[thechat] moving to the USA
Martin Burns
martin at easyweb.co.uk
Fri Sep 27 01:14:01 CDT 2002
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Erika Meyer wrote:
> "But at a news conference on Friday, Daeubler-Gmelin said: 'It was
> terrible to say I had compared a democratically elected president
> with Hitler.'"
>
> Democratically elected? okay, That must have been a joke... or a
> sly cut.. on her part.
>
> I think the dangerous thing is painting Hitler to be such a monster
> so as to think that such a thing couldn't possibly happen again. Not
> with such a nice guy like George W? right?
>
> Hitler looked kind of cute when he was shaking little children's hands, too.
There's a film out soon called "Max" about Hitler in the pre-dictator
days, when he was still a painter and could have channeled his anger into
his art.
Naturally, there have been calls to ban it from people who haven't seen
it.
Cheers
Martin
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