Pic Of The Moment: GOP State Sen. Says Being Christian In USA Is Like Being Jewish In Nazi Germany

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31. There are four problems with his statement

First, our government is not "perpetuating laws that lead citizens away from God."

Second, there was no concentration camp in Berlin. There is a jail called Plötzensee Prison that was used to execute Aryans who were sentenced to death by Roland Freisler's People's Court, which prosecuted dissidents. The "concentration camps" were far from population centers.

Third, no one was executed with "a bullet through the throat" - executions at Plötzensee were conducted either by guillotining or hanging - and no one was taken to an execution under guise of going to a medical examination. (That's what the Bush administration did to some of Saddam's underlings. Seriously.) Everyone who was executed at Plötzensee had been sentenced to death by a kangaroo court; they knew what was coming.

And finally, his numbers are only about 350 percent off: according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plötzensee_Prison, the Nazis executed 2,891 people at the only place in Berlin where they did it. I've been to the Plötzensee Memorial. It's creepy as hell, but not quite as creepy as Republican State Senator Charles Perry of Texas. The shit the Nazis actually did was bad enough; no embellishment is necessary.