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Title: Fringe GOP candidate spends Hitler's birthday with neo-Nazis (Someone named Tony Zirkle)
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Raw Story
URL Source: http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Fring ... nds_Hitlers_birthday_0421.html
Published: Apr 21, 2008
Author: Nick Juliano
Post Date: 2008-04-21 21:51:43 by robin
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Tony Zirkle is running for the 2nd District GOP nomination, but he has no support from local party officials, and the front-running candidate there refused to even participate in a recent debate with Zirkle, for fear of legitimizing his candidacy. Zirkle said he would speak to any group that invites him, and that he admired the American National Socialist Workers Party's concern about "prostitution of young white women," according to WSBT-TV. Overthrow.com, a Web site associated with the "white advocacy" organization, reported that Zirkle "spoke on his history as a state’s attorney in Indiana, prosecuting Jewish and Zionist criminal gangs involved in trafficking prostitutes and pornography from Russia and the Zionist entity." The comments were forcefully denounced by other local Republicans, the station reports. A look at Zirkle's Web site suggests his common ground with the neo-Nazis extends even further. He cites Hitler in his section on the War on Terror, and has expressed anti-Semitic views elsewhere. Zirkle's outlandish views have made him a frequent target of political satire blog Wonkette. And he's swiftly dismissed as a "fringe lunatic" by fellow Republicans. Previously, Zirkle has questioned whether racial integration was a good idea, and he's proposed sending sex offenders to the guillotine. The suggestion that pornography "pimps" be subjected to the guillotine came during a 2006 campaign against then-incumbent Chris Chocola. He garnered 30 percent of the vote in that primary. Chocola decided not to run again after losing to Democrat Joe Donnelly. Zirkle's message doesn't seem to be eliciting much beyond mockery so far this year. Only six people showed up for a recent debate featuring Zirkle, which Puckett skipped. At a discussion board on his campaign Web site, Zirkle is virtually the only author. Less than half of the 11 posts (all started by Zirle) generated any respone, and only one other person posted anything at all.
An outlandish long-shot seeking the Republican nomination for an Indiana congressional seat spent Sunday at a neo-Nazi gathering celebrating the birth of Adolf Hitler. "I cannot believe that in 2008 anyone could think so backwards," Luke Puckett, another GOP candidate for 2nd District congressman, said in reaction to Zirkle’s comment.
“The ‘R’ next to Tony Zirkle’s name does not stand for Republican. It stands for ‘repulsive,'" Chris Riley, chairman of the St. Joseph County Republican Party, told WSBT-TV. "The Republican Party stands for two basic principles: individual freedom and government accountability. Nazi socialism and fascism is the polar opposite of those two principles so for him to align himself with this puts him at the opposite end of the political spectrum from Republicans. And the visual images of Tony Zirkle standing in front of a Nazi flag are nauseating and repulsive."
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#1. To: robin (#0)
Henry Gibson in "The Blues Brothers."
Everything is better in Italian.
'Individuals should not take responsibility for their own defense. That’s what the police are for. ... If I oppose individuals defending themselves, I have to support police defending them. I have to support a police state.”' Alan Dershowitz
Yeah, because nothing Hitler ever did turned white women into prostitutes.
The occasion was a celebration of the 119th anniversary of the birth of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. At a news conference Monday afternoon, Zirkle said he agreed to address the group and talk about his experience as state's attorney. He also said he took the opportunity to preach the gospel and handed out commentaries on the life of Jesus. “If you want to witness to people, if you want to share your message with people, you have to talk to them,” said Zirkle. “By not taking a risk and going out there and addressing issues that your enemies can paint you as a racist or a bigot, then we're never going to address them.” "I cannot believe that in 2008 anyone could think so backwards," Luke Puckett, another GOP candidate for 2nd District congressman, said in reaction to Zirkle’s visit. “The ‘R’ next to Tony Zirkle’s name does not stand for Republican. It stands for ‘repulsive,'" Chris Riley, chairman of the St. Joseph County Republican Party, told WSBT-TV. "The Republican Party stands for two basic principles: individual freedom and government accountability. Nazi socialism and fascism is the polar opposite of those two principles so for him to align himself with this puts him at the opposite end of the political spectrum from Republicans. And the visual images of Tony Zirkle standing in front of a Nazi flag are nauseating and repulsive." His latest comments are not the first time Zirkle has generated controversy on issues of race. In an interview in early March with the Kokomo Perspective, Zirkle suggested segregating African-Americans in separate states is an issue that deserves to be debated.
And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness. - T. S. Eliot
I've already said too much.
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#3. To: robin (#0)
and that he admired the American National Socialist Workers Party's concern about "prostitution of young white women,"
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#4. To: robin (#0)
GOP candidate Zirkle addresses Nazi gathering
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