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LED BY THE KING OF POLAND - JAN III SOBIESKI - EUROPE WON. WIKI:
King John III Sobieski of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth had been made Commander in Chief of
* his own 30,000-man Polish forces (Lithuanians did not take part in the battle), * 18,500 Austrian troops led by Charles V, Duke of Lorraine, * 19,000 Franconian, Swabian and Bavarian troops led by Prince Georg Friedrich of Waldeck, * 9,000 Saxon troops led by John George III, Elector of Saxony.
I'm certainly no Nazi, nor have I defended any Nazis, ex-Nazis, Klansmen, skinheads, white supremacists, or the like. I'm not even personally acquainted with any of the above, at least not that I know of. Yet I just got banned from LGF.
I am adamantly opposed to labeling somebody as a Nazi (or making any other serious allegation) without some pretty solid evidence.
If I say somebody is a Nazi, I'm not talking about somebody who disagrees with me on something, or who dislikes me for whatever reason, or who is a control freak or a sadist or an obnoxious pain in the anatomy.
A Nazi is somebody who actively espouses Nazism. (A repentant ex-Nazi does not count - and yes, as a Christian, I do believe that such repentance is not impossible.)
Think of a self-proclaimed, jack-booted, uniform-wearing, swastika-bedecked, goose-stepping, sieg-heiling jerk from h*** who wants to exterminate Jews, Roma, Serbs and other Slavs, Orthodox Christians, Americans, and anybody else that Hitler and his minions wanted to exterminate.
Think of somebody who openly admires Hitler - as Yasser Arafat did, as Osama bin Laden does, as Ahmadinejad does. Those are genuine, modern-day Nazis. Those are the types of enemies with whom we should concern ourselves.
The same applies to white supremacists. If someone does not espouse any ideology of white supremacy, then he or she is not a white supremacist, and that's that. In their paranoia, Stalin and Mao tried to read too much into other people's actions to try to find traces of political incorrectness. Nothing good ever came out of that.
It is too big a stretch to deem someone to be a Nazi or a white supremacist merely because that person was photographed with some ambiguous image in the background. Many people have bizarre souvenirs in their homes or offices, for reasons known only to themselves. We don't know where it came from, how it got there, or what it actually meant.
Similarly, many people have been photographed in the company of others whose beliefs they do not agree with. So what?
In any event, even if Filip Dewinter were found to have Nazi sympathies, it would not follow that everyone else in Vlaams Belang is similarly tainted. Using such endless chains of guilt-by-association as an excuse to purge people is reminiscent of the paranoia of Josef Stalin, who in his own way was no improvement on Hitler.
The video of the battle of Vienna should show us how much danger we will soon face, unless we can learn to distinguish our friends from our foes.
I'm certainly no Nazi, nor have I defended any Nazis, ex-Nazis, Klansmen, skinheads, white supremacists, or the like. I'm not even personally acquainted with any of the above, at least not that I know of. Yet I just got banned from LGF.
ReplyDeleteI am adamantly opposed to labeling somebody as a Nazi (or making any other serious allegation) without some pretty solid evidence.
If I say somebody is a Nazi, I'm not talking about somebody who disagrees with me on something, or who dislikes me for whatever reason, or who is a control freak or a sadist or an obnoxious pain in the anatomy.
A Nazi is somebody who actively espouses Nazism. (A repentant ex-Nazi does not count - and yes, as a Christian, I do believe that such repentance is not impossible.)
Think of a self-proclaimed, jack-booted, uniform-wearing, swastika-bedecked, goose-stepping, sieg-heiling jerk from h*** who wants to exterminate Jews, Roma, Serbs and other Slavs, Orthodox Christians, Americans, and anybody else that Hitler and his minions wanted to exterminate.
Think of somebody who openly admires Hitler - as Yasser Arafat did, as Osama bin Laden does, as Ahmadinejad does. Those are genuine, modern-day Nazis. Those are the types of enemies with whom we should concern ourselves.
The same applies to white supremacists. If someone does not espouse any ideology of white supremacy, then he or she is not a white supremacist, and that's that. In their paranoia, Stalin and Mao tried to read too much into other people's actions to try to find traces of political incorrectness. Nothing good ever came out of that.
It is too big a stretch to deem someone to be a Nazi or a white supremacist merely because that person was photographed with some ambiguous image in the background. Many people have bizarre souvenirs in their homes or offices, for reasons known only to themselves. We don't know where it came from, how it got there, or what it actually meant.
Similarly, many people have been photographed in the company of others whose beliefs they do not agree with. So what?
In any event, even if Filip Dewinter were found to have Nazi sympathies, it would not follow that everyone else in Vlaams Belang is similarly tainted. Using such endless chains of guilt-by-association as an excuse to purge people is reminiscent of the paranoia of Josef Stalin, who in his own way was no improvement on Hitler.
The video of the battle of Vienna should show us how much danger we will soon face, unless we can learn to distinguish our friends from our foes.