Max Mosley, 68, has since 1993 been president of Formula 1 car racing’s governing body. He is also the son of Sir Oswald Mosley, the head of the British Union of Fascists, Britain’s main Nazi party in the 1930s and 40s.
Max was born to Oswald Mosley’s second wife, the renowned writer, Diana Mitford, after the two were married in Germany by Joseph Goebbels, the Nazi propaganda minister, with Hitler among the guests of honour.
Max Mosley does not deny that he met five hookers in a Chelsea flat, or that he engaged in a sadomasochistic orgy with them for five hours in exchange for several thousand dollars. Nor does he deny that he wore a prison outfit and that the women were garbed in German-style military uniforms shouting at him in German while sexually abusing him.
Unfortunately for Mosley and unkown to him, the sex orgy was videotaped by a prostitute paid for by the racy London tabloid, News of the World, and then published. The headline over the story read “Formula 1 Boss Has Sick Nazi Orgy With 5 Hookers.”
Mosley and his lawyers are now in a London courtroom arguing for a retraction and damages for one word among the headlines explosive 10 words. The word in question is “Nazi.” Yesterday the racing boss’s lawyers argued that there was no Nazi content in the role playing session, and that Mr. Mosley had been pretending to be an English prisoner being moved into a British institution that just happened to have German guards.
Mr. Mosley has argued that his penchant for theatrical whipping and spanking scenarios is well within the conventional range of upper-class British sexual practices.
The civil trial continues.
Would you agree that the epithet “Nazi” should not be used in prevalent discourse?
Is it verboten to call a particularly malevolent adversary, “You Nazi!”
If so, who decides what words we can use and what words we can’t use?
Give Mosley the Order of Canada.
Tony:-
An interesting suggestion. Your letter in the Gazette was interesting linking that reprobate, Jesse Helms, with Rene Levesque.
I guess the word “nazi” has come to symbolize all the evil that my fathers and my generation have produced. What puzzles me is the attraction it still has for a section of the world’s youth, even in Germany. The so called NEO-NAZIS are a mystery to me. Of course if you ignore History you will repeat it. And a large segment of our recent population have not learned much History wise. Should I add that the current education programs won’t do much toward changing this.
Paul:
There is a young mother out in Winnipeg who has had a swastika drawn on her daughter’s arm. Weird people. Although I have always felt there is a kind of perverted fascination with the Nazi regime.
Neil: Thanks for the kind words.
Also: prior to World War II, all state route signs in Arizona included a swastika, which was/is a sacred symbol for the Navajo.
See: http://tinyurl.com/yqxq2w
Good morrow, all!
No soup! For any of you!
But then, I digress…CTZen
The swastika was a sacred symbol for many ancient cults. It was a symbol of life and good luck. It seems to have been first used in India thousands of years ago. However, the branches were curved left. Hitler’s swastika’s branches are curved right. It was an inverted swastika. Most people don’t notice the difference.
Neil, I would be curious to see which swastika your Winnipeg mother had tatooed on her baby.
And CTZ, depriving me of my beloved soup is cruel and unusual punishment.
As long as we as a society recoil in horror at the mention of certain words and phrases, someone will always be able to use them as verbal and emotional weapons against us.
Can we grow up sometime soon? I mean, really…
Thanks for the interesting comments on the genesis of the swastika. I don’t know, Paul, what kind of swastika the mother in Winnipeg painted on her daughter’s arm. But the authorities were concerned enough that they took the girl into care.
It figures. If she is a Goth or belongs to some punk community they would have cause for concern. Of course she could also be a white supremacist. All neo-nazis are.