Hogan's Heroes: Have Americans become like Nazis? Nah.

[Guest guest]

Hogan's Heroes: Have Americans become like Nazis? Nah.

By Jane Stillwater http://jpstillwater.blogspot.com

 

Our Senate ratified an Attorney General who supports the use of torture.

Does that make us Nazis? Nah.

 

Our Pentagon blitzkrieged Baghdad. 100,000 people are dead. Does that

make us Nazis? Nah.

 

Our hearts and minds are constantly brainwashed by pro-war propaganda

machines. Does that make us Nazis? Nah.

 

Our dissidents are hauled off to secret jails, free speech is in deep dog

dookie, the Bill of Rights is a relic of the past, U.S. citizens are denied

lawyers and held for years without being charged and PTECH and PROMIS invade

people's computers and data-mine people's lives. Does that make us Nazis? Nah.

 

Election fraud is rampant, corporations own our country, labor unions are

hounded and all our country's money is being siphoned off to feed the war

machine. Does that make us Nazis? Nah.

 

Education is being de-funded, teachers are fired for expressing opinions,

books are being burned, libraries are being closed and our leaders appear at

Nuremberg-style rallies where the average citizen is banned. Does that make us

Nazis? Nah.

 

Freedom of religion is being systematically eradicated, people are being

persecuted solely on the basis of their religion, women's rights are being

replaced with " Kirche, Kueche, Kinder " and racism is alive and well. Does that

make us Nazis? Nah.

 

Our leaders feed us outrageous lies like Iraq has WMDs, Social Security is

in trouble, the voting machines weren't tampered with, Saudi Arabia is our

friend, unemployment is at a new low, our treasury isn't bankrupt, Tom DeLay

didn't commit ethics violations, Gulf War Syndrome doesn't exist, Bush actually

won the 2000 and 2004 elections, Palestine isn't a reinactment of the Warsaw

Ghetto, liberals are the enemy, outsourcing is a good thing, flipping burgers is

a manufacturing job, the dollar hasn't dropped 40% in the last four years and

SYRIA is the cause of all our grief. SYRIA? As Hitler used to say, " No one

believes small lies but tell Big Lies and everyone will believe you because they

simply can't grasp the fact that anyone would lie that outrageously. " And we,

the Queens of Denial, swallow all these Big Lies and beg for more. Does that

make us Nazis? Nah.

 

Our brave young troops are taught how to torture prisoners and our doctors

perform " medical experiments " on them. Does that make us Nazis? Nah.

 

Our government gets its way by using threats, intimidation, propaganda,

bribes, secrets and lies. We as citizens live in constant fear of saying

something that might get us in trouble -- rubber bullets if we protest, no-fly

lists, website closures or getting fired for speaking out. The midnight knock

on the door is an actual possibility. So is the mysterious plane crash. Does

that make us Nazis? Nah.

 

There are rumors everywhere that 9-11, like the burning of the Reichstag,

was an inside job but nobody except the Jersey Girls mounts a serious

investigation. Nobody except the Jersey Girls seems to care. Does that make us

Nazis? Nah.

 

That makes us " Good Germans " .

 

Sometimes I feel like I'm on the Hogan's Heroes show, utterly surrounded by

a sea of Americans who think it's okay -- not even okay but ethical, moral and

brilliant! -- to torture and lie and steal. I feel like Colonel Hogan,

burrowing from within while the rest of America actually applauds and cheers

torture, blitzkrieg and mass murder.

 

Yuck!

 

Am I the only one left in America who notices this kind of crap? Am I the

only one left in America with ideals? Where is Kinch? Where is Newkirk? Where

is Carter? Where is LeBeau? All of America should be out protesting these

blatant outrages. At best we only have Sergeant Schultz muttering " I know

nuthing! "

 

Everyone in America seems to be rushing to play the part of Helga or Hilda

or Colonel Klink -- living their lives in fear of standing up. " But if I say

anything, they will send me to the front! "

 

No fear of that here, America. If Bush keeps up his current policies, the

same thing that happened to Germany will happen here -- the " front " will come

to us.

