I would have never guessed

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1. pandora says:

   January 14, 2009 at 10:13 am

   I really hope they have a valid case against these people and that this act wasn’t media driven. Let’s not turn these nut cases into victims.

2. Reis says:

   January 14, 2009 at 10:19 am

   How about Don “Stud Muffin” Viti, Jr. as a name?

3. Von Cracker says:

   January 14, 2009 at 10:30 am

   “Little Hitler”

   Oh so very cute!

4. Dorian Gray says:

   January 14, 2009 at 10:41 am

   Look, naming your kid after one of the most despicable butchers of recent memory is mentally abusive. Period.

5. Von Cracker says:

   January 14, 2009 at 10:56 am

   Quite abusive, indeed.

   If the parents wanted to make a statement, they should have changed their own names….

6. Unstable Isotope says:

   January 14, 2009 at 12:28 pm

   I’m with you pandora. I hope it’s not just because they are unpopular. However, they did seem like very strange people – insisting that his full name go on the cake. I wouldn’t be surprised if they don’t have good judgment.

7. Susan Regis Collins says:

   January 14, 2009 at 4:13 pm

   If they preferred the name “Adolf” all is well.

   It’s the surname added as a middle name in juxaposition with Adolf. It is my observation that at one point the ‘given name’ of Adolf was a popular, if not common, given name in parts of Europe before WW II.

   To curse a child with the name Adolp Hitler (even in 2009) is criminal and should be prosecuted to the nth degree.

   I believe the state should remove the kids for good—take their parental ‘rights’. My hope is that there is extended family to support the children through this horror. If I were on the bench jail time would be in order too.

   Back in the day I would have taken a more lenient position. But as the Japanese say: ‘the nail that sticks up gets pouned down.’ In this case I agree. There is a slim thread of national standards that binds us together and that must be preserved. For Americans to accept the ‘Aryan’ types would be to support the aims of a groups that is racist by definition.

   Our new president is African American. For citizens to support the Aryian nation would be treasonous.

8. h. says:

   January 14, 2009 at 4:34 pm

   WTF ??? Although I do not agree with their choice of name, they do have the freedom to choose that name.

   Treasonous. How so?

9. cassandra_m says:

   January 14, 2009 at 4:56 pm

   I still can’t tell why these kids were taken from their parents. The names are certainly whack, but I don’t think that you want to start any government down a path to approve or disapprove of kids’ names…..

10. h. says:

    January 14, 2009 at 4:57 pm

    There is definately more to it.

11. Von Cracker says:

    January 14, 2009 at 4:58 pm

    2 to 1 that daddy’s a meth-head…he has “that look”! 😀

12. h. says:

    January 14, 2009 at 5:00 pm

    Meth eyes.

13. Sharon says:

    January 14, 2009 at 8:27 pm

    How is it criminal to give your child a weird name? I’m not advocating what these people did–it is cruel–but I really don’t want the government deciding what names we can give our children and which names are, shall we say, verboten.

    BTW, there are countries that regulate such things. France requires the names of saints or those of history. And some countries have actual lists of approved names. This is so foreign to American ideology that the cure is as poisonous as the problem.

14. MJ says:

    January 14, 2009 at 9:14 pm

    I thought the same thing, Von Cracker.