MP tells homeless: Be like Hitler
A MADCAP politician told the homeless they should make something of themselves… just like former tramp ADOLF HITLER!
Frank Niceley, a Republican senator from Tennessee invoked Hitler – although he admitted that in the Nazi dictator’s case, it resulted in an “unproductive life”,
Niceley took to the floor of the Nashville chamber to support a bill that aims to reduce homeless camps and told fellow lawmakers that he was going to “give a little history on homelessness.”
“In 1910, Hitler decided to live on the streets for a while,”
Niceley said. “So for two years, Hitler lived on the streets and practised his oratory and his body language and how to connect with the masses,” the lawmaker went on, “and then went on to lead a life that got him in the history books.
“So for a lot of these people, it’s not a dead end. They can come out of these homeless camps and have a productive life, or in Hitler’s case, a very unproductive life,” he added.
Hitler did go through a bout of homelessness in Vienna in 1908 and spent time sleeping on park benches and begging before moving into a homeless shelter for several years.
He went on to become German leader, before kicking off World War Two among other horrors.
“I owe it to that period that I grew hard and am still capable of being hard,” Hitler wrote in his autobiographical work Mein Kampf about his early life of poverty.
The homeless bill, which expands the punishments for camping on state- owned land to all public properties, was passed 22- 10 by the state Senate.
It will now go to Tennessee Governor Bill Lee’s desk.
Niceley’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.