ShopRite says No to Adolf Hitler Cake

There are laws against naming your children (or changing your own name) to something inappropriate. Such names referring to: obscenities, "fighting words", racial slurs, bodily functions etc. would be rejected. Nevertheless some parents choose names that are unusual and sometimes a little silly for their kids. Some examples are: Apple Martin, Peerless Price and Poppy Petal. Although there is nothing wrong with any of these names, it may cause the kids some embarrassment or even ridicule from their peers.

However it takes a special kind of parent to name their kids after notorious figures in history. The Campbells are one such couple. They have three young kids:

• Honszlynn Hinler Jeannie Campbell, a girl named for Nazi head Heinrich Himmler, turns 1 in April


• Joycelynn Aryan Nation Campbell, who turns 2 in February.


• Adolf Hitler Campbell who just turned 3

Heath and Deborah Campbell believe that the holocaust never really happened. They have swastikas in each room of their home. In the foyer were boots worn by a Nazi solider named Daniel. They lay next to a skull with a swastika on its forehead. The living room is decorated with war books, German combat knives and, of course, swastikas. There are swastikas on walls, on jackets, on the freezer and on a pillow.

The Campbell home is kept neat aside from scattered toys and other evidence three children live there. It's small, but it's what the Campbells can afford. They live in a rented half of a one-story duplex just outside Milford, a borough in Hunterdon County. They say they aren't racists but believe races shouldn't mix.

Disabilities, the couple says, have left both out of work: Heath Campbell can't landscape or pump gas because he has emphysema, and Deborah can't waitress because she has a bad back. They live on Social Security payments.

The Campbells ran into a problem when they tried to order a cake from their local ShopRite supermarket for their 3-year-old son's birthday cake. 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. That's right the store refused to decorate a cake wishing Adolf Hitler Campbell a happy birthday!

"ShopRite can't even make a cake for a 3-year-old," said Deborah Campbell, 25, who is Heath's wife of three years and the mother of the children. "That's sad."

Karen Meleta, a spokeswoman for the ShopRite located in Greenwich Township, said the grocer tries to meet customer requests but rejects those deemed inappropriate. She said the Campbells had similar requests denied at the same store the last two years and said Heath Campbell previously had asked for a swastika to be included in the decoration. The store has also refused to make a cake bearing the name of Campbell's daughter, JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell, who turns 2 in February.

"We believe the request to inscribe a birthday wish to Adolf Hitler is inappropriate," she said.

The grocer offered to make a cake with enough room for the Campbells to write their own inscription. But the Campbells refused, saying they would have a cake made at the Wal-Mart in Lower Nazareth Township. The Campbells say Wal-Mart made cakes for Adolf's first two birthdays.

A spokeswoman for Wal-Mart said the store won't put anything illegal or profane on a cake but thinks it's important to respect the views of customers and employees.

"Our No. 1 priority in decorating cakes is to serve the customer to the best of our ability," Anna Taylor, the spokeswoman, said from Bentonville, Ark.

Heath Campbell,35, said some people like the names but others are shocked to hear them. "They say, 'He (Hitler) killed all those people.' I say, 'You're living in the wrong decade. That Hitler's gone,'" he said.

"They're just names, you know," he said. "Yeah, they (Nazis) were bad people back then. But my kids are little. They're not going to grow up like that. Other kids get their cake. I get a hard time," he said. "It's not fair to my children. How can a name be offensive?" he asked.

Barry Morrison, a director at the Philadelphia office of the Anti-Defamation League, which works to stop anti-Semitism and bigotry, said the organization had never heard of children named for Hitler, Himmler or Aryan nations. He found the names offensive and commended ShopRite's decision.

The Campbells, Morrison said, "might as well put a sign around their (the children's) neck that says bigot, racist, hatemonger. What's the difference? Why not call the kid Peace or Tranquility or Hope or Acceptance?

"It's doing them (the children) a tremendous disservice, and it's cruel that parents would place these names on children," he said. "It's a mark upon them. It sets them apart for ridicule, derision, attacks.

Robert M. Gordon, a clinical psychologist in Allentown, said the names would hurt the children. "Certainly society is going to be hostile towards those kids, especially when they go to school," Gordon said. More than that, he said, the children would be harmed by their parents' views.

