US Senator Keith Ellison On George Bush As Hitler And 9/11
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America’s first Muslim congressman has provoked outrage by apparently comparing President George W Bush to Adolf Hitler and hinting that he might have been responsible for the September 11 attacks.
Addressing a gathering of atheists in his home state of Minnesota, Keith Ellison, a Democrat, compared the 9/11 atrocities to the destruction of the Reichstag, the German parliament, in 1933. This was probably burned down by the Nazis in order to justify Hitler’s later seizure of emergency powers.
“It’s almost like the Reichstag fire, kind of reminds me of that,” Mr Ellison said. “After the Reichstag was burned, they blamed the Communists for it, and it put the leader [Hitler] of that country in a position where he could basically have authority to do whatever he wanted.”
To applause from his audience of 300 members of Atheists for Human Rights, Mr Ellison said he would not accuse the Bush administration of planning 9/11 because “you know, that’s how they put you in the nut-ball box - dismiss you”.
Is Mr Ellison’s religion relevant to his views?
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March 24th, 2008 at 5:41 pm
Mr. Ellison is insightful in his comparison as it runs erily true to what Adolph did to promote fear and hatred in his country to seize power. Then to the assasinations of all who questioned him including some of his “friends” who might know more than he wanted to get out. Look at the video of GW after he was told the second plane hit the tower. Seven more minutes of reading a story about goats was more important than tending to a national emergency. At best, that is incompetance, at worst, his moment to seize the reins of this country and pass his agenda including the Patriot Act which was already in the works and had a draft already drawn before the events. Why hasn’t the media in this country questioned his patriotism, rather than follow his drumbeat to war and insuring that his military industrial complex and energy boys get their coffers to overflow. Amazing how this has been left to happen and no one has the guts to impeach this treasonous traitor to this country.
July 17th, 2007 at 10:07 pm
Ellison is not a Senator; he’s a far less important freshman member of the US House of Representatives who seems to spend most of his time trying to fit more of his foot into his mouth.
July 17th, 2007 at 4:34 pm
Mr. Ellison can be likened to the many (if not all) Muslims in this country who fail to recognize the hatred of the many Muslim radicals among them. Maybe Mr. Ellison is hoping for his 79 virgins to appear. The voters of Minn ignored his past Association with the Nation of Islam and his attitude to whites, and jews, and voted this rasist hate monger into office. He also forgot to mention, in his rant about Bush and Libby, that Clinton pardoned over 170 people (including his brother). I’m sure we will hear much more from Ellison, and I’m waiting for his comments on which Muslim faction he supports in Irag. I doubt very much he has the guts to make a stand. Its easier to blame Bush then to deal with the reality of the civil hatred among Muslims and for America.
July 17th, 2007 at 12:14 pm
I believe Keith Ellison is promoting hate speech and is unpatriotic.
July 15th, 2007 at 4:43 pm
If Mr. Ellison did indeed say these things–and with contemporary reporting one is always a bit dubious about accuracy and/or spin–then he is indeed a nutball. Certainly, a person with such twisted thinking should not be a member of Congress. I’m not making apologies for the Bush administration. I think President Bush could well be remembered in history as America’s worst president. But to carry his ineptitude and bumbling to the extreme of comparing him to Hitler and the Nazis? Way too far. What he has done, bulldoze our political system to enhance the executive branch’s power, is something many presidents have done. Keith Ellison probably would consider Abraham Lincoln a hero. But the fact is that Lincoln’s expansion of the executive branch and centralized federal power was in its time far more draconian. What Bush has done is in fact not healthy for our system of government. But neither was what Lincoln, or many others such as F.D.R, did. What we don’t need are more posturing and maniupulative demagogues in Congress like Keith Ellison who only serve to obfuscate.
July 14th, 2007 at 10:01 pm
I agree with pretty much all of your comments, Mr.Ellison. I shouldn’t worry about being put in the nut-ball box. It’s because America is pretty much overflowing with ‘nut-balls’ that Bush was allowed to perpetrate his murderous acts in the first place. He only had to suggest that Saddam Hussein was responsible for, or at least had a hand in, 9/11 in the first place, and that if they hadn’t gone to war, there might be an Iraqi under everyone’s bed! And they BELIEVED HIM!! Now THAT’S nut-ball!!