There are more people who believe in "conspiracy theories" than you may think. Question everything you're told. If it doesn't make sense, then something is wrong. Do some research and investigate!
"It never fails, there are always people out there who never check into the evidence, they simply reject it and then commit themselves to making ad hominem attacks and trying to make us rational people appear to be tinfoil hat-wearing clowns." -- Jon
"When the government fears the people, you have liberty. When the people fear the government, you have tyranny." ~ President Thomas Jefferson
"Purposeful domestic resistance" would require military to "rapidly determine the parameters defining the legitimate use of military force inside the United States.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 (PrisonPlanet) -- A recent report produced by the U.S. Army War College's Strategic Institute warns that the United States may experience massive civil unrest in the wake of a series of crises which it has termed "strategic shock."
The report, titled Known Unknowns: Unconventional Strategic Shocks in Defense Strategy Development, also suggests that the military may have to be used to quell domestic disorder.
"Widespread civil violence inside the United States would force the defense establishment to reorient priorities in extremis to defend basic domestic order and human security," the report, authored by [Ret.] Lt. Col. Nathan Freir, reads.
"Deliberate employment of weapons of mass destruction or other catastrophic capabilities, unforeseen economic collapse, loss of functioning political and legal order, purposeful domestic resistance or insurgency, pervasive public health emergencies, and catastrophic natural and human disasters are all paths to disruptive domestic shock." it continues.
Concentration Camp Survival Guide 01 -- There is a LONG LIST OF FEMA DETENTION CAMPS in this web page along with a video. YOU *MUST* SEE THIS TO BELIEVE IT!!! THIS IS SOME SCARY !#$%!!!
Rex 84 -- "a plan by the United States federal government to test their ability to DETAIN LARGE NUMBERS of AMERICAN CITIZENS in case of civil unrest or national emergency." a.k.a. MARTIAL LAW!
Then they came for those suspected of terrorism, but I certainly wasn't a suspect so I stayed silent and went about my business.
Then they came for those who defended those who were suspected of terrorism, but I wasn't defending such people so I stayed silent and went about my business.
Then, one day, they came and began to "suspect" me, so I stayed very, very silent and went about my business.
And that is how I lost my soul."
"The most powerful weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed..." -- Steven Biko
Background: the First Brigade of the Third Infantry Division, three to four thousand soldiers, has been deployed in the United States as of October 1. Their stated mission is the form of crowd control they practiced in Iraq, subduing "unruly individuals," and the management of a national emergency. I am in Seattle and heard from the brother of one of the soldiers that they are engaged in exercises now. Amy Goodman reported that an Army spokesperson confirmed that they will have access to lethal and non lethal crowd control technologies and tanks.
George Bush struck down Posse Comitatus, thus making it legal for military to patrol the U.S. He has also legally established that in the "War on Terror," the U.S. is at war around the globe and thus the whole world is a battlefield. Thus the U.S. is also a battlefield.
Today, more than 23,000 representatives of private industry are working quietly with the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security. The members of this rapidly growing group, called InfraGard, receive secret warnings of terrorist threats before the public does -- and, at least on one occasion, before elected officials. In return, they provide information to the government, which alarms the ACLU. But there may be more to it than that. One business executive, who showed me his InfraGard card, told me they have permission to "shoot to kill" in the event of martial law. InfraGard is "a child of the FBI," says Michael Hershman, the chairman of the advisory board of the InfraGard National Members Alliance and CEO of the Fairfax Group, an international consulting firm.
It is common knowledge that a large number of Americans are apathetic about many issues which may harm them. What they don't realize is how they came to be this way and why.
The REAL truth is... people are AFRAID to know the REAL truth!!! They are afraid to take the RED pill!! What they are actually afraid of is TRUTH that challenges their brainwashed concept of reality!!!
I am constantly trying to get people to "wake up" and free their minds. People like to "brush off" any coincidental facts which challenge their belief systems. However, these facts are presented in a way as to make them be seen as conspiracy "theories" when in fact they are very real conspiracies.
