Where, then, should one put the cocaine?
The world is becoming soooo complicated.
The party was made illegal after the war. I’d guess there were other Nazi groups who didn’t use the word, and a number of them would have “genuine” Nazis in them, but I never heard that there was some large single organization which swept them all in.
A prohibition on being a Nazi would violate the spirit and probably the letter of the First Amendment, but they can prohibit lying on paperwork, since it’s perjury.
Al Franken once wrote that the form used to ask if you had been a member of the Nazi Party after 1945. Franken wrote that say what you will about that person’s politics, anyone who joined the Nazi Party after 1945 was no fair weather friend.
I feel the same way about Bulls fans that became fans after Jordan retired ;)
And say what you want about the tenets, at least it’s an ethos.
Just don’t join the Illinois Nazis. I hate those guys.
Is it OK if I join the Grammar Nazis?
Well, they do say on the form that a “Yes” answer won’t necessarily mean you’re refused a visa. I’d like to see the explanations that ensue in the interview. “Yes, I did recruit child soldiers, but ya see, it was like this …”
IIRC it’s still case that Germans born before 1928 have to apply for a visa in advance to visit Israel, even as a tourist; Germans born after that have the same visa-free access everyone else from the EEA does.
The Thais have a bit of a Nazi fetish.
Is it possible that we’re going to make it through this thread without Godwin’s Law being invoked?
Once, I was given the forms to apply for security clearance needed to work on programming for weapons systems. One of the questions asked “List all organizations you have belonged to since age 14 (excluding political organizations)”.
I asked “So I have to list Boy Scouts Troop#48, but I wouldn’t have to list the Communist Party USA, because that’s a political group?”
The reply was “If you were a member of the Communist Party USA, we’d already know that.”
SF86 is the form the government currently uses to collect information for background checks for security clearances. Two of the yes/no questions, verbatim:
I do wonder what an investigator would do if they ever got a form with a positive response…
Or the female senior citizen outlaw motor cycle club, the Gramma Nazis
My mother checked “yes” on an INS question about whether she’d ever been a member of the communist party or any other totalitarian party, or words to that effect (English isn’t her first language, she doesn’t follow politics, and didn’t know what the word totalitarian meant.)
As far as we can tell, nothing happened. Her citizenship application was approved.
Or their sister club, Hell’s Grannies.
Does anyone remember when a standard question by airport security was “Has anyone offered to watch or repack your luggage for you?” Eventually, the TSA realized that nobody with even the smallest shred of intelligence is going to let some random stranger watch their bags, and the question disappeared.
At the time the question was dropped, I recell reading a newspaper article which claimed that, as far as anybody knew, nobody had ever answered “Yes” to that question.
Again, the idea behind that question was to pin the traveller down, not to get a “yes”.
If they say “no” - as they all do - they can’t later claim “someone else musta put it there - my asshole b-in-law packed that bag” when Border Security finds a coupla grams of coke hidden in the person’s luggage.