Libertas, meet Godwin's Law

Before we begin, a pop quiz. I will give you three quotations, and the images of three famous leaders. Your job is to match the oration to the overlord.

Quote the first:
[Nation] needs to reaffirm its commitment to freedom, family, faith....

Quote the second:
[Nation] regards Christianity as the foundation of our national morality, and the family as the basis of national life.

Quote the third:
...And Wales shall be given over entirely to the growing of potatoes!

Good. Now that that's done, onto the main subject.

Perhaps tiring of the whole arguing about points which might even be factual thing, Libertas appears to have decided to just insinuate that the EU is Hitler or something. That kid looks so scared because Sarkozy is about to eat her.

Funnily enough, at about the same time, the American right has apparently decided that the best thing to do about Obama would be, rather than engage him in intelligent debate ("Health care is bad because of death panels!"), just call him a Muslim Communist Hitler. I mean, how much more watered-down can references to Hitler get?

Not only is it offensive to those who were actually caught up in World War 2 and the Holocaust; it's a bit unfair on the man himself. He has a reputation to maintain! Imagine the scene; God and Hitler are lying around the living room in heaven (if you doubt that Hitler could get into heaven, well, just read the Old Testament), comparing body counts. Hitler has just conceded that while he may have managed to kill the most Semites (if only due to pre-classical population constraints), God has him beat on homosexuals, native Americans and unicorns. They switch on Fox News, to a scene of a Teabagger rally; tens of thousands of fat people waving signs about Obama being a Satanic Hitler. Hitler quickly changes the channel to Sky News, hoping for a good natural disaster, but instead hears that the EU is a Hitler. God laughs derisively; health care and energy-efficient lightbulbs make one a Hitler these days! and compares Adolf to his hippy son. As God switches to the weather forecast to find a good spot for a hurricane, Hitler sits down to write to his lawyer...

Anyway, my point is, the whole thing is just silly. Stop it, Libertas. And you too, Coir, or the gay mafia will come and get you.