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In reply to the discussion: I just learned where the CIA got the term "enhanced interrogation." [View all]Hulk
(6,699 posts)34. Because it worked then, and now.
I just watched a video the other day regarding this very subject. I'll have to remember the name of it, but there is a LOT more than just terminology from the Nazi past that is most similar. The Blackwater in New Orleans, the militarization of the police. The demonization of a religious and ethnic group of people to rally against; and so much more.
It wasn't just a parallel between what is going on here and Nazi Germany, but also other fascist nations in history: Mussolini, Pinochet, Southeast Asian governments. It's ALL happening now, and with the same "covers" as in history.
I think we are headed for an ugly future, sorry to say. If there isn't something drastic that occurs, we are doomed to a brutal, oppressive future.
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"Charles "Tex" Colson...was the only person from Dick's White House to be sent to prison
BumRushDaShow
Dec 2014
#21
No race -- just want to peg the NAZI-lubbing so-and-sos for what they are: Fascists.
Octafish
Dec 2014
#24
I do find it interesting that whenever the current "boogyman" is in the news
SomethingFishy
Dec 2014
#17
It's all harmless, abstract abbreviations until somebody slams your head against a wall.
DetlefK
Dec 2014
#29
We borrowed a lot from the NAZIs when forming our CIA and other intelligence agencies after
JDPriestly
Dec 2014
#26
"Befehl ist Befehl" ("orders are orders") is back by popular demand from the torturers.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Dec 2014
#40