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Things Nazis Say C February 6, 2005 |
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"The National Government will regard it as its first and foremost duty to revive in the nation the spirit of unity and cooperation. It will preserve and defend those basic principles on which our nation has been built. It regards Christianity as the foundation of morality, and the family as the basis of national life."
- Adolph Hitler, My New World Order, Proclamation to the German Nation at Berlin, February 1, 1933 That was really cool. Let's have another one. "God told me to strike at al Qaeda and I struck them, then He instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did, and now I am determined to solve the problem in the Middle East." - George W. Bush to Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas, July 2003 Wait a minute! These were supposed to be quotes from fascist dictators! How did that Bush quote get it there? I’m all confused now. Okay, I won’t insult your intelligence. In all probability you’ve already seen this in an e-mail or at school. Comparing President Bush to Hitler has become all the rage of late, for no better reason than because it’s so easy. Here’s a couple more I really enjoy. “Of course people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people don't want war neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, 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 peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.” -- Hermann Goering, (1893-1946) Commander-in-Chief of the Luftwaffe, President of the Reichstag, Prime Minister of Prussia and, as Hitler's designated successor, the second man in the Third Reich. On “we’re going into Iraq to find weapons of mass destruction”: “The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed, for the vast masses of a nation are in the depths of their hearts more easily deceived than they are consciously and intentionally bad. The primitive simplicity of their minds renders them a more easy prey to a big lie than a small one. - Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf, p. 197(?) 14th Edition On Fox News: “Not every item of news should be published. Rather must those who control news policies endeavor to make every item of news serve a certain purpose.” - Joseph Paul Göebbels, (1897-1945) Nazi Propaganda Minister On “I just saw Bin Laden walking out of a 7-11”: “According to Gestapo records…they had little need to engage in direct spying on the citizens since the citizens themselves were more than willing to do their spying for them.” On the PATRIOT act, and why no one talks about it anymore:
Alright, I’m done. Obviously, the parallels to Nazi Germany are pretty scary. Really! I mean, the American public is being silenced, manipulated when it needs to be, and tucked away so that we feel totally helpless to steer our country out of the direction it’s heading in. And yet, nobody seems to care. I’m amazed if you’ve even read this far, since the quotes above paint me as some sort of extremist and, I know from experience having converted to Christianity several times, it’s simpler just not to pay attention. So no one’s paying attention. We don’t like the way things are going, but we can’t do anything about it and we don’t care. That’s wrong. Comparisons to Hitler aside, I am very scared of the way the current administration is doing things. We know from a historical perspective that nobody sees problems as they are occurring: the Holocaust was okay, as was McCarthyism in America and, again back to WWII, the Japanese holding camps on the west coast. All I'm saying is that it's very possible future generations of Americans will look at this as a very bleak period and wonder what we could have been thinking to allow such atrocities (in the same way we can now speak condescendingly of the Germans for allowing Hitler to come to power). Attacking a foreign nation without cause or warning, countless examples of unethical torture used for questioning, and the blatant profiteering led by republican commanders have all led to this nations moral downfall. Big surprise, America no longer smells like roses. Then again, we never did. We’ve all heard about Arabic men, or even dark skinned men, who’ve been needlessly harassed. At the same time, we’re seeing George Bush trying his hardest to pass a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage. These are homosexual men and women trying to make the best of an inborn condition. They ask is to be granted the same rights as straight men and women to adopt children and fill out joint tax forms, along with hundreds more rights granted married couples. To deny them these benefits by saying it destroys the institution of marriage, while at the same time saying it’s okay for Brittany Spears to get married twice in one weekend, is nothing short of prejudice. As far as I’ve heard, they haven’t burst though anyone’s door forcing them to be on episodes of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, so we shouldn’t be passing judgment on their lifestyles. Because prejudice is so hard for me to take, more than anything else, and especially this insidious type of prejudice that most people don’t even think about, I want to close with one last WWII quote that I’ve been hearing since elementary school. “In Germany, the Nazis first came for the communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, but I didn't speak up because I was a protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak for me.” - Reverend Martin Niemoeller That’s all for now. Thanks. |