Hitler Speech Used in Pre-Game Soccer Rally
In some non-Election Day news, this story is the talk of the town in Charlotte, NC today.
When Charlotte Catholic’s boys’ soccer team got to Forestview High School in Gastonia on Saturday night for an N.C. 3A playoff game, the Cougars heard something over the public address system they never would’ve expected:
A 90-second portion of a speech from Adolf Hitler.
“We were warming up,” said Catholic coach Gary Hoilett, “and all of us stopped and looked up at the booth. We were just real shocked. It was obviously a Hitler speech. The voice was coming across clearly. Everybody knew.”
Forestview’s players took the field after the speech ended.
But before the game, Hoilett said, some Forestview players were chanting something in German that means “On to victory,” according to one of his players who speaks German. Hoilett, who is black, said that during the game some Forestview players directed racial epithets at his two black players.
Here is the response from the Principal of Forestview.
On behalf of the Forestview soccer team, Coach Shearer, Forestview High School, and myself I want to apologize for the playing of the CD during Saturday night’s soccer game. It was inappropriate and should not have been played.
Sometime back Coach Shearer and the team started using “On to victory” as a slogan. We have a German exchange student on our team. He taught our students to say it in German. Some of our more zealous students sought to capture this slogan in German and to play it on the PA [public address system].
They copied it from a speech by Hitler but could not just copy the “on to victory” and got too much of the speech. Student intent was to only play the “on to victory” clip. Unfortunately at one time a good bit of the speech was played on the PA during the pre-game.
Coach Shearer was not aware that they had made this clip and that they intended to play it. I was at the ballgame Saturday night but did not hear it. I also was not aware of the clip. This is the first time the clip was ever used. It certainly is an error in judgement on the part of some of our students. They indicated to me that they had no malice and no intent to hurt others. They were using the slogan to motivate themselves.
We have conducted a full investigation and will continue to do so. We are not taking this lightly and already have in place some precautions for our next game.
I apologize for the CD playing. It should never have been played. I will meet with the team to make sure they understand the seriousness of this action. I will further work with our team and fans to emphasize proper game behavior.
Now, I can totally underestand this explanation — it passes the “sniff test” for me. But I think this is a perfect example of how “moral equivalism” is conquering our society. When US Senators (*cough* Durbin, Kerry *cough*) label the US Armed Forces as “terrorists and baby killers” and claim they are doing the same things as Nazis, then hey — what’s the big deal with blaring a 30-second clip of Adolf Hitler.
After all, probably only one Forestview guy (the German exchange student) knew the full translation anyway….. the rest of the kids just knew “on to victory” was in the ranting gibberish somewhere.
There is such a thing as a difference between ”good” and “evil” and between “right” and “wrong”. When the lines are blurred by our media, our elected leaders and our public school teachers, then I’m not surprised that something like this would happen.
-Bruce (GayPatriot)
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Wasn’t this an episode of The Office?
Comment by V the K — November 7, 2006 @ 3:16 pm - November 7, 2006
Durbin and Kerry made Hitler a Nazi and, today, make people racist. And racism is bad. So Kerry and Durbin are bad.
(I’m still searching for the quotes from these two Nazi racist makers where they “label the US Armed Forces as ‘terrorists and baby killers’.” These quotes need to be made more public and Kerry and Durbin should be put on trial for WWII.)
Comment by jimmy — November 7, 2006 @ 3:56 pm - November 7, 2006
Sure. A Hitler CD. Everyone has a Hitler CD right next to their Spandau Ballet CD.
Comment by Tom — November 7, 2006 @ 4:22 pm - November 7, 2006
I just have Hitler’s Greatest Hits. I’m not going to spend a lot of money to get the filler from his early albums.
Comment by Bender — November 7, 2006 @ 4:45 pm - November 7, 2006
Wow, that’s a real stretch: to claim there’s a connection between this and Durbin and Kerry?
Give me a break!
Get real, dude. You’re living in la-la land.
Comment by ryan — November 7, 2006 @ 4:58 pm - November 7, 2006
Hey Jimmy (#2) — thanks for the tip. I added the links to the slanderous comments made by our esteemed US Senators (D-IL, D-MA).
Comment by GayPatriot — November 7, 2006 @ 5:06 pm - November 7, 2006
Too bad rajiansybil got banned – this would have been a perfect issue for him to rant and rave about, he being so Teutonically superior and all.
Of course some people have the Hitler CD – it’s part of the “Springtime for Hitler” collection. Or is that the soundtrack to “Evita?” I can never tell those two apart.
Regards,
Peter H.
Comment by Peter Hughes — November 7, 2006 @ 5:15 pm - November 7, 2006
Bruce, neither the quoted phrase “terrorists and baby killers” nor the word “Nazi” or even “doing the same thing as” appear in Kerry’s remarks from the referenced Face the Nation TV show nor on the Wintersoldier.com website.
Durbin didn’t call the troops “terrorists and baby killers,” either — if he did, it’s not in either article you linked to — nor did he call the US troops Nazis. He did express his concerns, based descriptions of interrogation methods from one FBI reporter, that those methods were akin to what Nazis, Soviets and the Khmer Rouge utilized. It’s a subtle difference, but it is a difference.
I know how much you like facile and spurious logic and would rather wave the flag than uphold the principles it stands for, but could you at least not be so boneheadly partisan about it? There’s just no fun in picking apart your arguments when they’re so obviously…retarded.
Comment by Jody — November 7, 2006 @ 6:12 pm - November 7, 2006
Jodys’ claim that waterboarding and sleep deprivation are on par with the nazi meatgrinder…well that just says it all.When American lives are at stake,you MUST compel your enemies to talk.When G.I.s’ start carving prisoners up like thanksgiving turkey,than I’ll start to worry.
If you think making terrorist murderers listin to Bon Jovi for a week straight is torture than you definatly wouldn’t be able to stomach what the marines did to the Japanese on Iwo Jima.At that point in WWII,the leathernecks were taking no prisoners.They couldn’t take them along and they couldn’t release them because they’d just return to their units.Any Japanese Imperial Army prisoners taken,were viciously interrogated and than executed by way of a single shot to the head or they had their throats cut with a K-Bar.
The priniciples that this country stands for mean nothing if Americans aren’t free to observe those principles.A famous Democrat once said,”What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.”
In my opinion,those who shrink from refreshing that tree now out of base cowardice,only set the stage for a far worse slaughter later.
Comment by Bobby Alpy — November 8, 2006 @ 12:16 am - November 8, 2006
Well said, Bobby. HOORAH!
Regards,
Peter H.
Comment by Peter Hughes — November 8, 2006 @ 12:27 pm - November 8, 2006