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2003-06-11 Fifth Column

Pinter blasts ’Nazi America’ and ’deluded idiot’ Blair

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Posted by tu3031 2003-06-11 11:06 am|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "The US population had to accept responsibility for allowing an unelected president to take power..."

Er, Is that like the Iraqis were responsible for Saddam? I'm so confused...

"In a British society where people were increasingly encouraged not to use their brains, the only way to protest was by "thought, intelligence and solidarity"."

Sadly, he's right about the lack of brain-engagement, and it has been demonstrated. A million shuffling zombies took to the streets of London shrieking and muttering unintelligibly a few months back. And Harold, you were probably there.

Posted by Bulldog 2003-06-11 12:02:02|| 2003-06-11 12:02:02|| Front Page Top

#2 Ah, a playwright. Well, we better all listen up sharp, hadn't we?

Posted by mojo 2003-06-11 12:12:47|| 2003-06-11 12:12:47|| Front Page Top

#3 I have just one question for Mr. Painter: Where do I pick up my cool storm trooper uniform? We just defeated a Tyrant that was JUST like the Germans. You don't even have to chenge the names, I am sure that Bathist party is something close to national socialists. Isn't it interesting that all the Commies think we are Nazi and all the Arabs think we are Jewish lap dogs? Since we can't win the argument, let's just play along. I say we invade that socialist country to our north, just like Hitler did in Poland. Then we take on Mexico and down into South America. Who's with me? ON TO WORLD DOMINATION! HEIL BUSH! HEIL BUSH! Give me a break!

Posted by Cyber Sarge (VRWC California Chapter) 2003-06-11 12:16:24|| 2003-06-11 12:16:24|| Front Page Top

#4 Cyber Sarge,

The founder of Baathism, Michael Aflaq, was profoundly inspired by the Nazis, and the Germans tried to take over Iraq with the help of Vichy France in 1941, only to get "shock and awe" from the British.

Saddam's idol

Posted by Ernest Brown 2003-06-11 12:36:32|| [saturninretrograde.blogspot.com] 2003-06-11 12:36:32|| Front Page Top

#5 Pinter, 72 yr old playwrite / elitist = socialist dinosaur. The Soviet Bloc is dead, and his kind are dying off as well with little or no cadres to replace them. The 'masses' that they have chased after for the last century have totally rejected them. Waaaaaaaaaah! What they see as world domination is just the world flushing them down the toilet. Take that Pinter - dirty swirly!

Posted by Rex Mundi 2003-06-11 12:44:29|| 2003-06-11 12:44:29|| Front Page Top

#6 I love Pinter's pitch to the British people:

"All you stupid people out there, follow me!"

Straight outta Dale Carnegie, it is.

Posted by Mike 2003-06-11 12:52:02|| 2003-06-11 12:52:02|| Front Page Top

#7 There are times when it really bothers me that playwrights, poets, and artists are the only people who manage to profit from their psychotic episodes. What about the engineers, programmers and other folk like me? It's an unfair world...

Posted by snellenr 2003-06-11 13:19:22|| 2003-06-11 13:19:22|| Front Page Top

#8 When he winds up dead, tell the cops to talk to Mike N. from Rantburg. I'm not going to do much to him, I figure a good scare will drop that fossil dead in an instant.

Posted by Mike N. 2003-06-11 13:25:26|| 2003-06-11 13:25:26|| Front Page Top

#9 Harold 'Pinhead' Pinter is a pathetic relic from a shameful age when communism was regarded as an 'alternative' to democracy and capitalism.

Pinter is an old socialist romantic/artist who is drunk on the ideology of communism and unable to put this bottle down.

Admit it, Harry: 1) you have a problem.. 2) You need help... etc.

Posted by badanov 2003-06-11 13:41:16|| [www.rkka.org] 2003-06-11 13:41:16|| Front Page Top

#10 Why do these fools always make the Hitler comparison? Perhaps because some part of their subconscious minds realize that they themselves have become the new Nazis. Of course they can't accept that -- so they sling the charge at their opponents.

Posted by closet neo-con 2003-06-11 13:57:21|| 2003-06-11 13:57:21|| Front Page Top

#11 This guy is a real piker. I was engaged last week in a raging debate with a liberal buddy of mine who is always harping on the intolerance, bigotry and hatred of the right-wing. I countered that liberals are more intolerant and full of hatred than conservatives. But with liberals they self-delude themselves as inclusive, open, diverse, etc. AS LONG AS YOU DON'T DISAGREE WITH THEIR VIEWPOINTS.

I think I will send along this article as yet another example of liberal hate speech.

Posted by ColoradoConservative 2003-06-11 14:12:05|| 2003-06-11 14:12:05|| Front Page Top

#12 unelected president! i am so sick of hearing this! the people who say this should learn about the american political system before commenting!

If goddam Gore would of won his own home state of Tenn. then he would be president now and now and not Bush! But the liberal press barely touches on this and instead concentrates on chads in florida! if the democrats were not such sore losers these aholes in the world would know nothing of chads!

Posted by Dan 2003-06-11 14:17:18|| 2003-06-11 14:17:18|| Front Page Top

#13 I really wish all these idiots would stop ANY comparisons with the Nazi regime. As someone who lived through the worst of it I can only say: Mr. Pinter, nothing compares to it.

NOTHING

Posted by True German Ally 2003-06-11 14:28:59|| 2003-06-11 14:28:59|| Front Page Top

#14 Poor Mr. Pinter... supposed to be a writer and yet apparently unaware of "Godwin's Law"...

Posted by Sgt. Mom 2003-06-11 14:56:34|| [www.sgtstryker.com] 2003-06-11 14:56:34|| Front Page Top

#15 Hmmmmmmmmm.....
IIRC, if you were a German, and complained about Hitler's government, you either stopped a bullet, were hanged, or sent to a concentration camp to be gassed or worked to death.
There are thousands of people in our nation that make absolutely absurd statements about our current president. I have not seen one of them "disappear" (damnit!). Walter Cronkite seems pretty willing to slander George Bush every chance he gets, without having to worry about being dragged into an unmarked panel van in the dark of the night, never to be heard from again. Ditto for Peter Jennings, Wolf Blitzer, and all the crew at CBS and NBC. Haven't seen any of them go to jail, much less into a "concentration camp".

It would be nice if some of these socialistic idiots had at least a nodding acquaintance with the history they keep referring to. So far, about as close as they've come is about 160 degrees to the left.

Posted by Old Patriot 2003-06-11 15:39:53|| 2003-06-11 15:39:53|| Front Page Top

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