Sometimes you have to wonder – do people take what’s written in a blog as entirely the “truth”?

“Blog” has a wide variety of definitions and expressions. A blog can be, or include the following elements:

Did you hear what really happened with Pope Benedict XVI and the Hitler Youth? His father hated the Nazis so much he moved to another town. As all young people were, Pope Benedict XVI was automatically enrolled in the Hitler Youth but wouldn’t attend even one meeting–even when it meant he might lose a partial subsidy for his education.

Actus, you smeared this man and he didn’t deserve it. This is one reason why I tend to skip a comment that has your name under it.

Evon

Put another way, it makes about as much sense to tar certain modern day African chieftans with selling rival, and weaker, Africans to slavers in 16th century Africa.

He was in charge of defending the faith. It is progressives who are controversial. To wit the wave of socialist priests in Central/South America operating under the Liberty, of which Rangel’s favorite Aristide. As history now shows, Aristide and his posse were no btter than Papa/Baby Doc & the Tonton Macoutes.

What I don’t get with the progressives is if you don’t like it, start yer own club. It’s one thing to work within the system for change, but hey, if the system ain’t buying the song & dance. Don’t cry. Leave.

he was in charge of the inquisition office.

One of the interesting things about these youth clubs was their emphasis on clean and healthy living, ie abstinance, avoiding alcohol etc. It also gave the city youth the opportunity to get out of their dank tenements and spend summers at “camp” out in the country. Between nature hikes and sports, the youth were also expected to work on farms doing things like tending livestock, building haystacks etc.

Key thing was that Hitler banned all other organizations and made H~J the one and only. You had better have a good reason for not joining, mainly handicapped. In which case, Hitler also had plans for a final solution as part of purifying and strengthening the Aryan stock.

For an “ultra-conservative corporate venue”, I thought Kelley Vlahos’ article at Fox News was pretty even-handed. Critics and supporters of the White House actions were given their say. This is how it should be.

As far as “screening” audience members, this is hardly new. Anybody recall this past DNC convention in Boston, where protesters were confined to areas well away from the actual site? Both sides make efforts to control the audience to guard against embarrassing instances that might be caught on camera.

Frankly, I think conservatives have good reason to worry about who gets into the audience. Several conservative speakers – Bill Kristol, Pat Buchanan, David Horowitz – have been pelted with food during recent appearances. I doubt that the White House wants to risk this happening to the president.

And consider this quote from the article:

“Denver attorney Dan Recht, who is representing Leslie Weiss, 39, Alex Young, 25, and Karen Bauer, 38, told The Associated Press that his clients had tickets and were not planning to disrupt anything when they were asked to leave, without explanation, before the March 21 forum.

“The three, who are members of the Denver Progressives political activist group, did have T-shirts tucked under their business attire calling for Bush to ‘stop the lies,’ but a plan to brandish them during the program had been abandoned earlier and the shirts never saw the light of day, Recht said.”

The people ejected from the crowd were members of a liberal advocacy group affiliated with MoveOn.org (and was, in fact, formerly called DenverMoveOn.org*) and wearing t-shirts under their business clothing with anti-Bush slogans. Oh, but they NEVER planned to display them. No, sir! This is as fatuous as “I smoked pot, but didn’t inhale.”

I’m a little conflicted about this subject, because it’s a symptom of a broader problem with free speech in our country. On the one hand, the “authorities” define where and when “free speech” can take place, such as designated protest zones during political functions or free speech zones on college campuses. On the other hand, there are those who equate free speech with the right to commit mayhem, such as we saw in Seattle a few years ago. It seems to me that people who want to protest the president – or any other politician or public figure – ought to have the unrestricted right to do so, so long as their “protest” is non-violent and not a thuggish attempt to drown out the free speech of the person they are protesting.

Where to draw the line?

*http://denverprogressives.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=35&forum=1

First, let me say that La Shawn Barber is a giant among bloggers, a goddess in whose shadow I am unworthy to stand. Yet not only did Ms. Barber read one of my posts, she saw fit to mention it on MSNBC.My blog mentioned in the same segment as PoliPundit…

My point in posting the article was to demonstrate (as if further evidence was needed) the bias of the self-styled “unbiased” media.

I would be more interested in how they treated her inside the pages. I don’t read Time and just saw the cover.

I don’t like the NY Times trying to pick the Pope. Can’t they just report the news instead of make it.

Even some ultra conservative corporate venues are beginning to finally report on it:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,153720,00.html

and then start asking questions about what is happening to free speech.

All in all, I would say that being part of the Hitler Youth in Germany then would not be as damning as joining, say, the KKK in America as an adult and never renouncing it.

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