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======== Newsgroups: alt.politics.libertarian,talk.politics.guns,alt.activism,alt.conspiracy Subject: Re: ATF-WACO Apologist Blown Away --- NOT BY THIS GUY! From: sgriff@apci.net Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 16:08:54 -0700 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------CC25F195895 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit author@mainelink.net wrote: > > Here's a guy quoting Hitler, which is odd. The gun law > enacted during Hitler's regime did *not* provice for > gun registration or deny German citizens the right to > have guns. > Consequently, when this guy quotes Hitler as saying: > > sgriff@apci.net wrote: > >kevin Stall wrote: > > (lots snipped -- here;s the bit I'm referring to: > > >-- > >The most foolish mistake we could possibly make > >would be to allow the subjected to carry arms. > >History shows that all conquerors who have allowed > >their subjected peoples to carry arms have prepared > >their own fall. > > Adolph Hitler. > > Unless Hitler said this in private, to you, it's > reasonable to expect you can give the time/place > he made this statement, and your source for this > allegation. > While I've seen nothing by Hitler on gun control, > we all know he utilized The Big Lie...and it's > apparent that his students survive in this forum. > > Jimand here is what you seek: --------------CC25F195895 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="AUTHEN.HTM" Path: queeg.apci.net!bill.gnatnet.net!imci2!pull-feed.internetmci.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in3.uu.net!not-for-mail From: Gail Thaler Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc,talk.politics.guns,alt.politics.clinton Subject: Re: Why Sarah Brady continues to lose support! Date: 20 Sep 1996 13:53:13 GMT Lines: 197 Message-ID: <51u7k9$3cv@news0-alterdial.uu.net> References: <511msp$9a2@bermuda.io.com> <3234ec8c.25133179@netnews.worldnet.att.net> <517kvv$ps9@pentagon.io.com> <51apn2$8ue@news1.halcyon.com> <51cts2$3rj@paperboy.ids.net> <51flsa$ab5@news.toolcity.net> <323C2952.6E6E@computek.net> <323CCE0D.2760@apci.net> <51jqe9$pd8@news0-alterdial.uu.net> <51m96k$mq4@news0-alterdial.uu.net> <51os2n$q2u@news0-alterdial.uu.net> <51q1b0$qn5@Mercury.mcs.com> <324148eb.131869418@firstnethou.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp229.cs.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.12(Macintosh; I; PPC) X-URL: news:landerr-2009960018590001@pm213.inil.com Xref: queeg.apci.net talk.politics.misc:55353 talk.politics.guns:35280 alt.politics.clinton:39208 landerr@inil.com (Dick Lander) wrote: >In article <324148eb.131869418@firstnethou.com>, dcd@firstnethou.com (Dan >Day) wrote: > >> On 18 Sep 1996 18:41:20 -0500, synergy@MCS.COM (synergy) wrote: >> >>>> >> >The most foolish mistake we could possibly make >> >>>> >> >would be to allow the subjected to carry arms. >> >>>> >> >History shows that all conquerors who have allowed >> >>>> >> >their subjected peoples to carry arms have prepared >> >>>> >> >their own fall. >> >>>> >> > Adolph Hitler, Edict of March 18, 1938 >> >>>> >> >>>> On March 18, 1938, Hilter addressed the Reichstag denying that he >> >>>> invaded Austria and promoting the sham elections there. As he >> >>>> did not "conquer" or "subjegate" Austria, according to him, it >> >>>> would be counterproductive to use such language. He would only >> >>>> be drawing attention to the world that he had done so. >> >> ...only if this were a *public* speech. If it were private correspondence, >> he would be free to say what he really thought, without the constraints >> of political necessity. >> >> >> >As much as I am opposed to fascist schemes such as gun control laws, >> >I will not condone the use of bogus quotes to further pro-2nd Amenement >> >causes. There is no evidence to suggest that the alleged Hitler >> >quote above is anything but a fraud or a hoax. >> >> Sorry, this one's not a "fraud or hoax" (although the date does appear to be >> wrong). Perhaps you're thinking of the "1935 will go down in >history..." Hitler >> "quote", which *is* almost certainly bogus. >> >> Ken Barnes maintains the pro-gun quotes archive, and takes pains to >verify them >> by tracing them back to original sources, whenever possible. He writes: >> >> #### Begin quote of Ken Barnes >> >> > "The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the >> > subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have >> > allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall >> > by so doing. Indeed, I would go so far as to say that the underdog is a >> > sine qua non ["something essential" lit. "without which not"] for the >> > overthrow of any sovereignty. So let's not have any native militia or >> > police." >> > -- Hitler's Secret Conversations - 1941-1944 >> > Farrar, Straus and Young - 1953 >> > Pg. 345 >> >> Surprisingly, this quote isn't a hoax. (See below) >> >> "Der groBte Unsinn, den man in den besetzen Ostgebieten machen >> konne, sei der, den unterworfenen Volkern Waffen zu geben. Die >> Geschicte lehre, daB alle Herrenvolker untergegangen seien, nachdem >> sie den von ihnen unterworfenen Volkern Waffen bewilligt hatten. >> Ja, man konne geradezu sagen, daB die Auslieferung von Waffen >> an die unterworfenen Volker eine 'conditio sine qua non' fur den >> Untergang der Herrenvolker sei." >> [The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to permit >> the conquered Eastern peoples to have arms. History teaches that all >> conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have >> prepared their own downfall by doing so. >> Yes, I would go so far as to say that native militias or police >> are a _sine qua non_ condition for the overthrow of any conqueror >> race by the underdog.] >> --Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), April 11, 1942, quoted in _Hitlers >> Tischegesprache Im Fuhrerhauptquartier 1941-1942,_[Hitler's Table- >> Talk at the Fuhrer's Headquarters 1941-1942], Dr. Henry Picker, ed. >> (Athenaum-Verlag, Bonn, 1951) <> a slightly different (and, I've been told, less accurate) English >> translation in the book_Hitler's Secret Conversations_(Farrar, Straus >> and Young, 1953). The original source is notes taken by Hitler >> associate Martin Bormann, a document called _Bormann-Vermerke._ >> NOTE: The "B"s used in the quote are substituted for the character >> representing the "ss" sound in the Gothic alphabet, and the usual >> diacritical marks are omitted.>> >> >> ### End quote of Ken Barnes > >Unless you guys have something substantive in rebuttal, this looks pretty >authoritative to me... >-- If you want to believe "Hitler's Secret Conversations" over The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, that's your perogative. >Richard W. (Dick) Lander; sportsman, >Macintosh devotee, proponent of personal liberty. >* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * >"DOS computers are by far the most popular, with about 70 million machines in use worldwide. Macintosh fans, on the other hand, may= note that cockroaches are far more numerous than humans, and that >numbers alone do not denote a higher life form." (New York Times) > --------------CC25F195895--

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