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Sat Feb 18, 2012, 11:40 AM

11. Here's something from some well known authoritarians that sounds familiar....

 

Consider the following political platform, which sounds almost as if it were taken from a speech by Rick Santorum:

The preservation of the family with many children is a matter of biological concept and national feeling. The family with many children must be preserved ... because it is a highly valuable, indispensable part of the ... nation. Valuable and indispensable not only because it alone guarantees the maintenance of the population in the future but because it is the strongest basis of national morality and national culture ... The preservation of this family form is a necessity of national and cultural politics ... This concept is strictly at variance with the demands for an abolition of paragraph 218; it considers unborn life as sacrosanct. For the legalization of abortion is at variance with the function of the family, which is to produce children and would lead to the definite destruction of the family with many children.

So wrote the Völkischer Beobachter* of October 14, 1931.

http://www.alternet.org/visions/154194/a_conservative_explains_why_right-wingers_have_no_compassion/?page=3

*The Völkischer Beobachter ("Völkisch Observer" was the newspaper of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP or Nazi Party) from 1920. It first appeared weekly, then daily from 8 February 1923. For twenty-five years it formed part of the official public face of the Nazi party.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%B6lkischer_Beobachter

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