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*Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fuehrer*

Dec 5, 2003 3:59AM PST

Legal Action Taken on 'Hitler Wine'

Dec 5, 9:45 AM (ET)

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Belgium's official anti-racism center said on Friday it was preparing legal action to stop imports of an Italian wine with labels depicting Adolf Hitler and other leading Nazis.
"A picture of Adolf Hitler is in itself too little (to trigger legal action), but he's also doing the Hitler salute and there is this message 'One People, One Empire, One Leader"' Ingrid Aendenboom, spokeswoman for the Center for Equal Opportunities and the Fight against Racism, told Reuters.

"That falls within the framework of the anti-racism law," she said.

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We should condemn this company's actions as immoral,
Dec 5, 2003 4:13AM PST

but who will we turn to for the moral authority to do so?

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We should condemn the anti racism group
Dec 5, 2003 10:44AM PST

because they are creating these problems in the first place. Anti-racism is in it's simplest terms pro-racism for all OTHER races than the one they want to condemn for racism. After awhile, most even minded people who are a member of that native German race becomes fed up with it and says "no more". If those native Germans who begin to object to the 'anti-racist' are then continually condemned for daring to speak favorably on behalf of their own race, then such 'anti-racist' extremism will eventually harvest it's reward of a new round of determined racism, justified by the 'anti-racist' themselves.

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Re:We should condemn the anti racism group
Dec 5, 2003 10:53AM PST

James, You're unbelievable.

Now you support Naziism in the name of "speaking favorably of your own race?" That's what the Aryan Brotherhood and other white supremicsts say!
-- Dave K.

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Quote.....
Dec 5, 2003 12:19PM PST

"First they came for the Communists, and I didn't speak up, because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up, because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up, because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak up for me."

by Rev. Martin Niemoller, 1945
http://www.hoboes.com/html/FireBlade/Politics/niemoller.shtml

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Thank you, Walt. I pray to my deity that James listens. :-)
Dec 5, 2003 1:05PM PST

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it's a sad fact of life
Dec 5, 2003 5:00PM PST

there a LOT of people in Europe today who think hitler was "one of the good guys" and "if only we had a hitler today, he would get rid of all the blacks/browns/yellows/arabs/jews and our country would run smooth again"

what is it they say about "doomed to repeat history if we don't learn from it"......

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nt) I wish you were not right on that one, Jonah. :-(
Dec 5, 2003 8:32PM PST

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