Word: hitleritis
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...anything, the impotence has only increased the frustration of some government officials. A spokesman for the Prime Minister this week denounced the NLA as the "Talibans of Europe," and compared their leaders with Hitler and Slobodan Milosevic. "Their philosophy - territories, ethnic entities, religion, heroin and weapons - must be cut down at the root. Europe is too narrow to be their home as well." Ordinary Macedonian Slavs in the streets of Skopje appear equally unwilling to face the possibility that the rebels, whatever their motives and however murderous their tactics, cannot be "crushed and destroyed," at least not by them. (NATO...
...While Lee says he remembers select moments from each of the regimes, but his recollections are nonpolitical and decidedly not those of a radical. (He recalls believing the Hitler Youth to be "more or less a boy scout kind of thing" that wouldn't let him in because of his Chinese ancestry...
...function as a symbol of democracy, but don't guarantee its practice. It's what evolves after an election that truly makes a society democratic - a free press, limits placed on the exercise of power by an independent judiciary, an open system of government. In 1933, lest we forget, Hitler came to power after elections conducted under Germany's impeccably democratic Weimar constitution...
...hatreds. "It was the horror of the abuse of power by Hoover and the fact that he went after Martin Luther King--and that King was the one guy he couldn't break--that's what interested me," says Ellroy. In high school Ellroy deliberately shocked others with pro-Hitler views, but he now professes great admiration for King, and argues that underneath it all, both American Tabloid and The Cold Six Thousand are "deeply moral books. If you show there was a nexus of racism in America which led to the death of arguably the greatest American...
...isn’t satisfied with the honeyed words of the English philosophers—by Timothy McVeigh and Theodore J. Kaczynski ’62 in the ’90s, by the Black Panthers and the Weathermen in the early ’70s, and by Adolf Hitler in Weimar Germany only seven decades back...