Co. GOP Leader Compared Stay-at-Home Orders to Nazism

[RandySF]

Gov. Jared Polis grew tearful as he responded Wednesday to a top Republican official comparing stay-at-home orders to the actions of the Gestapo, the secret police of Nazi Germany and European countries under Nazi occupation during World War II.

“As a Jewish American who lost family in the Holocaust, I’m offended by any comparison to Nazism. We act to save lives — the exact opposite of the slaughter of 6 million Jews and many gypsies and Catholics and gays and lesbians and Russians and so many others,” said the governor, visibly shaken.

Polis, a Democrat elected in 2018, is Colorado’s first Jewish governor, and was the first openly gay man elected governor in any U.S. state.

On March 25, the same day Polis issued a statewide stay-at-home order that remains in effect through at least April 26, Colorado House Minority Leader Patrick Neville, R-Castle Rock, said on a conservative radio program that such governmental orders lead to a “Gestapo-like mentality,” as first reported by 9News.

Reached by phone Wednesday afternoon, Neville declined to apologize for his remarks, but did say he chose his words poorly.

“I should have said authoritarian, not Gestapo,” Neville said. “And I think authoritarian is still accurate.”




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[keithbvadu2]

1. Mission accomplished: he got his message out to their base with the word "Gestapo"

Mission accomplished: he got his message out to their base with the word "Gestapo"

Cokie's Law - about politics and media coverage...

Cokie's Law states that it does not matter if it is true or not. It's out there.

Cokie Roberts journalist, author, reporter

Then they can apologize in a much smaller forum. (If they do)

[The Magistrate]

2. Kind Of a Shame It Is Not Hyperbole, Sir

This fella might benefit from being hauled off in the dead of night to make the acquaintance of some real abuse of power in a cellar....


"Defeat of a hated enemy is something to be for."

[lame54]

3. Anne Frank had Netflix and was allowed neighborhood walks every day

[DBoon]

4. Killing off the weak and vulnerable is Nazism

Which is what lifting the stay at home orders will do.

[AllaN01Bear]

5. and his dictator in chief isnt? what a maroon, what a nincompoop. asshole .

and half of ur pple feel that the holocost didnt happen. how dare you call upon the holocast.

[Aristus]

6. Pictured: reclusive, stay-at-home Nazis:

[grumpyduck]

7. Obviously, the piece of shit

doesn't know squat about Nazism or the Gestapo.

Either that, or he's hoping the morons who listen to him don't know about it either.

[thucythucy]

8. Makes me wonder what his response would have been in WWII

when the federal government rationed gas and restricted unnecessary travel to save gasoline for the military.

I imagine they would have whined then as well.

[Behind the Aegis]

9. Just another misuse of terminology.

They constantly cheapen the Holocaust, Nazism, and the Reich with their false or hyperbolic comparisons. Too many people do this!!