The government will make use of these powers only insofar ...

[CornField]

"The government will make use of these powers only insofar as they are essential for carrying out vitally necessary measures..."

~Adolf Hitler, March 23, 1933, before the German Parliment (Reichstag) as he urged them to pass his "Law for Removing the Distress of the People and the Reich" (aka Enabling Act)

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It is time the American people started reading their history books and began learning from the mistakes of the past.

[fasttense]

1. When I first read the quote I thought bush or Gonzales had said it. Then

I read underneath it. I about spit out my coffee.

[CornField]

4. Try out this one -

"If anyone reproaches me and asks why I did not resort to the regular courts of justice, then all I can say is this: In this hour I was responsible for the fate of the German people, and thereby I became the supreme judge of the German people."

Also Adolph Hitler, also before the German Parliment, this time on July 13, 1934 (following the 'Night of the Long Knives' when the SS rounded up members of the SA and various other political opponents and slaughtered them -- no one knows exactly how many died although Hitler only claimed 74 during his speech to Parliment.)

[liberal N proud]

2. Sounds a little like America today - doesn't it?

[Village Idiot]

3. PNAC "Rebuilding America's Defenses" = "Mein Kampf"

9-11 = Reichstag Fire
Patriot Act = Acts of Feb 28
Unitary Executive = Enabling Act

Guess what came next?


Law Against the Establishment of Parties, July 14, 1933
The German Cabinet has resolved the following law, which is herewith promulgated:

ARTICLE 1. The National Socialist German Workers Party constitutes the only political party in Germany.

ARTICLE 2. Whoever undertakes to maintain the organizational structure of another political party or to form a new political party will be punished with penal servitude up to three years or with imprisonment or with imprisonment of from six months to three years, if the deed is not subject to a greater penalty according to other regulations.


Wake the FUCK UP, people!!!

[CornField]

5. There was more than that

Ironically, I used to be one of the people who got all bent out of shape when someone would compare Bush to Hitler or the Neoconservatives to Nazis. Since the NSA wiretaps and the executive orders have come to light, I don't bend so easily anymore.

[CornField]

6. Kicking for the night crowd

Please, please pay attention.

[Individualist]

7. History repeats itself

Confirmation of Alito will give the cabal absolute power, just as the Enabling Act gave Hitler absolute power.