From: sbooth@lonestar.utsa.edu (Simon E. Booth)
Newsgroups: talk.abortion
Subject: Re: Well, Maybe Booth Ain't a Nazi, But he does saeem to be a Facist, so the variety doesn't really matter, does it? Mussoli was n't so hot either......Re: Ok, So booth Really is a Nazi Fan?
Date: 16 Oct 92 00:22:44 GMT
Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio

In article <16100@umd5.umd.edu> spinoza@next07wor.wam.umd.edu (Yon Bonnie Laird of Cairn Robbing) writes:
>> sbooth@lonestar.utsa.edu (Simon E. Booth) writes on his theory of
>government, very educational actually, since very few ultra-conservatives
>are willing to publish broadsides like his which place the anti-abortion
>forces in such an embarassing position wrt privacy and civil rights:
>> ]
>> ] Well, actually my aim is very similar to Orwell's-- I plan to depict
>this
>> ] New Order Party being elected by the people out of desparation.  The
>people
>> ] are so sick of one type of extremeism, they accept another form of it
>> ] without even noticing.  Extremism breeds extremism from the other
>side.
>> ] I plan to demonstrate that such system might come to power if Liberal
>> ] extremism runs unchecked.  Ever read about how Hitler was elected??
>> ] Germany was in a state of anarchy, the Nazis were seen as the only
>alternative.
>
>
>
>Simon, Simon, Simon,  what's gonna be with you? Your mother and I had such
>high hopes for you , and you've turned into a
>SporcoFacistaBorgoidRassmussenClone........
>
>Just for your information, the Nazis were NEVER seen as the only
>alternative to the Weimar Government.  Hitler was made Reichschancellor
>due to the fact that the National Socialist Workers Party (on whose list
>he ran) received a plurality of the votes cast in the election. The
>National Socialists never won a MAJORITY of the electorate, the rest of
>the votes going to various Socialist, Communist, and other assorted
>parties. These other parties unfortunately split a large portion of the
>vote, enabling the Nazis to gain control of the government.  My
>grandfather & grandmother, both active Socialists (grandad was head of the
>local Bund in Leipzig, and stood for municipal elections in  those same
>elections - and won, as a matter of fact) , often remarked that the
>various "liberal" groups should have united together under a single
>political party, and forcefully rejected the right-wing hooliganism that
>you seem to advocate. Notice I do not say that you would support the
>National Socialist approach to societal reform, and indeed, it might be
>argued that many of those who voted for the National Socialist ticket were
>unaware of the eventual direction that would be taken by its leaders.
>Nevertheless, it was quite apparent by the time of the elections that they
>were a party of right-wing, intolerant ideologues (well,OK, maybe this
>does sound familiar, but that's not my fault. I wasn't the one who invited
>Pat to address the convention, was I?) who tended toward hooliganism, not
>unlike that of say, Operation Rescue, except that they were more concerned
>about the harm that might be done to BornPersons(tm) (Aryan ones, anyway)
>by those "Liberal Extremists". An excessive amount of people who are
>willing to respect others privacy and personal rights does not endanger
>either the United States or its people. On the other hand,
>BoneheadBorgoids like yourself, who would seem to support the use of force
>to promote your own twisted version of "family values", might very well be
>dangerous to the continued health of American society..............
>
Now this was interesting--my histoyry books never discussed much about that.
Thanks for posting it.  Now, as I have posting previously, I am not condoning
or supporting facsism of any kind.  I plan to illustrate how such a system
might come to power.  The story is in no was an endorsement for nazism and
I for one don't want to see anything like it.

Simon