tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post3146776335386276007..comments2023-06-15T09:13:45.467-04:00Comments on Liberty's Torch: A "Troubling Quote" or, Would I have Been a Nazi?Francis W. Porrettohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05862584203772592282noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-19656173208590525902016-12-13T20:12:01.334-05:002016-12-13T20:12:01.334-05:00https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn1VxaMEjRU
'A...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hn1VxaMEjRU<br />'Are we the Baddies?' Mitchell and Webb Funny Nazi Sketch.Fatebekindhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13340488997945408697noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-62063682148464073992016-12-11T11:36:01.739-05:002016-12-11T11:36:01.739-05:00Were dissent the highest form of patriotism, trait...Were dissent the highest form of patriotism, traitorousness would also be the highest (de)form of patriotism.<br /><br />Howard Nelsonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-73777652049747900702016-12-09T23:03:45.682-05:002016-12-09T23:03:45.682-05:00My pleasure. I look forward to more of your posts...My pleasure. I look forward to more of your posts.Col. B. Bunnyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09590364016079745156noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-88849977063665282322016-12-09T02:02:08.273-05:002016-12-09T02:02:08.273-05:00"A more useful inquiry is to examine all huma..."A more useful inquiry is to examine all human behavior and draw useful lessons therefrom about the danger of untrammeled state power. Those who demonize one particular people conceal the useful lessons of existence."<br /><br />Well put Sir. Thank you for the feedback as I find my way around here.Robert Pearsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01357942424904415208noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-80857398228985988152016-12-08T17:55:55.565-05:002016-12-08T17:55:55.565-05:00Anonymous, those who say traveling far to the left...Anonymous, those who say traveling far to the left is to meet up with the far right are wrong. It's a sloppy concept (which you did not state was your own view).<br /><br />If one is an ultra-leftists, one believes in total state power untrammeled by law or custom. Everything is for the state. <br /><br />To travel far to the right is to enter territory inhabited by people who have no use for, or are deeply distrustful of, the state who would rather govern their affairs by affirming liberty as the highest good limited only by the so-called non-aggression principle or the minimum numbers of laws possible.Col. B. Bunnyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09590364016079745156noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-88087632336121044932016-12-08T17:49:01.465-05:002016-12-08T17:49:01.465-05:00I've read a few first-person accounts of Germa...I've read a few first-person accounts of German guys who joined the Wehrmacht. One pair were just kids on the farm who wanted some adventure. All were patriots. Marie Vassiltchikov's <i>Berlin Diaries, 1940-1945</i> is a great account of wartime Germany and it's crystal clear that there were many Germans who were not Nazis either in the actual sense or in the distorted American movie sense. There is a decades-long, dishonest effort to portray Germans as Nazis and complicit and morally debased to a man but to ignore the crimes of the left, astronomically worse than those of the Nazis. <br /><br />It's a given that most people will rise to defend their country. Even in our own time of alternate media, it's often hard to discern the truth of any matter. <br /><br />A more useful inquiry is to examine all human behavior and draw useful lessons therefrom about the danger of untrammeled state power. Those who demonize one particular people conceal the useful lessons of existence.<br /><br />In our idiotic, befuddled, sappy times we also see the reverse -- the adulation of Muslims and blacks as mankind's perfect persons.<br /><br />Nothing critical in this, in case it's not clear.<br />Col. B. Bunnyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09590364016079745156noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6557458849091969678.post-29919320850288098522016-12-08T16:40:00.262-05:002016-12-08T16:40:00.262-05:00To be clear the Nazi's were National SOCIALIST...To be clear the Nazi's were National SOCIALISTS. They were so far left they've been called right wing. Or perhaps more reinterpretation of history?<br /><br />As for supporting the country that is not entirely correct. The oath of enlistment is to 'uphold and defend the Constitution'. A small but very real and defining difference. One may defend and support the Constitution without supporting the country. Ask any Johnny Reb.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com