Deaf To The Sound Of Jackboots

There's been a bit of a row in the last day or so over on the Rightwing blogs that, I think, perfectly captures their voluntary sensory deprivation - a kind of mental lockdown that prevents them seeing exactly what kind of things they support as they cheerlead the Bush administration.

It began with Vox Populus over at World News Daily, who wrote - incredibly - in glowing terms of the Third Reich's final solution as a prescription for dealing with immigration issues:

And he will be lying, again, just as he lied when he said: "Massive deportation of the people here is unrealistic – it's just not going to work."

Not only will it work, but one can easily estimate how long it would take. If it took the Germans less than four years to rid themselves of 6 million Jews, many of whom spoke German and were fully integrated into German society, it couldn't possibly take more than eight years to deport 12 million illegal aliens, many of whom don't speak English and are not integrated into American society.

Ed Morrisey of Captain's Quarters, a Rightwing blogger who can actually think when he looks up from the Bushite virtual reality, was understandably repulsed:

Unfortunately, while Bush underwhelmed the conservative movement on immigration tonight, certain conservatives busied themselves by embarrassing us much more than Bush could ever have. Vox Day, whose provocative writing I normally enjoy, has lost all sense of perspective in his latest effort at World Net Daily. He suggests that we learn a lesson from the Nazis in dealing with illegal immigrants in our midst:

...This column is so ill-advised that it is difficult to imagine that a responsible news organization would not have attempted to keep the writer from discrediting himself before publishing it. Vox owes us an apology, and so does World Net Daily.

And quite a few other Rightwing bloggers agreed - although many of their commenters seemed to think the Final Solution was a good one.

Of course, Ed is right.

But then Vox Pupolus responded, on his own blog:

lest the Captain forget, he's presumably the one who supports the War on Terror the Patriot Act, as well as the War on Drugs and its concomitant no-knock raids, property seizures, masked police, accidental killings and so forth, not me. Modern America doesn't exactly boast an absence of police state trappings these days and I'm not among those who favor them.

And on this, at least, Vox is spot on.

See what I mean?