A Gestapo Administration By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS

[jbfam4]

Bush's Witchhunt Against Truth-Tellers
A Gestapo Administration
By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS

http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts01022006.html

Caught in gratuitous and illegal spying on American citizens, the Bush administration has defended its illegal activity and set the Justice (sic) Department on the trail of the person or persons who informed the New York Times of Bush's violation of law. Note the astounding paradox: The Bush administration is caught red-handed in blatant illegality and responds by trying to arrest the patriots who exposed the administration's illegal behavior.

Bush has actually declared it treasonous to reveal his illegal behavior! His propagandists, who masquerade as news organizations, have taken up the line: To reveal wrong-doing by the Bush administration is to give aid and comfort to the enemy.

Compared to Spygate, Watergate was a kindergarden picnic. The Bush administration's lies, felonies, and illegalities have revealed it to be a criminal administration with a police state mentality and police state methods. Now Bush and his attorney general have gone the final step and declared Bush to be above the law. Bush aggressively mimics Hitler's claim that defense of the realm entitles him to ignore the rule of law.

Bush's acts of illegal domestic spying are gratuitous because there are no valid reasons for Bush to illegally spy. The Foreign Intelligence Services Act gives Bush all the power he needs to spy on terrorist suspects. All the administration is required to do is to apply to a secret FISA court for warrants. The Act permits the administration to spy first and then apply for a warrant, should time be of the essence. The problem is that Bush has totally ignored the law and the court.

[Freedom_from_Chains]

1. Well myself and others have been saying on this board

and others, for some time now, that there are many similarities between Hitler's rise to power and the Bush cabal. Unfortunately, the American people, much the same as the German people of the 1930's, refuse to see the truth that is in front of them as it is just too horrible to confront.

[Selatius]

2. People are good at heart, but simple folk

As Hitler said, "What luck for rulers that men do not think."

As Hermann Goering said, "Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger."

What stops anybody today from taking what Hermann Goering said about going to war and apply it not to the issue of war but to the issue of enhancing state police/surveillance power?

[MasonJar]

3. A slight difference between Hiler's non-thinking public; in our

case not only do the people not think, but the Hitler clone (the pretender shall we say) in the White House cannot think.

[Freedom_from_Chains]

5. You got a point there.

But I also think there are some people behind Jr. that know exactly what they are doing.

[Selatius]

6. I agree with that. I have a hunch they think Bush has served his purpose

They just needed a grease monkey to do the damage, and they'll wait for the pieces to hit the ground before planning the next step. Once Bush is gone, they'll just continue forward in the shadows as they have been. I think the most powerful people in this nation are not the politicians or the lobbyists who lobby the politicians but the bankrollers and financiers who hire the lobbyists or influence peddlers and buy the politicians. They sit in board rooms where they are not accountable to the will of the people, where they don't have to worry about anybody looking over their shoulder.

They don't have to worry about anything. The people won't come after them. They will come after their strawman decoy named George. They will direct their anger at him and tear him apart. He will be their fall guy, the patsy, the Lee Harvey Oswald of the assassination of a Republic.

I think this nation was crippled with the deaths of JFK, RFK, MLK, and others. It was a victim that was bludgeoned in the dark. It's been limping forward ever since, and I think these people in the dark intend to see that it dies with the final blow for their own personal gain.

[Freedom_from_Chains]

8. And you are dead on in your analysis

It has always been the political machinery behind the politicians, and of course the financiers, that make the country run. Now that is not to say that politicians are just string puppets, they do in fact have some power and some are quite skillful at using it, but it is to say that they are only part of the structure. The part that doesn't hold the bulk of power.

[leveymg]

14. No, I believe that we're moving haltingly toward accountability for

the bankers and industrialists who most responsible for the mess we're in. The prosecution of Enron and its satellite accounting firms were a start.

Halliburton has to be next. After that, all the other Iraq War profiteers need a thorough cleaning out.

WalMart can be shown to have entered into a conspiracy to restrain trade and destroy its smaller competitors.

Then there are the oil companies who have colluded, manipulated and profited from each manufactured crisis . . . and the western banks that facilitated terrorist finance, WMD proliferation and the illegal arms trade.

That should keep the US Attorneys office busy for a spell.

[AndyTiedye]

7. If BushCheneyRumsfeld Had Been In Charge of the 3rd Reich...

...they would have gotten bogged down trying to subdue Poland.

[Freedom_from_Chains]

4. People are good at heart, but simple folk

And you know there is some truth to that but sometimes it can be a real liability. After many years, and I try to teach my children this, I have concluded that most people really want to do the right thing. The problem is much of the time they just don't know what the right thing is.

[EVDebs]

11. It's now called the Dept. of Justification now ! LOL nt

[necso]

9. Mr. Roberts has been

going after these neoclowns relentlessly.

Whatever else he is, he's a patriot.

And we need more like him.

So let me butcher a little Kipling.

At the hole where he went in,
Red-Eye called to Wrinkle-Skin:
"Come up, Nag, and dance with death;
You and I til end of breath!"

Eye to eye and head to head,
(Keep the measure, Nag.)
This shall end when one is dead;
(At thy pleasure, Nag.)
Turn for turn and twist for twist-
(Run and hide thee, Nag.)
Hah! The hooded Death has missed!
(Woe betide thee, Nag!)

[Wind Dancer]

10. He's been brutally honest about this administration.

It's important to note he served as "Assistant Secretary of the Treasury" during the Reagan administration.

[Clara T]

12. It's later than we think- Rec'd

[dbeach]

18. if the photo fits???

fascism is more appropriately defined as corporatism
where the powers of the corporations and govt merge..
Bennie Mussolinni said it and it sure looks like its here..

[Fiendish Thingy]

13. K&R n/t

[northerdar]

15. Could the Bush Dynasty actually be covert Nazis?

W's grand daddy defied his country's congress and continued to do banking for Hitler's financial dealings.

Could the nazis really have survived? Hitler died but the ideology still lived on.


Perhaps they really are Nazis are exacting revenge and defeat on America through the destruction of the economy and death America's infrastructure. They want a clean slate for their martial law.

[AndreiX]

16. Bush = Christian Fascism

Bush is a Christian Fascist in every sense, and we are living in Weimar Germany, it seems...

If we don't drive out the Bush Regime soon... we could end up living in a theocratic police state for generations to come... even AFTER Bush leaves office...

That's why I say THE WORLD CAN'T WAIT... DRIVE OUT THE BUSH REGIME!
http://www.worldcantwait.org/

[Karenina]

19. Please search "Know Your BFEE"

on this site. The Nazi movement was simply transplanted. See: Allen Dulles, Operation Paperclip.

[OneBlueSky]

17. consider the implications of this question . . .

"will another terrorist attack allow the Bush administration to complete its coup?" . . .

it's not the question that's important, it's who's asking it and what it implies . . . Roberts is a noted conservative, and he's seems to be linking BushCo to the possibility of "another terrorist attack" -- and therefore, by implication, to the previous terrorist attack . . . damned interesting phrasing, if you ask me . . .

wonder what he knows (or what he at least strongly suspects) . . .