For The Children
By Mitch Berg
It’s all over the news – the Campbell family of New Jersey, who infamously gave their children Nazi-linked names (oldest boy is named Adolph Hitler Campbell) has had the kids hauled off by Child Protection:
Little Adolf, who is three, was removed along with his sisters, JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell and Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie Campbell.
There must have been some signs of physical abuse or neglect, since I doubt DYFS can parchute in just because mom and dad are neo-Nazis with awful judgement in baby names.
When I interviewed neighbors of the family last month, Sally Miller, who lives down the road from the Campbells, said they had trick-or-treated at her home (not dressed as storm troopers, or anything–just regular Halloween costumes).
Adolf’s mom, Deborah Campbell, was pregnant at the time, and when Miller congratulated her, she joked about fighting a lot with her husband. Miller also said other neighbors had heard the couple arguing.
Miller didn’t discover the boy’s name until it made headlines.
But according to Fox News, Holland Township Police Sgt. John Harris said cops never saw any signs of abuse and, in fact, dad Heath Campbell seemed very good with his kids.
The chattering classes are presuming there has to be more to it – but there’s nothing publicly available (which isn’t unusual in Child Protection cases).
Of course, if it was all about the name, that should make your hair stand on end. Let’s clarify this for you; your kids can be taken away if the authorities think you’re “too weird”).
With the approval of an awful lot of people, from comment section trolls to the mainstream media:
Obviously, if the Campbells were denying the children food that’s one thing. But is the state within its rights to remove children from a home because of the parents’ political beliefs? If indeed that’s the reason (the state isn’t saying so). That’s a tough question, but I think in this particular case most of us can agree that removing children from an atmosphere of obvious poison is probably a good thing.
Obvious poison?
Naming a kid “Adolph Hitler” is certainly a social gaffe. But worse than the parents (at least the overeducated Anglos) who name their kids “Che”? In historical degree, maybe.
What if they’re following through; teaching the kids that Jews are subhuman? It’s perfectly legal – indeed, protected by the first Amendment – for adults to believe that (albeit not act on it on more than a rhetorical level); should it be illegal for parents to teach their kids hate? Wonder what the daughter that Garrison Keillor dotes on thinks about red-state Republicans.
The point, obviously, is that “poison” is a moving target. Some consider non-cafeteria Christianity a “poisonous” environment, and they’re powerful enough to spark genuine worries that Christian beliefs could be viewed as factors in “hate crimes”.
This might be a better question for all of you who spent the last eight years worrying about John Ashcroft and Karl Rove shipping you off to camps in Idaho for voting for John Kerry; is this a precedent you want to let stand?
(Via AP at Hot Air)
January 15th, 2009 at 9:02 am
Angryclown stands firmly behind the right of you far-right kooks to name your kids after Hitler.
By the way, say hi to Goebbels Zyklon Berg for me. And how’s baby Jewslayer?
January 15th, 2009 at 9:16 am
Great!
Hope little Emmett Fidel is recovering.
January 15th, 2009 at 9:21 am
Angryclown stands firmly behind the right of you far-right kooks to name your kids after Hitler.
I WIN!! I WIN!! I WIN!!!
I made a $1 million bet with myself that mangy clown would read this post and say something along the lines of “you wingnuts name your kids after….”.
Mangy, you’re nothing if not predictable.
January 15th, 2009 at 9:25 am
Comedian Louis C.K. has a great joke about the power of parents being able to name their children. Something along the lines of “I’m going to name my next child ‘Ladies and Gentlemen.’ That way, I can introduce him as ‘Ladies and Gentlemen.’ Or, when I get irritated by him, I can say ‘Ladies and Gentlemen, PLEASE!'”
My first child will be named DirtyMushroom.
January 15th, 2009 at 9:33 am
I’ve never met a kid named Che or Adolph, but I have met a kid named Osama. And I’ve also met a few boys with lefty parents who had the name Miles, apparently after Miles Davis, who wasn’t particularly political, if I remember correctly. Maybe someone can explain that one.
The worst naming practice I know of is the one that Ron Howard and his wife use, which is to give the place where the child was conceived as a middle name. TMI, especially when you introduce your child Jimmy El Camino Smith.
January 15th, 2009 at 9:38 am
My first child will be named DirtyMushroom.
Saving Cleveland Steamer for the second one, right?
January 15th, 2009 at 9:48 am
If my wife was Latino, I would go with Dirty Sanchez.
January 15th, 2009 at 9:50 am
They could have named them all George! Hahahaha
True story ahead:
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*cue scene for the movie The Sure Thing*
(a gal pretending she’s pregnant to snag a ride hitchhiking. She is with another school mate traveling together. they get a ride)
Allison is played by Daphne Zuniga, Gib is John Cusak)
—
Lady in Car: What are you gonna name it?
