# Little Hitlers taken from home - Campbell family tragedy **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 14, 2009, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-hitlers-taken-from-home-campbell-family-tragedy/481285 "2009-01-14T17:40:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2009, 11:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-hitlers-taken-from-home-campbell-family-tragedy/481285/61 "2009-01-16T11:44:00Z")
> [@Guinastasia](#): > > You forget-poor little Adolf couldn’t have any cake at all. Actually I believe they did get a cake from Wal-Mart. > [@](#): > > (One wonders if they ordered a German Chocolate Cake) Heath Campbell says he has no problems with chocolate cake, he just thinks it shouldn’t mix with vanilla cake. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2009, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-hitlers-taken-from-home-campbell-family-tragedy/481285/62 "2009-01-18T18:27:53Z")
He’s now in the care of his grandparents. [footage here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvXXRWdQqok) ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2009, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-hitlers-taken-from-home-campbell-family-tragedy/481285/63 "2009-01-21T19:07:12Z")
[More info](http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/20/nyregion/20hitler.html?partner=permalink&exprod=permalink): > [@](#): > > The Campbells’ neighbors described a family living on the fringe, financially and socially. Mr. Campbell, 35, and his wife, Deborah, 25, do not work and receive disability payments for emphysema and neck pain, respectively. Their landlord, Larry Lippincott, who shares the two-family home, said the family is often up all night. > … > “I hear the kids playing at 2:30 in the morning and the TV on,” Mr. Lippincott said. “He told me he was a night person and didn’t like to do anything during the day.” > … > Mr. Lippincott said he had decided — before the cake incident — not to renew the Campbells’ lease when it expired in November because, he said, a relative they frequently argue with threatened to “firebomb the house.” He expects to begin eviction proceedings soon. So this verifies they are not the home owners. [The story just keeps getting better though.](http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Adolf-Hitlers-Grandma-Drunk-While-Headed-to-Court.html) Apparently the hope was the Campbell’s Mom would get the kids. On the way to the hearing their car was pulled over and the Grandmother was drunk enough in the back seat for the cop to smell the alcohol and think Heath was drunk. It does not appear that the Grandparents have the kids. I cannot verify that. [The kids Aunt appears to be another genius](http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28743299/): > [@](#): > > Jeanne Coverdale, the kid’s aunt, offered an analogy to people who feel the names are in bad taste. > > “What about tomorrow night when the President of the United States stands up and say, is forced to say, my name is Barack Hussein Obama. How’s that going to hit the world?” Coverdale said. "I’m saying the one with the middle name he has, was a terrorist.” Yes that’s the same. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2009, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-hitlers-taken-from-home-campbell-family-tragedy/481285/64 "2009-01-21T19:21:37Z")
Get these people a Rhodes scholarship and put them on the road. ---
**Author:** ![Palo\_Verde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/65b543/32.png) [@Palo\_Verde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Palo_Verde)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2009, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-hitlers-taken-from-home-campbell-family-tragedy/481285/65 "2009-01-21T19:23:46Z")
Poor kids. How can they have a chance with a family like this? ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2009, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-hitlers-taken-from-home-campbell-family-tragedy/481285/66 "2009-01-21T19:30:27Z")
I don’t know if it’s still around but there used to be an organization called the Hitler Youth which had really fun activities for kids, like firing anti-aircraft guns and anti-tank rockets. ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2009, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-hitlers-taken-from-home-campbell-family-tragedy/481285/67 "2009-01-21T19:30:45Z")
There goes the theory of white supremacy. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2009, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-hitlers-taken-from-home-campbell-family-tragedy/481285/68 "2009-01-21T19:41:13Z")
These people are a special kind of moron, that’s for sure. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2009, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-hitlers-taken-from-home-campbell-family-tragedy/481285/69 "2009-01-21T19:43:46Z")
White supremecists have been used as the main argument against the concept of white supremecy. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2009, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-hitlers-taken-from-home-campbell-family-tragedy/481285/70 "2009-01-21T19:47:07Z")
Who would have ever predicted this headline in 2009: “Hitler’s mom speaks out” ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2009, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-hitlers-taken-from-home-campbell-family-tragedy/481285/71 "2009-01-21T19:48:51Z")
