In the news, a gang of neo-Nazis was arrested………………..in Israel.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070909/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_neo_nazis
The gang recorded their violent crimes on video. This is a good idea in case you’re not doing enough to get caught and prosecuted. One of the gang members says, “Heil Hitler” on the video. His lawyer will have to ask to move the trial to Iran so his client can get a fair trial.
I wonder how you even find a lawyer who can defend a guy for supporting Hitler in Israel? I’ll bet there are plenty of lawyers volunteering to do the job, but I’m guessing they don’t plan to mount the most rigorous defense.
Lawyer: “Here, you might want to use this to practice being in jail.”
Neo-Nazi: “A broomstick?”
Lawyer: “Try eating chili peppers and spitting on it first.”
I try to imagine the moment before this gang was formed. I don’t know how much alcohol you have to consume before suggesting maybe you should form a neo-Nazi gang in Israel, but I have to think it’s a lot. Whoever was selling beer to these guys is the real victim. His sales are going to take a hit.
Dear Lord(not me),
that surely takes the meaning of stupidity to a whole new level...
Neo-Nazis in Israel. Like Einstein once said, "There are two things which are infinite, human stupidity and the universe, but I´m not sure about the universe."
Posted by: Lord Foul | October 16, 2007 at 08:32 AM
Zionists have been known for false flags. Many neo-Nazis have been Jews. They do it to generate sympathy for Jews and thus justification for Israel. Go to judicial-inc.biz for more info.
Posted by: witness | September 14, 2007 at 12:31 PM
"It is only in the FUBAR'ed American Justice system where people think it isn't cruel and unusual to be anally raped in prison as part of the punishment regime"
Woah. What is it with America and sexual humiliation as a form of delighted-in torture as punishment within detention centres? Not content with keeping it at home, it got exported to iraq...
I suspect this story probably got over-inflated in addition to everything else. This could be one of the forst cases of "Happy-Nazing"?
Ah, if only the swastikka could have its original meaning returned to it. Then the isle of man would be much safer.
Posted by: Andy Watt | September 11, 2007 at 05:36 AM
Israelis have been oppressing Arabs for years. I guess what goes around comes around, huh.
Posted by: Aslan of Narnia | September 11, 2007 at 03:36 AM
Stephen,
"What can you be hoping to convey, sympathy with the underdog? With a cynical response like that? Wow, what a humanitarian."
Terrible, isn't it? And sad. It's hard to find the words.
Posted by: Andrew | September 11, 2007 at 01:22 AM
"GUT IS NIT MIT UNTZ!"
How else can I explain Elizabitch's bullshit comment being placed right above mine making us look like two sides of the same ridiculous coin?
In truth though, I probably should have figured that out already based on our "colorful" experiences around the world over some 3,000 years. But I was never sure entirely until just now.
mnuez
www.mnuez.blogspot.com
P.S. Yeah, if you're not intelligent this comment aint for you.
P.P.S. If it WERE true I'd say it was but having researched the matter I can definitively say that Elizabitch's comment is a classic antisemitic canard and about as likely as a 6000 year old universe. - As for MY point, having spent a decade as an Israeli I know a little bit about the demographics of the country and I can tell you definitively that there are hundreds of thousands of FSU NON-JEWS who snuck into Israel thanks to some archaic laws on Israel's books and a whole brigade of corrupt politicians. And I can tell you further that a great many of these people are the scum of Mother Russia (not ALL by any means, but many many of them are) and that this is FAR from the first, second, or twenty second racist attack that they've carried out in a land that had no business rolling out the welcoming carpet for these dipshits.
Posted by: mnuez | September 10, 2007 at 11:30 PM
Well... It's a matter of supply and demand, i guess...
Posted by: Paulo | September 10, 2007 at 03:12 PM
"Odd. World got just too weird, the next thing might be black klan members."
um apperently you have never done any geneology in the south. Most rednecks have a black relation somewhere reguardless of how "white" they are. That is why most raciest sotherners abandon geneology projects. in my family relitives destroyed 100 year old family documents to hide the truth that their racest a** is part black.
Posted by: stephen | September 10, 2007 at 09:49 AM
Andrew,
"That’s taking the Israeli doctrine of “abuse thy neighbour” to a sad and terrible new level."
What can you be hoping to convey, sympathy with the underdog? With a cynical response like that? Wow, what a humanitarian.
