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The following is really just a comment. A comment I made in reply to another Newsviner on a thread about the "Good Germans". My comment became so complicated and personally important that I presumed to publish to the entire world. Maybe someday someone will look back, read what I had to say and then mutter, "He was one of the Good Germans".
I think some of the extremes you describe happening in Germany (and many things that happened there that were certainly even more extreme) simply do not exist here in America today.
Tom do you deny that today Americans are being asked to carry and present documents to authorities that were not required a few years ago or that government has recently decided to make people have passports not required previously or that you cannot travel by air any where without more paperwork and interference by government than ever before?
Do you deny that our welfare system AND our tax system reward us for having babies? Do you deny that we are torturing captives? Do you deny that we are killing innocents? If you do, you are suffering from "being in denial". These are all things that the WWII movies, which were an education to many of that era, contained as examples of how the hated, devilish enemy was operating. So unAmerican.
Furthermore, can you imagine if you and I were Germans trying to conduct this kind of conversation in the 1930s or 1940s in Germany? How long would it be before we were being trucked off to a camp somewhere?
You are right! We are not being trucked off to concentration camps. Yet! We are building prisons as quickly as possible and doing it in stealth to a great degree. The prisons are being built by the RMKs and Halliburtons and will be manned by them as well along with the probable help of Blackwater lookalikes. The Warsaw Ghetto wasn't a concentration camp but it worked just like one. We have those now in every major population area. They are not just racial, they are socio-economic as well. They tend to contain the less well educated. Their confinement is aided and abetted by government programs that assure they are kept below the rabble rousing or revolutionary stages of such populaces and sedated with the assistance of our war on drugs. Check it out.
Hitler, Goebbels, Goehring, et al had great control over the media and the flow of information and any dissent was immediately and brutally crushed. The nation of Germany was under virtual martial law.
Oh, and bush and rove and all the rest have not interfered with the press. No, in fact they have tried to help the press by paying reporters to place the "right" information into stories, their ability to affect the operation of publishing firms has allowed them to show dissident news elements the danger of their ways. And since the major news organizations tend to be owned and operated within the same macromegalithical monster monopolies that have holdings in the defense systems of our country, they have to be telling us the truth and setting us right. Right? We are not under martial law, we are under no law. bush has said his word is final. his word is law. the attorney general stood right behind him on this. So do a dwindling number of Americans who have lost their way. It has not been necessary to declare martial law, Americans are still in shock or denial. Americans are still thinking this government will pull some ultimate truth, some ultimate solution, some ultimate victory from beneath its sleeve. We are being picked clean and not raising more than an internet fuss. We are too busy watching the entertainment side of the above mentioned news-defense-publishing empires' feast for the masses.
It must be acknowledged by all that whenever someone brings up Nazism, Hitler, and other German parallels to what is happening in America today, it's going to significantly ratchet up the level of vitriol and intensity in any conversation, which will drive us further apart, not draw us closer to any common understanding.
The only thing that needs to be acknowledged by all is that we have a problem in the US. That problem is caused by elements within this country that hold profit, personal gain, familial or tribal association, political party or religious orientation and other such human artifacts above the needs of their country. They would desert all we have come to know as the soul and spirit of our country in favor of any environment that would support their need for greed. Instead of arguing left and right we need to be moving forward not back. I have a great fear for our country. Do you?
Tom, I do not impugn your integrity nor your allegiance to your country. I do not link you to the "good germans" anymore than I link myself to them even though I am riddled with guilt for not having spoken out earlier and more loudly. I do beseech you and others who feel as you do to come up with a solution to the mess we are currently in. It is a mess. We can deny it if we want but that won't make it go away. Forgive me but I feel so strongly about what I have said here that I am compelled to make this comment into an article for publication to Newsvine and the world. Your comment, from which I took the quotes, is both rational, respectful and completely proper for publication anywhere you so desire. I just feel you could be doing more for the situation by providing answers rather than explanation. My answer is clear. We must get rid of the present administration as soon as possible. Through every legal means available. And then we must heal and renew ourselves. Thanks for being here, Tom Bombadil.
