The "good, old"-Goebbels comparison - now even in BC

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/bc-new-democrat-apologizes-for-nazi-comments/article1778395/

The good, old Goebbels comparison - a political opponent is or acts like Goebbels. Well, we have heard that in the past. I am just surprised that Goebbels made it as far as British Columbia, a place on Earth far away from Germany and its Nazi-past - not only in terms of geography. Don´t you really have nobody else to refer too?

German politicians like to do it once in a while. They speak about yellow stars on somebody´s chest and yes, Helmut Kohl, former Chancellor said something about Goebbels too. Mahmud Ahmadinedshad does it all the time, although one can never be too sure whether he thinks he is the new Hitler or the new victim of propaganda, persecution and all that. Nasrallah does it and a lot of Palestinians and some Jewish people and one can only ask: why are the Nazis so damn fascinating? Why can we not stop talking about them and referring to them and pointing out the fact that they might have done and achieved something good or masterful (like the German autobahn or a very thorough and undoubtedly very effective propaganda machinery)?

Leonard Krog was most likely a bit clueless about Goebbels and just going for the effect. To mention the name Goebbels gives you for sure some audience. But I am bit shocked about the comments that follow the article on globeandmail.com (see link above). He was not referring to the Holocaust, just to Goebbels´mastery of mass propaganda and hey, what is the big deal? I mean, he was good at that, right?

Well, let us just take this away from the Holocaust, let us only talk about the twelve years of Nazi rule in Germany. The propaganda machinery was combined with an equally effective system of "education". From day one in a child´s life, so the ultimate goal, the child should here nothing else than what we want it to hear: hatred against the "other", hatred and mistrust towards your neighbor and your own family, the rightfulness of oppression and extermination of those that were labeled as minor, the indoctrination of the child to make it a devout part of the collective. No freedom of thought or speech, no freedom to chose any other way, no freedom to decide whether you want to die for the country and the "Führer" or not. And to make sure that everybody follows the rules, even those who were not so impressed by Goebbels excellency in propaganda, a system of espionage was established that gave the one party that Goebbels belonged to the ultimate power. Yes, there was propaganda, but also oppression and fear and cruelty. And think about liberal politicians in BC whatever you want, but you have to do a great big deal to "earn the right" to be compared to Joseph Goebbels.

Tomorrow is the 9th of November, the anniversary of the Reichskristallnacht, indeed Joseph Goebbels "masterpiece". Can we really refer to Goebbels and not take the Holocaust into consideration. I don´t think you can separate the mass propagandist from the mass murderer. But what´s the big deal, huh?