Good News! Nazi Twin Singers Have Renounced Hate (Thanks To Pot And Bob Dylan)

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by Jon Bershad | 11:48 am, July 19th, 2011

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There’s a lot of depressing news out there this week, most of it involving the ongoing phone hacking scandal that just seems to get worse and worse every day. Doesn’t anything ever get better in this world? Well, fortunately, the News Corp.-owned The Daily has at least one story that features a happy ending as, this weekend, they published a profile of Lamb and Lynx Gaede, the young twins who you may remember as the members of the Nazi-themed folk band Prussian Blue that became infamous a few years back. It turns out that the sisters have renounced the ideals of white supremacy that they used to sing about. Heck, it turns out they’re now a couple of pot-smoking, liberal artists!

In the mid-2000s, the girls were regularly appearing on shows like ABC’s Primetime and shocked America with the cognitive dissonance caused by seeing a band that looked like a couple Dakota Fannings and sounded like Edward Norton’s character in American History X. Like that character, they’ve now seen the light. And they didn’t even need a series of heavy-handed conversations in a prison laundry room to do it.

From The Daily:

“But after enrolling in public school and moving to Montana — a predominantly white state, albeit one with a decidedly hippie-ish vibe — Lamb and Lynx decided they simply no longer believed what they’d been taught.

Their transformation first became evident to Prussian Blue’s fans during the band’s 2006 European tour, a double bill with the Swedish white-power warbler Saga. Along with their familiar repertoire of Skrewdriver covers, racist folktunes glorifying Rudolf Hess and other Aryan “heroes,” and perky bubble-gum ballads about boys and middle school, the girls threw the audience a curve ball — a rendition of Bob Dylan’s ‘Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door.’

‘Mama, put my guns in the ground,’ they sang to a smattering of boos from the crowd of Scandinavian skinheads and other far-right music aficionados. ‘I can’t use them anymore.’”

Maybe they should have sang some tunes from Dylan’s brief born-again Christian phase.

Ha, just kidding. No one likes those albums. Not even Neo-Nazis.

The girls’ story is absolutely fascinating. While their white-supremacist mother feels that their newfound liberalism is most likely a “phase,” she hasn’t tried to stop them. The rest of the movement hasn’t been so friendly however, and the girls have mostly been silent in the public for fear of retribution. Meanwhile, a satirical musical was written about them and is set for a Broadway debut, they’re planning to attend college, and they’ve now set their eyes on another cause: medical marijuana.

Both girls have suffered from bad medical concerns (cancer, scoliosis) and were recently turned on to the pain-relieving effects of pot:

“’I have to say, marijuana saved my life,’ Lynx told me. ‘I would probably be dead if I didn’t have it.’ She discovered pot while recovering from her cancer treatments. She’d been prescribed morphine and OxyContin, which she quit cold turkey. One day when she was having a bout of nausea, a friend offered her a toke. She was reluctant at first. The girls’ biological father had been ‘a druggie’ when they were young, Lynx said.

But the drug worked wonders, and soon Lynx became one of the first five minors to get a medical marijuana card in Montana. Now Lamb has one, too.

Pot has also helped the twins rekindle the creative impulses they once channeled into their music. They’ve both taken up painting — astrological themes, mostly — and Lynx restores furniture. They hope to enroll in college, and intend to dedicate themselves to making medical marijuana legal in all 50 states.”

Even the staunchest of pot prohibitionists would have to agree that this is an improvement over, y’know, Naziism.

So, good luck to the sisters. We wish them well.

You can read the full article by Aaron Gell here and you really should. It’s a fascinating read. Watch a video from their past below:

(h/t Reddit)

Lamb Gaede, Lynx Gaede, The Daily, White Supremacists

Anonymous

There’s a lot of depressing news out there this week, most of it involving the ongoing phone hacking scandal that just seems to get worse and worse every day.

