[Vision2020] Cake for 3-year-old Hitler Namesake Denied

[Tom Hansen]

Courtesy of today's (December 17, 2008) Spokesman Review -

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Cake for 3-year-old Hitler namesake denied 

Heath Campbell, left, with his wife Deborah and son Adolf Hitler, 3, pose 
in Easton, Pa., on Tuesday.
http://tinyurl.com/AdolfHitlerCampbell
 
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.

Karen Meleta, a spokeswoman for ShopRite, 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.
 
"We reserve the right not to print anything on the cake that we deem to be 
inappropriate," Meleta said. "We considered this 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.

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I have absolutely no qualms with parents naming their children.  However, 
they should have some degree of respect for thir child's future.

Can you imagine filling out a job application or a school enrollment 
application, where it requests your full name, and entering "JoyceLynn 
Aryan Nation Campbell".  Just what would be the image of the Campbell 
family?

Seeya round town, Moscow.

Thomas Peter Hansen
Moscow, Idaho
 
"For a lapse Lutheran born-again Buddhist pan-Humanist Universalist 
Unitarian Wiccan Agnostic like myself there's really no reason ever to go 
to work."

- Roy Zimmerman


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