Kip Williams wrote:
> 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.
>
Right in one... but then, he didn't have much choice when the car went up.
> 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.
Hmmm, next Halloween, perhaps I should suggest to my friend Neil Rest that
he and I could be two....
mark
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