I can't help feeling the scene yesterday when 82-year-old Walter Wolfgang was thrown out of the Labour Party conference was something reminiscent of that if a Jewish person had hecked Adolf Hitler circa 1935.
But this is 2005 and we are not in Nazi Germany. We are in modern Britain, a country that has democracy and free speech.
Walter himself had to flee Nazi Germany in 1937 and has been a Labour member for 52 years. But when it came to him heckling the word "nonsense" during Jack Straw's speech to Labour supporters in Brighton, he had to face the wrath of Labour's SS - stupid stewards who ejected him, despite his frailness.
Labour leader and PM Tony Blair has refused to meet Walter, but did said sorry.
"I can't do anything more than apologise profusely," he said.
Mr Blair, there is much more you can do. You can meet him and say sorry to Walter's face.
Updates:
Plenty of coverage everywhere on this. Just Google News for "Walter Wolfgang" to find it.
Progressive British Asian blog Picked Politics has made Walter its Hero of the Week.
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