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To: Sully- who wrote (54184)	12/27/2006 9:40:44 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 90947

I normally dislike people making Nazi comparisons. And I will say that I don't think Ted Rall is a Nazi, or in most ways is like a Nazi. I'm not saying he is worse than Nazis or as bad as a Nazi, and I'd defend him against such an accusation. But - One of the first things the Nazis did when they gained power was to take out the other parties. They banned some, others "voluntarily" disbanded. Just calling for that (or even doing it) doesn't make you a Nazi, but it is totalitarian, and anti-democratic, so it is a substantial similarity to how the Nazi's acted, not a minor and/or irrelevant and/or false similarity like many other cases when someone is compared to Nazis. Its not really a Nazi specific thing. Its a common act for highly authoritarian regimes. But I was reading the history of the Nazis rise to power today so the similarity immediately jumped out at me.