For those who have a hard time believing these facts, let me throw this impossible to "brush off" fact at you... but WATCH OUT because this one is going to sting a bit!!! This is just to show you how much the Bush administration REALLY "supports" our troops!
The next time you hear someone tell you how great President George W. Bush is... Just remind them of this! If this were just one incident, it would be coincidental, HOWEVER, this is but one incident out of an inconceivable number that have happened since George W. Bush has been President!
Now that you have one eye cracked open a bit... Why not open it even further by watching the video's listed at the top of this page. Ever heard the saying, "Everything you know is wrong." ...Think about that for a minute... It's not our fault that we are brainwashed.
One reason that we are brainwashed is because Ruppert Murdoch owns half of the media in this country, along with about six other corporations. You can challenge this, but will you? Or are you to apathetic to do anything?
Welcome to the age of mind control. It's been here for a while. Now if only we can realize how brainwashed we really are!
Here are SIX different DOCUMENTED times that a flase-flag attack was either planned or carried out against the American citizens by their own government in order to rally support for an agenda that can only become a reality through a fear campaign. And these are ONLY the ones that we KNOW about!
There is a great deal of skepticism about whether these events could be false-flag operations. So, to start off, I will give SOLID PROOF that, yes indeed, this is factual information. Just keep in mind the impact there would be if "everyday people" knew what really happened with some of these events! Do you think this would have any bearing on why psy-opdisinformation campaigns are used to confuse people and obliterate the truth?
Questions have been raised about whether these events were in fact false-flag operations. However, anyone who studies the evidence can learn the truth.
And, of course, this list would not be complete without including the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. You have probably seen some films about the JFK assassination, but do you REALLY know the REAL truth? Here I present to you something to seriously challenge what you THINK you know about the JFK assassination!
But first, a few words from the conspirator-in-chief himself, Geroge H.W. Bush. Remember, his father DIRECTLY FINANCED Hitler!
You may not now have time to watch all of the following video, but PLEASE come back and watch it! Do it for everything that is dear to you... Knowledge is power! Study these facts. Do some research on your own! LEARN THIS INFORMATION!!!
Once again, I have provided you with information that is meant to challenge your beliefs. Whether you investigate these facts is totally up to you. It is way to easy to "brush off" concepts which challenge your beliefs... doing this, however, is the procrastination which is keeping you from the truth!
News Conference representatives want to "Tear Down the Wall of Secrecy"
Recently, in Ottawa, Canada, on Monday, 20 August 2007 the Coalition to Block the North American Union, presented an excellent and well documented News Conference about what the Security and Prosperity Partnership (SPP) is all about. The SPP appears to be an apparent attempt by clique a associated with the U.S. Bush administration, to seize power over Canada, the U.S. and Mexico in much the same way that Adolf Hitler had seized power in Germany in the early 1930's. The Bush administration, like Adolf Hitler, is seeking to seize power through a contrived fear, that can be used to isolate and then defeat its enemies, with the support of greed-driven Big Business interests, military commanders, organized Christian religious leaders, power hungry intellectuals, and corrupted political officials.
The "War of Terrorism", and its SPP manifestation is indeed scripted from Hitler's Nazi ideology.
It is evident that the SPP, is an apparent attempt by a U.S.-based political-military-industrial complex, to fuse the power of Big Business interests and government. It is inspired by a Nazi Economic Program of controlled capitalism and military expansionism, for resources to further aid more sought never ending expansionism toward Global Conquest.
On 16th August, radio talk show host Alex Jones went on air to give what he described as his most important broadcast message.
Throughout the US there has been increased talk in the media of special measures to be implemented in the event of a natural or man made disaster. A KLSA news report from 16 August has the following headline:
"Homeland Security Enlists Clergy to Quell Public Unrest if Martial Law Ever Declared."
