Reef Fish wrote:

> Would you say "let bygones be bygones" about those who embrace the
> INVALID doctrines advanced by Hitler then, and NOW?
>
> <snip>
>
> I had a piece written on the laptop during my trip, documenting the
> INVALIDITY of Nick's claim of his power (as Scuba-L manager/owner,
> according to LISTSERV list Guidelines) and Chuck's INVALID support
> of that false claim, pretty much in the same spirit Hess and other
> Nazis supported Hitler in Hitler's claim of validity of gassing the
> Jews because he "owns" the country and can "do as he pleased" --
> two haunting terms that kept surfacing throughout the LISTSERV
> thread and Nick's atrocities.

Hess had little if anything to do with the mass murder of Jews and others
by the nazis. Most nazis deny the gassing even happened and therefore do
not  try to justify it.
Read a few books and try to find another analogy...

Jean-Marc