All the Talk is of Arizona

The municipality of Los Angeles will boycott Arizona. A girls high school basketball team will not be able to go to Arizona to play, because of "safety issues", which naturally did not come up in China. But why sweat the small stuff?

---

Councilman Paul Koretz compared the environment in Arizona now to Germany in the 1930s. "This is very frightening stuff," he said. "If this was being proposed at the federal level, I would think we're absolutely at the very beginnings of what went on in Nazi Germany."

Since this exists already at the Federal level, we are already Nazi Germany. Clearly.

When the boycott issue first came up late last month, Councilwoman Janice Hahn criticized the Arizona law. "When people are asked to show their papers, it brings back memories of Nazi Germany," she said.

Or you know border crossings or airline travel or being stopped for speeding. But no, NAZIS!!!

And in a blog posting condemning the law soon after it was signed, Cardinal Roger Mahony questioned what effect the law would have on local police and communities. "I can't imagine Arizonans now reverting to German Nazi and Russian Communist techniques whereby people are required to turn one another in to the authorities on any suspicion of documentation," he wrote.

Which employers are already required to do. But again Nazi comparisons are much easier. The Simon Wiesenthal center has tried to insert some reason into the debate, asking people to stop comparing a policy they don't like to Nazi Germany. Naturally absolutely nobody will listen to them. As usual. Liberals have adapted Nazi to mean 'anyone they disagree with'. The idea that their behavior is inappropriate in any way is of course incomprehensible to them. But not about to let a bunch of liberal politicians steal their thunder, the President of the UN General Assembly declared that Israel closing the borders, partly, with Gaza was worse than Nazi death camps. The President is of course an Arab Muslim from Libya, whose regime actually used to be a fan of Nazi Germany. Also very conveniently, the Palestinian Arab territories are sovereign states when their proponents want them to be, and helpless parts of Israel, when that's more convenient.