The video from the emergency meeting that was held in Seattle, Washington on Wednesday, August 1st, will be shown on Seattle's Local Public Access Channel, SCANTV.ORG, ONLY on Thursday, August 9, 2007, at 10:00 pm PACIFIC time on cable channel 77.
If you check the schedule the show will be aired during the time slot labeled "Social Justice Television (Political), Length: 0:58"
If you will read these two articles, you will understand this issue is of the UTMOST IMPORTANCE!
"Once this (latest Bush Executive Order) becomes law, he has all the tools Hitler and Stalin had to keep their respective populations in utter subjection to their will." Read the complete article: 30 days to absolute tyranny ...EVEN LESS TIME NOW!!!
"First they came for the terrorists but I wasn't a terrorist so I stayed silent and went about my business.
Then they came for those suspected of terrorism, but I certainly wasn't a suspect so I stayed silent and went about my business.
Then they came for those who defended those who were suspected of terrorism, but I wasn't defending such people so I stayed silent and went about my business.
Then, one day, they came and began to "suspect" me, so I stayed very, very silent and went about my business.
And that is how I lost my soul."
Here is more information about these issues:
Friday, July 20, 2007 JEFF KOSSEFF The Oregonian Staff -- Source: The Oregonian
WASHINGTON -- Oregonians called Peter DeFazio's office, worried there was a conspiracy buried in the classified portion of a White House plan for operating the government after a terrorist attack. As a member of the U.S. House on the Homeland Security Committee, DeFazio, D-Ore., is permitted to enter a secure "bubbleroom" in the Capitol and examine classified material. So he asked the White House to see the secret documents. On Wednesday, DeFazio got his answer: DENIED. "I just can't believe they're going to deny a member of Congress the right of reviewing how they plan to conduct the government of the United States after a significant terrorist attack," DeFazio says. Homeland Security Committee staffers told his office that the White House initially approved his request, but it was later quashed. DeFazio doesn't know who did it or why. "We're talking about the continuity of the government of the United States of America," DeFazio says. "I would think that would be relevant to any member of Congress, let alone a member of the Homeland Security Committee." Bush administration spokesman Trey Bohn declined to say why DeFazio was denied access: "We do not comment through the press on the process that this access entails. It is important to keep in mind that much of the information related to the continuity of government is highly sensitive." Norm Ornstein, a legal scholar who studies government continuity at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, said he "cannot think of one good reason" to deny access to a member of Congress who serves on the Homeland Security Committee. "I find it inexplicable and probably reflective of the usual, knee-jerk overextension of executive power that we see from this White House," Ornstein said. This is the first time DeFazio has been denied access to documents. DeFazio has asked Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., to help him access the documents. "Maybe the people who think there's a conspiracy out there are right," DeFazio said.
Executive Order: Blocking Property of Certain Persons Who Threaten Stabilization Efforts in Iraq http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/07/20070717-3.html
The outrageous gutting of FISA-- the foreign intelligence surveillance act. And by "foreign" they now mean domestic. Because if you are inside the US making an international call, the government can now monitor that call with only the approval of Alberto Gonzales, the Torture Guy.
The United States has been criticized for trying to shut down North Korea and Iran's nuclear programs while simultaneously supporting the nuclear programs of India and Israel.
Dick Cheney and others have been stating that a nuclear attack on the U.S. is looming, highly probable.
Part of the war-gaming has been to determine how Americans will react through the use of extremely advanced computer modeling using over 2 million computer modeled "people." Most likely modeling the best way to implement MARTIAL LAW in the United States with the least amount of resistance!
Here's part of what Bush's declaration says:
"Catastrophic Emergency" means any incident, regardless of location, that results in extraordinary levels of mass casualties, damage, or disruption severely affecting the U.S. population, infrastructure, environment, economy, or government functions;"
Notice the very last paragraph: (24) Security. This directive and the information contained herein shall be protected from unauthorized disclosure, provided that, except for Annex A, the Annexes attached to this directive are classified and shall be accorded appropriate handling, consistent with applicable Executive Orders.
