Too Extreme

This Saturday the grounds below the Arch will be overrun with members of the neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement. They're holding a rally. Oh. Joy.

I am planning on taking some photos so I can document this retched event, and I'm hoping I don't recognize anyone who's participating. It makes me sick that this group that supports the twisted ideals of a psycho-extremist dictator who was responsible for millions of murders was ever founded, gained any momentum, and holds even the least bit of power.

That said, I'm hopeful that no violence breaks out against them, because if anything is done to physically harm these idiots or their belongings, it will only add fuel to their fire. And make us just as despicable as them. Like it or not, they have the right to gather, as do we who have the opposite viewpoints. But that doesn't mean we can't protest their existence, and tell them to eff off.

In related news, I was catching up on news this morning, I read that two of Hitler's paintings are being auctioned off. Apparently his art fetches a pretty price. It's obvious what kind of people would want to own art created by Hitler. And I say, if they want to spend their money in that way, fine. But this got me thinking. Apparently, he was a creative type, and wanted to be an artist, even applying to the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. Had he been accepted, and gone down the path of creation rather than decimation, what more of a wonderful world could this be? Think of how many people would be living today, who would have had families, and they would have had families? In all of those soldiers, countrymen, and prisoners from around the world who lost their lives because of this man, there may have been a cure for cancer, a better president, and leader who brought the world together rather than tore it apart. Our medical advances, technological advances, even environmental advances may have propelled us to such great heights, had Hitler stuck with painting.

When I get to thinking like this, I would give just about anything for a look back in time a la Clarence (It's A Wonderful Life) if Hitler had never been born.