazi concentration camps are why “homeland security must be squared away” and why the U.S. military “must be invincible....”

Concentration camps were run by native German citizens, and the victims shipped to the camps were rounded up by Nazi Germany's equivalent to our "homeland security". Also, Nazi Germany's military was "invincible", see what that accomplished?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. Duplicate of LBN story on Home page

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10141814216

[DonViejo]

3. The link you provided leads to this story...

GOP Rep. Deletes Posts Suggesting Hillary Clinton As Libyan Ambassador
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10141814216

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. Ah, right you are. I should have provided this link instead

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10141814034

But your OP would stand because it adds the crucial point of retracting the video.

I had conflated the two stories: one where a reprehensible post was retracted and one about the Auschwitz video.

Sorry, my error.

[DonViejo]

5. No apology needed but, thanks! eom

[truthisfreedom]

6. It's always the gop that conjures up nazi imagery.

Why are they so obsessed?

[Hieronymus]

7. Yes, that representative grew up 10 miles from David Duke.