In other words, there is a lot more to this [that] they are not going to tell us. Oh, you know, things like the locations of the internment camps, and who will be in charge for martial law if there is an attack that takes out Washington D.C. and/or the President.
Pastor "believes a new 9/11 crisis could be the catalyst to merge the U.S., Mexico and Canada."
"The memoirs of Jean Monnet, regarded as the architect of European unity, finally disclosed he had used a strategy of deceit, knowing his plan to form a European Union would never succeed if it were openly disclosed."
These English men seemed to think that the Government should be beholden to its citizens and not the other way around. These days, we cannot even imagine a government whose number one priority is its citizens. Apparently, those English men felt so strongly about this issue that they decided to commit treason! Can you believe that? Surely they considered the consequences of their actions. In law, treason is the crime of disloyalty to one's nation.
Here's an excerpt from their letter of intent to commit treason:
"WE hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness -- That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed, that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these Ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its Foundation on such Principles, and organizing its Powers in such Form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."
President Thomas Jefferson said, "When the government fears the people, you have liberty. When the people fear the government, you have tyranny."
Today, some people think it is a good idea to trade Liberty for Security! Do these misguided people remember what Benjamin Franklin said? "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
"There ought to be limits to freedom." -- George W. Bush, May 21, 1999
Pastor "believes a new 9/11 crisis could be the catalyst to merge the U.S., Mexico and Canada."
"The memoirs of Jean Monnet, regarded as the architect of European unity, finally disclosed he had used a strategy of deceit, knowing his plan to form a European Union would never succeed if it were openly disclosed."
"I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of the freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." -- James Madison (1751-1836)
"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free." -- Goethe (1749-1832)
"What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who will not make the little sacrifice that is needed to free themselves from their own individual bondage." -- Bruce Barton (1886-1967)
"The basic test of freedom is perhaps less in what we are free to do than in what we are free not to do." -- Eric Hoffer (1902-1983)
The question really shouldn't be whether or not Bush would try to become a dictator. The question should be whether or not he can. Can Bush, using the laws and directives which are already in place, become a dictator? It is very difficult to find evidence supporting the statement, "No he can't become a dictator." It is relatively easy to find evidence supporting the statement, "Yes, he CAN become a dictator."
The hardest speech to protect is the kind you dislike the most. Just like me, most any person would think the behavior of the two girls in this video is horrible. However, would those same people fight for the girls' right to speak?
Free speech is one of the most important rights that Americans have. It would be very easy to try to have hate-speech banned. That's why it is so important to fight for the rights of everyone without being selective of only the types of people who say things you like. Once you start trying to ban the types of speech that you don't like, you open the door for others to ban the types of speech that you like!
What is interesting to notice here, especially for those who find this video to be shocking, is how you can very easily notice the girls racist, pro-hitler, nazi hate-speech propaganda, but could you easily hear the propaganda if they were talking about Jesus? The movie Jesus Camp exposes this same type of propaganda being taught to kids as what you can see with the nazi girls. It is people taking advantage of others naiveity. If you don't understand what I am saying, think about it a little and then think about it a lot! Then think about how people have been brainwashed into doing things any "normal" person would never do such as people who trade their Liberty for Security!
As we look back at the path Hitler took to power (notice how it seems to match the Bush administrations game plan), let us not forget the tragedy that happened in the United States during World War II.
Quote from the article:
"Manzanar was the first of 10 Japanese-American internment camps established west of the Mississippi during World War II. It opened in March 1942, a few weeks after President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, authorizing relocation and internment of anyone who might be seen as a threat to the U.S. war effort. There were no relocation camps for German Americans or Italian Americans."
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It appears that this story was originally printed in the The San Diego Union-Tribune on July 23, 2006. Here is the article:
These are all streaming video's. It is possible to download most of them.
