Shocking Parallels Between The US Patriot Act & the Nazi Enabling Act
Consider the following two statements, and see if you can identify the
authors.
Statement Number One: "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 danger. It works the same way in any country."....
...Statement Number Two: "To those who scare peace-loving people with
phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: Your tactics only aid
terrorists, for they erode our national unity and diminish our resolve."...
...The first statement is a quote from Hitler's right hand man, Hermann
Goering, explaining at his war crimes trial how easily he and his fellow
Nazis hijacked Germany's democratic government. The second statement is a
quote from Bush's right hand man, John Ashcroft, defending the Patriot Act
and explaining why dissent will no longer be tolerated in the age of
terrorism. If that doesn't send chills down your spine, nothing will....
....And what, pray tell, are we fighting for? Well, according to the White
House, we're fighting for freedom. Yet freedom is exactly what the White
House is demanding that we now SURRENDER in the name of fighting
terrorism."....
Many who think that this post is an over reaction need only check history.
Time and time again it has been shown that
governments
and corruption are synonymous. This especially includes our democratic(?)
ones. Democracies can only work when the people put their trust into
authority. The more democratic the society becomes the more likely it will
be abused by governments/authority as it becomes progressively easier to
betray citizen trust....It will come as a surprise to most that
Hitler's
Germany and Stalinist Russia started from one of the most democratic
governments of all before their day!
...Again and again we see how our governments dupe us. They continually
guard the interests of corporations ahead of our health and wealth. It is
clear that their (governments') primary role inevitably turns to protect,
and do the dirty bidding for, the industry under the pretense of protecting
citizens.
Those who think that governments are needed for our protection, security
and well being are sadly mistaken. Instead of expecting the government to
stem the tide of corruption and self interests we continually see their
dismal track record of betrayal.
Both "Hitler and Bush were funded and ultimately ushered into power by
wealthy industrialists (industrial military complex) looking for government
favors in the form of tax breaks, big subsidies, and laws to weaken the
rights of workers". What is even more surprising is that Hitler's PR man
was actually an American so they know the routine well - hence the
similarity...
Following books now freely available on the net are a must read to see the
big picture:
Wall Street And The Rise Of
Hitler by Antony C. Sutton
Hitler's
Secret Backers (not free but almost)
The Crime and
Punishment of I.G. Farben by Joseph Borkin
We are creatures of comfort and trust, sadly we are not generally motivated
until it's too late or things get unbearable. Remember also that it can be
very difficult to see the situation when one is inside looking out. Even
though we have seen it before. History will continue to repeat till such
time as we grow up. Unfortunately, the vested interests with governments in
toe know this all too well and design the acts/laws in such a manner that
hide their atrocities hence, most will not see these easily if at all. Most
will continue to trust the authorities, and think that those who see the
ongoing atrocities are a bunch of conspiracy cooks, fanatics etc., and the
game plan will ensue. Secret arrests and meetings; media embargoes, etc.
are simply designed to keep us oblivious and in our comfort zones.
Chris Gupta
See also:
Legalizing
the Loss of Freedoms in Canada
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Title: USA Patriot Act and
the Nazi Enabling Act
Post by: tanstaafl28 on June 03, 2005, 05:29:05 PM
www.UnslaverNews.com
On March 23, 1933,
Adolf Hitler
pushed the the Enabling Act, which provided the newly elected Nazi
government with additional powers to act against enemies of the state. This
particular piece of legislation bears remarkable resemblance to
the U.S.A Patriot Act:
1) How the Patriot Act Compares to Hitler's Ermächtigungsgesetz (Enabling Act)
On March 23, 1933, the newly elected members of the Reichstag met in the
Kroll Opera House in Berlin to consider passing Hitler's
"Ermächtigungsgesetz". The "Enabling Act" was officially called the 'Law
for Removing the Distress of the People and the Reich.'
Opponents to the bill argued that if it was passed, it would end democracy
in Germany and establish a legal dictatorship of Adolf Hitler. To soften
resistance to the passing of the Enabling Act, the Nazis secretly caused
confusion in order to create an atmosphere in which the law seem necessary
to restore order.
