Reply #26: Here's another excellent one: The Nazi Hydra in America [View All]

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http://www.spiritone.com/~gdy52150/noon.html

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"Regulation of businesses or corporations by itself is not socialism. It is this writer's opinion that a business entity has no rights other than what privileges a society wishes to grant it. People have rights; a paper creation of a society such as a corporation has no inherent rights. This writer takes the opinion that business entities such as corporations only have conditional privileges based upon providing for the common good. All such paper creations do have an obligation to serve the society, which created it, failing at that it has lost any right for its continuing existence. It is the right nay, the obligation of that society to restrict the rights of such entities to promote equality for all and to prevent a ruling aristocracy from developing. This view is hardly socialism or radical, unless one wishes to label Thomas Jefferson as a radical socialist as his words below show.

"I hope we shall take warning from the example of England and crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations which dare already to challenge our Government to trial, and bid defiance to the laws of our country."3

. Perhaps one of the better definitions of fascism comes from Heywood Broun, a noted American columnist in the 1930s:

"Fascism, is a dictatorship from the extreme right or to put it a little more closely into our local idiom, a government which is run by a small group of large industrialists and financial lords...I think it is not unfair to say that any businessman in America, or public leader, who goes out to break unions is laying the foundations for fascism"

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With its pro-business agenda, and the fascist views of the leaders of corporate America, the Republican Party soon became laden with fascists. Even before Hitler and the Nazis seized power in Germany, the Nazis were already actively involved in American politics and elections. Shockingly, the Nazis did not have to infiltrate the party; many were employed at high levels in the national or state Republican Party organizations.

In October 1928, Edmond Furholzer, a pro-Nazi publisher from Germantown, NY presented the New York State Republican Committee with an offer that for twenty thousand dollars he would deliver the German vote to Hoover. With Hoover's chances looking good, and it being late in the campaign, Furholzer's offer was turned down.

Furholzer was hardly an obscure Nazi, and was a leading figure in the hard right of Yorkville (a heavily German neighborhood of Manhattan). The Republican State Committee adopted many of Furholzer's proposals in 1928, and four years later, when Hoover's chances were dismal, Furholzer's help was gladly accepted. In fact, during the 1932 campaign, Furholzer worked endlessly for the Republican National Committee, campaigning tirelessly for Hoover in New York State. He smeared Roosevelt as the new Wilson, the man that had destroyed Germany.92 In 1933, Furholzer returned to Germany.

By 1934, the Nazis had only been in power for less than a year, but already were active in placing their agents or pro-Nazis into positions of power. On February 22, 1934, the Republican Party merged their Senatorial and Congressional Campaign Committees into a single organization independent of the Republican National Committee..."

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re: the above--you know how certain people say the Republican party has been highjacked? Looks like it's not the first time...