Oil, Smoke and Mirrors - MUST SEE!!! -- Not only does this documentary provide clear evidence, but clear motive. The oil grab in the Middle East is an obvious motive for the neocons to initiate 911. This is a very well produced doc, with high level government officials and authoritative experts. Motive is very important aspect for people new to the 911 issue. That is covered well in this movie. Length: 00:49:42 More Info
911 Mysteries - MUST SEE!!! -- Demolitions -- The 9/11 picture is not one of politics or nationalism or loyalty, but one of strict and simple physics. How do you get a 10-second 110-story pancake collapse? A movie that might actually reach our complacent mainstream. No agenda. No finger-pointing. Just the facts and the "mysteries." Length 1:30:41 More Info
911 The Road to Tyranny -- The Road to Tyranny exposes: * Why the USA Patriot Act is unconstitutional and un-american * How dozens of FBI and defense intelligence agents were threatened with arrest by the federal government if they got in the way of al-qaeda operations * How the CIA trained, funded and protected Bin Laden * Why the Government leaves our borders wide-open but tells us to give up our liberties for security and that more terrorist attacks are imminent * FBI training manuals that are being given to police departments that state that christians, gun owners, and "those who make frequent references to the us constitution" are terrorists The Government needed a crisis to convince the people to willingly give up their liberty in exchange for safety. This is one film you cannot afford to ignore. The future of free people everywhere is at stake. Length: 2:24:29 More Info
TerrorStorm - MUST SEE!!! -- Alex Jones' new movie exposing London's 7/7 bombing and 9/11 as self inflicted wounds. Length 1:52:21 More Info
Iraq For Sale - MUST SEE!!! -- The explosive documentary that reveals how corporations are getting in close with government officials in order to siphon billions of dollars from tax payers! More Info
American Blackout - MUST SEE!!! -- This is what the GOP REALLY doesn't want you to see!!! This covers how the GOP disenfranchised voters across the country to manipulate the results of the elections!!! WOW!!! You HAVE to watch this!!!
Loose Change 2nd Edition -- www.seeloosechange.com -- It is your duty to watch this film! Translated into 13 languages!!! (Spanish Unavailable) Length 1:21:50
TAKE BACK THE CAPITOL - A vibrant hip hop beat throbs to flash cuts of angry citizens voicing their dissent to the party in power. The camerawork is deft and the look sleek, with jolts of animation punctuating sound bites of disaffected voters speaking their minds. Dozens of man-in-the-street interviews build with increasing intensity toward an anthem-like crescendo.
Eminem's Mosh Continues - the New Ending - This is a very moving video by Eminem that was originally shown before the 2004 elections. This video is an updated version of the original, which greatly influenced the younger generation to get out and vote in 2004.
911: Press For Truth -- Share this film with everyone you know. This is the one of the best films available to expose 911 as an inside job. Length 1:24:15 More Info
Martial Law 911: Rise of the Police State -- Out of the ashes of the September 11th tragedy, a dark empire of war and tyranny has risen. The Constitution has been shredded and America is now a Police State. This film exposes not just who was behind the 9-11 attacks, but the roots and history of its orchestrator's. Shows how top Bush Administration officials have direct links to Hitler! Video footage of Skull and Bones ceremonies. This is a very sobering video and well worth watching!!! Length 2:35:42 More Info
911 EyeWitness -- Learn the truth about what happened at the World Trade Center on 911 from eyewitness testimony and scientific analysis. Length 1:44:04 More Info
The RNC's feeble attempt to equate Hitler and Democrats was short-lived, but it brings to mind the first American Vice President to point out the "American fascists" among us.
"The really dangerous American fascists," Wallace wrote, "are not those who are hooked up directly or indirectly with the Axis. The FBI has its finger on those. The dangerous American fascist is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power."
In early 1944, the New York Times asked Vice President Henry Wallace to, as Wallace noted, "write a piece answering the following questions: What is a fascist? How many fascists have we? How dangerous are they?"
