Courtesy: The Holocaust Teacher Resource Centre - Humour in the Holocaust
"One of the first actions of the new Nazi government was the creation of a "Law against treacherous attacks on the state and party and for the protection of the party uniform."
As Hermann Goering reminded the Academy of German Law, telling a joke could be an act against the Führer and the state. Under this law, telling and listening to anti-Nazi jokes were acts of treason. Several people were even put on trial for naming dogs and horses "Adolf." Between 1933 and 1945, five thousand death sentences were handed down by the "People's Court" for treason, a large number of them for anti-Nazi humor.
One of those executed was Josef Müller, a Catholic priest who had told two of his parishioners the following story:
"A fatally wounded German soldier asked his chaplain to grant one final wish. "Place a picture of Hitler on one side of me, and a picture of Goering on the other side. That way I can die like Jesus, between two thieves."
The indictment against Müller called this joke "one of the most vile and most dangerous attacks directed on our confidence in our Führer. . . . It is a betrayal of the people, the Führer, and the Reich."
Clearly even the Nazi's would be proud of Section 13(1). It is legislation which upholds the spirit of fascism in both its old and new variants.
13.. (1) It is a discriminatory practice for a person or a group of persons acting in concert to communicate telephonically or to cause to be so communicated, repeatedly, in whole or in part by means of the facilities of a telecommunication undertaking within the legislative authority of Parliament, any matter that is likely to expose a person or persons to hatred or contempt by reason of the fact that that person or those persons are identifiable on the basis of a prohibited ground of discrimination.
Oh and for the record. I support Kate of SDA - the Kinsella Prank may not be to everyone's taste but Kate is a supporter of Israel and in no way an anti-semite. I mean after all this isn't Nazi Germany is it? Where people can be condemned for telling a joke? Hmm could be... if some had their way.
Monday, February 11, 2008
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Do you know why Topeka got Fred Phelps and you got your confusing laws? We got first choice. MUD
Nice post BCF,
The left and all other enemies of the individual are the most afraid of humor- Some months ago I posted Thusly,
"This is where the agélaste’s lack of a sense of humor turns lethal, for the hard core of any fascist system is the agélaste. Eliminating humor is essential to the totalitarian system. In His novel The Joke, Kundera has a Communist sympathizer saying, “No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches.” A sense of humor would allow people to see the irony in the internal contradictions and turn laughingly away from it. The modern Progressive, leftist and liberal movements lack any real humor. What passes for humor in those precincts is actually more accurately classified as ridicule and mockery."
Here's a link: http://breathofthebeast.blogspot.com/2007/04/emergence-of-aglaste-left.html
A sense of humor would allow people to see the irony in the internal contradictions and turn laughingly away from it.
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Exactly. Or at least it is they and only they who are authorized to decide what is funny and what isn't.
Oops. Cut and pasted the wrong line. Should have been: The modern Progressive, leftist and liberal movements lack any real humor.
Kinsella burned himself on this one.
Kate's comment was "it is what you make of it".
No mention, no notice, nothing relating to the holocaust, just a long serial no. inked on her arm and the note "it's what you make of it"
Probably constitutes a Pre-Crime under Section(13) by not stopping WK making himself out to be a fool.
I agree Kinsells the pseudo-holocaust martyr and the odd axis of "anti-zionists" decrying Kates prank are cut from the same cloth - bullshit brown.
I must admit, I was a little bit confused with Kate's prank, at first and I was also somewhat concerned about it's appropriateness when I finally figured it out. But you're right. I also thought she did this to push all those leftie buttons that are always so easily triggered. And boy or boy, they not disappoint, did they.
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