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DOES HISTORY REPEAT ITSELF? Neo-fascists and Terrorists Against Liberty, p. 5 An emergency meeting of government leaders was held in Berlin. Hitler made himself a spectacle of deliberate rage to fan the flames. "The German people have been soft too long. Every Communist official must be shot. All Communist deputies must be hanged this very night. All friends of the terrorists must be locked up. And that goes for the Social Democrats and the Reichsbanner as well!" He literally declared war on his own people to subjugate Germany as a preamble to declaring war on the world. At a cabinet meeting held later in the morning, Chancellor Hitler demanded an emergency decree to overcome the crisis. He met little resistance from his cabinet and law makers. That evening, Hitler and Papen went to Hindenburg and the befuddled old man signed the Emergency decree "for the Protection of the State." The Decree proclaimed: "Restrictions on personal liberty, on the right of free expression of opinion, including freedom of the press; on the rights of assembly and association; and violations of the privacy of postal, telegraphic and telephonic communications; warrants for house searches; orders for confiscations; as well as restrictions on property, are also permissible beyond the legal limits otherwise prescribed." A similar mindless knee jerk reaction has been sponsored immediately by George Bush and his neo-fascist Republicans. We are told by Just-ice Ashcroft, Bush's "Goering," that we must accept limitations on our liberties in the name of national security. One of the most frightening threats to civil liberties is the draconian Senate bill being deliberately rushed by GOP neo-fascists that would dramatically expand the use of secret searches to every criminal case, going far beyond anything necessary to conduct invesitgations on terrorism. The bill would permit wire tap information to be used and disseminated without prior judicial review or safeguards. It would create a new crime of "domestic terrorism" which could easily transform protestors into terrorists if protestors engaged in conduct that "involved acts dangerous to human life." (This vague line might include blocking traffic or dropping a banana peel on a sidewalk). Operation Rescue, the Environmental Liberation Front and Greenpeace, for example, have all engaged in activities that could subject them to a nazi-style prosecution as terrorists. Under this legislation, those who provide lodging or other assistance to "domestic terrorists" - which could includes parents and relatives of environmentalists protesters or literally anyone who objects to a Bush push for environmental exploitation -could have their homes wiretapped and be prosecuted. Patriotism suddenly means uncritical and sniveling support of whatever actions this half-witted American Führer deems appropriate and silence instead of constructive criticism is demanded. We are told that Arab-Americans, followers of Islam, people with Middle Eastern names or ancestors, should be subject to special scrutiny by the Government and their fellow citizens. Most liberals are fearfully silent and shamelessly unable or unwilling to voice opposition to the illegitimate Bush administration. We are perilously close to the same situation Germany was in 1933 when the democratic forces put their tails between their legs and let Hitler easily take over and destroy Democracy and Europe with it, because no one wanted to find out who really burned the Reichstag and for what reason. After security laws were instantly rubber-stamped by the Nazis, there followed the first big Nazi roundup as truckloads of SA and SS roared through the streets busting in on known liberal and communist hangouts and barging into private homes. Thousands of citizens, Communists as well as Social Democrats and Progressives, were taken away into "protective custody" to SA barracks where they were tortured and many killed. Standing restrictions on the FBI and CIA surveillance, wiretapping, infiltration of political groups at home and assassinations abroad must stay in place. They are the law of a free and brave people. They are the people's response to grave abuses of authority, which Americans should never forget. Always
remember the FBI's abuses and harassment of individuals like Martin
Luther King Jr. and the official violence it generated to disrupt
the Civil Rights and Antiwar Movements. Remember the students killed
at Kent State University, and never forget the CIA's history of helping
some of the world's most evil violators of human rights. Let us recall
Kissinger's role in Operation "Condor" where international squads
under Latin American dictators sought, tortured, carved eyes out of
people, killed and made thousands disappear. That rodent Kissinger
has resurfaced as a good friend of George Sr. and advisor of the present
administration. No surprise. |