On February 27, 1933, Nazis
burned the Reichstag building,
and a seat of the German government, causing frenzy and outrage. They
successfully blamed the fire on the Communists, and claimed it marked the
beginning of a widespread terrorism and unrest threatening the safety of
the German "Homeland." On the day of the vote, Nazi storm troopers gathered
around the opera house chanting, "Full powers - or else! We want the bill -
or fire and murder!"
The Nazis used the opportunity to arrest 4,000 communists. Not only did the
Nazis use the incident as a propaganda against communists but they also
arrested additional 40,000 members of the opposition. Consequently, the
Nazis had achieved their objective of eliminating democracy and ensuring
their majority in the parliament.
After the fire on February 28, 1933, president Hindenburg and Hitler
invoked Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution, which permitted the
suspension of civil liberties during national emergencies. Some examples of
this Decree of the Reich President for the Protection of the People and
State abrogated the following constitutional protections: Freedom of the
press, free expression of opinion, individual property rights, right of
assembly and association, right to privacy of postal and electronic
communications, states´ rights of self-government, and protection against
unlawful searches and seizures.
Before the vote, Hitler made a speech to the Reichstag in which he pledged
to use restraint. He also promised to end unemployment and promote
multilateral peace with France, Great Britain and the Soviet Union.
In order to accomplish all this, Hitler said, he first needed the Enabling
Act. Since this act would alter the German constitution, a two-thirds
majority was necessary. Hitler needed 31 non-Nazi votes to pass it. The
Center Party provided these votes after Hitler made a false promise to
them. Four hundred and forty votes were registered for the Enabling Act,
while a mere 84 votes were opposed – the social Democrats. In glory the
Nazi Party stood to their feet and sang the Nazi anthem, the Hörst Wessel
song. The German Democratic party had finally been eliminated, and Hitler’s
dream for Nazi command became closer to reality.
The Enabling Act granted Hitler the power he craved and could use without
objection from the Reichstag. Shortly after the passing of The Enabling Act
all other political parties were dissolved. Trade unions were liquidated
and opposition clergy were arrested. The Nazi party had, as Hitler said,
become the state. By August 1934, Hitler became commander-in-chief of the
armed forces. This was in addition to being President and Führer of the
German Reich, to whom every individual in the armed forces pledged
unconditional obedience. The Reichstag was no longer a place for debate,
but rather a cheering squad in favor of whatever Hitler might say.
2) A 21st Century Comparison of The Enabling Act and The Patriot Act
Last September, German Justice Minister Herta Daeubler-Gmelin pointed out
that George Bush is using Iraq to distract the American public from his
failed domestic policies. She capped her statement by reminding her
audience: "That's a popular method. Even Hitler did that." What was lost in
the reactions to Ms. Daeubler-Gmelin's comments was that she wasn't
comparing Bush to the Hitler of the late 1930s and early 1940s; but to the
Hitler of the late 1920s and early 1930s.
Most Americans have forgotten that Hitler came to power legally. He and the
Nazi Party were elected democratically in a time of great national turmoil
and crisis. They themselves had done much to cause the turmoil, of course,
but that's what makes the Bush comparison so compelling.
Similar to the Bush administration, the Nazis were funded and ultimately
ushered into power by wealthy industrialists looking for government favors
in the form of tax breaks, big subsidies, and laws to weaken the rights of
workers. When the Reichstag (Germany's Parliament building) was set ablaze
in 1933 (probably by Nazis), the Nazis framed their political rivals for
it. In the general panic that followed, the German Parliament was purged of
all left-wing representatives who might be soft on communists and
foreigners, and the few who remained then VOTED to grant Chancellor Hitler
dictatorial powers. A long, hideous nightmare had begun.
History teaches us that it is shockingly easy to separate reasonable and
intelligent people from their rights. A legally elected leader and party
can easily manipulate national events to whip up fear, crucify scapegoats,
gag dissenters, and convince the masses that their liberties must be
suspended (temporarily, of course) in the name of restoring order. Consider
the following two statements, and see if you can identify the authors.
Statement Number One: "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 danger. It works the same way in any country."
