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Old 12-16-2008, 08:05 PM
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Cake request for 3-year-old Hitler Namesake Denied

EASTON, Pa. (AP) — 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.

A store manager at ShopRite referred questions to a corporate spokeswoman who did not immediately return a phone message Tuesday. But spokeswoman Karen Meleta told The Easton Express-Times for Sunday's editions that the store considered Campbell's request 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.

Campbell said his ancestors are German and that he has lived his entire life in Hunterdon County. On Tuesday he wore a pair of black boots he said were worn by a German soldier during World War II.

He said he was raised not to avoid people of other races but not to mix with them socially or romantically. But he said he would try to raise his children differently.

"Say he grows up and hangs out with black people. That's fine, I don't really care," he said. "That's his choice."


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Old 12-16-2008, 08:36 PM
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Spot the looney..........
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Old 12-16-2008, 08:44 PM
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Old 12-16-2008, 08:44 PM
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Oh well,guess I'll have to settle for Josef Stalin Hughes if I have a little bugger.
Or maybe Eichmann Goebbels,there's a tongue twister by golly.
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Old 12-16-2008, 08:46 PM
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Ya, why make the kid suffer any more than he already will. Give him the damn cake with his full name on it. No harm done.
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What a ****** fool. Living proof that, other than viable sperm, there is no prerequisite to fatherhood.
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What a ****** fool. Living proof that, other than viable sperm, there is no prerequisite to fatherhood.
Exactly,why not just cut to the chase and call him"Jew Killer Campbell".
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Aside from the issue of the poor parenting, the cake is simply a matter of a private contract. If the store wants to make the cake, so be it. If the store declines to make the cake, then so be it, too.
Its not a matter for government to involve itself.
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Old 12-16-2008, 09:27 PM
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Wow thats surprising. Quite an odd choice of names. Why anyone would put their kids through tht is beyond me.

Bets as to how old the kids get before legally changing their names?
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How the names of the other 2 children? Joycelynn Aryan Nation and Honszlynn Hinler (sic) Jeannie. Sieg Hieil!
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Old 12-16-2008, 09:58 PM
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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.

On Tuesday he wore a pair of black boots he said were worn by a German soldier during World War II.

He said he was raised not to avoid people of other races but not to mix with them socially or romantically. But he said he would try to raise his children differently.

WTF are they serious!? Thats appalling.

Naming the son is one thing but the daughter really just leaves nothing to question about their stance on history and beliefs.

I agree the grocery store has a right to refuse service. They can have their cake but just won't write on it similarly with offensive or obscene words or images.
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Old 12-16-2008, 10:20 PM
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