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Leyner, for all his comedic flair, chose the only explicitly evil person of the evening: Adolf Hitler...
...choosing Hitler as my millennium figure because in a personal sense...as an impresario of evil, he cut my daughter's century from her millennium by destroying the Polish Jews, the central European Jews," Leyner said. "This individual created a temporal schism for a lot of people. There's no returning to what was destroyed...
...Every candidate I have come up with is hardly the most worthy person," Kovach said. "Unfortunately, a lot of them are evil figures who have done great damage to the world, people like Hitler, but their accomplishments are so negative I don't think they are worthy of consideration...
Bravo to Tal Ben-Shachar for his November 29 editorial, "Freedom to Limit Freedom." It takes boldness and imagination to simultaneously mourn the assassination of Rabin, the Oklahoma City bombings, and the election of Hitler to power while at the same time writing that "Countries ought to take preemptive measures against those who abuse freedom of speech." Such a statement sounds suspiciously like the philosophy of a Hitler or a Stalin--the very kind of people Ben-Shachar seeks to ban in his free society...
...world is full of madness and there are Hitlers born every moment. Ben-Shachar needs to recognize that Hitler was freely elected by the Germans, and that the assassination of Rabin was not universally condemned in Israel. The dangers of a free society do not lie solely with the madmen. The dangers of a free society lie within the heart of every citizen...