Tuesday, May 16, 2006

Democratic Candidate: Holocaust Didn't Happen

I found this news article and was amazed that it isn't getting more attention! I decided to reproduce it here, with my commentary in bold.


The Associated Press



BIRMINGHAM -- A Democratic candidate for attorney general denies the Holocaust occurred and said Friday he will speak this weekend to a "pro-white" organization that is widely viewed as being racist.

Good choice. No, really. Moron.

Larry Darby concedes his views are radical, but he said they should help him win wide support among Alabama voters as he tries to "reawaken white racial awareness" with his campaign against Mobile County District Attorney John Tyson.

Oh,oh. I think this guy has a pointy hat and a bedsheet hanging in his closet...

The state Democratic chairman, Joe Turnham, said the party became aware of some of Darby's views only days ago and was considering what to do about his candidacy.

"Any type of hatred toward groups of people, especially for political gain, is completely unacceptable in the Alabama Democratic Party," said Turnham.

Yeah. This from the party who has Robert 'KKK' Byrd in the Senate.

Speaking in an interview with The Associated Press, Darby said he believes no more than 140,000 Jewish people died in Europe during World War II, and most of them succumbed to typhus.

So typhoid fever only kills Joooos now? Huh.

Historians say about 6 mil lion Jews were slaughtered by the Nazis, but Darby said the figure is a false claim of the "Holocaust industry."

"I am what the propagandists call a Holocaust denier, but I do not deny mass deaths that included some Jews," Darby said. "There was no systematic extermination of Jews. There's no evidence of that at all."

Noooo...Except Nazi records, pictures, artifacts, concentration camp ruins that have been turned into memorials, and eyewitness accounts from survivors and Allied soldiers.

Darby said he will speak today near Newark, N.J., at a meeting of National Vanguard, which bills itself as an advocate for the white race. Some of his campaign materials are posted on the group's Internet site.

"It's time to stop pushing down the white man. We've been discriminated against too long," Darby said in the interview.

Oh, OMG. Stop right there, you crackpot. I don't buy that argument from either side of the isle.

A poll published last month indicated the Democratic race for attorney general was up for grabs. The survey showed 21 percent favored Tyson to 12 percent for Darby, but 68 percent of respondents were undecided.

So we've got 12% that are apparently yellow dog Democrats, and 68% that can't make up their minds that this dude is bad news? Is there something in the water in Birmingham?

Darby, founder of the Atheist Law Center and a longtime supporter of separation of church and state, said he has no money for campaign advertising and has made only a few campaign speeches.

Atheist Law Center. Huh. I'm ALMOST surprised. I'll bet this fool is a member of the ACLU, too.

Tyson said aside from his views on race and the Holocaust, Darby also has publicly advocated legalizing drugs and shooting all illegal immigrants.

OK, I'm against illegal immigration and amnesty, but SHOOTING them? I guess you can snort a line and go waste a Mexican for fun if this guy gets elected. Can the Democratic party excommunicate him or something?

"I am astonished as anyone has ever been that anyone is running for public office in Alabama on that platform," said Tyson. "I do not take him as a serious candidate."

Turnham said the party began an investigation last week after hearing about some of Darby's comments in a television interview. While the party supports the free-speech rights of any candidate, Turnham said some of Darby's views appear to be in "a realm of thought that is unacceptable."

"We have Holocaust survivors and families of Holocaust survivors here in Alabama, and many of them are members of the Democratic Party," said Turnham.

You guys had better run someone else FAST in the primary, and do some serious damage control. Just a little free advice...

The winner of the Democratic primary June 6 will face either Republican Attorney General Troy King or Mark Montiel, who is opposing King in the GOP primary.

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