"By the time they get to school, they will already have been damaged," Gordon said. "Any parent that would impose such horrific names on their children is mentally ill, and they would be affecting their children from the day they were born. Only a crazy person would do that."

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. He said his ancestors are German and that he has lived his entire life in Hunterdon County. 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."

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The White House Boys

Is it possible that the bodies of 32 students were buried decades ago in shallow graves on the grounds of a former reform school for boys? Four former students of the school once known as the Florida Industrial School for Boys at Mariana certainly think so. They call themselves the White House Boys. They took their name from the single story concrete building at the school where they claim beatings, tortures, sexual abuse and murders were carried out by guards.

Gov. Charlie Crist of Florida has ordered an investigation into the allegations by the White House Boys. In a letter Crist asked the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to investigate the graves and determine whether any crimes were committed.

"Questions remain unanswered as to the identity of the deceased and the origin of these graves," Crist wrote in his letter to the FDLE.

"The main goal is to determine the location of the graves, who owned the property at the time, and determine if any crimes were committed," FDLE spokesman Kristin Perezluha told CNN.

The White House Boys - Roger Kiser, Michael McCarthy, Bryant Middleton and Dick Colon -who are all now in their 60's, found each other on the Internet, after Kiser started a Web site. They began to talk about experiences at the reform school and eventually decided to go public, and call for an investigation.

What could get a boy sent to the White House? Talking to a black inmate, saying the wrong thing, or having the wrong facial expression at the wrong time could get one sent to the White House building, which contained two rooms where the beatings and abuses took place. One room was for black inmates, the other for whites.

Roger Kiser, in the video below, relates his own experience at the hands of guards in the White House:

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Bryant Middleton's Story:

Reached at his home in the Florida panhandle, Middleton, 64, was told by a CNN producer that the governor ordered the probe.

"My god! That's remarkable. My god! That's all I ever wanted," he said. "That will begin a lot of the healing for those that survived that school."

"Some of us will never get over the brutality, the sexual assaults and the fear. But this is a major step in the right direction," he said.

Middleton told CNN he was "an incorrigible youth of 14 or 15" when he was sent to the reform school for breaking and entering. During a 30-minute phone interview, he recounted story after horrific story about his time there.

Middleton said he took six trips to the concrete White House, where he endured brutal beatings. He says boys were regularly struck with a metal-reinforced double strap with a long wooden handle.

"You could hear it coming through the air and when it hit your body, the pain was unbelievable," he recalled. "They just beat you to the point of unconsciousness, or you could no longer understand what was happening to you."

He recalled another occasion in which he and another boy decided to get drunk. They mixed orange juice with rubbing alcohol. It make Middleton sick and his friend intoxicated. A guard confronted the other boy, and began to treat him roughly, Middleton said.

"He dragged him to the administration building and I never saw him again. He never came back to work or to the cottage," Middleton told CNN. "He literally disappeared off the face of the earth."

Dick Colon's Story:

Dick Colon, 65, is a successful electrical contractor in Baltimore, Maryland. But in the 1950s, he acknowledged, he was a wayward youth who gritted his teeth through 11 beatings inside the White House.

Colon said he remembers entering the laundry one day, and his life, he said, has never been the same. Inside a large tumble dryer, was a black teen. The White House boys, who are all white, told CNN that black kids at the school were beaten even more savagely than white kids.

"I said to myself, 'What's going to happen to me, if I take him out?' " he told CNN. He recalled being about 15 feet away from the boy in the dryer. He thought about helping him, but was afraid.

"I said to myself, I can't do it, cause I'm gonna be the next one in the God-d-- dryer if I take him out," he said. "I turned my back and walked out and it torments me every day of my life."

Colon established an educational trust fund at the same campus, for high academic achievers, today operated by the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice

Michael McCarthy's Story:

The following is an excerpt from a narrative written by Michael McCarthy. It describes the beating he received when he was caught after having run away from the "Florida School for Boys". Read the entire story here.

