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| “Europe was not as outraged by Auschwitz as by Guantanamo Bay.” |
| 2007-10-28 |
| Don Surber He’ll probably apologize for the remark later but Democratic Congressman Tom Lantos of California, the only Holocaust survivor in Congress, told it like it is to some Dutch politicians: “Europe was not as outraged by Auschwitz as by Guantanamo Bay.” The liberal Lantos is far from a friend of Gitmo. The Dutch sent these politicians here to bitch about Gitmo. No reporter attended a meeting between the Dutch and the congressman, but AP wrote a story based on Green Party legislator Mariko Peters. The Dutch are threatening to remove their 1,600 troops from Afghanistan to protest Gitmo. Dutch politicians face growing problems with Islamic youths and likely fear a L’Intifada like France suffered in 2005. Peters said: “We have to close Guantanamo because it symbolizes for me everything that is wrong with this war on terror.” To which Lantos apparently replied: “Europe was not as outraged by Auschwitz as by Guantanamo Bay” He also said: “You have to help us, because if it was not for us you would now be a province of Nazi Germany.” Good for him. |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #13 I don't know which is worse, the TSA or the sheepish acceptance of it by innocent former Americans. I'll pick "sheepish acceptance" every damn time. People get the government they deserve. The Soviet Union and Islam have proved that in spades. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-10-28 21:19 |
| #12 I agree, YF-12-A I don't know which is worse, the TSA or the sheepish acceptance of it by innocent former Americans. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2007-10-28 20:01 |
| #11 Are you sure that the majority of Americans are willing to do the work necessary to be citizens? We have been moving consistently toward state authority for many years. The TSA is one example. They harass the citizens to avoid offending the bad guys. And the citizens accept it, even though many people don't believe that we are getting better security. Hillary/Obama and the democrats are examples of the elitist thinking that is so prevalent in the EUSSR. They do think that they know better than the rest of us, and that being elected will give them the right to force the citizens into line with their program, a trend that left unchecked leads to the gulag and the concentration camp. |
| Posted by: SR-71 2007-10-28 17:40 |
| #10 Western Europeans have used up their 3 strikes in the last century. Again, the US needs to get completely out of western Europe, starting with Germany, and given a wakeup call that Uncle Sugar isn't coming back. |
| Posted by: ed 2007-10-28 17:16 |
| #9 "If we are ever forced to rescue Europe from itself one more damn time, we'd best make sure to wipe out every last trace of socialism on the continent." I'd be happier if you'd wipe out every last trace of socialism in Hillary/Obama 2008 and let Darwin handle Europe. |
| Posted by: Darrell 2007-10-28 17:09 |
| #8 Have yet to meet an Aussie who was anything other than citizen instead of subject. Then again, I've mainly met soldiers. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2007-10-28 16:58 |
| #7 "When will they learn that government must be the people's servant and not their master?" Never, Zen. For all their elections, Europeans deep-down (or maybe not so deep) still think of themselves as subjects. And subjects have Americans, on the other hand, are citizens. (As, I believe, are most Australians.) |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2007-10-28 16:39 |
| #6 Green Party legislator Mariko Peters said: “We have to close Guantanamo because it symbolizes for me everything that is wrong with this war on terror.” How about you get your lazy Green ass on the frontlines then, Mariko? I feel We need to see that. You're not an American legislator, you're a minority party member of a third-tier country's weak-ass political system. Frankly WE don't care what YOU think. |
| Posted by: Frank G 2007-10-28 16:05 |
| #5 Liberal or not, it requires someone who still vividly remembers the lessons of WWII to put things in perspective. Only a Holocaust survivor has enough moral authority to pimpslap these cringing Dutch morons. If the Nazi concentration camps were run like like Gitmo, the Holocaust would not have happened. When I was in Denmark, each and every Wednesday, they revved up the air raid sirens. In almost every Danish town, in one of the traffic roundabouts, is a German machine gun pillbox left intact as a reminder to future generations that it could all happen again. I find it curious that tiny Denmark has shown more spine in the GWoT than other nations many times its size. I'm beginning to think that all the major cities in Europe should have left a square kilometer of bombed out buildings and rubble as a similar reminder to later generations of what awaits complacency and willful ignorance. Much like how America's primary goal in the MME (Muslim Middle East) should be eradicating shari'a law; If we are ever forced to rescue Europe from itself one more damn time, we'd best make sure to wipe out every last trace of socialism on the continent. When history closes its books—socialism, in all its statist forms of communism, social democracy and totalitarianism—will be found guilty of killing more people, starting more wars, destroying more wealth, causing more human suffering and doing more ecological damage than any other form of government or socioeconomic system. Europe has been diddling itself with this absurd nonsense for nearly a century with ZERO results. When will they learn that government must be the people's servant and not their master? |
| Posted by: Zenster 2007-10-28 15:45 |
| #4 Peters said: “We have to close Guantanamo because it symbolizes for me everything that is wrong with this war on terror.” I recommend we close the GITMO confinement facility and move it to the Island of Texel. The muzzies will feel right at home with all those noisy goats and sheep. If the Dutch protest.... we can always start winking at the Germans eh? |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2007-10-28 14:34 |
| #3 The Dutch are threatening to remove their 1,600 troops from Afghanistan to protest Gitmo. Tell them to do just that -- but don't call when hugo wants aruba back.... |
| Posted by: dan 2007-10-28 14:30 |
| #2 Actually they would not be a province of Nazi Germany. The land would be a province of Nazi Germany. Dutch leftists would be lampshades decorating a province in Nazi Germany. Al |
| Posted by: Frozen Al 2007-10-28 13:09 |
| #1 And you missed "You've been on the military defense dole of the US for fifty years. The time has come for welfare reform, yours." |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2007-10-28 10:53 |