Financial meltdown? What financial meltdown?
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National socialist workers party. Sound familiar libs? The nazi sisters are embracing one form of fascism for another. There “newfound liberalism” is not classic liberalism, but fascism diguised as liberalism. Our current “liberal” government leaders are fascist wolves in sheeps clothing leading usefull idiots just like these. Ladies and gentleman, I give you the nazi twins. Let the name-calling begin.
redleaf

Your kneejerk hated of liberals forces you to overthink everything.
Two neo-Nazi girls have renounced their hatred.
Good for them.
The end.
Anonymous

Read the article- they don’t exactly sound like poster children for liberals- I would be hesitant to put any label them- maybe “teenager” would be adequate. They are articulate, mature and sound as if coming to grips with the hatred they were brought up with and the reality of the real world – not one under the myopic worldview of racism has been a challenge. To come to the understanding, that everything you have been raised to believe is somehow wrong, at the ages of 13 and 14 shows these girls had a very strong sense of self/purpose far above the world of hate they were born into.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_U7T5LVIQK7AMIBM5WI765VDVDQ smald4lib

They need to come to America and instruct the Tea party fascists on how they achcieved there change………

Mussolini: fascism should be called corporatism “ because it is a merger of state and corporate power.” It worked so well Adolf Hitler was named Time magazines’ Man of the Year, February 2, 1939.
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GE + NBC + Obama = Love
Dik Gozinya

Left-wing girl bands are unique also in that they are the descendants of the Democrats who owned slavery.

Unique, but similar.
JMcCarthy

Nazi=Socialist! “Democrat” Party=Socialist! obama=America Hating, Illegal Alien, Communist ie. Socialist, Muslim! There’s a pattern here. It’s no surprise that two bubble-headed Nazi’s would find a home in the Democrat Party.
http://societyfordaintydamsels.wordpress.com/ artemesia

The Gaede twins , Lamb and Lynx liking diversity and humanity sure doesn’t seem like a new form of fascism to me. The Democrats may have owned slavery but that was like 150 years ago or so. If liking diversity and humanity are liberal ideas than that’s fine with me. I think its great the Gaede twins saw the light of the evils of Nazism. I ‘m just hoping that they keep their open minded views. I wish them well with their health concerns as well.
http://societyfordaintydamsels.wordpress.com/ artemesia

The Gaede twins , Lamb and Lynx liking diversity and humanity sure doesn’t seem like a new form of fascism to me. The Democrats may have owned slavery but that was like 150 years ago or so. If liking diversity and humanity are liberal ideas than that’s fine with me. I think its great the Gaede twins saw the light of the evils of Nazism. I ‘m just hoping that they keep their open minded views. I wish them well with their health concerns as well.
Anonymous

I think perhaps you need to ask your grandparents what REAL facism is. They more than likely lived through that era. You don’t seem to have a clue what it really means.
Anonymous

Anyone can SAY they no longer believe this stuff. I’ll believe they’ve renounced their white power leanings when I see them on YouPorn gobbling down a black dong.
Nature Freak

How about smoking herb from a Black D@ng Bong? Is that close enough?
They make them. Google it.
Anonymous

It’s true. That’s why I fly my confederate flag around on my pick-up, show them libs what real America is.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_LRPN6HG2CG2SWZ2H5LK7MJ4BLM phoo

Dylan’s Christian albums have some really great songs on them. Like nothing ever written or sung anywhere else. ”Every Grain of Sand” ”I Believe in You” , even “Lenny” was on one of the Christian albums. DO NOT DIS DYLAN’S Christian albums, they are an essential component of his body of work, his legacy, even still mixed in with who the guy is, every other night, on some great stage on this planet. So, you would do well to RETRACT that silly, off-hand statement.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NWVKX2P2QBPQ6FHQHCHVIC2ALQ Fedup in Florida

The keystone of the Fascist doctrine is its conception of the State, of its essence, its functions, and its aims. For Fascism the State is absolute, individuals and groups relative.
Benito Mussolini
Anonymous

Yes, that’s true. But the objective of the state is also important. Fascism blends corporatism with statism.
Anonymous

Yes, that’s true. But the objective of the state is also important. Fascism blends corporatism with statism.
Josh

I think that the merger of state and corporate power is an aspect of fascism, and it’s important to remember that a number of U.S. banks and corporations were big boosters of Hitler and Mussolini in the Thirties; but the claim that Mussolini said that is a myth.
Josh

Anybody who says “The Nazis were socialists too! We know ’cause they had ‘socialist’ in their name! They called themselves socialists, so it must be so!” is way too trusting of Nazis.