Nazi slur from Britain's desperate Labour party government
Top British government member accuses the Conservatives of Nazi sympathies.
"David Miliband was under fire last night for aiming a Nazi slur at the Conservatives. The Foreign Secretary attacked Tory chairman Eric Pickles for failing to condemn his party's links with the Latvian Fatherland and Freedom Party. He claimed the party celebrated the Latvian arm of Hitler's armed SS with a march-past of wartime veterans....
Mr Hague, the Shadow Foreign Secretary, said: 'David Miliband's smears are disgraceful and represent a failure of his duty to promote Britain's interests. 'He has failed to check his facts. He has just insulted the Latvian Government, most of whose member-parties have attended the commemoration of Latvia's war dead.
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Since it was a British Conservative leader, Winston Churchill, who was the most unrelenting foe of Hitler, this was characteristically dishonest. But the Labour Party is so far behind in the polls that they are getting desperate. The tiny shred of fact involved is that the British Conservatives in the EU parliament sit with a conservative Latvian political party who honour Latvia's war dead in WWII.
From 1939 on Latvia was taken over by the Soviet Russians so when Hitler invaded the Soviet empire, most Latvians greeted the Germans as liberators -- and some Latvians enlisted in the German armed forces as a way of striking back at the hated Russians. They followed the old doctrine that "the enemy of my enemy is my friend". Some Latvians were also conscripted by the Germans. So the fact that many of Latvia's war dead were part of German forces is being used to slur people who were usually just Latvian patriots or unwilling conscripts.
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The Left uses the same tactics over and over again, and yet we're still surprised to see them doing it yet again.
ghoward79,
You undermined your own position by using "faggot". If you had said "I accuse the left of homosexual sympathies" it would have been just as accurate without the ad hominem fallacy.
ghoward97
Are you referring to faggot in the homosexual reference, or the more historical reference?
faggot (1)
1279, "bundle of twigs bound up," from O.Fr. fagot "bundle of sticks," from It. faggotto, dim. of V.L. *facus, from L. fascis "bundle of wood" (see fasces). Esp. used for burning heretics (a sense attested from 1555), so that phrase fire and faggot was used to mean "punishment of a heretic." Heretics who recanted were required to wear an embroidered figure of a faggot on their sleeve, as an emblem and reminder of what they deserved.
I guess I could consider quite a few of my more liberal friends as heretics, and dead wood, so the term may fit them, although I would never use it myself.
Do you think burning heretics was a good thing?
Pedophile is a medical term that refers to a person who finds lack of secondary sexual traits a turn on. By definition you cannot be a pedophile if the person you're interested in has reached puberty. Polanski's 13-year-old sex partner had very much reached puberty and was testified by those present to have looked much older than 13. Why you Americans keep mixing up pedophilia with the age of consent is beyond me. Nevertheless you're wrong and Polanski is not a pedophile.
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