 

Does anybody else out there want to become a Hogan's Hero? Then join the

freedom and democracy underground! There are places you can go on the web

(Shhhh... Don't tell General Burkhalter!) and here is a random sampling:

Barbara Boxer's PAC at http://www.changethecongress.com/about/ ; alternate news

sources like TruthOut at http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/020405A.shtml and CLG

News at http://legitgov.org and Dennis Kucinich's grassroots organizing team at

http://www.kucinich.us/VolunteerAction/index.php

 

Let's all stop being prisoners of war and band together to help send the

Bush Gang to the Klink!

 

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From Humon: " Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit

atrocities. " --VOLTAIRE

 

 

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From an article by Leslie Campbell Rampey, Ph.D: What took a while to be

understood was that Hogan’s Heroes was at its heart a grand adventure series.

The plot set up the Allied prisoners – the " heroes " under the command of USAAF

Col. Hogan – as espionage agents and saboteurs operating from within the German

Reich. Their POW status, of course, is their perfect cover.

http://www.geocities.com/LRampey/hogan.htm

 

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Repeat after me: " Bush doens't want to REFORM Social Security. He wants to

ELEIMINATE Social Security. " And is the war on Iraq REALLY worth five billion

dollars a month?

 

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From postherguy: When most people refer to Freedom of Religion, we are talking

about the freedom to worship as we choose. When the fundies talk about Freedom

of Religion, they are talking about their freedom to force their particular

brand of religion on the American taxpayers and have the taxpayers pay for it.

 

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Women in Nazi Germany: Back in the 19th century, Kaiser Wilhelm II defined a

role for women (later taken over by the Nazis) as " Kirche, Kueche, Kinder "

(church, kitchen, children.) This definition could only appear in such a country

as Germany where the women's movement [was] weak if at all present.

http://www.germanculture.com.ua/library/weekly/aa080601a.htm

 

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From Gayle: PTECH, 9/11, and USA-SAUDI TERROR - Part I: PROMIS Connections to

Cheney Control of 9/11 Attacks Confirmed

http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/012005_ptech_pt1_summary.shtml

 

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The Master Race? Henry Kissinger [in the seventies] at a National Security

Meeting [Memo #200] apparently stated something like, " The raw materials in the

world belong to us. Those Africans are consuming them too fast. We must reduce

their population and keep their economy down so they will not consume very

much. " Within a few years after Kissinger's speech, Africa suddenly developed

AIDS -- which reduced their population -- and was invaded by the World Trade

Organization -- which kept their economy down. Coincidence?

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Why was CA Secretary of State Shelly forced to resign? Because he stood up to

Diebold and demanded they stop vote fraud. On the other hand, Schwatrzenegger,

Bush and Enron committed actual crimes and were lauded. That's pathetic.

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From Helen Caldecott: Ignore what [the Bush regime] says and keep your eyes on

what they do.

 

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Did you know that Ariel Sharon has a RANCH in southern Israel? Is it called

" Crawford " ? With all those open spaces, would Sharon consider putting Israeli

" settlers " there? Yeah right.

 

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From Joe T: Is stopping Nuclear proliferation the real reason behind the

Lunatic's plans for the Korea? Could it be he thinks he will be able to invade

China from bases in North Korea? (AFP) - The United States will deploy 690,000

military personnel [where is the U.S. going to get them?] to help defend South

Korea (news - web sites) in case of an outbreak of war, South Korea's Defense

Ministry said in a White Paper released today.

 

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From CLG News: Judge allows GOP challenge to Washington state governor's race to

go forward http://legitgov.org/index.html#breaking_news

 

Now will they allow the Ohio, Florida and New Mexico election fraud cases to go

forward too? Election fraud is still the issue.