Posted by: Jez | September 10, 2007 at 09:15 AM
In general, we try to show misguided people the error of their ways by being upstanding and waiting for them to realize the error of their ways and change on their own. Society teaches us this slow but sure method.
This method does not seem to account for the terminally stupid, which includes lifelong racists.
Either we are expected to tolerate their violence, or we're supposed to be... rounding them up and locking them away? What's the solution here?
People need to be free to make their own mistakes and learn from them, but what about when those mistakes involve killing people on purpose? hating for the sake of hating?
How much tolerance and consideration do these people deserve?
It makes me think of the now-famous pedophile who just moved to my area here in Portland, OR. Some fool decided to give him a radio interview wherein, for some reason, he felt compelled to explain his 'sexual preference' for young girls.
There seem to be some cases where tolerance even for a minute is enough time for an innocent to be killed or scarred for life.
What is the solution?
Posted by: Will Von Wizzlepig | September 10, 2007 at 09:11 AM
Because I am committing the sin of posting late, I will also commit the sin of posting in the wrong spot. (Admittedly, the overarching topic is "human idiocy" which has no bounds and fits well into any list of comments.)
A few days back Scott gave some of the more suggestable monkeys the chance to dance at your Atlantis theory. The thing that I found interesting was that among the efforts to persuade you as to the truth of evolution were a few pleas for you to believe. This is an intriguing point of view to take.
Evolution is either largely true (with fuzzy details that we might not have completely right) or largely false. What Scott or in fact anyone else on this little blue rock believe with respect to evolution won't change the facts. Scientific theories don't demand faith in order to be true, and rarely is offense taken because someone doesn't believe the actual theories. I say "actual theories" because scientists are people and they can get upset about not being believed. The theories themselves don't give a monkey's.
Pity that Darwin didn't take a cue from the competing theory. "I am the Theory of Evolution, I am a jealous theory, thou shalt not have any other theory before me. If thou dare hold other theories before me so shalt thy brain atrophy until it takes the form of a intellectually challenged marmoset and thou shalt have an eternal hankering for deep fried gizzards with biscuits and gravy."
Oh well, perhaps we can commission someone to do the King James' version of The Origin of Species.
cheers
neopolitan
Posted by: neopolitan | September 10, 2007 at 04:46 AM
*QUOTE*
Sometimes, I'm amazed at the things that come into my head.
Such as:
There really are too many people on this planet anyway, why not take out a few who have proven themselves detrimental to our survival as a species?
*UNQUOTE*
What if somebody thought that YOU have proven yourself to be detrimental to our survival as a species? Would YOU surrender for the greater good?
I didn't think so.
Posted by: Ale | September 10, 2007 at 04:43 AM
I didn't mention this, because I thought it would be repeatedly written in the comments... Hilter was Jewish. To be a Nazi- having Jewish blood seems to be a pre-req. Got to hand it to them though- taking self hate to such a high level is impressive in some ways.
Posted by: Elizabeth | September 10, 2007 at 03:14 AM
All caps for emphasis:
THESE ASSHOLES ARE NOT JEWS.
These are Russian non-Jews who got into Israel through various bullshit papers stating that their grandmother was at one point married to a Jew. These are opportunist FSU assholes (and their children) who have been systematically antisemitic do an occasionally violent degree - For Years. Israel should Never have let them in but that's what happens when you put low-life careerist hack politicians in charge. To reiterate:
THESE ASSHOLES ARE NOT JEWS BUT THE SAME SORT OF ASSHOLE FSU PEOPLE WHO MOSTLY STILL LIVE IN THE FORMER SOVIET UNION.
Out of shame for what someone might think JEWS have been doing I needed to make the above clear.
mnuez
www.mnuez.blogspot.com
Posted by: mnuez | September 10, 2007 at 03:13 AM
All caps for emphasis:
THESE ASSHOLES ARE NOT JEWS.
These are Russian non-Jews who got into Israel through various bullshit papers stating that their grandmother was at one point married to a Jew. These are opportunist FSU assholes (and their children) who have been systematically antisemitic do an occasionally violent degree - For Years. Israel should Never have let them in but that's what happens when you put low-life careerist hack politicians in charge. To reiterate:
THESE ASSHOLES ARE NOT JEWS BUT THE SAME SORT OF ASSHOLE FSU PEOPLE WHO MOSTLY STILL LIVE IN THE FORMER SOVIET UNION.
