Bush Repeats History and Emulates Hitler

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November 22, 2004

 

Bush Repeats History and Emulates Hitler

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I promised myself I would try to avoid publishing conspiracy

theories, but this one is just too gripping to ignore...

 

How the Patriot Act Compares to Hitler's Ermächtigungsgesetz

(Enabling Act)

 

by Alex Jones

 

http://www.furnitureforthepeople.com/actpat.htm

 

1) How the Patriot Act Compares to Hitler's Ermächtigungsgesetz

(Enabling Act)

 

On March 23, 1933, the newly elected members of the Reichstag met

in the Kroll Opera House in Berlin to consider passing Hitler's

" Ermächtigungsgesetz " . The " Enabling Act " was officially called the

'Law for Removing the Distress of the People and the Reich.'

 

Opponents to the bill argued that if it was passed, it would end

democracy in Germany and establish a legal dictatorship of Adolf

Hitler. To soften resistance to the passing of the Enabling Act, the

Nazis secretly caused confusion in order to create an atmosphere in

which the law seem necessary to restore order.

 

On February 27, 1933, Nazis burned the Reichstag building, and a

seat of the German government, causing frenzy and outrage. They

successfully blamed the fire on the Communists, and claimed it marked

the beginning of a widespread terrorism and unrest threatening the

safety of the German " Homeland. " On the day of the vote, Nazi storm

troopers gathered around the opera house chanting, " Full powers - or

else! We want the bill - or fire and murder! "

 

The Nazis used the opportunity to arrest 4,000 communists. Not

only did the Nazis use the incident as a propaganda against communists

but they also arrested additional 40,000 members of the opposition.

Consequently, the Nazis had achieved their objective of eliminating

democracy and ensuring their majority in the parliament.

 

After the fire on February 28, 1933, president Hindenburg and

Hitler invoked Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution, which permitted

the suspension of civil liberties during national emergencies. Some

examples of this Decree of the Reich President for the Protection of

the People and State abrogated the following constitutional

protections: Freedom of the press, free expression of opinion,

individual property rights, right of assembly and association, right

to privacy of postal and electronic communications, states´ rights of

self-government, and protection against unlawful searches and seizures.

 

Before the vote, Hitler made a speech to the Reichstag in which he

pledged to use restraint. He also promised to end unemployment and

promote multilateral peace with France, Great Britain and the Soviet

Union.

 

In order to accomplish all this, Hitler said, he first needed the

Enabling Act. Since this act would alter the German constitution, a

two-thirds majority was necessary. Hitler needed 31 non-Nazi votes to

pass it. The Center Party provided these votes after Hitler made a

false promise to them. Four hundred and forty votes were registered

for the Enabling Act, while a mere 84 votes were opposed - the social

Democrats. In glory the Nazi Party stood to their feet and sang the

Nazi anthem, the Hörst Wessel song. The German Democratic party had

finally been eliminated, and Hitler's dream for Nazi command became

closer to reality.

 

The Enabling Act granted Hitler the power he craved and could use

without objection from the Reichstag. Shortly after the passing of The

Enabling Act all other political parties were dissolved. Trade unions

were liquidated and opposition clergy were arrested. The Nazi party

had, as Hitler said, become the state. By August 1934, Hitler became

commander-in-chief of the armed forces. This was in addition to being

President and Führer of the German Reich, to whom every individual in

the armed forces pledged unconditional obedience. The Reichstag was no

longer a place for debate, but rather a cheering squad in favor of

whatever Hitler might say.

 

2) A 21st Century Comparison of The Enabling Act and The Patriot Act

 

Last September, German Justice Minister Herta Daeubler-Gmelin

pointed out that George Bush is using Iraq to distract the American

public from his failed domestic policies. She capped her statement by

reminding her audience: " That's a popular method. Even Hitler did

that. " What was lost in the reactions to Ms. Daeubler-Gmelin's

comments was that she wasn't comparing Bush to the Hitler of the late

1930s and early 1940s; but to the Hitler of the late 1920s and early

1930s.

 

Most Americans have forgotten that Hitler came to power legally.

He and the Nazi Party were elected democratically in a time of great

national turmoil and crisis. They themselves had done much to cause

the turmoil, of course, but that's what makes the Bush comparison so

compelling.

