Word: nazis
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...mere persuasion. But in that case it cannot self-righteously invoke the First Amendment. And if it is going to invoke instead the glorious tradition of civil disobedience, other problems arise. There are different rules for legitimate civil disobedience in a democratic society than in a place (e.g., Nazi Germany) where working for change through the established political system is not an available option...
Which brings us back to the question of killing abortion doctors. Even someone who believes that abortion is murder might reasonably conclude that killing abortionists is not justified because America is not Nazi Germany: we are a democracy under the rule of law. But once a group accepts the premise that the laws enacted by a democratic society are no legitimate deterrent in efforts to prevent "baby killing," it becomes harder to see what is wrong with stopping the murders by killing the murderers. The Operation Rescue people are not pacifists. They do not believe in the principle that violence...
...late 1930s, he went to Germany and started recording the work of church leaders, preachers and theologians working against the Nazi party. He was detained by the Gestapo, who also briefly took away his passport, for a time...
Correcting a previously flawed study, the American Jewish Committee released a new Roper poll showing that 91% of Americans believe the Nazi Holocaust really happened. A 1992 Roper poll set off alarm bells when a confusing question yielded results indicating that 22% doubted that the Nazi extermination of Jews occurred...
...ordinary politician. In the three years since this obscure Moscow lawyer careened into the national spotlight, his career has combined the shrewd manipulation of an instinctive demagogue with the abandon of a swinging Sybarite. Zhirinovsky has slugged fellow lawmakers in the halls of parliament, hobnobbed with ex-Nazi storm troopers in Austria and posed, au naturel, for photographers while cavorting in a steam bath in Serbia. He has been kicked out of or denied access to nearly half a dozen European countries. He has threatened to restore Russia's imperial borders, annex Alaska, invade Turkey, repartition Poland, give Germany "another...