On Thu, 17 Feb 2005 00:06:01 +0000 (UTC), Brimstone
wrote:

David Splett wrote:
"Brimstone" wrote in message
...
As far as I can make out he simply used the camp guard jibe as a
comparator because the reporter (who hasn't been criticised AFAIK)
was "only following orders". What is "racist" about that?

I don't think it's necessarily racist, though coming from a man who
champions political correctness to extreme it's more than a little
hypocritical.

But the thing that strikes me most is what an odd thing it was to
say. If I felt I was being harassed by a reporter, I can think of
many things I might do or say, but I really can't imagine the subject
of concentration camps coming into my head.

But only London would elect such an incompetent oddball as Ken
Livingstone!

Just in case you're not aware one of the excuses used by concentration
camp
guards for their behaviour, and disallowed by the Nuremburg Trials, was
that
they were "only following orders".

Given that the reporter in question was questioning Livingstone at the
time
and place that he was, was in compliance with orders from his superior,
what
is the difference?

He didn't use that as justification for his actions.

And he didn't kill anyone, in case that evaded your attention.