Alison Bradbury: What?
Lady in Car: The baby.
Alison Bradbury: Well, if it’s a girl, Cynthia, and if it’s a boy, Elliot.
Lady in Car: Those are lovely names.
Walter (Gib) Gibson: Elliot? You’re gonna name the kid Elliot? No, you can’t name the kid Elliot. Elliot is a fat kid with glasses who eats paste. You’re not gonna name the kid Elliot. You gotta give him a real name. Give him a name. Like Nick.
Alison Bradbury: Nick?
Walter (Gib) Gibson: Yeah, Nick. Nick’s the kinda guy you can trust. Nick’s your buddy. Nick’s the kinda guy you drink beers with. The kinda guy that doesn’t care if you puke in his car. Nick.
– – – – –
To wit, I named one of my kids Nick, cause he’s the kind of guy you can drink a beer with. Only about 5 more years till I can *smile*
Flash
January 15th, 2009 at 10:25 am
Actually in todays world, Jew-hating anti-Semitics are liberal Democrats (see weekend protests in San Francisco and West LA….oh, and don’t forget Madison Wisc).
January 15th, 2009 at 10:53 am
Of course they are, Chuckwagon. Too bad all those Jews who voted for Obama don’t know their true friends are you far-right kooks.
January 15th, 2009 at 11:06 am
Well AC, yes. Right wing kooks (I prefer to refer to my self as a “Right Wing Kook-American”) in the US are their friends. Left wing Kooks in the West have allied themselves with right wing neo-Nazi kooks in the mideast.
I think it was it Calgary where the skinheads marched in solidarity with the left-wing Israel bashers this week.
January 15th, 2009 at 12:17 pm
Mitch: LMAO!
Flash: Apparently, as we learned in ’04, George is a guy people want to have beer with too! heehee
January 15th, 2009 at 1:20 pm
Why would a conservative name their kid after a socialist?
January 15th, 2009 at 1:21 pm
While I’ve got somewhere between zip, zero, and zilch sympathy for little Adolph’s goosestepping parents, I don’t know of any evidence of expressing even the level of fairly mild but definite antisemitism that shows up in the comments page of the MinnPost. Should those folks be worried that our own Ministry of Love will snatch up little Heather and Ahmed?
January 15th, 2009 at 1:34 pm
To Be clear, the “”name them all George”” reference was regarding Geroge Forman and his multiple sons named George, not the President current or elder. I apologize for any confusion *grin*
January 15th, 2009 at 1:55 pm
Germaine Jackson named one of his sons ‘Jermajesty’.
January 15th, 2009 at 2:06 pm
Flash: yep, got the reference. just razzin’ ya. 🙂
January 15th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
razzin’ ya back !
January 15th, 2009 at 4:29 pm
Fact is, there are far too many stupid people with bad judgment in New Jersey for the state to start taking the kids. And if stupid people with bad judgment shouldn’t be taking care of children, then the people running the state of NJ are also totally incapable of raising children.
Maybe the state of Virginia should take all the children out of Jersey, just to make sure they are raised properly.
January 15th, 2009 at 7:34 pm
I wonder if there are any parents of “Che” fearing the same?
George named them all George to mess with the bureaucrats at “social security”. I love that guy.
Hey, weren’t the Zyclon people awarded a Nobel Peace Prize?
Answer: yes, prior to WWII, it was a very effective rodentacide, saved humans, prevented disease and spoilage.
[I suppose that makes no difference to the folks who blame the gun for the actions of criminals.]
We all know how the lefties love the whole Nobel prize thing.
Ask “fear the internal combustion engine”, Al Gore.
Hey Al, my truck says Boooo!!!
(It [zyclon, like DDT] probably would be banned by PETA, EPA, US Fish and Wildlife, Sierra Club and all the rest of the neo-fascists.)
January 15th, 2009 at 7:46 pm
Hey Peni… Neo-fasicst means YOU!!!
January 15th, 2009 at 10:09 pm
The worst naming practice I know of is the one that Ron Howard and his wife use, which is to give the place where the child was conceived as a middle name. TMI, especially when you introduce your child Jimmy El Camino Smith.
Mr D, I present to you: CONCORDE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuaIJGJNbzo
January 16th, 2009 at 3:27 am
So when do the authorities plan on picking up little Jack Henry, son of Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins?
January 16th, 2009 at 10:12 am
“The worst naming practice I know of is the one that Ron Howard and his wife use, which is to give the place where the child was conceived as a middle name. TMI, especially when you introduce your child Jimmy El Camino Smith.”
Swiftee’s real first name is “Crack Den.”
January 16th, 2009 at 10:44 am
Mr D, I present to you: CONCORDE
That’s awesome!