Peter Hitchens

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

For perhaps the 20th time, @qwdads1962, you could ask the same question of Stalin and the Warsaw Pact Communist States. Utopians do not tolerate rivals, and wish to be the sole source of benefits etc. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

@romycerratti . Believe me, I considered it. But he is so thick that he would not understand the outcome. I can’t go after such a pitiable person. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

No , @garyspedding , I have no desire to hurt you. Hence my efforts to get you to apologise for your foolish lie. I have, however, decided you are just too stupid to be worth any further attention. I hope the next person you libel is as merciful. But don’t rely on it. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Again! .@DuncanMcFarlan, the first occupants of Stalin's Gulag were socialists and anarchists. Does that prove Stalin was right-wing? Stalin murdered German Communists. Does that make Stalin right-wing? Hitler killed 1,000 of his own SA. Does this make him left-wing? Try harder. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

No. I am not saying that @LemonAi40903300 — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

."stomp_city. Are you a bit slow? I am, er. not a leftist. I do not think the left are nice. Indeed, I know many olf them are deeply unpleasant. Why would I be trying to 'niceify' the Nazis by saying they were a left-wing movement? This is not intended as a compliment. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@voxpolitical. I love the way almost all of this is devoted a to a claim which I did not make, about the name of the NSDAP. Proof beyond doubt that the writer has attacked my article *without reading it*. Such scholarship! — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

In your opinion, . @waitmanb. This does not make the assertion a fact. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

No, in such cases all that is required is for you to justify your claim with actual words spoken or written by me(the target of your falsehood) which justify it. And I note your total inability to do so. Please just say sorry. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Of what are you a doctor , @waitmanb? Have you not heard of controversy, of argument between people of differing opinions in which one side *examines* the claims of the other and offers reasoned and factual rebuttals of them? Yet, despite your doctorate, you turn to abuse. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@savethenhs4u. But I have never advanced any such argument. You think I did, because you followed a mob that claimed I did. But try reading the original article. This argument is not there. All you have proved is that you are unreasoning and irresponsible. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

3/3 . @LouiseRawAuthor All I am objecting to is your use of these murders as an incontrovertible proof of your point. They obviously aren't. We need to look elsewhere. And in my view social policy is the place to go. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/3 @Louiserawauthor. Why, if Hitler's murder of Communists in 1933 is evidence he was not left-wing, why is Hitler's mass murder of the SA in 1934 not evidence that he was? Why is Sttalin's murder of German communists not evidence that he was 'right-wing'? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 .@louiserawauthor. It's all logic. Why is the fact that the Nazis imprisoned and killed Communists evidence that they were *not* left wing, while the fact that they co-operated with Communists, domestically and abroad is (apparently) *not evidence that they were? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 .@louiserawauthor. I am flattered that you should be so well-informed. But use your knowledge. The failure of German socialism to defeat Hitler, and the subsequent events, were an obsession for us. The idea that I wouldn' t know what happened to Thaelmann, I mean, honestly. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@louiserawauthor. I've seen worse. I just think your strident and self-righteous tone unjustified, and your assumption that your opinion is an unimpeachable fact mistaken. I don't think anyone has minimised the suffering, either. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

Very witty , .@socdoneleft. I think we can do business. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@garyspedding. Is your case that left-wing people are by definition incapable of the crimes undoubtedly done by the Nazis? Are you not aware of the crimes of Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot? — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@garyspedding. No doubt. but I've done none of those things, and ask again, what words of mine you will rely on if challenged to justify this allegation in a court of law? If you could not do this, you would lose very badly in any case I brought against you. Please say sorry. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

2/2 .@dutchcloggs Do you think that your behaviour - cloacal language, instructions to 'just shut up' and mob-like jeering at the unfamiliar and unfashionable - marks *you* out as an intellect? I have *met* genuine intellects and you do not resemble them. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

1/2 .@dutchcloggs. I have never for a moment claimed to be an 'intellectual'. I leave that to left-wingers. I am just a jobbing scribbler who has travelled a lot, seen a lot and read a bit, and who forms his own opinions rather than following crowds. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@criptheirvote. I'm busy just now, but jog my elbow later in the week, and I'll try to reply to this interesting and thoughtful questionnaire at length. The basic answer is of course that appearance and reality are not necessarily the same thing. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

That, sweetie .@socdoneleft is because I do not regard ‘privatisation’ as especially conservative . The Chinese Communists did it while remaining Communists.. You probably won’t enjoy the things I have written about how Margaret Thatcher was in fact a liberal . — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

.@socdobeleft . Yes. We all know this , but did they continue to feel this way once they experienced Nazi rule? This is the point of the Rougemont quotes in my article, which I suspect you have not read. Appearance vs reality. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

RT @ClarkeMicah: 1/2 A former German Communist explains how he was seduced by the Nazis. As recorded by Patrick Leigh Fermor in ‘ A Time of… — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

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Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

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Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

4/4 .@louiseraeauthor. I do not know why you need to he so rude.,I have no need of Google for these points. I am a former Trotskyist who spent years in this very debate,for whom the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact has long been the most astounding,educational event of the 20th century. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

3/4 .@louiserawauthor . I have seen , alas, no research on Communist defection to the Nazis. I doubt there has been any.But I would cite both the ex-Communist quoted by de Rougemont and the similar passage in Patrick Leigh Fermor’s ‘Time of Gifts’. — PolitiTweet.org

Peter Hitchens @ClarkeMicah

3/4 .@louiserawauthor. My contentions about the left-wing character of the Nazis are explained in my article. You do not mention or challenge them - you merely abuse me and become intemperate. — PolitiTweet.org