Too good to pass up: ASCMC President-elect Marc Bathgate in a press release about the car-vandalism:

"We've taken our second stab in the back at a time when we thought we were secure," Marc Bathgate, president-elect of the Claremont McKenna student government, told the Associated Press.

Nothing deep here, just wanted to remind everyone that one of Hitler's favorite rhetorical devices was to claim that Germany hadn't been defeated in 1918 -- it had been "stabbed in the back" by the "November criminals". Mr. Bathgate must lack a sense of history to so casually throw those words around -- by which I mean I hope he's ignorant of the connection.

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Some people have made an analogy between Professor Dunn's car vandalism and the Reichstag Fire.

This is silly and false. First, there is no comparison in scope: burning down the legislative building which is a national landmark vs. breaking some windows and spraypainting a private car. Enough said.

Second, historians don't even agree that the Nazis set the Reichstag fire. Basically there are three sensible theories: 1) there was a Nazi conspiracy; 2) there was a communist conspiracy; 3) the Reichstag was burned by a lone nut. My ill-considered opinion is that #3 happened. See for example Daniel Pipes's book Conspiracy or this page (that second guy, I don't know his agenda, so caveat lector).

Certainly the Nazis successfully turned the Reichstag fire to their advantage. But they may not have burned it, and there are so many things that they indisputably did do that are more heinous....

Drifting off topic here, but some people like to compare the 9/11 attacks to the Reichstag fire and thus imply 1) that Bush organized the 9/11 attacks and 2) we're heading for dictatorship. Now, since it's not clear that the Nazi government even burned the Reichstag in 1933, I don't know how they get 1). As far as #2 goes, after the Reichstag fire, the Reichstag passed the Reichstag Fire Decree which removed the constitutional protections of habeas corpus, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, and the right to be secure against unreasonable searches. In the US, Congress passed the PATRIOT Act. As far as I can tell, the worst provision of that was to allow delayed notification of searches.