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TruthIsAll Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-27-04 11:30 AM
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Must Read: The best article ever written about..Bushler
Edited on Mon Jun-28-04 10:33 AM by Skinner
This was first posted over two years ago and started the dialogue.

Since it was written, we have lived through WMDGate, PlameGate, TortureGate, MedicareGate, the 9/11 investigation coverup, Diebold...and on and on and on.

How can anyone deny this?

They banned the moveon.org Bush/Hitler ad. Now Bush has a new ad equating Dems with Hitler.

Go figure.

http://www.newswithviews.com/history/history4.htm
WHEN DEMOCRACY FAILED: THE WARNINGS OF HISTORY

Thom Hartmann
March 28, 2003

The 70th anniversary wasn't noticed in the United States, and was barely reported in the corporate media. But the Germans remembered well that fateful day seventy years ago - February 27, 1933. They commemorated the anniversary by joining in demonstrations for peace that mobilized citizens all across the world.

It started when the government, in the midst of a worldwide economic crisis, received reports of an imminent terrorist attack. A foreign ideologue had launched feeble attacks on a few famous buildings, but the media largely ignored his relatively small efforts. The intelligence services knew, however, that the odds were he would eventually succeed. (Historians are still arguing whether or not rogue elements in the intelligence service helped the terrorist; the most recent research implies they did not.)

But the warnings of investigators were ignored at the highest levels, in part because the government was distracted; the man who claimed to be the nation's leader had not been elected by a majority vote and the majority of citizens claimed he had no right to the powers he coveted. He was a simpleton, some said, a cartoon character of a man who saw things in black-and-white terms and didn't have the intellect to understand the subtleties of running a nation in a complex and internationalist world. His coarse use of language - reflecting his political roots in a southernmost state - and his simplistic and often-inflammatory nationalistic rhetoric offended the aristocrats, foreign leaders, and the well-educated elite in the government and media. And, as a young man, he'd joined a secret society with an occult-sounding name and bizarre initiation rituals that involved skulls and human bones.

Nonetheless, he knew the terrorist was going to strike (although he didn't know where or when), and he had already considered his response. When an aide brought him word that the nation's most prestigious building was ablaze, he verified it was the terrorist who had struck and then rushed to the scene and called a press conference.

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DenverDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-27-04 11:45 AM
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1. How can anyone deny this?
Because they are ignorant, jingoistic, tools of fascist demagoguery.
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fdr_hst_fan Donating Member (853 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-27-04 11:48 AM
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2. I must admit that I have NEVER seen this article before;
Edited on Sun Jun-27-04 11:49 AM by fdr_hst_fan
however, I've been making Bush-Nazi comparisons on various sites for several weeks now, and some people agree, but some laugh at me and call ME a Nazi! I'M NOT A NAZI, but, after almost 40 years of studying them, I KNOW my enemy, but I do not WORSHIP HIM! I HATE AND DESPISE HIM, just as I do the neo-Nazis in power today! Everything Shrub has done can be traced back 70 years, step by step, law by law. It's frightening!
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ThomWV Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-27-04 12:02 PM
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3. I Listen To Thom Every Day
It is my morning ritual at work. I log onto the White Rose Society and download Thom's show from the previous day. In the meantime I listen to NPR on the radio. At 9:00 NPR goes off and I play the downloaded show of Thom until noon. Its just background for me, like a lot of folks play radios quietly in their cubicle.

He is an intelligent man and has a great talk show. He does not rant and rave, he's not even a Democrat, but my day would be empty without his show.
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