Slog - Comments on The Man Who Shot Santa Claus http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_man_who_shot_santa_claus The cover of this month's American Scholar reads: "Meet the World's Most Evil Man." Which sounds like dumb hyperbole until you actually read the article—it makes a pretty good case. I can't exactly recommend you read it too, because it's deeply depressing—about an evil German Evangelical named Paul Schaefer who founded a lil' utopia (32,000 acres) in Chile where he could terrorize, torture, and rape its inhabitants into submission. In exchange for being left alone, Schaefer did lots of Pinochet's dirty work—tortured and executed political dissidents, mostly, who were brought to Schaefer's small kingdom of terror, up in the Chilean... Copyright 2008 Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:33:58 -0800 Sun, 21 Sep 2008 20:44:14 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Little Red Ryan Hood This may have ruined "International Talk Like a Pirate Day" for me.

]]> Little Red Ryan Hood http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_man_who_shot_santa_claus#c1146290 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_man_who_shot_santa_claus#c1146290 History Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:46:22 -0800 Comment by Bellevue Ave This sounds like the plot for a Herzog/Kinski movie

]]> Bellevue Ave http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_man_who_shot_santa_claus#c1146311 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_man_who_shot_santa_claus#c1146311 History Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:52:58 -0800 Comment by flamingbanjo Oh come on, like you've never thought about doing it?

]]> flamingbanjo http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_man_who_shot_santa_claus#c1146323 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_man_who_shot_santa_claus#c1146323 History Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:02:51 -0800 Comment by laterite That's actually pretty funny, for being completely horrible.

]]> laterite http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_man_who_shot_santa_claus#c1146329 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_man_who_shot_santa_claus#c1146329 History Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:05:26 -0800 Comment by ReverendZ I can't believe David Letterman would hire him after this! I'm boycotting CBS.

]]> ReverendZ http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_man_who_shot_santa_claus#c1146331 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_man_who_shot_santa_claus#c1146331 History Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:06:18 -0800 Comment by Banna The horror...the horror.

]]> Banna http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_man_who_shot_santa_claus#c1146345 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_man_who_shot_santa_claus#c1146345 History Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:12:04 -0800 Comment by Julie in Chicago My dad shot the Easter Bunny when I was four.

Well, really, he shot a rabbit in our backyard (we lived in a rural area) the day before Easter. And I just happened to be watching from the window and had it in my little head that that particular rabbit was the Easter Bunny. I went running sobbing to my mom “Daddy killed the Easter Bunny!”…

That is one of my parents favorite stories from when I was a kid. It’s a lot less depressing than the world’s most evil man, so I thought I would share.

]]> Julie in Chicago http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_man_who_shot_santa_claus#c1146346 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_man_who_shot_santa_claus#c1146346 History Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:12:11 -0800 Comment by Mikki @2: That is what I was thinking!!!

]]> Mikki http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_man_who_shot_santa_claus#c1146349 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_man_who_shot_santa_claus#c1146349 History Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:12:46 -0800 Comment by adrian that's totally how i want to live my life. my hero!

]]> adrian http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_man_who_shot_santa_claus#c1146360 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_man_who_shot_santa_claus#c1146360 History Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:18:06 -0800 Comment by Gloria He's like Hitler II.

]]> Gloria http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_man_who_shot_santa_claus#c1146364 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_man_who_shot_santa_claus#c1146364 History Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:20:43 -0800 Comment by elswinger He "lives" in jail. The fucker should be ripped apart by pitbulls dressed as elves.

]]> elswinger http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_man_who_shot_santa_claus#c1146375 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_man_who_shot_santa_claus#c1146375 History Fri, 19 Sep 2008 11:26:43 -0800 Comment by Mike in Olympia I'm sure this guy must be a slog commenter.

]]> Mike in Olympia http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_man_who_shot_santa_claus#c1146484 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_man_who_shot_santa_claus#c1146484 History Fri, 19 Sep 2008 12:34:28 -0800 Comment by Schaefer / Palin '08 Why settle for the lesser of two evils?

]]> Schaefer / Palin '08 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_man_who_shot_santa_claus#c1146543 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_man_who_shot_santa_claus#c1146543 History Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:12:49 -0800 Comment by east coaster I read the whole article. This guy is a classic case of a cult leader- using his charisma to gather a following and then abusing his followers for his own personal gain. Other examples of this are L. Ron Hubbard (the founder of Scientology), Charles Manson, the leader of those Branch Davidians who were smoked out in Waco, and the guy who had all his followers commit group suicide by drinking poisoned Kool-Aid. It's one of the nastiest and most complicated kinds of crimes.

]]> east coaster http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_man_who_shot_santa_claus#c1146676 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_man_who_shot_santa_claus#c1146676 History Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:29:27 -0800 Comment by rgr that I read it too. Seems like a pretty classic case of cult or personality. zzz.

]]> rgr that http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_man_who_shot_santa_claus#c1146977 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/the_man_who_shot_santa_claus#c1146977 History Sat, 20 Sep 2008 13:47:39 -0800 Comment by Robot Thanks for the link, I heard about that guy a couple of years ago, but there wasn't much information about him on-line.

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