January 20, 2013
Gary Stein
The Sun Sentinel

RE: Nazis – A comment or two on your column in today’s Sun Sentinel

Big Stein,

Thank you for volunteering to be the big time media mogul for the recently formed “Committee to Horse-Whip Bob Schieffer”. You must remember that he compared the NRA to the Nazis. If you think it is a word too far can we expect a fire and brimstone column about it? How about a wing nut and a “moon bat” reference?

Should all of President Obama’ recommendations become law – and even if they don’t he intends to enforce them anyway, right? – do think we will ask gun permit applicants “Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Nazi Party”? Forget the Hollywood Ten. We’ll have the Pikeville, KY 6,392, the Liberty City 2,314 and Rosie O’Donnell under oath. Do you think we could get that vile succubus Lillian Hellman to make an appearance? I think it would be fair to say that she would be on the side of the inquisitors this time.

POP QUIZ
Which modern American Liberal’s writings served as the basis for
The Nuremberg Race Laws?
[Answer below]

Since you brought up Hitler and the Holocaust with the always useful admonition to “read up” on both I feel that I owe it to the ledger to point out a lingering “Black Hole”, particularly for mALs. There is no better definition of “eclectic indignation” than the comparison of the West’s reaction to the first two Holocausts of the 20th century.

Stalin gave the chop to between 6,000,000 and 10,000,000 Kulaks. That Hitler was a better record keeper than Stalin there can be no doubt. Hitler saw that the liberal democracies did nothing when Stalin turned Ukraine into an abattoir for Jews. Perhaps he knew before the poet set the line down that “after the first death there are no others”.

Speaking of “reading up” on History, a refresher course on Walter Duranty is required. Lance Armstrong has to give back his medals and some cash. He didn’t kill anybody. Duranty was a bought and paid for agent of the KGB. He was also the Moscow correspondent of the New York Times. He won a Pulitzer Prize for reporting that there were no deaths in the Ukraine. To this day the NYT still carries his name on their All-Star list. Bastards.

Hitler simply raised the stakes. Mao made both of them look like odd-lotters.

Since nobody cared about the Jews in Russia, why would they care about the Jews in Germany? Weren’t they, as Chamberlain said, “a faraway people of whom we know little”?

If you want to put any Amendment on the “slippery slope” to the dreaded “chilling effect” syndrome why not pick on the 3rd? Nobody, but nobody, likes that one.

Do you remember the novel “The Rogue Male”? Would the world have been better off if the hunter, using an admittedly unlicensed assault rifle, had put a bullet into Hitler’s eye? A big bullet, one that could take out a bear. Yes or no?




KEVIN SMITH
WARRIORBARDIT@BELLSOUTH.NET



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MARGARET SANGER