Nazism Never Dies, It Survives Within Our Shadows

[MelissaB]

This is from Bush's hometown paper. Also, the web address has changed for this paper. The new address is: http://lonestaricon.com/

Nazism Never Dies, It Survives Within Our Shadows

By Peter Stern
Special To The Iconoclast

In today’s America there are two main types of Nazis. There are political Nazis and corporate Nazis. Both varieties are extremely patriotic and have similar platforms, agendas and motivation.

During the 1930’s, Adolf Hitler rose to power in an industrialized but chaotic Germany, in which the middle and lower classes were living in poverty and unrest. Another reason for Hitler’s immense popularity is that the prevailing government was failing the people and he instilled in Germans the sense of pride and nationalism, and promised the majority a better life.

Hitler cherished all things German and hated all other cultures and the people living within them. His priorities and likes were passed along to and accepted by many Germans. When Hitler became that country’s leader, government took over German factories and businesses to manufacture the necessities of war, e.g., the auto manufacturer Mercedes Benz began to develop war equipment and machinery, which included many of the gas chambers Hitler used in his attempt to exterminate the Jews and various other ethnic peoples who were not “true” Germans.

The slogan of the time was “Deutschland Über Alles” (Germany above all/everything else), which became the Fatherland’s National Anthem — and which is Germany’s national anthem to this day.

There are many similarities of the Nazism depicted briefly above with Nazism prevalent today in the United States, and specifically in Texas, which has become the microcosm for all other states since George W. Bush (Jr.) became President.

Perhaps the past five years of reviewing the Texas Legislature and the corporate involvement in state government affairs best underscores the Nazism rising from the shadows to a more pronounced visibility in its recent evolution.

More: http://lonestaricon.com/Columns/Guest/2005/36-52/45guest02.htm

[valerief]

1. Yesterday's Nazi is today's Zani with a little letter-swapping

[babylonsister]

2. Boy, the Crawford repugs' trigger fingers

must be twitchin'! The employees of the Iconoclast best watch their backs!

[reprehensor]

3. Nice find!

I'll be passing this one around.

[BuyingThyme]

4. kcik

[Beelzebud]

5. George Carlin summed it up nicely on Bill Maher's show a few weeks ago.

"Hitler lost the war, but fascism won!"

[BuyingThyme]

6. kcik

[area51]

7. nazism hasn't died.

Truly, the republican party is now the nazi party. They love/embrace the tenets of the nazi party.

[Kralizec]

8. Thanks for finding this! n/t

[Benhurst]

9. Recommended NT

[norml]

10. Archives prove how Nazi-like the movement that calls itself conservative

is.

http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/ww2era.htm

[BuyingThyme]

11. kcik

[SammyBlue]

12. Do this next time you catch yourself listening to AM shit radio

Replace the word Jew when the barking head say "liberal" or "Liberalism."

You'll notice a similarity between the barking head and Josef Goebbels.

[JJackFlash]

13. This Whitley Streiber commentary is appropriate here

Texas nazis and a nation in peril:
http://www.unknowncountry.com/journal/?id=188

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

16. This is a very interesting article except for the part at the end, where

he believes that the Shrub hasn't a clue. I refuse to accept that.

[Kellanved]

14. Poor fact checking.

The anthem part is pretty much all wrong. "Deutschland über Alles" was the Weimar Republic's anthem; the slogan has its roots in the German democratic movement. Today the third - and only the third - stanza is the anthem: "Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit" (Unity and Justice and Freedom).


The article as a whole is underwhelming, half-cooked Nazi comparisons utterly lacking a point.

[B Calm]

15. Nice article

[DanCa]

17. We dont live in a world where bad guys were black hats and twirl mustaches

All though the old saying were the devil loves to masqurade as an angel of the light really applies to the chimp and company.