Statement Number Two: "To those who scare peace-loving people with phantoms
of lost liberty, my message is this: Your tactics only aid terrorists, for
they erode our national unity and diminish our resolve."
The first statement is a quote from Hitler's right hand man, Hermann
Goering, explaining at his war crimes trial how easily he and his fellow
Nazis hijacked Germany's democratic government. The second statement is a
quote from Bush's right hand man, John Ashcroft, defending the Patriot Act
and explaining why dissent will no longer be tolerated in the age of
terrorism. If that doesn't send chills down your spine, nothing will.
When the shooting started at Lexington Green in 1775, those calling
themselves patriots were the men and women who refused to yield their
rights to an increasingly oppressive government. Today, according to John
Ashcroft and his Patriot Act of 2001, a patriot is someone who kneels down
in fear, and hands over his or her rights to the government in the name of
fighting terrorism. Isn't the hypocrisy of this all too obvious? The Bush
administration wants us to fight in Afghanistan, to fight in Iraq, and to
fight wherever terrorists may be hiding. And what, pray tell, are we
fighting for? Well, according to the White House, we're fighting for
freedom. Yet freedom is exactly what the White House is demanding that we
now SURRENDER in the name of fighting terrorism.
So what's really going on? Well, it's all a lie, of course. The Bush
administration isn't any more interested in protecting our freedom from
terrorists than Hitler was in protecting Germans from communists, Jews, and
all the other groups he scapegoated. The Bush administration is fighting
only to protect itself and its corporate sponsors. It hides behind a veil
of national security and behind non-stop war headlines of its own creation.
And behind that smokescreen, Bush, Inc. is pursuing Hitler’s old agenda
from the 1920s and 1930s: serving the interests of the corporate
industrialists who brought it to power.
There is a name for governments that serve the interests of Big Business at
the expense of their own citizens: fascist. Here's a short list of the
rights we've already surrendered since the September 11 attacks. Most of
these abuses are from a single piece of legislation called the Patriot Act
of 2001, which was rushed through Congress with no debate in the aftermath
of the attacks. Many of the Congressmen who voted for it later admitted
that they hadn't even read it at the time.
3) Ten Key Dangers of The Patriot Act That Every American Should Know
No. 1: The government can conduct "sneak and peek" searches in which agents
enter your home or business and search your belongings without informing
you until long after.
No. 2: Government agents can force libraries and bookstores to hand over
the titles of books that you've purchased or borrowed and can demand the
identity of anyone who has purchased or borrowed certain books. The
government can also prosecute libraries and bookstores for informing you
that the search occurred or even for informing you that an inquiry was
made. According to ACLU staff attorney Jameel Jaffer, such "searches could
extend to doctors offices, banks and other institutions which, like
libraries, were previously off-limits under the law." Chris Finan,
President of the American Booksellers group adds: "The refusal of the
Justice Department to tell Congress how many times it has used its powers
is even more unsettling because it naturally leads to the suspicion that it
is using them a lot."
No. 3: Federal agents are authorized to use hidden devices to trace the
telephone calls or emails of people who are not even suspected of a crime.
The FBI is also permitted to use its Magic Lantern technology to monitor
everything you do on your computer--recording not just the websites you
visit but EVERY SINGLE KEYSTROKE as well.
No. 4: Government agents are permitted to arrest and detain individuals
"suspected" of terrorist activities and to hold them INDEFINITELY, WITHOUT
CHARGE, and WITHOUT an ATTORNEY. (That could be you or me for sending or
receiving this Email, by the way)
No. 5: Federal agents are permitted to conduct full investigations of
American citizens and permanent legal residents simply because they have
participated in activities protected by the First Amendment, such as
writing a letter to the editor or attending a peaceful rally.
No. 6: Law enforcement agents are permitted to listen in on discussions
between prisoners and their attorneys, thus denying them their
Constitutional right to confidential legal counsel.
No. 7: Terrorism suspects may be tried in secret military tribunals where
defendants have no right to a public trial, no right to trial by jury, no
right to confront the evidence, and no right to appeal to an independent
court. In short, the Constitution does not apply.
No. 8: The CIA is granted authority to spy on American citizens, a power
that has previously been denied to this international espionage organization.
