Friday, July 01, 2005

Godwin's rule of Nazi analogies invoked by Scottish Socialist MSP

Godwin's Law states that:

"As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one."

And pretty much as soon as someone does this, they have lost the argument. I therefore got a good chuckle out of a comment made by Scottish Socialist MSP Colin Fox about how unfair it was that his MSP's have been banned from the parliament after their anti-G8 protest. Mr. Fox is quoted in the Edinburgh Evening News as saying:

"We had a short, peaceful, silent protest and they went from banning us for a day to banning us for a month, taking away our wages, banning us from the building, taking our staff's wages - I thought they were going to invade Poland next." (My Emphasis).

I mean as far as stupid quotes go this takes the biscuit (and no scummy Rich Teas here, this takes a big fat Chocolate coated Hob-Nob), there was absolutely no need to add the Nazi analogy on the end, by doing so Mr. Fox has just shot himself in the foot. If the worst Hitler had done was suspended 4 of his parliament with no pay for a month, it's very likely that WWII would have been avoided.

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