Out of shame for what someone might think JEWS have been doing I needed to make the above clear.
mnuez
www.mnuez.blogspot.com
Posted by: mnuez | September 10, 2007 at 03:13 AM
That’s taking the Israeli doctrine of “abuse thy neighbour” to a sad and terrible new level.
Posted by: Andrew | September 10, 2007 at 02:37 AM
Random thoughts:-
i) Otto's "suicide squad" composed of Jewish Nazis, in Monty Python's Life of Brian;
ii) recently deceased British stand-up comic Bernard Manning's joke... "I hated school... I had this teacher, he was a really unorthodox Jew. He were a Nazi".
I've also never understood how there can be such a thing as neo-Nazis in the old Soviet Union... surely a Russian Nazi, logically, must adopt a position where he has to say to any passing German "I was wrong. We Russians were all wrong to resist you the way we did in 1941. Even though we trashed Berlin in 1945, you are still the Master Race and we are sub-human. Come and rule and enslave us. Take your Lebensraum and we will be your slaves in perpetuity"
Posted by: Paul C | September 10, 2007 at 01:32 AM
People are talking about jails. Is there any evidence as to what country has the "best" jails? That is the lowest level of re-offending?
Posted by: twounicycles | September 10, 2007 at 01:11 AM
Dear Scott,
in your post you pose the question of who would be willing to defend such idiots.
Here is an interesting example from Germany: About 30 years ago, a german terrorist group, the RAF, was prosecuted for their crimes. They did not have problems finding lawyers, even though they opposed the state, society they lived in and killed a bunch of people.
Interestingly enough, one of the lawyers, having mace a name for himself, went on to become secretary of state of Germany many years later, and was in charge of all the police forces he had accused of torturing his clients while the trials lasted.
So I gues there is your answer: For fame, publicity and money, there will be plenty of lawyers, that will defend them.
Greetings from Germany,
Mike
Posted by: Michael | September 10, 2007 at 01:07 AM
Odd. World got just too weird, the next thing might be black klan members.
Posted by: Marxist | September 09, 2007 at 11:00 PM
Jews preyed on Jews even in Auschwitz - some probably did it to win favor with the S.S. - to "prove" their "worth" in a futile attempt to buy time, but some undoubtedly were simply opportunists - completely amoral,sociopathic virulent scum for whom Auschwitz was the Promised Land.
What? - You didn't think there were and are such Jews?
Posted by: the man in the trout mask | September 09, 2007 at 10:36 PM
Scott, if you cant find a lawyer to defend yourself for supporting Hitler, just somehow oppose all lawyers opposing you :D
Posted by: Amit | September 09, 2007 at 09:56 PM
About that broomstick usage thing, do they usually insert the straw end first? If it tickles, are you allowed to giggle?
And, is it used parallel or perpendicular?
Maybe it's true that a new broom sweeps clean, but (sorry), I have to think that used ones are not going to sell for much.
http://boskolives.wordpress.com/
Posted by: jerry w. | September 09, 2007 at 09:37 PM
This makes perfect sense. They're Nazis.
Questioner: Why do you rob banks, Willie?
Sutton: 'Cause that's where the money is.
Posted by: William of Urbana | September 09, 2007 at 07:40 PM
Hey! I read that story on BBC website after posting my comments to your previous blog posting. Why'd these knucklehead Jewish-Russian emigrants become Nazis in Israel? Once again allow me to reiterate:
1.)They want to belong to something global beyond a mere nation or empire.
2.)They want to standout from the crowd.
3)They're misfit losers who didn't discover or fall for Scientology, Mormonism or Christian evangelism (or televangelism).
4.)They hate and want to embarrass their parents.
5.)They're rich and bored.
6.)They're poor but educated.
7.)They're poor, stupid and easily manipulated. (Surprisingly few of those in the ranks but they're there, nonetheless)
You can't tell me NONE of those screwed up kids do not fall into any of those categories. In future conflicts within next fifteen years, there will alliances between Islamic extremists and Neo-Nazis in Europe/Russia, U.S./Canada, Central and South America and India/Pakistan that will cause incidents that will make OUR hair curl but eventually accepted as part of everyday existence.
I hate being a negative nelly, but this world is making less cautiously optimistic by the day. When I care more about the next Apple,Inc. product iteration(keep your Blackberry, Scott, the iPhone is cool but the Blackberry is far more utile for work and e-mail and texting) than prospect of world peace, who am I kidding. I'm getting jaded and feckless.
Posted by: Kevin Kunreuther | September 09, 2007 at 07:26 PM