Stupid girls.
I have seen evil, and it's in the faces of these two little girls.
When I see thir cute smiles all I see is death.
Often over the years, members of my staff and I have been referred to by users who had had disputes with us as "Nazis." My answer to them has always been, "If you use up its meaning, what word will you use when the real Nazis come back?" I have always taken real offense at anyone referring to us in that manner, and always promised myself I would belt the first guy who says it to my face. These girls would treat such an insult as a compliment.
Usually I am not hyper-critical of 14 year old musicians but since these neo-nazi versions of the Olsen twins have a platform to spew their songs of lies and hate, I figure as a music critic I have a right to respond.
When the punk explosion came back to our shores in the late 70s and 80s, it returned with some nasty surprises as well. Long erroneously associated with all skinheads, the neo-nazi movement embraced the anarchic nature of punk and nazi-skinhead violence would sometimes follow bands with no racist intentions of their own. It got so bad that the Dead Kennedys' Jello Biafra penned the legendary thrash anthem "Nazi Punks Fuck Off." Since then, the problem of Nazi skinhead punks, while not abating, at least disappeared from the semi-mainstream as they launched their own white power labels and seemed content to play to their "own kind." Recently, however, the Nazis have begun to take a new tack, ditching the skinhead radicals and aiming straight for the mainstream heartland of America.
Beneath the dimples, braces, and smiley-faced Hitler shirts beat the cold hearts of Nazisim in all its worst forms. Lynx and Lamb Gaede of the band Prussian Blue first performed in 2001 at a white power fest and since then have released two CDs and a DVD. Looking more like they should be on Nickelodeon, overtly racist in their first release, their second release is horrifying in that they have turned to more traditional topics for 14 year olds, such as boys, crushes and dating in an attempt to mask their Nazi message and attract a more mainstream audience. That is frightening at so many levels it is hard to fathom.
I want so much to believe that this is all the work of their mother April, also an avowed Nazi, and that someday these girls will wake up to discover how horribly they have been exploited both by their mother and the Nazi movement. I want to take thse girls by the hand and walk them through the crematories at camps like Auschwitz and Treblinka, make them wade through the ashes of the millions in the mass graves, look at the mountains of hair, eyeglasses, and shoes collected from the victims, see the horror in the eyes of a survivor, hear it in their voice, and smell the stench of death that still lingers today in the camps. Unfortunately with their claims in press interviews that their name "Prussian Blue" is a reference to the dye used in the gas Zyklon B and singing songs about Rudolf Hess, it is clear that at the very least they have been very well programmed by the movement, and are doing more than just simply parroting mother April's teachings.
Unlike other media personalities that have managed to keep their anti-semitism below the surface and out of the public eye, or denying it, while quitely dispensing their hateful messages, these girls have embraced the whole of the Nazi movement and are now trying to spread their poisonous message to today's youth covertly.
This is not some marketing ploy cooked up by a P.R. agency to create controversy like embracing Kaballa, crucifying yourself onstage, or telling the President to piss off publicly. These girls are real and their message is deadly serious.
This is a warning. Nazis still exist, they are looking for new blood, and they are looking to start young. Please keep them away from your children.
