Debatarrangør fjerner revolvercitat fra sin Facebook-profil.
»Hver gang jeg hører om paragraf 266 b, så spænder jeg hanen på min revolver«.
Sådan skrev Torben Mark Pedersen, medlem af Trykkefrihedsselskabet og arrangør af torsdagens debatmøde om ytringsfrihed på Christiansborg, på sin Facebook-profil indtil for kort tid siden.
Det omstridte nazi-citat, som Torben Mark Pedersen har omskrevet, stammer nemlig fra den nazistiske dramatiker Hanns Johst og hans propagandastykke ’Schlageter’, som havde premiere på Hiltlers fødselsdag den 20. april 1933.
TMP er ellers i godt selskab og burde ikke have ladet sig intimidere:
When I hear the word “culture”… (Det meste har jeg stjålet her)
…I reach for my gum (Babe Ruth?)
…I know it must be an anthropologist speaking (Hillary Lapsley)
…I reach for my computer (Billy the Hacker)
…I reach for my source code (David Darts)
…I reach for my mirror (Eric Herring)
…I reach for my knife (Sidney Hook)
…I reach for my Bible (The Irish Times)
…I reach for my Rangers scarf (on a forum for discussion of politics in Northern Ireland)
…I reach for my dictionary (David Barton & Martyn Bond)
…I [also] reach for my dictionary (Paul Bowman)
…I reach for my statistics (The Economist)
…I reach for my wallet (Ayn Rand)
…I reach for my purse (unnamed Treasury official in Ottawa)
…I take out my checkbook (Barbara Kruger)
…I reach for a set of job descriptions? A training plan? An organization chart? (John O’Connell, Jon Pyke, Roger Whitehead)
…I reach for the doorknob (Newsweek)
…I reach for the remote control to flip channels before the show gets too boring [preceded by “When I hear ‘postmodern culture’] (Yahya R. Kamalipour)
…I don’t reach for my gun. Instead I reach for Marx or for Mills and say that there are elite and mass definitions of social situations (Gary A. Kreps)
…I reach for my textbook on institutional theory (Crooked Timber)
…I reach for my mouth (Andrew Duncan)
…I reach for my identity (John Tusa)
…I switch on the radio (Virginia Madsen)
…I reach for my sex (Scott Fraser)
…I reach for the strudel (Gary North)
…I sit down at the table (mi accomodo a la tavola) (Franco Castelli)
…a bird EmErgEs from his [Satan’s] mouth (Padcha Tuntha-obas)
…I reach for my NOM (another stupid lolcat, directed at another stupid lolcat)
“When I hear of Schrödinger’s cat, I reach for my pistol” (Stephen Hawking)
“Whenever I hear the word culture, I bring out my checkbook.” (Jean-Luc Godard in 1963′s film Le Mépris, when a producer says to Fritz Lang)
Wenn ich das Wort “Kultur” höre, übermannt mich der Schlaf. (Helmut Qualtinger)
Citatet tilskrives i øvrigt diverse nazister som Goebbels, Göring og Himmler. Jeg har set mange dokumentarfilm, og har aldrig set det udtalt af andre end Hitler-Jugend lederen Baldur von Schirach:
Og hvis man skal være helt pernittengryn, så er en Browning ikke en revolver men en pistol.