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Alabama candidate for AG disputes Holocaust |
2006-05-13 |
A Democratic candidate for Alabama attorney general denies the Holocaust occurred and said Friday he will speak this weekend in New Jersey to a "pro-white" organization that is widely viewed as being racist. Larry Darby concedes his views are radical, but he said they should help him win wide support among Alabama voters as he tries to "reawaken white racial awareness" with his campaign against Mobile County District Attorney John Tyson. The state Democratic chairman, Joe Turnham, said the party became aware of some of Darby's views only days ago and was considering what to do about his candidacy. "Any type of hatred toward groups of people, especially for political gain, is completely unacceptable in the Alabama Democratic Party," said Turnham. Speaking in an interview with The Associated Press, Darby said he believes no more than 140,000 Jewish people died in Europe during World War II, and most of them succumbed to typhus. Historians say about 6 million Jews were slaughtered by the Nazis, but Darby said the figure is a false claim of the "Holocaust industry." "I am what the propagandists call a Holocaust denier, but I do not deny mass deaths that included some Jews," Darby said. "There was no systematic extermination of Jews. There's no evidence of that at all." Darby said he will speak Saturday near Newark, N.J., at a meeting of National Vanguard, which bills itself as an advocate for the white race. Some of his campaign materials are posted on the group's Internet site. "It's time to stop pushing down the white man. We've been discriminated against too long," Darby said in the interview. |
Posted by:Fred |
#7 "Two wrongs may not make a right, but three lefts certainly do." Anyone that has ever driven in a "Downtown" environment with one-way streets will catch this joke! -M |
Posted by: Manolo 2006-05-13 22:13 |
#6 Darby [is a] founder of the Atheist Law Center and a longtime supporter of separation of church and state, . . . All he needs to do is come out against the war and blame the "Israel lobby" for his troubles, and the Kos Kiddies will be there for him. |
Posted by: Mike 2006-05-13 13:55 |
#5 Southern Democrats were always about racism and maintaining slavlery. Not sure how it came about that the Repubs got the rap for it. Great PR campaign by someone who got the lie repeated often enough that it's taken as gospel. |
Posted by: 2b 2006-05-13 13:02 |
#4 Robert KKK Byrd is still a Democrat. |
Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2006-05-13 11:28 |
#3 Keep in mind that David Duke started as a Democrat. When he tried to run as a Republican, the party endorsed his opponent and blocked his access to party funds. It'll be interesting to see what the Donks do about Darby. If you change "white" to "black" in his comments, they're otherwise indistinguishable from many of their candidates... |
Posted by: Robert Crawford 2006-05-13 10:51 |
#2 Enemy in Contact. |
Posted by: Task Force Dothan 2006-05-13 10:37 |
#1 Two wrongs may not make a right, but three lefts certainly do. This should confuse the heck out of the voters. |
Posted by: Thinemp Whimble2412 2006-05-13 09:45 |