Pointing to the army cot, the director gave the instructions:

“All right now, son, it’ll go easier on you if you do as I tell you. You’re to lay down on the cot on your belly; turn your face to the wall. If I were you, I’d stuff the corner of that pillow in your mouth. Once we begin, don’t turn your head. Don’t cry out or scream if you do, we start all over again. Place both hands on the cot frame and keep hold of it. Do not try to get up or try to stop us. If you do, we’ll send for some kitchen boys to hold you down. I’d try to stay as relaxed as you can; you’re less likely to be hurt.

Now get this straight in your head. Every boy is told about running away. You knew the punishment; you’ve seen boys brought back to your cottage from here. You knew what to expect when you were caught. So you asked for this...... You best do as I said and stick the corner of that pillow in your mouth.”

Mike caught the pillow corner in his mouth, turned his head flat on its side, shut his eyes, and waited. Seconds, minutes of clenched waiting. His body trembled. Sweat ran under his arms; sweat ran down the crack of his ass, the white-cotton shorts turning damp, clinging to the skin of his buttocks. He lay there in the silence, waiting for it to begin.

The Paddle. Two strips of quarter-inch polished leather, two feet long, over two inches wide, separated by a sixteenth-inch piece of taut, pliant sheet metal. Attached to a four-inch round hand grip, the leather was perforated on either side midway down, with one-eighth-inch holes, ending in a half-inch long taper. The effect brought the whipping weapon down in a cracking slap that drove through the thinness of the cotton shorts, into the upper tissues of the skin. Halfway through the beating, the holes were filled with blood-covered flesh.

The first stroke exploded. The sound like the booming Ka-Pow of a shotgun slammed into his ears as the impact of the blow penetrated into the tissues of his ass. The second stroke was higher, cutting just across the top elastic of his shorts. Crack-Pow. The boom echoed louder off the barren walls; the shock of pain cracked into his lower back. He was driven deeper into the mattress. The mattress and springs pushed his body up to meet the third stroke: Crack-Pow. The skin on the back of his thighs was ripped upward with the stroke’s completing.

Somewhere between the twenty-third and twenty-sixth, he succumbed to deep guttural moaning, biting the pillow deeply so it was tight against his tongue and the roof of his mouth. He knew nothing would ease the pain as the Director, in his practiced, methodical manner, alternated the strokes first to the middle buttocks, then to the back of the legs, then to the small of the back, then hit just one cheek, the tapered end snatching and tearing at the inside of the crevice.

At the thirty-first stroke, the boy went into a state of semi-shock. The blows passed into his body, sending a numbing wave into his groin, on into the mattress, pushing him deep into the springs. At the thirty-sixth stroke the boy lost track of numbers. Then, without apparent reason, after ten or twelve more, it ended.

For the first time since the beginning, the Director spoke: “All right now, get up.”  The boy tried, but nothing moved.  “I said, get on up.” The boy again tried to move his legs, to turn, but nothing worked. “If you don’t get up off that cot like I told you, we’re going to start all over again. Now get up.”

Pulling against the bed frame, Mike moved his body from the cot. Pushing, he turned toward the Director who was already looking out the door to the Colored Boys’ Room where Woody was waiting; the long strap hung hot and ready in his hand. An image of a hard-hewn woodcutter awaiting the next load of logs filled the boy’s mind. Crying, he finally managed to sit upright on the sagging cot......

For more documented accounts of the experiences of other boys at the White House.....Click on this link: 108 Years of Child Cruelty.

The school is now known as the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys. The graves under investigation are located at the end of a dirt road in the back of the school. Each of the more than 30 graves has a white metal cross without any name, date or identifying marks. The White House Boys believe that some of those graves contain the bodies of former students of the school who were beaten to death and buried there.

The Department of Juvenile Justice will cooperate with any investigation, said spokesman Frank Penela.

"We haven't been able to find any information on those graves, we don't know what those graves hold," he said. "I'd like to know what those graves are myself."

There are lingering questions no one seems able to answer: Why was there no outcry from the parents of boys who disappeared? Why did no one look for them?

Colon and Middleton say they're valid questions. They firmly believe that bodies will be found and that they will be the bodies of both black and white boys.

"I believe, in my own heart, that there has been a coverup," Middleton said.

Added Colon, "White, African-American, they're all there ... I believe they will find crushed skulls, and broken bones -- and hopefully, one day, the murderers."

