Ed Oscuro wrote:The funny thing, of course, that we believe there is a right to have your children educated as you see fit. So the Principal can glower and express his disapprobation all he wants, but if the parents are OK with it, I don't know if there's anything concrete that they can do. But I think it's legitimate pressure anyway. Unfortunately, there has been a tendency to be really heavy-handed about it and so kids don't understand enough of the story (and that usually holds true while they're adults as well).
Apparently it is at least temporarily legal, at least if you name your son Adolf Hitler.
Well, I'm going to have to disagree with you based on this line from the article:
Authorities maintained it was done because of violence, not their Nazi-inspired names.
Could that be a lie? Of course, but I don't see why we should assume DYFS (haha) is lying.
Sure, these people chose nazi names for their children "simply because they liked" the sound of them (right) and because they claim to be "German" (of course they aren't, they are white trash Americans). WTF, that doesn't even make sense. Why would you name your son after a failed Austrian painter/mass murderer who is now one of the most hated people in history because you are German? (Correct answer: You wouldn't)
By naming your children "Adolf Hitler" and "Aryan Nation", you scar them for life and show that you have some sort of mental deficiency. This obviously makes you unfit as a parent.
Once the authorities learn of this, it is their duty to protect the right of these children to lead normal lives. There is no other sensible course of action here.
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These morons can't even spell, they called their newborn Hons instead of Hans.
These nazi-fan "parents" should consider themselves lucky not to be living in the Third Reich some 75 years ago; the original nazis would most likely have forcibly sterilized them (as they did with over 400,000 people with hereditary defects, a term they applied very broadly and which included mental illness).
Friendly wrote:Sure, these people chose nazi names for their children "simply because they liked" the sound of them (right) and because they claim to be "German" (of course they aren't, they are white trash Americans). WTF, that doesn't even make sense. Why would you name your son after a failed Austrian painter/mass murderer who is now one of the most hated people in history because you are German? (Correct answer: You wouldn't)
By naming your children "Adolf Hitler" and "Aryan Nation", you scar them for life and show that you have some sort of mental deficiency. This obviously makes you unfit as a parent.
Once the authorities learn of this, it is their duty to protect the right of these children to lead normal lives. There is no other sensible course of action here.
You make a compelling argument, but as I'm saying - that is not actually what the authorities are doing. We have not outlawed the Nazi Party; after all.
However, it is a most curious fact that the correlation of most of these fringe radicals with violent events is a strong one, and so they are marking themselves out as targets for the popo. I wonder how many of them want to go out in a blaze of glory, like David Koresh or the Ruby Ridge asshole.
