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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch

I guess I have a few problems with her statement.

First of all comparing environmental policy to the policy that plunged the world into one of the most destructive conflicts of all time, encouraged a sadistic leader to invade countries commit genocide, and murder hundreds of thousands of his own people is in my mind pretty indecent.

She's probably not equating the two from your point of view, she's doing it from hers. To her, the holocaust was (probably) a globally devastating event that could have been avoided. She also probably believes that Global Warming is a potentially globally devastating event in the making that can be avoided. She's paralleling the 'appeasement of the issue'... she's not saying a new Hitler will rise to slaughter climatologists.

You have to use a bit of imagination and alternate point-of-view's when considering an example made by someone who isn't you. When comparing things abstractly you can't say 'but Chamberlain is dead!', thats interpreting the comparison too literally.

Who's the Conservatives program appeasing, big Oil, industry, the people that are oppossed to Kyoto on various basis. Are these people to be compared to Hitler and the Nazi's?

Guess it depends on how you want to perceive it. Do you honestly think Elizabeth May said/believes the Conservatives are Hitler and the Nazis? I think its a stretch to really believe this... you'd have to want to believe it, in my opinion.

And the whole religon overtone of her statement. Again if Harper had said that even when he was in the opposition would have been rammed through with a spit and turned slowly over the fire of the Liberal's, the NDP and the Canadian Voters.

I hear ya... the only thing I'd suggest is that she made the comments in a church service... sometimes politicians at church services make statements that are a bit more 'preachy' than you'd hear outside of church. Politicians pander to the crowd at the moment. Its also important to understand that she was referencing author George Monbiot with her comments, they aren't directly attributed to her;

At a church service, Ms. May referenced comments made by journalist George Monbiot, long-time correspondent with the Guardian and author of the best-selling book Heat. Mr. Monbiot spoke as an invited guest at the Green Living Show in Toronto on Saturday at a session hosted by Canadian author Margaret Atwood. At this session, he spoke of what he sees as an axis of evil - world leaders who he believes are not taking real action to combat climate change, including US President George Bush, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Australian Prime Minister John Howard. Mr. Monbiot stated that in the eyes of history, these leaders would prove to be more culpable than Neville Chamberlain in his attempt to appease the Nazis.