European Parliament set to usher in first neo-Nazis

[question everything]

Cross posting from LBN

Brussels (AFP) - Though no stranger to controversy or diatribe, the European Parliament is set to usher in its first fully-fledged neo-Nazi members, from Germany and Greece.

With around 300,000 votes at Sunday's European elections the neo-Nazi National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD) is expected to claim one of the country's 96 seats in the new Parliament, in a historical ground-breaker. A recent change in German electoral laws, scrapping all minimum thresholds, paved the way for the march into parliament of the NPD, which has 6,000 members. It describes itself as "national socialist," just like Germany's Nazis in the 1930s, and is openly xenophobic and anti-semitic so a group of German regional governments have tried to have it banned for propagating racism.

Meanwhile, with almost all ballots counted in Greece, the neo-Nazi "Golden Dawn" party is claiming over nine percent of the vote, which would net it three seats in the 751-member Parliament. Golden Dawn was founded in the 1980s by Nikos Michaloliakos, an open admirer of Adolf Hitler. In 2012, Michaloliakos publicly denied the responsibility of Nazis in the mass-murder of six million Jews. By harnessing resentment over EU-driven austerity measures imposed on Greece, Golden Dawn ran third in the European vote held on Sunday, behind the Coalition of the Radical Left and the centre-right New Democracy Party.

http://news.yahoo.com/european-parliament-set-usher-first-neo-nazis-172937890.html

[Behind the Aegis]

1. It is scary as shit!

We better watch our backs. Just like the first go round, very few will give a shit about us this trip around. I also noticed that some of those parties supported Putin, much like our own right-wing (tea baggers). Europe is set to become a very different place. The breaking point? What will it be?

[question everything]

2. Again, the Jews are the canary in the mine

and the bombing in Brussels was one of the signs.

Most Americans do not mind the invasion into our privacy because "I have nothing to hide." Until, of course, it is you.

[sellitman]

3. This doesn't surprise me at all

Heck there are plenty of anti Semites here on DU.

Sometime it's the norm.

[MosheFeingold]

4. Haven't noticed here

But the booing of Jerusalem as capital of Israel during the convention was a low point in my long life as a Democrat.

In fairness, it was boring as hell and most people were not paying attention except the trolls waiting for the moment, but they exist among us.

(Yes, I was there.)

Hatred of Jews crosses all political spectrums. Never forget that Stalin probably killed more Jewish people than Hitler.

The evangelical wing of the Republican party and the TEA batters are currently pro-Jew and pro-Israel and will be for some time -- until we refuse to convert.

Then, like Martin Luther before them, they will turn on us with a vengeance.

[sellitman]

5. Spot on

I've never considered the right as friends of Judaism.

And the left is worse.