Democrats are rebuking President Bush for saying in his speech to the
Knesset, here, that to “negotiate with terrorists and radicals” is
“appeasement.” The Democrats took it as a slap at Barack Obama. What bothers me
is the continual reference to Hitler and his National Socialists, particularly
the British and French accommodation at the Munich Conference of 1938.
What Hitler was demanding was not unreasonable
Although we immediately say, the guy's a nut, Libertarian Blogger suggests that the left is leaning further and further toward a Nazi Party style "correctness"
Can't have a gun, can't say what you think on radio or TV, society has to be broken down by race and genders, more government control
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I would certainly agree. What's the only other country in history to use gun registration? 1939 pre-Nazi Germany!
Remember that after Hitler managed to maintain a posture of legality throughout the Nazification process, domestically, during the next six years, Hitler completely transformed Germany into a police state.
Civil libertarians insist that this is happening here now, with the USA Patriot Act in force and Patriot II on the table.
"Hitler engaged in a 'diplomatic revolution' by negotiating with other European countries and publicly expressing his strong desire for peace."
Nobody can accuse Bush of being overly diplomatic, but, like all political leaders, he is an apostle for peace, even while starting two wars during his brief tenure.
In 1933, the Reichstag, Germany's parliament building, was burned to the ground. Nobody knows for sure who set the fire. The Nazis blamed communists. "This incident prompted Hitler[,then Germany's chancellor,] to convince [German President Paul von] Hindenburg to issue a Decree for the Protection of People and State that granted Nazis sweeping power to deal with the so-called emergency."
The Reichstag fire parallels the Sept. 11 attacks here, and Hindenburg's decree parallels our USA Patriot Act.
Soon after Hitler took power, the concentration camp at Dachau was created and "the Nazis began arresting Communists, Socialists and labor leaders ... . Parliamentary democracy ended with the Reichstag passage of the Enabling Act, which allowed the government to issue laws without the Reichstag."
With Bush leading all branches of government around by the nose, there's a question whether parliamentary democracy still exists here. Certainly, concentration camps exist, if we're willing to call the lockup at Guanténamo Bay what it really is. And the USA Patriot Act allows the president to effectively take citizenship rights from any American-born criminal suspect.
Good article and source.
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