Posted on 09/15/2009 6:38:42 AM PDT by reaganaut1
A leading human rights group has suspended its senior military analyst following revelations that he is an avid collector of Nazi memorabilia.
The group, Human Rights Watch, had initially thrown its full support behind the analyst, Marc Garlasco, when the news of his hobby came out last week. On Monday night, the group shifted course and suspended him with pay, “pending an investigation,” said Carroll Bogert, the group’s associate director.
“We have questions about whether we have learned everything we need to know,” she said.
The suspension comes at a time of heightened tension between, on one side, the new Israeli government and its allies on the right, and the other side, human rights organizations that have been critical of Israel. In recent months, the government has pledged an aggressive approach toward the groups to discredit what they argue is bias and error.
Injected suddenly into that heated conflict, word of Mr. Garlasco’s interest seemed startling to many. The disclosure ricocheted across the Internet: Mr. Garlasco, an American, was not only a collector, he has written a book, more than 400 pages long, about Nazi-era medals. His hobby, inspired he said by a German grandfather conscripted into Hitler’s army, was revealed on a pro-Israel blog, Mere Rhetoric Mere Rhetoric, which quoted his enthusiastic postings on collector sites under the pseudonym “Flak88” — including, “That is so cool! The leather SS jacket makes my blood go cold it is so COOL!”
It was a Rorschach moment in the conflict between Israel and its critics. The revelations were, depending on who is talking, either incontrovertible proof of bias or an irrelevant smear.
The Mere Rhetoric posting said Mr. Garlasco’s interests explained “anti-Israel biases.”
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Bob Hope was an avid collector of Nazi memorabilia as well. That didn’t make him a Nazi.
Bob Hope wasn’t part of HRW.
Amazing to watch liberals eat their own.
Remember this: The reason the Army doesn’t have good-looking Class A uniforms is because a good-looking uniform would look too much like the Nazi Germany’s uniforms.
panties/wad
and we wonder why liberals are always so ‘angry’
He should have collected Soviet military items.
Is this not the rapid pro homosexual rights lobby group? I can not remember any other sort of “rights” they are concerned with. So honestly collection of Nazi memorobilia is not too shocking. They go so well with those Castro street outfits.
According to friends of ours who were his Palm Springs neighbors, his military collection was mostly WW 2, which included German military collectibles but had few National Socialist party stuff. His Vietnam War collection was also sizeable (lots of unit caps).
Stan Laurel had a huge collection of porn...
Too funny for words.
Hugo Boss designed the Nazi uniforms. That is why they look so good..
So if this is the Case my Focke Wulf 190 aviation art is nazi memorabelia, or my cast Iron Tiger tank. These people are lunatics.
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