George and Hitler

Over the past week I have been debating this "article" but I can no longer let it sit in my head... When I lived in D.C. I never went to the Holocaust Museum as I knew it was a depressing trip - so one did not go when it was cold, rainy, or if one was not in a very upbeat mood. When I was hanging around D.C. before my move West, there was a bright warm sunny Fall day and my friend and I went! It was still depressing but we made it through and then went immediately to a more joyful exhibit at another museum...

What was most depressing was the reading of the museum exhibits about the rise of Hitler....and in my head transposing Bush for Hitler...it was scary - well now it's only gotten worse...

Here are examples from the museum website http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en


"After a suspicious fire in the Reichstag (the German Parliament), on February 28, 1933, the government issued a decree which suspended constitutional civil rights and created a state of emergency in which official decrees could be enacted without parliamentary confirmation."


"In the first months of Hitler's chancellorship, the Nazis instituted a policy of "coordination"--the alignment of individuals and institutions with Nazi goals. Culture, the economy, education, and law all came under Nazi control. The Nazi regime also attempted to "coordinate" the German churches and, although not entirely successful, won support from a majority of Catholic and Protestant clergymen."

chilling...but it gets worse

There was a propaganda machine, Hitler saw himself outside the legal state and made his own "rules," criticism was suppressed and well we know what happened to Jews and others...

When anyone who is not a Republican likens Bush and the Repugs to Hitler - there is an outcry from the Repugs... Why - because they KNOW IT IS TRUE..But the propaganda machine whines and whines until some weak kneed person apologizes...

Well readers - we are living in a similar time here - corporations have all the power, poor people and minorities take back seat to tax cuts for the wealthiest of citizens, corruption and cronyism are rampant, the courts will soon be turning into more propaganda machines and citizens will lose what few rights they have not already lost under the ruse of the "war" on terrorism...

Beware - we are already living in fascist country "the united states of corporations."