 

Similar to the Bush administration, the Nazis were funded and

ultimately ushered into power by wealthy industrialists looking for

government favors in the form of tax breaks, big subsidies, and laws

to weaken the rights of workers. When the Reichstag (Germany's

Parliament building) was set ablaze in 1933 (probably by Nazis), the

Nazis framed their political rivals for it. In the general panic that

followed, the German Parliament was purged of all left-wing

representatives who might be soft on communists and foreigners, and

the few who remained then VOTED to grant Chancellor Hitler dictatorial

powers. A long, hideous nightmare had begun.

 

History teaches us that it is shockingly easy to separate

reasonable and intelligent people from their rights. A legally elected

leader and party can easily manipulate national events to whip up

fear, crucify scapegoats, gag dissenters, and convince the masses that

their liberties must be suspended (temporarily, of course) in the name

of restoring order. Consider the following two statements, and see if

you can identify the authors.

 

Statement Number One:

 

" The people can always be brought to the bidding of the

leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being

attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and

exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country. "

 

Statement Number Two:

 

" To those who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost

liberty, my message is this: Your tactics only aid terrorists, for

they erode our national unity and diminish our resolve. "

 

The first statement is a quote from Hitler's right hand man,

Hermann Goering, explaining at his war crimes trial how easily he and

his fellow Nazis hijacked Germany's democratic government. The second

statement is a quote from Bush's right hand man, John Ashcroft,

defending the Patriot Act and explaining why dissent will no longer be

tolerated in the age of terrorism. If that doesn't send chills down

your spine, nothing will.

 

When the shooting started at Lexington Green in 1775, those

calling themselves patriots were the men and women who refused to

yield their rights to an increasingly oppressive government. Today,

according to John Ashcroft and his Patriot Act of 2001, a patriot is

someone who kneels down in fear, and hands over his or her rights to

the government in the name of fighting terrorism. Isn't the hypocrisy

of this all too obvious? The Bush administration wants us to fight in

Afghanistan, to fight in Iraq, and to fight wherever terrorists may be

hiding. And what, pray tell, are we fighting for? Well, according to

the White House, we're fighting for freedom. Yet freedom is exactly

what the White House is demanding that we now SURRENDER in the name of

fighting terrorism.

 

So what's really going on? Well, it's all a lie, of course. The

Bush administration isn't any more interested in protecting our

freedom from terrorists than Hitler was in protecting Germans from

communists, Jews, and all the other groups he scapegoated. The Bush

administration is fighting only to protect itself and its corporate

sponsors. It hides behind a veil of national security and behind

non-stop war headlines of its own creation. And behind that

smokescreen, Bush, Inc. is pursuing Hitler's old agenda from the 1920s

and 1930s: serving the interests of the corporate industrialists who

brought it to power.

 

There is a name for governments that serve the interests of Big

Business at the expense of their own citizens: fascist. Here's a short

list of the rights we've already surrendered since the September 11

attacks. Most of these abuses are from a single piece of legislation

called the Patriot Act of 2001, which was rushed through Congress with

no debate in the aftermath of the attacks. Many of the Congressmen who

voted for it later admitted that they hadn't even read it at the time.

 

 

3) Ten Key Dangers of The Patriot Act That Every American Should Know

 

No. 1: The government can conduct " sneak and peek " searches in

which agents enter your home or business and search your belongings

without informing you until long after.

 

No. 2: Government agents can force libraries and bookstores to

hand over the titles of books that you1ve purchased or borrowed and

can demand the identity of anyone who has purchased or borrowed

certain books. The government can also prosecute libraries and

bookstores for informing you that the search occurred or even for

informing you that an inquiry was made. According to ACLU staff

attorney Jameel Jaffer, such " searches could extend to doctors

offices, banks and other institutions which, like libraries, were

previously off-limits under the law. " Chris Finan, President of the

American Booksellers group adds: " The refusal of the Justice

Department to tell Congress how many times it has used its powers is

even more unsettling because it naturally leads to the suspicion that

it is using them a lot. "

 

No. 3: Federal agents are authorized to use hidden devices to

trace the telephone calls or emails of people who are not even

suspected of a crime. The FBI is also permitted to use its Magic

Lantern technology to monitor everything you do on your

computer--recording not just the websites you visit but EVERY SINGLE

KEYSTROKE as well.

