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echo: barktopus
to: Phil Payne
from: Gary Wiltshire
date: 2006-04-15 09:47:40
subject: Re: Wotz the rule about mentioning hitler & arguments?

From: "Gary Wiltshire" 

On Sat, 15 Apr 2006 09:13:25 -0400, Phil Payne
 wrote:

>> > Godwin's Law.
>
>> For which you are the poster child to justify bringing it back.
>
> Not at all.  I rarely mention Hitler.
>
> I frequently refer to parallels between the 1930s rise of the NAZIs with
> the
> population's supine acceptance of what they were doing and the current US
> Administration's progress at reducing civil liberties together with the
> US
> population's equally supine acceptance of that.
>
>

Uh, huh.  Nazis are pretty implicit in Godwin's Law.

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Gary Wiltshire

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