The Big Lie: The Rise of the Extreme Right

[housewolf]

Good article about what's going on in Arizona

The Big Lie: The Rise of the Extreme Right
By Rodolfo F. Acuna, Reader Supported News
11 July 2010

Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer recently said, "I believe today ... that the majority of the illegal trespassers that are coming into the state of Arizona are under the direction and control of organized drug cartels ... There's strong information to us that they come as illegal people wanting to come to work. Then they are accosted and they become subjects of the drug cartel." Brewer hedged her statement with phrases such as "I believe" and "There's strong information." However, she does not offer an iota of evidence - making it the most irresponsible statement that I have heard in my fifty-five years as a political activist.

The fact that Brewer equates an undocumented immigrant to organized criminals and members of the violent drug cartels is disturbing. With this type of misinformation by a public official, it is no wonder that over 70 percent of Americans support the repression of undocumented immigrants, believing that laws similar to those of Arizona will keep them safe.

History informs us that the Third Reich came to power as a consequence of half-truths and blatant lies that gradually made most Germans passively receptive to Nazi racial theories. The parallels between Germany in the 1920s and Arizona in 2010 are striking. Then, and now, intentional lies have that spread fear and hatred of the other.

Who is behind this mass hysteria in Arizona?

more...
http://www.readersupportednews.org/opinion/42-42/2405-the-big-lie-the-rise-of-the-extreme-right

[Joanne98]

1. It's the media. They're constantly lying for the right!

[TomClash]

2. Know-nothings nt

[MichiganVote]

3. Organized corporate entities are responsible for the rise in illegal immigration.

OUR corporation. The same ones we give huge tax breaks to.

[RKP5637]

4. History repeats, but Americans have short memories. n/t