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I am becoming more and more frightened of and infuriated by the Bushistas, with every passing day their statements and actions grow worse and more absurd and we get deeper and deeper into the hole. And I am becoming more convinced than ever before that the BFEE and their cohorts will find a way to continue his "presidency" beyond 2004, whether by fixing voting machines, declaring a "national emergency" and cancelling elections due to said "emergency", causing or allowing another "terrattack", or by any other nefarious means they can come up with.
As my screen name indicates, I am a historian, although an amateur one (I have a B.A. in history, but I work as a paralegal), who has studied 1930's Germany, the Holocaust, and WWII at length for many years and I see so many parallels to Germany in the 1930's that's it's downright eerie and very frightening. I believe that 9/11 was Smirk's version of Hitler's Reichstag Fire, and Americans are as clueless about that and the incredible manipulation involved as the German citizens were.
Never, not in five million years, did I ever, ever, EVER think my own country would be moving so dangerously close to the same situation. Every time I'd read another book or research paper, or see another documentary or movie about the subject, or talk to a Holocaust survivor, I'd thank God that I was living in the USA where such things were so unlikely as to be almost impossible. Ha! What naivete! People are people are people, no matter what country they live in or how much they pride themselves on "diversity and tolerance." Call me paranoid. Call me a Chicken Little. Call me overdramatic or crazy, but I know my history and I know what's going on and what will happen if * remains in power beyond 2004.
What brought this thread on tonight is that I just saw the new documentary on Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German theologian who resisted the Nazis, was involved in an early plot to kill Hitler (that didn't, quite unfortunately, succeed), and who was murdered by the Nazis in April of 1945. He began to recognize early on the danger posed by Hitler's rule and to see through his manipulations and propaganda, as well as what he was doing to anyone who wasn't what he considered an "Aryan", to dissenters and those who disagreed with him, and what his "final plans" for such groups were. He spent some time teaching in a theological seminary in New York City in the 1930's, and was greatly influenced by the strong social activist bent of the African-American churches he visited and became familiar with. Though he could have remained in the States, he chose to return to Germany so he could join the resistance there and try to stop what was happening. He came to realize that his Christian beliefs and theology required him to work within the system to resist evil, in other words, to not resort to evil in order to fight evil; however, when faced with the total, all-consuming, Satanic evil of something like the Nazis, any act in resistance against such evil, including murder, was permissible, and that God would understand.
Bonhoeffer, too, thought he'd never seen such things happening in his own country. But he joined the resistance group, and never regretted it. I have been talking with members of a newly-formed group in Cleveland (I live in a suburb of it) called the Blue Triangle Group. This is an immigrants-rights group whose purpose is to support Arab, Muslim, Indian, and Southeast Asian immigrants, as well as Arab-Americans, to advocate on their behalf, and to work to protect their rights. I have been hearing some real horror stories about what many of these immigrants and Arab-Americans are going through at the hands of the police and the government, it's enough to curl your hair. And you don't hear about it in our so-called "liberal media", either. And most people still don't believe that such things are happening. They are, but under the radar. It's called the Blue Triangle Group, because each person in the Nazi camps was given a triangle with a particular color to symbolize their "offense" (pink for homosexuals, Jews had a color, etc., etc.), and immigrants and non-Jewish racial undesirables were given the color blue.
So, what I'm wondering is, if the Bushista Cabal remains in power after the 2004 election, and you know they'll do EVERYTHING POSSIBLE to ensure that that's the case, will there be a substantial resistance group similar to those in 1930's and WWII Germany, in this country? Will there be enough people who will recognize the need for resistance and be unafraid to join together, no matter the consequences? And would you be among them?
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