{"id":293,"date":"2004-04-29T16:19:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-29T16:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/politics\/remember_hitler.html"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1970-01-01T05:00:00","slug":"remember_hitler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/2004\/04\/29\/remember_hitler","title":{"rendered":"Remember Adolf Hitler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> At this past weekend&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marchforwomen.org\/\">March for Women&#8217;s Lives<\/a>, about 1,000 antiabortion counterprotesters heckled the marchers. I thought the following line of argument, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/news\/nation\/articles\/2004\/04\/26\/dc_rally_on_rights_fills_mall\/\">as described in the Boston Globe<\/a>, was fairly remarkable: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p> A few blocks down the street, Randall Terry, president of the antiabortion Society for Truth and Justice and founder of the Operation Rescue, stood atop Freedom Plaza and &#8212; with the help of loudspeakers &#8212; told marchers they should be ashamed: &#8220;Remember, Adolph Hitler had big crowds in the 1930s.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Well, sure. Adolf Hitler also had a mustache. Not to mention that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.veg.ca\/newsletr\/mayjun96\/hitler.html\">he is alleged by some to have been vegetarian<\/a>. Does that mean vegetarians or mustached men (I fit into both categories) should be ashamed? <\/p>\n<p> Moreover, the New York Yankees have big crowds. So do George Bush and Britney Spears. <\/p>\n<p> Maybe the Globe took Terry&#8217;s quote out of context, but it&#8217;s hard to believe anyone would find that bit of the analogy even vaguely persuasive. <\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\">Democracy Now!<\/a>, my favorite webcast radio news, has great <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/article.pl?sid=04\/04\/26\/1346234\">coverage of the march<\/a>, including several extended video segments of the speakers. If you couldn&#8217;t make it down to DC last weekend, I suggest watching this footage online to get at least a little taste of the events. <\/p>\n<p> (Minor update: apparently the Boston Globe got the spelling wrong&#8212;it&#8217;s Adolf, not Adolph. Fixed in my text.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At this past weekend&#8217;s March for Women&#8217;s Lives, about 1,000 antiabortion counterprotesters heckled the marchers. I thought the following line of argument, as described in the Boston Globe, was fairly remarkable: A few blocks down the street, Randall Terry, president of the antiabortion Society for Truth and Justice and founder of the Operation Rescue, stood [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}