Man Defends his Home with Fox Urine

Scott Wagar, 50, of  Willmar, Minn. had endured 8 years of having his home toilet-papered and egged by neighborhood teens at homecoming.....so he devised a plan. Little did he know that his plan would land him in trouble with the law.

Scott, like any home owner would, decided to defend his property against his youthful adversaries. He got out his gun, loaded it and waited for his attackers to strike. His gun was in fact a squirt gun and his ammo was fox urine.

According to police, on Sept. 16, Wagar used night vision goggles and saw 15-20 people running toward his place. He told them to leave and sprayed them with the fox urine. He also struggled with one teen who he says grabbed him from behind.

Of course this kind of vigilante action attracted the attention of the local police. Scott was arrested. He pleaded not guilty in Kandiyohi County District Court to misdemeanor assault and other charges. He was released on personal recognizance (no bail).

An indignant Scott in an interview with the Associated Press claims he is innocent and had every right to defend his own property. He says groups of teens have been toilet-papering and egging his house during homecoming for about eight years, and each year it gets more destructive. He says he sprayed the kids with a mixture of one-third fox urine and two-thirds water because "it stinks, but it doesn't hurt anything."

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Sarah Palin is No. 1 on Google

As it has done every year, Google has released its lists of the most popular search terms in 2008. It is called The Goggle Zeitgeist (loosely translated as "The Spirit of the Times").  This year the honor goes to Sarah Palin. She heads the worldwide list.

There are, however, many different lists covering categories like Politics, Trendsetters and Sports and countries like New Zealand, Singapore and Findland as well.

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Checkout the entire Google Zeitgeist 2008 here.

Michael Mineo Raped by Cops

Michael Mineo, 24, was spotted allegedly smoking pot by 3 police officers. They tried to approach him. He ran. He fled into the Prospect Park subway station and jumped a turnstile. The cops chased him and caught him. He was handcuffed and pinned down. The cops then proceeded to remove his pants. Two of them held down Mineo while the other one, using his baton, sodomized Mineo as he screamed out in pain.

They ignored Mineo's complaints, even after he showed them his hand covered with blood from the sodomy attack. He was given a ticket for disorderly conduct and released, but not before being warned by the cops that if he ever reported the rape he would be charged with a felony.

Michael Mineo, a tattoo artist from Brooklyn, did report the rape. His case was taken to a grand jury which interviewed more than 20 witnesses and examined physical evidence of injuries to Mineo's rectal area.

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"I was violated by police, and I feel like they're going to be brought to justice," Mineo said after he testified. "I'm not the same. I'm not the same me. I was violated by police."

Mineo was hospitalized two times with what sources described as "rectal tears" as a result of the assault.

One cop - Kevin Maloney -  who had knowledge of the rape came forward and identified Officer Richard Kern, 25, as the cop who used his baton to sodomize Mineo. He also identified Officers Alex Cruz, 26 and Andrew Morales, 26, as the cops who helped restrain Mineo. Another officer, Noel Jugraj, 30, who was also on the scene gave testimony. Kern, Cruz, Morales and Jugraj are all from Brooklyn's 71st Precinct. Kevin Maloney is a transit officer.

After hearing all the evidence the grand jury concluded that Officer Richard Kern should be tried for sexual assault and other felonies in the Oct. 15 attack on Mineo. Officers Alex Cruz and Andrew Morales were also indicted for allegedly participating in a cover up.

Michael Mineo expressed gratitude to the transit cop, Kevin Maloney, for breaking the so-called Blue Wall of silence and telling the grand jury what happened.

"I do appreciate him coming forward," he said. "I'd like to thank him."

Michael Mineo was at the arraignment for the three indicted cops and was taunted by other cops, who had come to show their support. He got into a standoff with some plainclothes officers who called him a faggot. Mineo's response - He clapped sarcastically and blew them kisses.

Richard Kern faces up to 25 years in prison if convicted of aggravated sexual abuse and assault. He was freed on $15,000 bail. Officers Alex Cruz and Andrew Morales were charged with hindering prosecution and obstructing justice. They face four years in prison if convicted and were freed without bond.

Police union chief Patrick Lynch urged the public to withhold judgment until all the facts are in.

"We have earned the benefit of a doubt with our blood and sacrifice," Lynch said.