Vice President Wallace's answer to those questions was published in The New York Times on April 9, 1944, at the height of the war against the Axis powers of Germany and Japan.
A four part article recently penned by, Lonna Gooden Vanhorn, brilliantly illustrates how Hitler and now Bush, uses fear, shunning of intellectualism, patriotism, flag waving and blind nationalism, marginalization or extermination of the poor and infirmed, wild propaganda, lies and demagoguery to create empires of great threat to the world and even humanity itself.
Who is in control of our country? President George W. Bush? THINK AGAIN!!! He may be the United States President, but he is methodically implementing the plans of the Project for the New American Century (PNAC) outlined in PNAC's policy document, "Rebuilding America's Defences" which openly advocates for total global military domination! Read the red box at the top right of this web page about Julius Caesar!
From the news reports of the past few weeks, the United States of America is starting to sound like Germany right before Hitler took control! Especially in light of this organizations successful efforts getting their plans carried out so far!
Many PNAC members hold highest-level positions in the George W. Bush administration!!! Like it or not, this group is more or less in control of our country right now!!! To what extent do you think they will go to REMAIN IN CONTROL of the United States of America?!
They planned to invade Iraq years before terrorists attacked the World Trade Center!!! After reading their plans, which are openly available on the Internet, it makes you wonder if this group had something to do with that attack!
The U.S. Senate's senior Constitutional scholar has correctly equated Bush with Hitler, and the usual attack dogs are howling. But they are wrong, and Americans must now face the harsh realities of an increasingly fascist and totalitarian GOP.
Octogenarian Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia made the equation in the context of Bush's attack on Senate procedures which might slow or halt his on-going attempt to pack the courts with extreme right-wing fanatics. Byrd said Bush's moves to destroy time-honored Senate rules parallel Hitler's ramming fascist legislation through his gutted Reichstag. "Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality," said Byrd. "He recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side. Instead, he turned the law inside out and made illegality legal."
Anti-Defamation League Director Abraham Foxman has played the holocaust card for the Republicans, saying "It is hideous, outrageous and offensive for Senator Byrd to suggest that the Republican Party's tactics could in any way resemble those of Adolph Hitler and the Nazi Party.
GOP Chair Ken Mehlman has labeled Byrd's remarks "reprehensible and beyond the pale," remarks joined by Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum. Santorum is best known for equating sexuality between consenting gays with bestiality between humans and dogs.
But Byrd is one of the few in either house of Congress to truly understand the Constitution and to advocate for the Bill of Rights. He points out that like Hitler, Bush is pursuing a strategy designed to win absolute rule by one party and one leader. Hitler's central slogan "Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuhrer" -- one people, one government, one dictator -- accurately describes the current GOP strategy of Karl Rove, Bush's Joseph Goebbels.
Now the Republicans have renominated extreme right-wing judges to high courts from which they were barred prior to the 2004 election. With enhanced majorities in Congress, the GOP is moving to gut rules put in place to protect the rights of minorities within the government. For the GOP, as for Hitler, such safeguards are annoying barriers to absolute power.
These judges are consistent in their eagerness to protect the power and privilege of private corporations at the public expense, while simultaneously promoting the invasion of individual rights by the government. Masquerading as "free market/small government" advocates, GOP conservatives -- like Hitler's Nazis -- promote an all-powerful central government run by and for the corporations that sponsor them while crushing individual rights and liberties.
While Bush advocates for "democracy" overseas, the GOP is crushing it at home. These judicial nominees mean to further solidify Republican control of the court system, which they have added to their grip on the Executive, both houses of Congress and the media. The GOP is also gutting safeguards within the FBI and CIA, turning them into a personal police force that could parallel Hitler's Gestapo.
Because the regime wraps itself in the rhetoric of our democratic roots, it's emotionally difficult for Americans to equate Bush with Hitler. He is not, after all, running death camps like the ones Hitler used to exterminate millions of Jews, Gypsies, gays, unionists, Jehovah Witnesses, the elderly and infirm, birth defected and handicapped. But the distinction may be lost on the tens of thousands of Iraqis who have died in the wholesale slaughter there, and whose land has been carpeted with radioactive depleted uranium which will kill for centuries.
