Actor Steven Weber says conservatives should face 'Nuremberg-scale' trials

According to self-described "actor" and "wise-ass" Steven Weber, conservatives should face a "Nuremberg-scale trial" for basically disagreeing with President Obama.

In a rambling, unhinged screed at the Huffington Post, Weber writes:

The scale of Right Wing sociopolitical sabotage necessitates a Nuremberg-scale trial for all the corporate agents and treasonous capitalisto-fascist architects of our democracy's current and most pressing misery. From the blatant Republican policy doublespeak emanating from think-tank sponsored word doctors to the outright obstruction and lies expectorated by Republican congressional representatives and senators, the very concept of governance can only be considered once the culprits are removed. Driven to real madness by unadulterated greed they have embraced an ideology, the success of which hinges upon the very ruin of this nation.

Apparently, adhering to the Constitution and expecting the government to live within its means is "sabotage."

Weber seems to think that the country can only be governed when conservatives are done away with permanently.

Newbusters' Jack Coleman adds:

A potential problem with the prosecutions suggested by Weber -- even by the fluid standards of previous show trials conducted by his ideological brethren, Weber's allegations are a tad lacking in specifics. Last I checked, "rhetorical gymnastics" and an "outrageously unhinged attitude" remain legal, most especially in Hollywood where Weber plies his craft, and for which he is abundantly compensated.

But Coleman goes on to show Weber's real complaint:

Boiled to its essence, Weber's complaint appears to be twofold -- that conservatives and Republicans dare to hold different opinions than Obama while not voting in favor of his legislative proposals.

For this, Weber suggests a "Nuremberg-scale trial," thereby comparing conservatives acting entirely within their rights in a free and often boisterous democracy with monsters who engaged in industrial-scale mass murder of innocents. Such a proposal is beyond ignorant, it is obscene. The irony is clearly lost on Weber -- in calling for a trial comparable to those at Nuremberg after World War II, he is acting in a manner reminiscent of the people who stood trial there.