Adolf Hitler's dad asks what the big deal is?

[Patria Povo]

EASTON, Pa. – The father of 3-year-old Adolf Hitler Campbell, denied a birthday cake with the child's full name on it by one New Jersey supermarket, is asking for a little tolerance. Heath Campbell and his wife, Deborah, are upset not only with the decision made by the Greenwich ShopRite, but with an outpouring of angry Internet postings in response to a local newspaper article over the weekend on their flare-up over frosting.
"I think people need to take their heads out of the cloud they've been in and start focusing on the future and not on the past," Heath Campbell said Tuesday in an interview conducted in Easton, on the other side of the Delaware River from where the family lives in Hunterdon County, N.J.
"There's a new president and he says it's time for a change; well, then it's time for a change," the 35-year-old continued. "They need to accept a name. A name's a name. The kid isn't going to grow up and do what (Hitler) did."
Deborah Campbell, 25, said she phoned in her order last week to the ShopRite. When she told the bakery department she wanted her son's name spelled out, she was told to talk to a supervisor, who denied the request.
A store manager at ShopRite referred questions to a corporate spokeswoman who did not immediately return a phone message Tuesday. But spokeswoman Karen Meleta told The Easton Express-Times for Sunday's editions that the store considered Campbell's request inappropriate.
The Campbells ultimately got their cake decorated at a Wal-Mart in Pennsylvania, Deborah Campbell said. About 12 people attended the birthday party on Sunday, including several children who were of mixed race, according to Heath Campbell.
"If we're so racist, then why would I have them come into my home?" he asked.
The Campbells' other two children also have unusual names: JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell turns 2 in a few months and Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie Campbell will be 1 in April.
Heath Campbell said he named his son after Adolf Hitler because he liked the name and because "no one else in the world would have that name." He sounded surprised by all the controversy the dispute had generated.
Campbell said his ancestors are German and that he has lived his entire life in Hunterdon County. On Tuesday he wore a pair of black boots he said were worn by a German soldier during World War II.
He said he was raised not to avoid people of other races but not to mix with them socially or romantically. But he said he would try to raise his children differently.
"Say he grows up and hangs out with black people. That's fine, I don't really care," he said. "That's his choice."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081217/ap_on_fe_st/odd_hitler_cake

[weasel_master]

http://photos.lehighvalleylive.com/express-times/2008/12/adolf_hitler_cake_adolf_cake_5.html

Seems like he's out for attention. Some people are just creeps.

[wwIIBuff]

Dumb Ass

[RandyCOG3]

I get the feeling that there's some kids that will need psychological counseling, and that WE will have to pay for it.

RandyCOG3

[bigbear77]

If he really believed that, why didn't he give the boy some innocuous name to start out with in life, and let him decide when he's older if he wanted to change it to AH, instead of the other way around? Kids have it hard enough these days without their parents doing stuff like this to them.

[SSwee]

http://photos.lehighvalleylive.com/express-times/2008/12/adolf_hitler_cake_adolf_cake_5.html

Seems like he's out for attention. Some people are just creeps.

The tattoo pic in that link has the swastika backwards. Probably doesn't know stencil work has to be reversed. No he drew a swastika backwards on the fake skull while having a German banner hanging in his house. He's just a dufus.
He's still mad his parents named him Isidore.
SS

[bigbear77]

...his parents named him Isidore.

Perhaps because "Isadork" was too obvious? :wink:

[Player]

The tattoo pic in that link has the swastika backwards. Probably doesn't know stencil work has to be reversed. No he drew a swastika backwards on the fake skull while having a German banner hanging in his house.

Maybe he's a German Buddhist.

[Schultz]

Dumb Ass

+10 :rolleyes:

[robocop10mm]

Oh, it would be more acceptable to name your kid Satan or Chiquita or Shanaynay? Some people are just ignorant.

[SteelCore]

Really?

Ppl should not do this crap to their kids. It is unconscionable.

[brewskzilla]

Two things:

1. Only an asshole would name their kid Adolph Hitler.
2. Only an asshole would deny a child a birthday cake because his parents named him Adolph Hitler.

[Enigma Nostra]

Heres the thing guys... A name is a name. yes it has power, yeah it may kinda be a dick thing to do, in MY opinion, but its his kid. And thus, with our society, he is responsible, along with the mother, for naming it. To deny a cake based upon the name, even if it was for a birthday party for the Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, is discrimination. I may not LIKE what they want to do, but personal feelings should not come into it. For the record I dont support the american nazi movement, I dont endorse them. But in our society they have equal rights until they break the law. That includes the right to service without discrimination. The store made a bad call. If they are going to offer the service to anyone, they are supposed to offer it to everyone that can meet the critera = They have the money for the cake and place their order with enough time.

Shopping Centers hould not be our moral judges.

If we want equality in our society, than someone with the name George Washinton and someone with the name Adolf Hitler need equal rights, up to the point that either one gives up those rights through illegal activitiies, wherethey are to be treated just as fairly as anyone else in the system.

