Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia spoke on the Senate floor about the Republican consideration of a
rule change in the Senate that would prevent the never ending Democrat filibusters designed to prevent a floor vote on Bush's choices of Federal judges:
"Many times in our history we have taken up arms to protect a minority against the tyrannical majority in other lands. We, unlike Nazi Germany or Mussolini's Italy, have never stopped being a nation of laws, not of men.
"But witness how men with motives and a majority can manipulate law to cruel and unjust ends. Historian Alan Bullock writes that Hitler's dictatorship rested on the constitutional foundation of a single law, the Enabling Law. Hitler needed a two-thirds vote to pass that law, and he cajoled his opposition in the Reichstag to support it. Bullock writes that "Hitler was prepared to promise anything to get his bill through, with the appearances of legality preserved intact." And he succeeded.
"Hitler's originality lay in his realization that effective revolutions, in modern conditions, are carried out with, and not against, the power of the State: the correct order of events was first to secure access to that power and then begin his revolution. Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side. Instead, he turned the law inside out and made illegality legal."
Thus spake Sen. Byrd, comparing the Republicans to Nazis. Nary a word of his outrageous speech was to be found in the print media or on tv. But the Jewish Anti-Defamation League has spoken out & demanded an apology & condemned his comparison & of his trivializing the Jewish horror of Nazism for political points. Naturally, nary a word from his Democrat cohorts could be found condemning the speech. They will accept any outrage, as long as it is a Democrat outrage.
Readers are reminded that Robert Byrd, besides being the biggest pork barrel pig in the Congress which has cost taxpayers untold billions of dollars, was a proud member of the KKK - Grand Wizard & all. Sen. Byrd waxes eloquent in his speeches, so we present another of his marvelous soliloques here:
"[I will] never submit to fight beneath that banner [the American flag] with a Negro by my side. Rather would I die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds." 1947 letter by Robert Byrd. (Source: "The Democrats' Lott," Wall Street Journal, 23 December 2002.) Byrd also filibustered the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
You can take the man out of the Klan, but you can't take the Klan out of the man.
It's time for doddering Robert "Sheets" Byrd to leave the Senate. This self-righteous fool who pontificates on the "evils" of the Bush Administration would, in grander times, probably be found eagerly cheering on in the crowd at the latest Negro lynching, immaculately dressed in his pure white, wrinkle-free hood & sheet. It's time for this jerk to dry up & die - white boy's heaven awaits him.
....from sea to shining sea