When craziness collides
2 Comments Published by Tom Gara on Friday, November 9 at Friday, November 09, 2007.
One of the best things about fundamentally terrible ideologies is that self-destruction is for some reason central to their DNA - from Napoleon to Stalin, from colonialism to fascism to communism to fundamentalism, the tendency to burn out under the weight of your own craziness seems to be found everywhere that bad ideas call home.
It's nice to get real-world confirmation of this inescapable truth every now and then, so it was cool reading this story about the collapse of the far-right bloc in the European Parliament. Far-right is a bit of an understatement - these guys are so far to the right that they'd probably beat up Hitler for his suspiciously ethnic-looking brown eyes and moustache:
It's nice to get real-world confirmation of this inescapable truth every now and then, so it was cool reading this story about the collapse of the far-right bloc in the European Parliament. Far-right is a bit of an understatement - these guys are so far to the right that they'd probably beat up Hitler for his suspiciously ethnic-looking brown eyes and moustache:
"The European parliament's far-right bloc faces collapse after Romanian MEPs said they would quit over an Italian colleague's "xenophobic" remarks.Italian MEP Alessandra Mussolini, the grand-daughter of fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, reportedly described Romanians as "habitual law-breakers".....
The newspaper also quoted Ms Mussolini as saying Italians saw little difference between Romanian immigrants and Roma (Gypsies).
The Greater Romania party has itself campaigned on a fiercely nationalistic, anti-Roma platform." (BBC)
Heh. Possibly the only time that racism can be fun is when a Romanian racist who hates the filthy Gypsies gets railed on by an Italian facist colleague who hates the filthy Romanians. In theory, therefore, wouldn't putting all the crazy right-wing nationalist leaders in the world together in the same room put an end to crazy right-wing nationalism?
Haha..."habitual law breakers." Sounds like Rick James and his "habitual line stepping."
Hey Tom,
I've been reading your weblog, and I find interesting topics here. Just a remark regarding this post (because I don't think it was clear enough): "Greater Romania party" is an extremist nationalist party, leaded by a former communist party member. Most people don't like them at all, and regularly criticise its' leaders as being "insane".
They got into the parliament because of the large mass of uneducated or poor people who are easily influenced by extremist slogans like "we will kill all corrupt people" or "we will rebuild Romania".
Alex, Romania