Shooting Nazis- Not A Good Idea.

Greece's Golden Dawn party is a neo-Nazi organisation that has apparent ties to political violence. Even so the people responsible for murdering two of their activists are as bad themselves.

They are also idiots. Assuming that the killers are far left activists- which seems reasonable given Greece's historic problem with murderous Marxists- the aim is presumably to curtail Golden Dawn's electoral appeal. We have seen this before.

Pim Fortuyn of the Netherlands was not in any way a Nazi but he was libeled as such by the media, so his killing provides a good example of what happens when the fight against supposed extremists is carried out by murder.

In the subsequent elections his party they gained so many votes that they won a place in the Dutch government, while this didn't last long (because Fortuyn wasn't a good party organiser and without him there was no real institution to act in a coherent manner) government is not where Golden Dawn should end up.

A Sense Of Proportion

Polly Toynbee writes of the government's spending cuts:

At last the Tories have a final solution for the poor

First They Came For The Idiots....

.... and I did not speak out because I was not an idiot.

Question...

Will the number of "The Conservative's European allies are nazi homophobe babyeaters" articles that appear on the Guardian's website between now and the general election exceed the number of "Boris Johnson is in the Ku Klux Klan" pieces that appeared on the same website prior to the London mayoral election?

Update: There are two more today.

F1 Volk, F1 Reich, F1 Fuhrer!

Bernie Ecclestone says..... sorry let me rephrase that- Labour Party donor Bernie Ecclestone praises Hitler and also says that his long time colleague Max Mosley would be a good person to lead Britain:

Max would do a super job. He's a good leader with people. I don't think his background would be a problem.'

Sure, but given the problems our country faces- an deep economic downturn, a war in Afghanistan and assorted other problems- why would he want to lead Britain, is he some kind of masochist?

Attack Of The Nazi Clones.

As everyone knows stories about Nazis sell newspapers and books. Since so much has already been published about them it's hard to find original takes on the subject. Unless of course the story is complete fiction. Take this for example which is currently one of the most popular stories on the Telegraph website:

Nazi angel of death Josef Mengele 'created twin town in Brazil'

Note the use of quotation marks to indicate "We know this is bollocks but we'll print it anyway". The article goes on to claim that after Josef Mengele escaped from Europe after the war he began conducting more twin experiments, this time in a Brazilian town. This seems like odd behaviour for a fugitive trying to keep a low profile.

Not only that but despite his known scientific output being totally worthless, in Brazil he was something of a genius and managed to permanently alter a whole town's genetic make up so that it was became especially prone to producing twins.

The only evidence to support the assertion that Dr Mengele was responsible for the town's twin boom is that there might have been a German vet or doctor in the town back in the early 1960s.