Somewhere...over the rainbow...this guy is recreating the invasion
of Poland where the Nazi's killed 3 million Jews. Yeah, being a Nazi is "interesting". Any Bagger here want to defend this moron?

Ohio Tea Partier Spent Weekends Playing Nazi Games

"Iott played it off as being interested in history."

The Atlantic's Josh Green reports that millionaire businessman Rich Iott, the Republican nominee challenging Rep. Marcy Kaptur (D) in Ohio's Ninth District, has an unusual hobby: He likes to pretend he's a Nazi.

Iott, a tea party-backed candidate, spent time fighting another battle before he hit the campaign trail against Kaptur as a member of the 5th SS Wiking Panzer Division, a group of Ohio World War II reenactors.



According to their website, the Wikings strive to "salute" the "idealists" from occupied northern Europe who saw the Third Reich as "the protector of personal freedom and their very way of life" and signed up to fight for the Wermacht and "gave their lives for their loved ones and a basic desire to be free."

Green broke the story tonight, showing the photos of Iott in his SS garb on HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher."

Iott played it off as being interested in history.

"I've always been fascinated by the fact that here was a relatively small country that from a strictly military point of view accomplished incredible things. I mean, they took over most of Europe and Russia, and it really took the combined effort of the free world to defeat them," Iott explained to Green. "From a purely historical military point of view, that's incredible."

Iott added that he's "absolutely not" a supporter of the tenets of Nazism and pointed Green to the group's disclaimer on its website, which states, "This page or anyone involved in its creation, or members of reenactment groups listed here, are in no way affiliated with real, radical political organizations (i.e., KKK, Aryan Nation, American Nazi Party, etc.) and do not embrace the philosophies and actions of the original NSDAP (Nazi party), and wholeheartedly condemn the atrocities which made them infamous."

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/10/ohio-tea-partier-spent-weekends-playing-nazi-games.php

And, I suppose all persons in Confederate dress doing Civil War reenactments are Klan.

Demorats are really hard up for trying to garner points.

Ain't workin'.



This topic is a big FAIL!!

Politicos will use anything to smear people. I know of people who are hard core reenactors. There are groups of people who dress like German and American and English soldiers and actually have it out on any battlefield within reason in Europe. There are groups who also do it locally. Some even do have access to real tanks of the day. Heck, if i could afford to own one I would live to have a real tiger Tank in my back yard. To me it was a Battlefield piece of art in its day and comparable to the M1 Abrams of today in the fact it was that far ahead of its time when it rolled onto the battlefield in a lot of ways. That and I love antiques and also military hardware. Heck, I wish I had a Willy's Jeep too. For Halloween it would be fun to dress like a soldier and I have done it before. So if I put on a German SS officer's uniform I automatically become a Nazi? I cannot see any correlation to this man being a Nazi unless someone actually catches him in a rally or something like that. I suppose people who reenact General Custer's ill fated charge at the Little Big Horn hate Indians too? And those who reenact the colonial days must hate the English too?

Now lets go nuts, what if suppose a group of people reenact Egyptian soldiers around Circa 3000bc, when the Hebrews fled Egypt...
Would that automatically make them anti Semitic?

And we are supposed to remember history how exactly? DVDs?

funny how when the shoe is on the other foot, its considered "dirty politics"...

it's also funny when someone from another country is worried about our politics...

of course I worry...you think Id give a rats butt if you guys stayed in your own sand box ??.

i guess you know of those secret plans to take over south America, huh...

China already beat us to it.
They got Wal-Marts there.

how do you say wal mart in german spanish?

Mein-Tiendita.

Wonder if they have press 2 for Spanish??

i think we are the only country in the world the does that... maybe canada, with french...

Wrong. Most European countries are about 2-3 different languages. Even the restaurant waiters speak at least 2 (English and German) many 3 (English, German,French).

You got to Sweden, it's at least two (Swedish and English), Germany (3), France (3), England (2) Ireland (2) China (2 or 3 ), I think India leads the way with like 30 different Indian dialects + English.

In Brazil, it's Portuguese or Spanish or English

Actually I think it's only USA in the whole world, that argues about such an issue like this.

wooohooo good for us!!!

LOL!!! GOD THIS GUY IS TO MUCH! ROFLMAO!!!

FRIENDS DON'T LET FRIENDS BE EXTREMEST!!

yeah its called the Condor Plan, Nixons plan to divy up Latin America into portions that served the needs of the northern hemisphere..along with the CIAs intervention it was/is responsible for the coupes that over threw democratically elected governments and replaced them with military dictators (ie chile and argentina)..which by the way, those generals were all very well trained in your "School of the Assins" AKA School of the Americas, in the special arts of torture.

thanks to US intervention hundred of thousands of people were tortured, harassed, separated from their families at birth and of course disapeared.

but hey...Im sure you could care less...

Americans are too lazy to press a key on the phone. Or worse they are too prejudice to be able to handle the word Spanish mentioned on their phone.
I would love to see all those languages offered on our phones.

You are so right.

The world needs to boycott us for our misdeeds in other parts of the world instead of supporting us. Maybe we would start to understand that we need to be respectful of others.

well, it was, what, 40 years ago? i take it it didn't happen?
me personally, i have no problem with south America...but i really can't control the government either...so if i did or didn't care, what would it matter? the government never asks me about their secret missions, for some reason, they leave me out of the loop...

i wish they would, then we could boycott them and get on with our business...

wow..seems you dont know much about globalization, NAFTA, G8, World Monetary Fund, etc...etc..etc...