No. 9: In addition to the Patriot Act, the Bush administration has given us
Operations TIPS, a government program that encourages citizens to spy on
each other and to report their neighbors activities to the authorities.
It's EXACTLY the kind of thing for which we used to fault East Germany and
the Soviet Union, and for which we currently fault Red China and North
Korea. Fortunately, Operation TIPS (or AmeriSnitch, as it's known to its
many detractors) seems to have been recalled to the factory--at least for
now. (Incidentally, in a clever variation of "two-can-play-at-that-game”,
Brad Templeton has set up a website at
http://www.all-the-other-names-were-taken.com/tipstips.html where you can
report people you suspect of being informants for Operation TIPS. It's an
interesting and amusing site, well worth a look.)
No. 10: In the wake of Operation TIPS came something even worse: Total
Information Awareness. TIA is a program of the Defense Department that when
fully operational will link commercial and government databases so that the
DOD can immediately put its finger on any piece of information about you
that it wants. New York Times columnist William Safire writes: "Every
purchase you make with a credit card, every magazine subscription you buy
and medical prescription you fill, every Web site you visit and e-mail you
send or receive, every academic grade you receive, every bank deposit you
make, every trip you book and every event you attend all these transactions
and communications will go into what the Defense Department describes as a
virtual, centralized grand database." And that's not all. Who did our
president appoint to head the TIA? Who gets to be Big Brother himself? Why
it's none other than John Poindexter, a man convicted in 1990 on five
counts of lying to Congress, destroying official documents, and obstructing
congressional inquiries into the Iran-contra affair. Another Hermann
Goering, if there ever was one.
4) BILL MOYERS' NOW COMMENTS On THE PATRIOT ACT
At the same time the Bush administration is probing into your private life,
it is shielding itself from all public scrutiny. It has shredded the
Freedom of Information Act; it has locked away presidential records not
only of the current administration but of administrations going all the way
back to Reagan as well; and it has even locked up George W. Bush's
gubernatorial records so that the people of Texas can't see what he did to
them while serving as their governor.
Not surprisingly, the Bush administration is also using anti-terror
legislation and executive orders to protect its corporate sponsors from
scrutiny and from prosecution. The drug company Eli Lilly, for instance,
was
recently
granted immunity from all cases brought against it-–even those initiated
long before the war on terrorism--related to a vaccine it manufactured that
turned out to cause autism in many children. (Eli Lilly contributed over $3
million in the last two election campaigns.) The Bush administration also
protected the Bayer Corporation's patent on the antibiotic Cipro throughout
the anthrax scare, whereas other countries, such as Canada, broke that
patent so that other companies could make cheaper versions of the drug in
case of emergency.
It is interesting to note that during WWII Bayer was part of the
I.G. Farben
conglomerate, the top financial contributor to the Nazi Party. I.G. Farben
produced petrol and rubber for the Nazi war machine and it manufactured the
Zyklon B gas that was used to exterminate millions of Jews and other
"enemies of the state." In exchange for these services, the Nazis provided
Farben (and Bayer) with lucrative government contracts and with slave labor
from concentration camps.
Under George W. Bush's kinder, gentler fascism, U.S. corporations are now
allowed to do business with the Homeland Security Department even if they
cheat the government out of vast amounts of tax revenues by setting up
offshore business fronts in the Caribbean Islands. It used to be that
tax-evaders were tracked down and punished. Now they're rewarded with fat
government contracts. Could the slave labor be far behind?
If only this were the extent of the Bush administration's ramble down the
road to fascism. Way back in November of 2001, William Safire accused the
Bush administration of "seizing dictatorial power." Well, Mr. Safire, you
ain't seen nothing yet. Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse,
just when you thought we can't lose any more of our liberties and still
call ourselves a "free society," we learn that the Bush administration
wants to take away even more of our rights. A secret document was just
leaked out of John Ashcroft's Justice Department and turned over to the
Center for Public Integrity. Titled the Domestic Security Enhancement Act
of 2003, this document turns out to be a draft of new anti-terrorism
legislation, a vastly more muscular sequel to Patriot Act. If passed, it
would grant the executive branch sweeping new powers of domestic
surveillance, and it would eliminate most of the few remaining checks and
balances that protect us from tyranny.
