I was just reading about the Nuremberg Trials

[shraby]

and this jumped out at me. It's just possible people like Limbaugh, Coulter, etc. should read it. Might make them think twice about the bile they spew:

Julius Streicher - As Editor-in-Chief of the venomous antisemitic paper, Der Stuermer, Julius Streicher disseminated hatred and the most virulent strain of anti-Jewish sentiment to be found in all of Germany. And Hitler strongly approved of Streicher's publication. The only real trouble he ever got into with the Nazi Party was for raising questions about Goering's sexual prowess. When Goering's wife, Emma, was about to give birth, Streicher suggested that perhaps Emma had been artificially inseminated (Conot, Justice at Nuremberg, 1983:383). Daniel Goldhagen (Hitler's Willing Executioners, 1996:102) describes him as "the most rabid antisemite in Germany." Jackson called him "the venomous vulgarian." However, Streicher was non-military, he was not part of the planning process of the Holocaust, nor of the invasion of Poland or the Soviet Union. And, yet, his role in inciting the extermination of Jews was significant enough, in the judgment of the prosecutors, to include him in the indictment.

Julius Streicher was sentenced to death by hanging.

(more on other perps)
<http://www.mtsu.edu/~baustin/trials3.html>

[cali]

1. Much as I detest the

Limbaughs, Coulters and Savages, they actually follow in a long American tradition- think Father Coughlin. And to date, none of them have played a Streicher like role. I don't want to see any of them tried and hung for exercising theri first amendment rights, even if though I find their use of it repulsive.

[shraby]

3. There are people who have been beaten

because of the encouragement of anti-gay rhetoric spewed by the people I mentioned. Coulter has espoused the poisoning of a Supreme Court judge for his decisions. Maybe the rhetoric isn't comparable to the Der Steurmer, but very very similar in substance.

[TreasonousBastard]

4. I immediately thought of Father Coughlin...

while reading the OP.

Coughlin started out as a firebrand "socialist," a la Bryan, whoch gave him much of his initial popularity but ended up such an impediment to the war effort that his First Amendment rights were seen as unworthy and he was shut up.

More to the point is that Streicher was prosecuted by the winners of the war, not by his own country. In the highly improbable event that the US gets into a war it loses and is occupied, one wonders just how the occupiers would treat at some of these civilian war- and hatemongers.

[dflprincess]

2. I just watched "Judgement at Nuremberg" last night

on the local PBS station (the original one with Spencer Tracy). I haven't seen it in years and never before saw any parallels to America in it until last night. Like the talk about blind patriotism. Parts of Tracy's speech during the sentencing could easily be applied to the modern U.S. I was also struck by the defense attorney asking if American industrialists who invested in Nazi Germany didn't bear part of the blame. I'm sure when the movie came out in 1961 that the audience viewed that as a line from someone portraying an over zealous attorney. I, of course, immediately thought of Prescott Bush.

[sarcasmo]

5. May you be speaking of Prescott Bush.