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May 13, 2006 –
The comparisons of the current GOP to the Nazis in 1930's Germany
have been frequent and inescapable. The wars of aggression,
the propaganda, the intolerance of dissent, the overt and constant
use of hatred, fear, and repetitive lies, the setup of concentration
camps, sending people away to the camps indefinitely and without
trial, torturing them while they are there, overtly admitting that
torture is something they feel they need to do. This week we
also learned that during the past five years the GOP has also been
emulating the Nazis in rounding up as much personal information
about everyone in the nation as possible.
But people have not truly been too
worried about things because there is a lingering doubt that the
American GOP would ever turn the corner from 1930's Nazism to the
more deadly 1940's version. However for any who had that
doubt, Monday night marks the end of that doubt and the beginning of
the American GOP's turn from 1930's brand Nazism to 1940's round 'em
up Nazism.
It wasn't until the Nazis had depleted
and bankrupt the nation due to wars of aggression that they began
rounding up Jews, gays, Catholics, and others by the trainload.
They needed a scapegoat, they needed to look as if they were
addressing the nation's problems, but there were quite simply no
more wars that could be started abroad with the resources available.
The current American GOP has found
itself in that position. Massively in debt, the army stretched
thin, the poll number shows they are likely on their way out.
And so, following the Nazi playbook, the GOP launched, starting this
past December, a crusade to round up 12 million dark skinned people
and send them to prisons. That is exactly what the bill Rep.
Sensenbrenner (R) and his GOP colleagues passed in December called
for.
And the rhetoric being used to frighten
Americans into supporting this effort is straight out of the Nazi
playbook. As we detailed in this
article a month ago, the GOP is blaming immigrants for taking
money out of the pockets of American citizens by driving down wages
and calling them a threat to national security. Never mind the
fact the GOP has repeatedly voted against raising the minimum wage,
for GATT and NAFTA that let jobs be shipped to these immigrants to
do in the home countries for slave wages, support for outsourcing
and off-shoring.
Forget all of these things. And
actually, forget all facts and reality. Because the reality is
these illegal immigrants have been in this nation for decades.
There is no sudden crisis that has occurred to suddenly make
immigration not just an issue, but such a top priority that in a
time of war, the President is taking to Prime Time not to talk about
the state of the War in Iraq, but about these immigrants.
If you don't get an eerie feeling up and
down your spine when you think about that you are not paying
attention.
He will not address the war. He
will not address the deficits. He will not address the spying
on Americans or rounding up of personal information on all of us.
No, on Monday night George W. Bush will
take to the airwaves in Prime Time to make it official: the
GOP is going after immigrants, using the military, in order to
escape being held accountable for their horrible policies. To
shift the nation's attention from the fact they have bankrupted us
and stretched our military beyond sustainability, the GOP's leader
will officially set the nation on a course of blaming the darkies,
using hate and fear to call for the beginning of a war on 12 million
among us.
And for those of you not keeping score:
first it was just some of us who were labeled terrorists that we
said it was ok to round up and torture without trial or hearing,
holding even American citizens indefinitely without review.
Now, up the number from some hundreds to 12 million people.
To be clear, the President will not go
on the air tomorrow night and call for all out mobilization to round
up 12 million people. But make no mistake, the calls for using
our military, the shifting of the nation's attention to those
dark-skinned immigrants, the blaming them for the economic
conditions and calling them a threat to national security, the calls
for rounding all of them up and imprisoning them explicitly in
legislation that was passed - yes, passed - by the House of
Representatives, makes clear what will be next for this GOP.
It likely won't happen on Bush's watch.
The most likely scenario is that the Democrats will regain some
power for a brief while.
But on Monday night, the leader of the
2000 era GOP will make clear that their sights are set on rounding
up millions of Americans, and when the opportunity presents itself a
few years down the road, when the economy is deep in collapse due to
the bankrupting policies of the GOP, when people are hurting because
wages have declined beyond livability, when the debt comes due war
mongering abroad can't be used due to overextending of the
military... they'll be coming for them.
Monday night marks the beginning of the
GOP's turn from 1930's Nazism to 1940's Nazism. Minority
immigrants will be made national concern number one to deflect
attention from debts and war of aggression.
And no one in the media, except us here
at The Moderate Independent, will even begin to speak out about what
is going on. The opposition Democrats will not call the GOP on
what it is doing. And so America's march toward Nazism will
continue unabated. And so, five to ten years from now, after a
brief interlude of Democratic power, the GOP, led by a generation
raised to think its FOX-led propaganda machine is a normal thing,
will return to lead the nation into all out Nazism.
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