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I can appreciate your point of view.... It's not the greatest thing for a U.S. political candidate to do, I'll grant you that. If I were going to be
running for office, I would not be doing that. You are well within your rights to not support him. But the point I'm am getting at is: the man is
not a Nazi, nor has Nazi ideals like someone one else here (Ahem!) claims. He just re-enacts WWII battles and does it as the Germans, albeit a bad
choice for a politician in America to do.. Would people feel the same if he dressed like an Italian or Japanese re-enactor or was part of a Villiage
People tribute band??
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reply posted on 20-10-2010 @ 11:45 AM by Blackmarketeer
The Nazi Role Playing Of Rich Iott
Some excerpts:
"It’s true that not all military re-enactors agree with the political ideology of the armies that they portray on pretend battlefields. However, it’s also true that many military re-enactors seek out opportunities to pretend to be involved in past military conflicts because they sympathize with the political agenda of regimes associated with those conflicts."
Did this group “only” have a desire to end Communism? They acted to protect Nazi Germany and its atrocities. Wearing swastika rings as signs of racial purity, the Wiking soldiers prevented early liberation of the concentration camps in which Jews were slaughtered. It’s a gross mischaracterization of history to say that the Wiking Nazis were only anti-Communists, and didn’t embrace Nazi ideology. Wiking Finns joined the unit as part of the Finnish embrace of the concept of aryan superiority. The Wiking Nazis are accused of slaughtering Hungarian Jews in 1945. In spite of the nasty reality of the Wiking unit’s role in enabling the Holocaust and spreading militant white supremacism, Rich Iott’s group called the Nazi Wikings “idealists” who fought for “a basic desire to be free.”
This demonstrates this "reenactment" groups [U]GROTESQUE distortion of history by portraying the Waffen SS as mere "anti-communists" or simple soldiers doing what they were told. This group was made up of volunteers who were racial ideologues fighting for Aryan purity. They slaughtered Jews and detested the "sub-human" Slavs of Soviet Russia.
That this *** clown would put on a Nazi uniform and then play it off as mere "reenacting" shows his head is not in the right place, and doesn't deserve any respect from the American electorate. Nazis were psychotic pigs, the only good Nazi is a DEAD Nazi.
Of all the candidates out there and responsible, respectable people to nominate or vote for, why waste time on someone like this.
Some excerpts:
"It’s true that not all military re-enactors agree with the political ideology of the armies that they portray on pretend battlefields. However, it’s also true that many military re-enactors seek out opportunities to pretend to be involved in past military conflicts because they sympathize with the political agenda of regimes associated with those conflicts."
The official line of Rich Iott’s Nazi Wiking re-enactment group is that the group does not tolerate racism. “This page or anyone involved in its creation, or members of reenactment groups listed here, are in no way affiliated with real, radical political organizations (i.e., KKK, Aryan Nation, American Nazi Party, etc.) and do not embrace the philosophies and actions of the original NSDAP (Nazi party), and wholeheartedly condemn the atrocities which made them infamous.”
The sad truth, however, is that many White Supremacist groups also post such disclaimers to the public, while promoting vicious racial hatred in private. Is the Nazi Wiking re-enactment group’s disclaimer of this variety? That’s not certain.
Did this group “only” have a desire to end Communism? They acted to protect Nazi Germany and its atrocities. Wearing swastika rings as signs of racial purity, the Wiking soldiers prevented early liberation of the concentration camps in which Jews were slaughtered. It’s a gross mischaracterization of history to say that the Wiking Nazis were only anti-Communists, and didn’t embrace Nazi ideology. Wiking Finns joined the unit as part of the Finnish embrace of the concept of aryan superiority. The Wiking Nazis are accused of slaughtering Hungarian Jews in 1945. In spite of the nasty reality of the Wiking unit’s role in enabling the Holocaust and spreading militant white supremacism, Rich Iott’s group called the Nazi Wikings “idealists” who fought for “a basic desire to be free.”
This demonstrates this "reenactment" groups [U]GROTESQUE distortion of history by portraying the Waffen SS as mere "anti-communists" or simple soldiers doing what they were told. This group was made up of volunteers who were racial ideologues fighting for Aryan purity. They slaughtered Jews and detested the "sub-human" Slavs of Soviet Russia.
That this *** clown would put on a Nazi uniform and then play it off as mere "reenacting" shows his head is not in the right place, and doesn't deserve any respect from the American electorate. Nazis were psychotic pigs, the only good Nazi is a DEAD Nazi.
Iott admits ... that he was “really trying to get into the persona of the time period. In many, not just in our unit, but in many units what individuals do is create this person largely based on a Germanized version of their name”. Iott wasn’t content to put on an educational show. While in Nazi uniform, he tried to actually become a Nazi. The kind of person who engages in this kind of long-term creation of a Nazi alter-ego, physically playing the role for long periods of time, isn’t temperamentally fit to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Of all the candidates out there and responsible, respectable people to nominate or vote for, why waste time on someone like this.
reply posted on 20-10-2010 @ 07:51 PM by pavil
reply to post by Blackmarketeer
Are you attempting to use a hatchet job article on a blogsite as something akin to journalism? Reading the article, you see the author's bias coming through.
It's sad that people on both sides use blogs full of opinions, somehow as facts that support their beliefs. Truth is, all it is opinion, with innuendo to back up it's assertions. It's like taking Wiki articles for the Gospel truth without further research.
Again, if someone re-enacts as a Confederate soldier in Civil War Re-enactiments, does that automatically make them pro-slavery, anti Black slappies????? They must be KKK if the play the Gray side in a Civil War battle, right?
Are you attempting to use a hatchet job article on a blogsite as something akin to journalism? Reading the article, you see the author's bias coming through.
It's sad that people on both sides use blogs full of opinions, somehow as facts that support their beliefs. Truth is, all it is opinion, with innuendo to back up it's assertions. It's like taking Wiki articles for the Gospel truth without further research.
Again, if someone re-enacts as a Confederate soldier in Civil War Re-enactiments, does that automatically make them pro-slavery, anti Black slappies????? They must be KKK if the play the Gray side in a Civil War battle, right?
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