 

No. 4: Government agents are permitted to arrest and detain

individuals " suspected " of terrorist activities and to hold them

INDEFINITELY, WITHOUTCHARGE, and WITHOUT an ATTORNEY. (That could be

you or me for sending or receiving this Email, by the way)

 

No. 5: Federal agents are permitted to conduct full investigations

of American citizens and permanent legal residents simply because they

have participated in activities protected by the First Amendment, such

as writing a letter to the editor or attending a peaceful rally.

 

No. 6: Law enforcement agents are permitted to listen in on

discussions between prisoners and their attorneys, thus denying them

their Constitutional right to confidential legal counsel.

 

No. 7: Terrorism suspects may be tried in secret military

tribunals where defendants have no right to a public trial, no right

to trial by jury, no right to confront the evidence, and no right to

appeal to an independent court. In short, the Constitution does not apply.

 

No. 8: The CIA is granted authority to spy on American citizens, a

power that has previously been denied to this international espionage

organization.

 

No. 9: In addition to the Patriot Act, the Bush administration has

given us Operations TIPS, a government program that encourages

citizens to spy on each other and to report their neighbors activities

to the authorities. It's EXACLTY the kind of thing for which we used

to fault East Germany and the Soviet Union, and for which we currently

fault Red China and North Korea. Fortunately, Operation TIPS (or

AmeriSnitch, as it's known to its many detractors) seems to have been

recalled to the factory--at least for now. (Incidentally, in a clever

variation of " two-can-play-at-that-game " , Brad Templeton has set up a

website at http://www.all-the-other-names-were-taken.com/tipstips.html

where you can report people you suspect of being informants for

Operation TIPS. It's an interesting and amusing site, well worth a look.)

 

No. 10: In the wake of Operation TIPS came something even worse:

Total Information Awareness. TIA is a program of the Defense

Department that when fully operational will link commercial and

government databases so that the DOD can immediately put its finger on

any piece of information about you that it wants. New York Times

columnist William Safire writes:

 

" Every purchase you make with a credit card, every magazine

subscription you buy and medical prescription you fill, every Web site

you visit and e-mail you send or receive, every academic grade you

receive, every bank deposit you make, every trip you book and every

event you attend all these transactions and communications will go

into what the Defense Department describes as a virtual, centralized

grand database. "

 

And that's not all. Who did our president appoint to head the TIA?

Who gets to be Big Brother himself? Why it's none other than John

Poindexter, a man convicted in 1990 on five counts of lying to

Congress, destroying official documents, and obstructing congressional

inquiries into the Iran-contra affair. Another Hermann Goering, if

there ever was one.

 

 

4) BILL MOYERS NOW COMMENTS On THE PATRIOT ACT

 

At the same time the Bush administration is probing into your

private life, it is shielding itself from all public scrutiny. It has

shredded the Freedom of Information Act; it has locked away

presidential records not only of the current administration but of

administrations going all the way back to Reagan as well; and it has

even locked up George W. Bush's gubernatorial records so that the

people of Texas can't see what he did to them while serving as their

governor.

 

Not surprisingly, the Bush administration is also using

anti-terror legislation and executive orders to protect its corporate

sponsors from scrutiny and from prosecution. The drug company Eli

Lilly, for instance, was recently granted immunity from all cases

brought against it --even those initiated long before the war on

terrorism-- related to a vaccine it manufactured that turned out to

cause autism in many children. (Eli Lilly contributed over $3 million

in the last two election campaigns.) The Bush administration also

protected the Bayer Corporation's patent on the antibiotic Cipro

throughout the anthrax scare, whereas other countries, such as Canada,

broke that patent so that other companies could make cheaper versions

of the drug in case of emergency.

 

It is interesting to note that during WWII Bayer was part of the

I.G. Farben conglomerate, the top financial contributor to the Nazi

Party. I.G. Farben produced petrol and rubber for the Nazi war machine

and it manufactured the Zyklon B gas that was used to exterminate

millions of Jews and other " enemies of the state. " In exchange for

these services, the Nazis provided Farben (and Bayer) with lucrative

government contracts and with slave labor from concentration camps.

 

Under George W. Bush's kinder, gentler fascism, U.S. corporations

are now allowed to do business with the Homeland Security Department

even if they cheat the government out of vast amounts of tax revenues

by setting up offshore business fronts in the Caribbean Islands. It

used to be that tax-evaders were tracked down and punished. Now

they're rewarded with fat government contracts. Could the slave labor

be far behind?

