I fall into the category of true Libertarian. I'd like the government out of my bedroom, my home, and my life in general. Of course, authority has it's place. We depend on police and the fire departments to keep us safe. Courts are necessary. We need our roads, buildings and transportation kept in good condition and our taxes to be spent wisely. Drugs, hospitals and schools need to be regulated.
But in general, I'm of the mindset that we, as people, should be allowed to conduct our lives as we see fit, as long as our behaviors are legal and do not hurt or hinder the lives of others.
Then along comes a set of parents who use their powers of free speech to name their children Adolf Hitler, JoyceLynn Aryan Nation and Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie. The dad also sports Nazi tattoos like a large swastika but his mom defends them as simple 'art'.
Little Adolf Hitler and his siblings found fame when a local grocery store refused to print HAPPY BIRTHDAY ADOLF HITLER on his birthday cake. The angry parents took their outrage to the public, via newspapers and interviews, and have since blamed the negative publicity for the fact that their children have now been removed from the home. On their way to court at 10am recently, they were pulled over by police and cited for various infractions, not to mention that the child's grandmother was drunk in the back of the car.
In defense of it all, little Adolf's aunt says that he, JoyceLynn Aryan Nation and Honszlynn Hinler will be "raised proper" like they have been so far and claims their names are no different to Barack Hussein Obama, who is named after a terrorist. Of course, Saddam Hussein was in his early 20s when Barack was born and virtually unknown outside the Middle East at the time, in addition to the fact that Hussein is pretty much the "Smith" or "Jones" of that area of the world.
The children's mom, while conceding that the names are "unusual", says they have the right to name them what they want and figures they are better names than something like Brian or Nicole - common names that if you called out at a store - many kids would run up to them. At least calling out "Adolf Hitler!" will only have one child running up to them. "They're just names...I don't see nothin' wrong..." was Mom's take on the whole fuss. Besides, she says, she found the names in baby books. She is also hoping for a lawyer to come forth to defend them and makes a public plea.
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Do parents have the right to name their children Adolf Hitler or Aryan Nation? Even if the names are tasteless and evocative of an evil time in history to most, should they be allowed to nonetheless? Is the government stepping in where they should not?
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Hey, these folks are great! Adolf Hitler was a great man! Don't knock our ideology until you learn about it for yourself. Join National Socialist (nazi) forums, read Mein Kampf... find out from US, not the media. Please, is it too much to ask that you make your own opinion? After all, what can hearing our side hurt?
On the subject of these kids, the parents have every right to name someone what they choose. This anti-NS discrimination is sickening. 88.
April 11, 2010 - 2:54pmThis Comment
Give me a break! What is it to anyone else what they name their kids - In the sixties many hippy wierdo parents named their kids odd names to say the least- Adolph was a popular German name and nothing to be ashamed of and as for yelling it out in a shopping mart - I've never met anyone who yells the first and middle name out in a public space. What angers me the most is some intellectual pin heads who claim to be open minded - as long as everyone is agreeing with their opinion- telling other people what they can and cannot do. The same people that are on the bandwagon against everything related to Hitler now would have been the first to enroll in the Brown Shirts or Nazi Youth back in the thirties. So live and let live, worry about your own little brats and keep your nose in your own business.
September 8, 2009 - 7:26pmThis Comment
You are aweome! I was just wondering what ever happened to these kids also wasn't that local grocery store a shop-rite
January 27, 2010 - 3:14pmThis Comment
This is a really interesting post, Susan, and makes me think.
I don't buy the fact that the family thinks it's just freedom of expression. I think that somewhere in there there's a bit of a "gotcha" element, a bit of a destructive ego, and they're using their kids to make a point. It seems very unfair to the children, who wouldn't know until they are older the horrible history those names carry.
Let's say for a moment that the argument for taking the kids away was that their names would almost certainly cause them harm, and that it was in some way linked to abuse or neglect. I can't see how you could draw a line. Would you then take away kids named with names that parents consider non-traditional but others consider ridiculout? What about celebrities, who name their kids River, or Apple? What about truly convoluted spellings?
When I worked at a newspaper, we ran birth announcements as a matter of routine. We got one one day where they named their baby girl "Placenta." We thought it was a prank, but we checked it out and it was the truth. The mother had heard the word at the hospital and thought it was pretty. Does that add up to child abuse?
It seems like a difficult -- and not really appropriate place -- for the government to insert itself, with no ability to make a consistent base of need or enforcement.
January 22, 2009 - 9:33amThis Comment