It's the Patriot Act on steroids. Charles Lewis of the Center for Public
Integrity shared this document with Bill Moyers, who examined it on NOW,
his weekly PBS program. That episode aired Friday, February 7, yet even now
no mainstream news broadcaster has picked up this incredible story. Read
the NOW transcript and see the document itself online at
http://www.pbs.org/now/politics/lewis.html.
You can also read the
Center
for Public Integrity's analysis of the document at here.
Dr. David Cole, a Law professor at Georgetown University and author of
Terrorism and the Constitution assessed the document, saying, "I think this
is a quite radical proposal. It authorizes secret arrests. It would give
the Attorney General essentially unchecked authority to deport anyone who
he thought was a danger to our economic interests. It would strip
citizenship from people for lawful political associations."
"Secret arrests”? Did we hear that right? It seems that the Homeland
Security Department (HSD) is about to become the KGB. The first Patriot Act
already allows for people to be locked up indefinitely without a lawyer and
without being charged with a crime. If Patriot Act II passes, then arrests
would also be secret. That means that dissenters (or anyone else, for that
matter) could disappear without a trace, just as they did in Nazi Germany,
in Stalinist Russia, and in Pinochet's Chile.
Patriot Act II would also grant even more immunity to Big Business. A
corporation could pour toxins into your local river, for instance, and you
wouldn't know about it until all the fish died and your neighbor’s kids
were born with missing limbs. And then when you went to court and demanded
to know what the company was dumping in your river, the company could deny
you that information on the grounds that it's a national security secret.
Jim Hightower put it this way: "All a company has to do to shield anything
it wants to keep from the public eye--say, an embarrassing chemical
spill--is give the documents to the Homeland Security Department and call
them "critical infrastructure information."
Ah, but there's even more to be concerned about here. The document was
created back in early January, but so far it appears that the only members
of Congress who even know of its existence are House Speaker Dennis Hastert
and Vice-president Dick Cheney. (The Vice-president presides over the
Senate, which makes him a member of the legislative branch as well as the
executive branch.) This raises a troubling question: Why has the White
House been sitting on this bill for a month? If the CEOs down at Bush, Inc.
really believe that they need these broad new powers to protect us from
terrorists, why not roll out that bill and start the debate? The answer is
all too plain. In all likelihood, the Bush administration was planning to
avoid debate entirely by springing this bill on the American people in the
midst of a perceived national crisis. Perhaps during the war with Iraq, for
instance. Or perhaps in the aftermath of the next terrorist attack. Or
perhaps right after the Reichstag fire.
Had some courageous soul not leaked this document out of the Justice
Department, the White House might easily have succeeded in passing it
through Congress without debate in the midst of our next perceived national
crisis, much as it did with the first Patriot Act in the aftermath of the
September 11 attacks. A thorough debate of this bill right now, under
fairly stable circumstances, would defuse it and prevent its passage even
under more frightening circumstances later on. There's just one problem.
The debate can't begin until more Americans know about this bill, but so
far the Washington Post is the only major news outlet to even MENTION this
story since Bill Moyers broke it on Friday night.
Authors Reference sites:
illuminati-news.com/patriot-act-vs-german-enabling-act.htm
www.furnitureforthepeople.com/actpat.htm
www.govsux.com/enable.htm
www.lewrockwell.com/gregory/gregory36.html
www.free-cliffnotes.com/data/dd/hal86.shtml
www.factbites.com/topics/Enabling-Act
www.electpd.org/EnablingAct.htm
www.new-enlightenment.com/nazification_step3.htm
www.csustan.edu/History/Faculty/Weikart/enabling.htm
www.paulieworld.com/blog/archives/000588.html
www.peter-kelly.net/patriot_act_is_like_germany.htm
tinyurl.com/d34ez
www.customscorruption.com/hitler.htm
coat.ncf.ca/our_magazine/links/54/54_42-43.pdf
www.counterpunch.org/cloughley05152004.html
tinyurl.com/2qas2
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