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Politics : Actual left/right wing discussion -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ilaine who wrote (1686)	9/25/2006 1:32:52 AM
From: KLP	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10087

Thank you. Looks like they don't teach much History of any kind in school anymore.

To: Ilaine who wrote (1686)	9/25/2006 3:47:05 PM
From: Richnorth	Respond to of 10087

While leaving a campground early one morning in summer about 25 years ago, I chanced upon a copy of Hitler's Mein Kampf, in German, on what looked like an abandoned stool by the fire grill. As no one was around I could have taken it and left. But I didn't. I thought whomever had left it there might return, sooner or later, to reclaim it. I proceeded to read it. But as my knowlege of German was only just so-so, I did not get much out of the passages I happened to 'read'. However, whatever I was able to 'decipher' I found I knew it already from my prior reading of other stuff elsewhere. A short time later I was offered a collector's edition of Mein Kampf in English at a flea market for C$25. I did not buy it as, to me, the price was too high, and what I was able to read then and there was boring. Besides I did not not like Hitler's convoluted style of reasoning and writing. By contrast, I recall that the black-and-white movies I saw about 40 years ago of Hitler heiling and orating with well-timed gestures/gesticulations and holding his audience spell-bound was more interesting by far. I also saw Nazi movies comparing Jews to sewer plague-causing rats and what nots, and I was horrified! and I became a rabid Nazi-hater overnight! However, that anti-Nazi feeling in me became somewhat tempered over the ensuing years when I gleaned new insights from political science and geopolitics and from the analyses of Mr. Gwynne Dyer, a political analyst and an independent journalist based in London. I wish to write more. But my girlfriend is reminding to meet her for lunch. Gotta run now! L8R. .