Eagle Forum goes totally insane

[ck4829]

For months now, Phyllis Schlafly and the Eagle Forum have been shopping around a conspiracy theory about a proposed “North American Union” that would, in the words of the John Birch Society, create a “full-blown economic and political merger of Canada, the United States, and Mexico.”

As if that wasn’t bad enough, the US is also apparently at risk of being taken over by Nazis, at least according to Kitty Werthmann, head of the Eagle Forum’s South Dakota chapter:

"From her own experience, Mrs. Kitty Werthmann will help you see we are walking the same path as the Nazi’s. She was 12 years old living in Austria. At that time, there was order, prayer and pictures of Jesus. Hitler took over and all that was removed! Unemployment rose to 35%, bank loans rose to 25%, unions called strikes, all this with 98% of the people claiming to be Catholic!

Soon there was massive welfare. Cries went out for equal rights for women. Socialism took women out of the home, raising the children, and into the factories. They took the children away from the family and raised them by the state. The Health department offered training for the elderly but they were killed.

Hear her tell how the U.S. is going the same way!"

Considering that the Eagle Forum’s blog is promoting Werthmann’s upcoming appearance, it is not unreasonable to conclude that Schlafly et al. think that she is on to something.

http://www.rightwingwatch.org/2007/03/eagle_forum_nazi_hunters_.html

Hey, wait a second. What about the homophobia, the anti-semitism, and the imperialism, where does that fit in? And have they seen Nazi propaganda? There are very few women featured in it.

[dkofos]

1. How could you tell??

[geardaddy]

2. I thought that the depression hit Germany

before Hitler came to power and he used it to vault himself to power by hanging it all on the Jews and the Socialists.

So, if unemployment went up 35% after Hitler came to power, then I think that Frau Werthmann is sorely mistaken.

[Dhalgren]

5. That's not all she is "mistaken" about. The Nazis did not remove

Christian symbols, nor did they force women out of the home. As a matter of fact, women were given awards and medals for having the most children. Also, children were not "taken away from their parents" until they were teenagers and then they went into the army (the boys, anyway). I think that this lady is just making things up, assuming that the Americans she will be talking to won't know any better - it's safe bet...

[progdonkey]

3. just a quick correction...

Nazi propaganda was very much filled with women, but they were always shown as being devoted housewives and the mothers of the next generation of warriors for the Reich. Perhaps as the war progressed, they started showing women in factories, but the core of Nazi ideology holds that women belong in the home.

[yardwork]

4. That is correct - the Freedom Forum has it ass-backwards, as usual

[NoPasaran]

9. Right, Hitler disapproved of women working

So unlike during the First World War, when many German women had worked in factories, and unlike the millions of women called into the factories in most other belligerants, much of the labor in Germany was carried out by more-or-less impressed foreign workers, supplemented as the war went on by outright slave labor.

[POAS]

6. Maybe someone could explain how

Hitler created run away inflation by printing money to pay for a military build up. Sound familiar?

[blondeatlast]

7. "Goes?" I thought they were there decades ago (yes, I'm old enough to remember...) nt

[AnnInLa]

8. Wonder if Michelle Bachmann is a member, lol