Seems quaint

George Lincoln Rockwell, head of the American Nazi Party, would be spinning around his corncob pipe if he were alive today at the namby pamby approach taken by today's alarmist xenophobes. He was a guy who, like his hero Adolph Hitler, got out of the military, went to art school, and lost his mind.

As head of the American Nazi Party, he got 212 votes in the 1964 presidential election. One year later he got 1 percent of the total vote in the Virginia gubernatorial race. Rockwell's message was racial separation, and he tried to find common cause with the Nation of Islam, but they turned him away.

He liked to refer to his house in Arlington as Stormtrooper Barracks, but the locals called it the House on Hatemonger Hill. On August 25, 1967, Rockwell was killed by gunshots while leaving the Econowash laundromat at the Dominion Hills Shopping Center. He staggered out of the car to point out the gunman on the roof. An associate of Rockwell, John Patler, was convicted, but served only four years of a 20-year sentence.