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 From: jewbee@nytimes.com 
  
 As a "right-winger," I have been called a "Nazi." This is 
 totally absurd, and I have found a very interesting document 
 (below) which shows how the Nazis can also be seen as "left- 
 wing." 
  
 (Note: I am NOT saying that Democrats or liberals are Nazis!! 
 They aren't!! This document is provided for conservatives to 
 defend themselves when they are called Nazis, which often 
 occurs. Neither side should be labeled as "Nazis.") 
 Washington Times 
  
 Letters to the Editor 
 June 7 - Arlington, VA 
  
 During the past several months in the American press, the 
 Democrats have frequently denounced the Republicans as Nazis due 
 to their attempts to control runaway federal spending. How very 
 ironic. I remember the Nazis. Let me share a little about them 
 and recall some of their exploits. 
  
 First of all, "Nazi" was gutter slang for the verb "to 
 nationalize". The Bider-Mienhoff gang gave themselves this 
 moniker during their early struggles. The official title of the 
 Nazi Party was "The National Socialist Workers Party of 
 Germany". Hitler and the Brownshirts advocated the 
 nationalization of education, health care, transportation, 
 national resources, manufacturing, distribution and law 
 enforcement. 
  
 Hitler came to power by turning the working class, unemployed, 
 and academic elite against the conservative republic. After Der 
 Fuhrer's election ceased being a political conspiracy and was 
 transformed into a fashionable social phenomenon, party 
 membership was especially popular with educators, bureaucrats, 
 and the press. 
  
 Being a Nazi was "politically correct". They called themselves 
 "The Children of the New Age of World Order" and looked down 
 their noses at everyone else. As Hitler acquired more power, he 
 referred to his critics as "The Dark Forces of Anarchy and 
 Hatred". Anyone who questioned Nazi high-handedness in the 
 German press was branded a "Conservative Reactionary". Joseph 
 Goebbels, minister of communications, proclaimed a "New World 
 Order". 
  
 The Nazi reign of terror began with false news reports on the 
 Jews, Bohemians and Gypses who were said to be arming themselves 
 to overthrow the "New World Order" and Hitler demanded that all 
 good people register their guns so that they wouldn't fall into 
 the hands of "terrorists and madmen".Right-wing fanatics of the 
 "Old Order" who protested firearms registration were arrested by 
 the S.S. and put in jail for "fomenting hatred against the 
 Government of the German people". 
  
 Then the Reichstag (government building) was blown up and Hitler 
 ram-rodded an "Emergency Anti-Terrorist Act" through Parliament 
 that gave the Gestapo extraordinary powers. The leader then 
 declared that for the well-being of the German people, all 
 private firearms were to be confiscated by the Gestapo and the 
 Wermotten (federal law enforcement and military). German 
 citizens who refused to surrender their guns when the "jack- 
 boots" (Gestapo) came calling, were murdered in their homes. By 
 the way, the Gestapo were the federal marshals' service of the 
 Third Reich. The S.W.A.T. team was invented and perfected by the 
 Gestapo to break into the homes of the enemies of the German 
 people. 
  
 When the Policia Bewakken, or local police, refused to take away 
 guns from townsfolk, they themselves were disarmed and dragged 
 out into the street and shot to death by the S.A. and the S.S. 
 Those were Nazi versions of the B.A.T.F. and the F.B.I. When 
 several local ministers spoke out against these atrocities, they 
 were imprisoned and never seen again. 
  
 The Gestapo began to confiscate and seize the homes, businesses, 
 bank accounts, and personal belongings of wealthy conservative 
 citizens who had prospered in the old Republic. Pamphleteers who 
 urged revolt against the Nazis were shot on site by national law 
 enforcement and the military. Gypsies and Jews were detained and 
 sent to labor camps. Mountain roads throughout central Europe 
 were closed to prevent the escape of fugitives into the 
 wilderness, and to prevent the movement and concealment of 
 partisan resistance fighters. 
  
 Public schools rewrote history and Hitler youth groups taught 
 the children to report their parents to their teachers for anti- 
 Nazi remarks. Such parents disappeared. Pagan animism became the 
 state religion of the Third Reich and Christians were widely 
 condemned as "right wing fanatics". 
  
 Millions of books were burned first and then people. Millions of 
 them burned in huge ovens after they were first gassed to death. 
 Unmarried women were paid large sums of money to have babies out 
 of wedlock and then given medals for it. Evil was declared as 
 being good, and good was condemned as being evil. World Order 
 was coming and the German people were going to be the 
 "peacekeepers". 
  
 Yes, indeed, I remember the Nazis and they weren't Republicans, 
 or "right wing", or "patriots" or "militias". They were 
 Socialist monsters. 
  
 -- Thomas Colton Ruthford 
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