 

From CLG News: Some Barred From Bush's North Dakota Speech --Not everyone was

welcome, apparently, at Dictator Bush's speech in North Dakota yesterday. The

Fargo Forum reported that a city commissioner, a liberal radio producer, a

deputy Democratic campaign manager and a number of university professors were

among more than 40 area residents who were barred from attending the Bush event.

The " Bush blacklist " is " frightening, " Tom Athans, chief executive of Democracy

Radio, said after learning that a producer for the liberal " Ed Schultz Show " was

among those barred. " To blacklist a local citizen because he produces a radio

program at odds with the political agenda of the White House is dangerous for

democracy. "

FBI visits Green Party official --Not every protester felt welcome on the public

streets of Great Falls Thursday. Paul Stephens, the 57-year-old secretary of the

Montana Green Party, stayed home during Dictator Bush's visit here after the FBI

and the U.S. Secret Service paid a visit to his house Tuesday. A newsletter he

sent via e-mail piqued their interest. " They came to my house six hours after I

e-mailed the bulletin,'' Stephens said in a phone interview Thursday.

 

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From Jim: The 14 defining characteristics of Fascism -- a video

http://www.ericblumrich.com/14.html

 

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From Chuck W: Can you explain to me why in the 1 hour and fifteen minutes

(which is almost more time than it takes for Dick Cheney to make an entire town

disappear off the face of the earth if he felt like it dude) between the time

the first plane left Logan airport at 7:30 am on Sept 11, 2001 and the time if

smashed into the WTC at 8:45 am (on the same date), WE HAVE NO RECORD OF ONE

SINGLE AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLER CALLING IN A MISSING AIRLINER NOR DO WE SEE WHERE

A SINGLE AMERICAN FIGHTER JET WAS SENT UP TO PATROL THE SKIES ABOVE DC AND THE

BIG APPLE?

 

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From Jim: By going to a One Payer Medicare for All [Ted Kennedy] system, a

Harvard Professor's study showed that we can cut $300 billion from the current

health coverage costs which can easily be used to insure everyone whether

employed or not. Study: Soaring Medical Bills Account for Half of All U.S.

Bankruptcies

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/02/04/1537243

 

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From Angela: An Al-Jazeera.info article By Sam Hamod: " I fear, just like his

baseball team, his oil business and his governorship of Texas, Bush is failing

once again, but this time it's not just a baseball team, an oil business or a

state, Bush is taking our whole nation down with him in his errant and

unrealistic ways. "

http://www.aljazeerah.info/Opinion%20editorials/2005%20Opinion%20Editorials/Febr\

uary/4%20o/There%20He%20Goes%20Again%20On%20President%20Bush's%20State%20of%20th\

e%20Union%20Address%20By%20Sam%20Hamod.htm

 

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From the Flaming Liberal: “BUSH BUDGET WOULD CUT LAW ENFORCEMENT AID?” By ALAN

FRAM

 

WASHINGTON (AP) - President [sic] Bush's budget will propose slashing grants to

local law enforcement agencies and cutting spending for environmental

protection, American Indian schools and home-heating aid for the poor, The

Associated Press learned Saturday.

 

 

 

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From Mike Hersh: Plan B: Impeach George Bush

http://www.mikehersh.com/Plan_B_Impeach_Bush.shtml

 

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Election fraud is STILL the issue: No matter how many times we hear the words

" PRESIDENT Bush, " GWB still stole the election. Unfortunately, my election

prediction has come true: Bush DID jimmy the electronic vote and there IS

endless war. " Madame Jane predicts: Bush will take the 2004 election! "

http://www.aljazeerah.info/Opinion%20editorials/2004%20opinions/September/26o/Ma\

dame%20Jane%20predicts%20Bush%20will%20take%20the%202004%20election%20By%20Jane%\

20Stillwater.htm

 

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My daughter, modeling coolness glasses:

http://www.withitgirl.com/wig_archive/style/wigarc_st_f16.htm

 

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Square!

 

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