Bush is now operating a classic concentration camp in Guantanamo. This infamous holding center operates entirely outside the rule of law, with prisoners held without charge, without evidence, without access to attorneys, family or the outside world.
At Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib and elsewhere -- including the US "civilian" prison system -- the door has been opened onto the Nazi world of officially sanctioned torture and systematic human degradation. The new Attorney General of the United States has explicitly endorsed their use. Despite some phony genuflections to the contrary, Bush has renounced the Geneva Accords and has clearly stamped this most notorious Nazi trademark on a party also in love with the death penalty.
Bush now holds some 2.2 million prisoners in the US gulag, the world's biggest prison population since the Nazis both by absolute number and by percentage of population. At least 800,000 Americans are held for victimless "drug" crimes, including marijuana. Thousands die each year from torture, rape, suicide and treatable disease. The system is designed to remove from the political process and, in many cases, exterminate people of color, alternative life style and political dissidence.
Is this worthy of the Nazi label?
Fascism has long been clearly and simply defined as corporate control of the state, with strong totalitarian, militaristic, anti-feminist and anti-gay characteristics.
Both Mussolini's Fascists and Hitler's Nazis used acts of terror and alleged terror to grab absolute power. Ranting at Bolshevism as the GOP now does against Islam, the Nazis used the burning of the Reichstag much as the GOP has capitalized on the terror attacks of September 11.
George W. Bush does not spellbind huge Goebbels-massed rallies as Hitler did. But he does not tolerate groups that might ask embarrassing questions, and has packed the nation's bloviator corps with servile panderers. Rove uses the mass media to manipulate and deceive in ways suited to the trappings of American culture as surely as Goebbels shaped Hitler's speeches to the German volksgeist.
Bush has courted both people of color and Jews. But his far right fundamentalist backers see all non-believers as children of Satan who must ultimately perish in a "cleansing" Armageddon that will allow only the chosen few into Heaven. Amidst the psychotic twists of the Book of Revelations, these are people who love Israel but hate Jews and all the other "un-saved." At its core, there is little to distinguish today's far-right Christian fundamentalism from Hitler's Aryan master racism.
The Bush/Rove view of science parallels that of Stalin. The Soviets slaughtered researchers whose data failed to confirm their theories. Today's GOP demands scientists fit their findings to the Bush/Rove gospel. The Bush EPA, Fish & Wildlife Service and other agencies routinely assault those who challenge corporate destruction of the earth. Despite the long-standing consensus on global warming, Bush's faith-based corporate-sponsored climatology insists CO2 emissions are no problem, the scientific equivalent of claiming the Nazi Holocaust never happened.
Like Hitler, Bush believes he talks to and for God. He has said at least twice in public that he does not oppose dictatorship as long as he can be the dictator. His family has long, well-documented financial and political ties to the Nazi regime, as well as to Osama bin Laden and a long list of oil-rich Islamic fundamentalists.
Senator Byrd's invocation of the Nazis to describe the Bush regime may be considered impolitic. But it's folly to ignore the important parallels.
By all accounts American democracy is hanging by a thin thread which Bush/Rove is laboring mightily to cut.
Sen. Robert Byrd is a conservative, uniquely learned man. When he equates Bush with Hitler, he speaks with great sadness and scholarship -- and must be heeded.
As those "W" bumper stickers morph into swastikas in the killing fields of Guantanamo, Iraq, and the American prison system, we must, at Sen. Byrd's urging, revive recent history's most vital vow: "Never Again."
-- Many of Harvey Wasserman's relatives perished in the Nazi holocaust. His HISTORY OF THE US is at http://www.harveywasserman.com.
"Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear." --Harry S. Truman
Is History Repeating Itself?
"Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I have done. And I am Caesar."