I'm getting behind in my replies here.
Sorry if it seems like I'm "picking apart you post" really I'm just trying to repond to your points for readablitly.
I believe that GMS is a Nazi and you don’t.
See that's the way you should have said it the first time.
I absolutely do not believe that all Germans are Nazis. But I do believe through Simon’s past and ideologies through his printed words that he is a Nazi. There has been numerous rumours of people having heard him make anti-semetic and racist remarks.
I've heard my parents make those kinds of remarks too, but I assure you they are not Nazis. It's a bigger world than that, all people that have some racists viewpoints are not Nazis.
If he said something like, "Hey the Nazis were great we should all be Nazis." then you may have a point.
You state that an example of current Nazi Ideology is currently being held by the United States. Nazi Germany’s government led by Adolf Hitler promoted a nationalism that combined territorial expansion with claims of biological superiority - an “Aryan master race” - and virulent antisemitism. Driven by a racist ideology legitimized by German scientists. I think that you are greatly misinformed if you think that the United States government mirrors Nazi Germany for a number of obvious reasons:
Well I was saying there were parallels not that they are or were the same. Let me see if I can make a stronger link than you and at the same time drive home my point.
1. Nazi Germany invaded other countries and took their land, resources and subordinated their people. Although, the U.S. has set it’s military forces on foreign lands they did not take the land and resources as their own, nor did they subordinate the population. In fact, they have respected the fact that these were sovereign nations and tried to instill a government run by the locals as is evidenced in their policies in Kuwait, Iraq and Afghanistan. You may not agree with the reasons why their military has set foot on these countries but the U.S. foreign policy certainly does not parallel Nazi Germany.
Maybe you should have a look at the birth of the nation. I think the native people of North America may have some illumination on this subject for you.
2. Nazi Germany had a Eugenics program. In order to eliminate "defective" citizens, the T-4 Euthanasia Program was administered by Karl Brandt to rid the country of the mentally retarded or those born with genetic deficiencies, as well as those deemed to be racially inferior. Nazi Germany not only murdered physical and mentally handicapped people but also targeted homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Gypsies and Poles. This eventually gave rise to the Holocaust. The U.S. is known as a “melting pot” where all races are not subordinated to another but are in fact all considered American Citizens. Is there an official Eugenics program that you know of that the U.S. currently has in place?
Probably no eugenics program currently in place if there is it would not be official. But there have been in the past. In 1924, the Immigration Act was passed by majorities in the U.S. House and Senate. It set up strict quotas limiting immigrants from countries believed by eugenicists to have "inferior" stock, particularly Southern Europe and Asia. President Coolidge, who signed the bill into law, had stated when he was vice president, "America should be kept American. . . . Biological laws show that Nordics deteriorate when mixed with other races." There are certainly no shortage of eugenics proponents in the US. There are even links made to Bush and a eugenics ideology
http://www.kmf.org/williams/bushbook/bush3.html http://www.kmf.org/williams/bushbook/bushb.html#Table But i could post pages and pages of these links including evidence that the Bush family financially backed the nazi party. I'm not sure how much of that crap I beleive, and I don't really need it to make my point about ideological similarities.
http://www.spectacle.org/596/us.html
3. Nazi Germany attempted Genocide of the Jews, having murdered 6 million innocent people. I was not aware that the U.S. had concentration camps that actively commits Genocide against any race? If you have information on this perhaps you can let us all know of it?
Once again I draw your attention to our Native American friends. There are people that claim the US is committing genocide through support of other countries who put the policies in effect.
Some more points about nazi ideaology:
> Nazism also provided for extreme nationalism which called for the unification of all German-speaking peoples into a single empire.
Who are a better example of extreme nationalism? Again i don't fault them for it quite contrary I admire it.
> Nazism also placed an emphasis on sports and paramilitary activities for youth, the massive use of propaganda (controlled by Joseph Goebbels) to glorify the state, and the submission of all decisions to the supreme leader (FÅhrer) Adolf Hitler.
Except for the fascism part the US has and extreme emphasis on sports and the military, there are many paramilitary youth organizations. Propaganda? I don't even want to start down that road.
I think the 3 reasons above are enough evidence to dispute the fact that the U.S. does not mirror Nazi Ideologies. I think that you are grossly misinformed.
May want to have another look at that. Remember we were talking ideology and not methodology. I'm not saying the Americans are nazis only there are parallels in ideology and I beleve they are a lot stronger than the ones you are trying to make saying GMS is a Nazi. I certainly don't mean this to be an anti-american post a lot of these points are not bad things, they just happen to parallel nazi ideals.