 

If only this were the extent of the Bush administration's ramble

down the road to fascism. Way back in November of 2001, William Safire

accused the Bush administration of " seizing dictatorial power. " Well,

Mr. Safire, you ain't seen nothing yet. Just when you thought it

couldn't get any worse, just when you thought we can't lose any more

of our liberties and still call ourselves a " free society, " we learn

that the Bush administration wants to take away even more of our

rights. A secret document was just leaked out of John Ashcroft's

Justice Department and turned over to the Center for Public Integrity.

Titled the Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003, this document

turns out to be a draft of new anti-terrorism legislation, a vastly

more muscular sequel to Patriot Act. If passed, it would grant the

executive branch sweeping new powers of domestic surveillance, and it

would eliminate most of the few remaining checks and balances that

protect us from tyranny.

 

It's the Patriot Act on steroids. Charles Lewis of the Center for

Public Integrity shared this document with Bill Moyers, who examined

it on NOW, his weekly PBS program. That episode aired Friday, February

7, yet even now no mainstream news broadcaster has picked up this

incredible story. Read the NOW transcript and see the document itself

online at http://www.pbs.org/now/. You can also read the Center for

Public Integrity's analysis of the document at

http://www.publicintegrity.org/.

 

Dr. David Cole, a Law professor at Georgetown University and

author of Terrorism and the Constitution assessed the document, saying,

 

" I think this is a quite radical proposal. It authorizes

secret arrests. It would give the Attorney General essentially

unchecked authority to deport anyone who he thought was a danger to

our economic interests. It would strip citizenship from people for

lawful political associations. "

 

" Secret arrests " ? Did we hear that right? It seems that the

Homeland Security Department (HSD) is about to become the KGB. The

first Patriot Act already allows for people to be locked up

indefinitely without a lawyer and without being charged with a crime.

If Patriot Act II passes, then arrests would also be secret. That

means that dissenters (or anyone else, for that matter) could

disappear without a trace, just as they did in Nazi Germany, in

Stalinist Russia, and in Pinochet's Chile.

 

Patriot Act II would also grant even more immunity to Big

Business. A corporation could pour toxins into your local river, for

instance, and you wouldn't know about it until all the fish died and

your neighbor's kids were born with missing limbs. And then when you

went to court and demanded to know what the company was dumping in

your river, the company could deny you that information on the grounds

that it's a national security secret. JimHightower put it this way:

 

" All a company has to do to shield anything it wants to keep

from the public eye -- say, an embarrassing chemical spill -- is give

the documents to the Homeland Security Department and call them

'critical infrastructure information'. "

 

Ah, but there's even more to be concerned about here. The document

was created back in early January, but so far it appears that the only

members of Congress who even know of its existence are House Speaker

Dennis Hastert and Vice-president Dick Cheney. (The Vice-president

presides over the Senate, which makes him a member of the legislative

branch as well as the executive branch.) This raises a troubling

question: Why has the White House been sitting on this bill for a

month? If the CEOs down at Bush, Inc. really believe that they need

these broad new powers to protect us from terrorists, why not roll out

that bill and start the debate? The answer is all too plain. In all

likelihood, the Bush administration was planning to avoid debate

entirely by springing this bill on the American people in the midst of

a perceived national crisis. Perhaps during the war with Iraq, for

instance. Or perhaps in the aftermath of the next terrorist attack. Or

perhaps right after the Reichstag fire.

 

Had some courageous soul not leaked this document out of the

Justice Department, the White House might easily have succeeded in

passing it through Congress without debate in the midst of our next

perceived national crisis, much as it did with the first Patriot Act

in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks. A thorough debate of

this bill right now, under fairly stable circumstances, would defuse

it and prevent its passage even under more frightening circumstances

later on. There's just one problem. The debate can't begin until more

Americans know about this bill, but so far the Washington Post is the

only major news outlet to even MENTION this story since Bill Moyers

broke it on Friday night.

 

Here's what you can do to help

First, forward this email to everyone you know. Second, send an

email to the Center for Public Integrity and to the producers of NOW

thanking them for breaking this story. Here's a sample message that

you can use or modify:

 

I am writing to express my heartfelt thanks and admiration to the

Center for Public Integrity, to Bill Moyers, to the producers of NOW,

and especially to the brave unnamed patriot who valued the Bill of

Rights over his or her own personal well-being and, at great personal

risk, leaked a draft of the Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003

out of the Justice Department.

 

Sincerely,(Your name, city, and state.)

 

Center for Public Integity: feedback.

NOW with Bill Moyers: now.

 

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