> [@Boyo\_Jim](#): > > Get these people a Rhodes scholarship and put them on the road. 😃 > [@Hypno-Toad](#): > > White supremecists have been used as the main argument against the concept of white supremecy. I love this. Is it yours or is it a quote from someone or something? ---
**Author:** ![Anne\_Neville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Anne\_Neville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anne_Neville)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2009, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-hitlers-taken-from-home-campbell-family-tragedy/481285/72 "2009-01-21T20:06:27Z")
The mother gets disability payments for _having_ neck pain, or for _being_ a pain in the neck? ---
**Author:** ![Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@Swallowed\_My\_Cellphone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Swallowed_My_Cellphone)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2009, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-hitlers-taken-from-home-campbell-family-tragedy/481285/73 "2009-01-21T20:40:29Z")
> [@Anne\_Neville](#): > > The mother gets disability payments for _having_ neck pain, or for _being_ a pain in the neck? Maybe she’s being paid not to show up. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2009, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-hitlers-taken-from-home-campbell-family-tragedy/481285/74 "2009-01-21T21:19:16Z")
Have I missed something, or is there some reason the parents haven’t changed their own names as well as giving these outlandish names to the kids? ISTM that if they’re that dedicated to the cause, Heath and Deborah Campbell would be too mundane to bear and they’d have been at the judge by now, and as they wouldn’t be changing their names for purposes of evasion, there really isn’t any reason\* they shouldn’t be Hitler and Doppel-Adler Campbell. \*Except that of good taste. ---
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2009, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-hitlers-taken-from-home-campbell-family-tragedy/481285/75 "2009-01-21T22:54:01Z")
> [@Hampshire](#): > > Who would have ever predicted this headline in 2009: “Hitler’s mom speaks out” Jeanne Dixon? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2009, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-hitlers-taken-from-home-campbell-family-tragedy/481285/76 "2009-01-21T23:13:11Z")
> [@Sigmagirl](#): > > STM that if they’re that dedicated to the cause, Heath and Deborah Campbell would be too mundane to bear and they’d have been at the judge by now, and as they wouldn’t be changing their names for purposes of evasion, there really isn’t any reason\* they shouldn’t be Hitler and Doppel-Adler Campbell. If you take the father at his word, he’s not a Nazi at all, although he does hold some racially separatist views. I’m not saying he’s definitely telling the truth, but he’s so dumb I can’t tell either way. On some level he may believe he’s reclaiming the name or something like that. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2009, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-hitlers-taken-from-home-campbell-family-tragedy/481285/77 "2009-01-21T23:22:50Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > If you take the father at his word, he’s not a Nazi at all, although he does hold some racially separatist views. I’m not saying he’s definitely telling the truth, but he’s so dumb I can’t tell either way. On some level he may believe he’s \*\*reclaiming the name \*\*or something like that. I wouldn’t be surprised if he referred to his kids as [porch monkeys](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6OselVRTsM). [sup](you tube link)[/sup] (my bolding above) ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2009, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-hitlers-taken-from-home-campbell-family-tragedy/481285/78 "2009-01-22T03:00:00Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > 😃 > I love this. Is it yours or is it a quote from someone or something? I wish I could claim it. But I heard it somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2009, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-hitlers-taken-from-home-campbell-family-tragedy/481285/79 "2009-01-22T06:28:17Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > So this verifies they are not the home owners. Perfect. Found them. Now I can avoid them. ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2009, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-hitlers-taken-from-home-campbell-family-tragedy/481285/80 "2009-01-22T23:35:43Z")
See, this is where I get annoyed. “Take the children away from the parents because of their names” is morally equivalent to “don’t let gay partners adopt”, “don’t allow mixed race marriages”, “sterilize the disabled” and a thousand other attitudes that would be roundly condemned as fascism on this board. I agree 100% that naming your child after Hitler is evidence of A-1 douchebaggery, but when last I checked that wasn’t in and of itself a crime. Nor is being a night person. Nor is being at the fringe of society. If you’re going to start declaring people unfit parents on the basis that they inflicted their children with hideous names, what’s to stop a judge from taking away my daughter on the grounds that I have poor fashion taste? Should we forbid ugly kids from showing their faces in public because they might be subject to public ridicule? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-hitlers-taken-from-home-campbell-family-tragedy/481285.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/little-hitlers-taken-from-home-campbell-family-tragedy/481285.md?page=5)