kat -

I've done sort of the same thing myself, esp. not noting that there was a blue "pages" on the number of posts and clicking on the main thread. Makes me think I broke something. And when you've bookmarked a thread, or just put the link in notes, sometimes they keep growin' on ya. I do sometimes open fairly long threads all in one piece when I know I want to make notes; but somethin' around 150 posts is my normal intended limit. This one did load fairly quickly, so the 'cat's greased up and running.


The offhand remark attributed to Ms Ali, that the Dutch action was "like the Nazis," and the reactions to her comment, are of some interest to me. The official response to the demand for eviction, and the possibly/apparently linked revocation of passport, do bear some resemblence to how the Netherlands responded to German occupation, at least according to some analyses I've seen; but the resemblence I see is distinctly different than the common, one might say "traditional," view of how occupation affected the countries, and the people, where it occured. There were significant differences, from country to country, and if Ms Ali's spin is accepted the Netherlands response does bear some resemblence to how they handled Nazi occupation. This is not to suggest that it was a "Nazi type action," but that their response to difficult problems is much the same as it was then. ... perhaps...

It has been my long term concern that there is great difficulty associated with understanding how people, in Germany and in occupied countries, could have accepted, and in many cases supported, the Nazi moves. The more I understand it (or think I do) the more potential I see for a number of current countries to fall into replicating what happened then; and it's a very disturbing concept.

John