NP gib nazis keine chance!

[Doug Millison]

Paul Mackin says, and I'll take a crack at filling in the blank, "Of course
everyone has the right to express themselves freely--so long as it doesn't
. . . (fill in the blank)

... turn into violence or genocide.  I personally don't place a high value
on the free expression of serial killers, child abusers, wife-beaters,
Nazis, neo-Nazis, Ku Klux Klansmen/women, and others of this antisocial ilk
-- not when the expression moves from words to violence, that is. Feel free
to differ, of course.  (Of course, words can hurt, too:  talk to an adult
who was verbally abused as a child, to the point of it warping his or her
development, to understand better how this might work, if you need proof.)

While I may still avoid buying from Amazon.com because it looks to me as if
they're promoting anti-Semitism by publishing what they choose to publish
regarding such books as Mein Kampf and Protocols of Zion, I agree it is
valuable to have these books in print (or at least in the library).
Studying the words of such pathological types can be fascinating -- as
Pynchon demonstrates in GR (he's clearly a good student of the
sensibilities that lead Pokler and pals to build their rockets on the bones
of suffering and dying slaves), or as Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke demonstrates
in his book _The Occult Roots of Nazism:  Secret Aryan Cults and their
Influence on Nazi Ideology_ ; I quote here from the introduction to that
book:

"The Ariosophists, initially active in Vienna before the First World War,
borrowed from the theosophy of Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, in order to
prophesy and vindicate a coming era of German world rule. Their writings
described a prehistoric golden age, when wise gnostic priesthoods had
expounded occult-racist doctrines and ruled over a superior and racially
pure society. They claimed that an evil conspiracy of anti-German interests
(variously identified as the non-Aryan races, the Jews, or even the early
Church) had sought to ruin this ideal Germanic world by emancipating the
non-German inferiors in the name of a spurious egalitarianism. The
resulting racial confusion was said to have heralded the historical world
with its wars, economic hardship, political uncertainty and the frustration
of German world power. In order to counter this modern world, the
Ariosophists founded secret religious orders dedicated to the revival of
the lost esoteric knowledge and racial virtue of the ancient Germans, and
the corresponding creation of a new pan-German empire. ...The Ariosophists
had their political roots in the late nineteenth-centurty volkisch ideology
and the Pan-German movement in Austria. ...Theories of Aryan-German racial
excellence, anti-liberalism, and anxiety about social and economic changes
typify their volkisch concerns, but their occultism was an original
contribution. Occultism was invoked to endorse the enduring validity of an
obsolescent and precarious social order. The ideas and symbols of ancient
theocracies, secret societies, and the mystical gnosis of Rosicrucianism,
Cabbalism, and Freemasonry were woven into the volkisch ideology, in order
to prove that the modern world was based on false and evil principles and
to describe the values and institutions of the ideal world....their ideas
and symbols filtered through to several anti-Semitic and nationalist groups
in late Wilhelmian Germany, from which the early Nazi Party emerged in
Munich after the First World War. This study traces that survival of
Ariosophy through personal contacts and literary influences. The
possibility that List and Lanz von Liebenfels may have already had an
influence on Adolf Hitler in his pre-war Vienna days is also investigated.
Arisophy continued to be fostered in the 1920s by small coteries that
propagated racist mystery-religions during the Weimar Republic in the hope
of a national revival. At least two Ariosophists were closely involved with
Reichsfuhrer-SS Heinrich Himmler in the 1930s, contributing to his projects
in prehistory, SS order ceremonial, and even to his visionary plans for the
Greater Germanic Reich in the third millennium. In this account of their
succession, it is shown how the fantasies of Ariosophy, besides being
symptoms of anxiety and cultural nostalgia, illuminate the ultimate
dream-world of the Third Reich."

Another reason Pynchon may have chosen to include some of the occult
elements he used in GR, perhaps.

-Doug "Be Prepared" Millison