Where Have All the Nazis Gone?

[Dr_Evil_Mouse]

First George Burdi converts to New Age (interesting story in itself), Ernst Zundel is finally deported to Germany, and now this.

http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/04/13/droege-050413.html

I'll refrain from moral comment. Stayed tuned for the made-for-TV movie.

[Dr_Evil_Mouse]

Further thought: I think the Burdi story is the most interesting of the lot. Good interview with him here.

Anyone in Ottawa remember the mini-riot back near Parliament Hill in the early 90s?

The band, Novacosm, has a website at Novacosm.com ; I'm not too jazzed on the band per se, but the idea itself is inspiring, against the backdrop of kind of music he used to crank out.

[MarcO]

Very interesting stuff, thank you Dr Evil Mouse.

For the life of me, I will never understand the white supremacist movement. I just wish all cultures and people could just get it on. What an interesting world that would be!

[Dr_Evil_Mouse]

What I find funny is that he seems driven by the same energies as far as making music goes, but has transformed the content so far beyond recognition.

[bouche]

white supremacists think they have the power to be above everyone else simply because they're white.

They don't need to excel at anything or work at anything other than spread hate to elevate themselves.

[MarcO]

What I find funny is that he seems driven by the same energies as far as making music goes, but has transformed the content so far beyond recognition.

hmmmmm... can you expand on that?

I'm not quite clear as to what you mean.

[Dr_Evil_Mouse]

Just that as a white supremacist, the one thing that really seemed to have driven him - besides the whole racist power trip - was making, recording, and publishing music; guy then ends up in jail, comes out, starts hanging out with people from everywhere, likes them, and then redirects all those new energies back into music, still his guiding thread. Again, what I've heard doesn't really turn my crank, but you have to wonder if it hadn't been for a jackass of a history teacher in high school (which was apparently the case here), he might have been able to avoid the first category of music from the beginning - and folks he in important ways galvanised in the white supremacist movement.

I don't know if that makes any more sense.

[MarcO]

it does, thank you.

funny how prison often seems a transformational place for a lot of people.

[Lazlo]

it does, thank you.

funny how prison often seems a transformational place for a lot of people.

Made me realize that it's okay to love a man.