File this one in the "you can't make up shit like this" category. 87-yearl old Ted Junker has built a $200,000 shrine to Adolph Hitler next to his home in Walworth County, claiming that the fuhrer was "misunderstood." If someone built a shrine to Osama, or Saddam, or Mahmoud A., how long do you think it would take for it and the house to get torched?In Walworth County, it's Springtime For Hitler.
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If someone builds an Osama shrine 70 years from now I suspect it will be a very different situation. By then the Bushies will be re-evaluated through hindsight and history. Survivors of Abu Ghraib abd Guantanamo will have published books, appeared on talk shows and will be showing scars and yes, maybe even ID numbers tattoed on their forearms for all we know.
Iraqi civilians will tell about the war, the children of all these people and more will be speaking in outrage on behalf of the suffering of their parents.
Countless more imperialist and corporate abuses of the "third world" will have come to light by then.
While I don't think any of that will vindicate Osama or turn him into a positive heroic figure by any means, I do think it is quite possible that people would drive by an Osama monument 70 years from now and meremly say "whoa, theres'a a creepy dude.." and drive on, veiwing him as a quirky nut case. Highly unlikely this Hitler yahoo has the intellect or the where-with-all to organize a neo-nazi uprising and is just a privately sick ...um,
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haha! OMG I wonder where in Walworth is this? My Godfather lives there, and he hasn't said anything! He would absolutely flip if he knew. This is downright hilarious!!
Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
...that makes as much sense as Keed just did. Staying on topic -try it, you might like it...
Maybe they should make a summer camp or something named after him - Camp Hitler, with a Concentration on outdoor survival skills.
I think the Unabomber (Kaczynski) is more of an authority on mail bombs than he is on leftism.
I saw reports this morning that Walworth County officials have convinced Junker not to open the shrine to the public. It's almost scary to contemplate how many people in and out of the blogosphere do or will consider this guy a kind of folk hero.
Plush,
Sorry you're having trouble with the new system. The new system is working, however, as I have been able to prevent several hateful messages from being posted and the overall discussion seems more civil to me. Hope you can get if figured out.
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