Nazi book-burning ad offends local veterans

[LiviaOlivia]

Nazi book-burning ad offends local veterans
By RACHEL PETERSON
Sun Staff Reporter
05/12/2005
Flagstaff, Az.

Campaign ads bankrolled by Wal-Mart and depicting a Nazi-era book burning are offensive and backhanded, say some Flagstaff citizens and veterans.

Backers contend they are a justified reminder of the need to protect freedoms.

The newspaper ads contend that Proposition 100's restrictions on big-box retailers are an infringement of constitutional freedoms. The message has been conveyed through a blurred photo of a Nazi book-burning taken from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum archives and a close-up of a person's mouth covered with tape.

Accompanying the ads is the statement: "Freedoms worth keeping," and references to the proposition as limiting choice.

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http://www.azdailysun.com/non_sec/nav_includes/story.cfm?storyID=108282#storytop

[ET Awful]

1. Funny that a store which readily censors what it will put on it's shelves

should try to use "book-burning" against others eh?

[AlCzervik]

4. no kidding, i guess Sprawlmart doesn't have an irony meter.

[rkc3]

6. That's because the Irony Meter is not made in China.

[davidinalameda]

9. or made from plastic

[AlCzervik]

10. LOL! rimshot.

[ET Awful]

13. LMAO!

:rofl:

[sakabatou]

5. Yep

[dissent1977]

12. Yeah, I remember a certain store that pulled Jon Stewart's book...

They censor everything they are offended by, but claim their free speech is being violated when they are no longer allowed to destroy communities. I don't remember reading about the rights of big box retailers to exploit people in the Constitution.

[dissent1977]

15. They don't gotta burn the books they just remove them

[DustMolecule]

2. When "Big Wally" comes to town everyone else has to shutter their doors

and then WalMart is the ONLY choice in town. Restricting WalMart IS "Protecting our Freedoms worth Keeping"

[rkc3]

8. They shut down more than local stores.

Wal-Mart put a super center and a Sam's Club within a few miles of where I live - the main thoroughfare is basically shut down every day as people funnel in and out of the store.

What's even worse is that our council gave them tax breaks to build there and made no changes to the highway system. A simple plan for figuring out how to manage the increase in traffic would make things so much easier to deal with.

[IrateCitizen]

3. Freedom of consumption does not equal freedom of thought...

That's the thing that really chaps my ass these days -- any infringement on how or where people are able to "shop" is taken as an infringement on Constitutional rights. Perhaps if we actually spent a little time, as people, concerning ourselves with things like IDEAS instead of THINGS, we might be able to see that there is absolutely NO SIMILARITY between the two events that Wal-Mart is trying to link here.

:rant:

[pinerow]

7. There you go...using logic...

nt

[Tux]

11. WHAT?!

Are you thinking for yourself, comrade?

Someone alert the Dept. of Homeland Security.

[kath]

14. Off to the re-education camp with you! Pronto!

[bennywhale]

16. Well said. The rage to

consume things, anything, is clouding the brain. When the constitution was being drawn up, do you think if the founding fathers could see into the future what was being done in their name (worldwide) they'd have been pleased?

[sendero]

17. Guess what Wal-Mart....

.... a community's right to decide how it will be developed trumps your right to make a profit.

[bpilgrim]

18. so this tact works for big bizz but we are derided when we bring it up

they must score high in focus groups, eh

peace

[Maat]

19. But in Wally-Mart, there's always a lot of good books on a shelf ...

like Joyce Meyer fundamentalist Conservative Christian books, right alongside the Bible.

(O.K., sarcasm off now)