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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (246549)	4/9/2002 8:25:58 PM
From: MSI	Respond to of 769670

de-sensitizing an entire generation to violence. Ever on the lookout for convergence of imaginative conspiracies, and actual ones, I've wondered the same. The following is not saying that Bush or Junior are Nazis... I am reprinting this from an out of print book that, however, is instructive on what politicians and spooks have learned about how to form police states: "Police State", by Jules Archer (out of print) goes into detail about the start-up of the police state in Germany, Russia and China, and shows parallels in the US starting with Nixon. Some excerpts: "Having suffered through years of unemployment and hard times, you would have been grateful for the jobs Hitler provided through vast public works." "It is the State's duty, " Goebbels explained, "not to ... be led astray by the will-o'-the-wisp of so-called 'freedom of the press,'... It must keep control of that instrument...and place it at the service of the State.' When audiences hissed at the insipid Nazi-approved films moviemakers were limited to producing, an angry Nazi official threatened reprisals against such "treasonable behavior". "We shall bestow upon the broad mass of the lowest class the blessings of illiteracy... My system of education is a harsh one. Weakness must be stamped out... A violent masterful, dauntless, cruel younger generation--that is my aim. I want no intellectual instruction. Knowledge spells perdition to my people" Boebbels headed the "Ministry for Popular Enlightenment and Propaganda" "To siphon off discontent, the German people were given a scapegoat for all their disappointments..." The Nazi police state worked to channel loyalty away from your family. A boy, from the age of 10, pledges "I am willing and ready to give up my life, so help me God!" Lessons to be learned from Hitler: "First, the Weimar Republic failed to do anything to alleviate the severe unemployment in Germany during the Depression. Workers lost faith in government and trade unions, turning in desperation to the Communists and Nazis. Then the parties of Center and Left failed to unite against an obvious menace from the extreme Right and... fought among themselves for political advantage instead. Although the Nazis represented only 37% of the popular vote in July 1932, the disunity of the anti-Nazi majority gave Hitler and his followers the opportunity to rise to power unimpeded. The failure of German intellectuals to take Hitler seriously was also a mistake. "We made fun of his poor German, his bombastic style," related German playwright Carl Zuckmayer, "and were convinced that such a half-educated fool could never be taken seriously in Germany, a nation of scholars and professors, let alone have the faintest chance of achieving leadership. A hysterical fear of Communism, deliberately engendered by the German Right and the Nazis, also played into Hitler's hands...Germans...blindly supported the Nazis in violent, unconstitutional attacks on the Left that led eventually to the establishment of the Fascist police state.. Nazis were also helped to power by cynical Germans who knew Hitler to be a raving fanatic, yet who saw ...an opportunity for personal advantage....confident that Nazi power would make it unlikely they would ever be tried as criminals. On the Russian chapter: "The Soviet Constitution guaranteed freedom of the press, speech and assembly.... but, you could find yourself on trial for 'slanderous fabrications against the Soviet system and government', and sent to the Gulag. Your best bet for advancement... would be to parrot the government line in all things, and even to bear false witness against someone, if you are asked to by a government agent. "A communist must be prepared to make every sacrifice," Lenin wrote, "and, if necessary, even resort to all sorts of schemes and stratagems, emmploy illegitimate methods, conceal the truth."