mark wrote:
> Keith F. Lynch wrote:
>
>> I just learned that Marinus van der Lubbe, who had been convicted by
>> the Nazis of starting the Reichstag Fire in 1933, was exonerated by
>> the Germans government earlier this year. (Unfortunately, he had been
>> executed in 1934.)
> <snip>
> Sorry, my instant reaction is not fascism (yes, we do have it here,
now),
> but rather the cry, "long live the Marinus van der Lubbe International
> Firebombing Society!". For extra points, who yelled that?
A Mr. Franklin Freekowtski, I believe, with a borrowed driver's license.
In high school, I founded a branch of the MVDLIBS at my high school,
with one other member. And in my last year of high school, I used them
as characters in a comic that ran in the school paper.
Kip W
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