James Farrar wrote:
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.

Killing people is irrelevant, the excuse that one is "only following orders"
is and is not sufficient excuse for behaving in an unreasonable manner to
another person. If the reporter wasn't out to get a story against
Livingstone why did he break it? He could have simply let it pass.