Equality = True Equal Status. Not "Equal Status for the people you like and not the ones you think are nutjobs"

-E

[Patria Povo]

Two things:

1. Only an asshole would name their kid Adolph Hitler.
2. Only an asshole would deny a child a birthday cake because his parents named him Adolph Hitler.

Very succinctly and well said!

[popo]

Heres the thing guys... A name is a name. yes it has power, yeah it may kinda be a dick thing to do, in MY opinion, but its his kid. And thus, with our society, he is responsible, along with the mother, for naming it. To deny a cake based upon the name, even if it was for a birthday party for the Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, is discrimination. I may not LIKE what they want to do, but personal feelings should not come into it. For the record I dont support the american nazi movement, I dont endorse them. But in our society they have equal rights until they break the law. That includes the right to service without discrimination. The store made a bad call. If they are going to offer the service to anyone, they are supposed to offer it to everyone that can meet the critera = They have the money for the cake and place their order with enough time.

Shopping Centers hould not be our moral judges.

If we want equality in our society, than someone with the name George Washinton and someone with the name Adolf Hitler need equal rights, up to the point that either one gives up those rights through illegal activitiies, wherethey are to be treated just as fairly as anyone else in the system.

Equality = True Equal Status. Not "Equal Status for the people you like and not the ones you think are nutjobs"

-E

Bravo!:America:

[Grasshopper]

Awww, it is a great name, Hitler brought Germany out of the depression of the 20s and got the nation to gether to be the strongest military in the world! He had a way with the kiddies too! He taught them to love their country above all things! I wish we had that kind of solidarity here in the old US of A. Oh, and the undeniable fact that he killed over 13 million Jews, christians, Gipsys, mentily frail people, shuldn't be used against him. It was just a personality problem, thats all.
Now, you know that was just sarchasim, so be nice to me. And, yes, Hitler is in hell burning, where this kiddie's dad should be.

[Norton]

[QUOTE=brewskzilla;117527]Two things:

1. Only an asshole would name their kid Adolph Hitler.

. QUOTE]

I wanted to name my German Shepard 'Stalin' but my wife and kids nixed it

[jettag]

and can tell you there are a large number of Neo Nazi's living there.
Not to mention bad gangland $h!t, drugs, poverty, cultural ignorance due to inbreeding, all in all not a pretty place.

We moved so our kids would not be in the Allentown Schools.

[7.62guy]

:America:
Bravo!:America:

that's right

[captlou17]

yes...i too have mixed feelings on this as well...why the f would you name your kid adolph hitler...i mean really now! I have a fair amount of WWII stuff around, but i dont walk around wearing hitlers butler's shoes either-actually, i dont have any hitler shoes around.

second...i agree with the other post...who in the hell do these people think they are to tell me what i can and cant have on my cake...its MY cake. That makes me angry just in itself.

just my .02

lou

[mofocus]

Two things:

1. Only an asshole would name their kid Adolph Hitler.
2. Only an asshole would deny a child a birthday cake because his parents named him Adolph Hitler.

actually i disagree, i wouldnt have made the cake either for several reasons

[okie shooter]

If the guy wasnt makeing a statement by ordering the cake with his full name(who ever gets a decorated cake with more than a first name, even wedding cakes are useally first name, to give some one a decorated cake with their full name would actually be some what impersonal) thus he wanted to make the statement with his sons name, and wanted the publicity, as I imagine he called the news paper too. The store didnt deny the kid a cake, they just refused to print his whole name on the cake. If the father had asked for a "Happy Birthday Adolph" he would have gotten one.

For that thought, its the guys money, if he wasnt happy with what he ordered and their refusal, why not just go to another store or bakery and get what you are willing to pay for, rather than whine to the newspaper that your kid cannot get a cake, as he did find someone easly to give him what he wanted to buy. Where does equal protection clause, or the commerse clause give you rights to force retailers to sell to you what they dont want to sell, heck by that thinking he could have demanded a cake with far more offensive matter and such. If thats the case why can Ebay refuse NAZI related products.

Its your store, you sell what you want to sell, that is some what the basis of this nation too.

P.S. In my opnion he should have changed his own name to Adolph Hilter Cambell if he liked it so much and if he had any real balls to take the flack the name will bring down on his son. Its sad that it was cheaper and easier for him to have a kid and name him over changing his own name.

[nevada]

Buy the cake and put the name on it yourself. Or tell them to leave a space between the two names and add 'Hitler' after you get it. Fair or not, equal or not, "Hitler" is still a despised name for the tragedy he caused most of the world.

My opinion is the kids dad is still mentally 15, his wife is abused, they both are high school drop outs and are on drugs. They've condemned their kids to years of bullying for their own 15 minutes of fame.

It's legal and their right, but that doesn't make it right. Maybe in another hundred years when history isn't so close.

[Patria Povo]

Back in the news:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/14/adolf-hitler-campbell-tak_n_157787.html

[turmanator]

Hey, there's a surprise there! :icon_biggrin:

[Norton]

Where's the love

[robocop10mm]

The store had the right to not decorate the cake. If the kids name was Fu#k Face Cambell, the store would not have decorated the cake either.

Tolerance for a$$holes is acceptance of their stupidity. I do not accept stupidity.

[wwIIBuff]

Very true