Reply With Quote
Thanks Dan, I needed a good laugh today.
Paradise PostBy Jack Jamison
YOU'VE probably heard about the videotapes disguised as actual news film that several governmental agencies have been sending to television station. In these tapes government emp-loyees play the part of news reporters who are apparently reporting actual news.
Naturally, this is nothing more than government propaganda. Most of you, however, assumed once this was exposed, the government would stop sending out these phony videotapes. Wrong!
The Lowdown newsletter reports "At least 20 federal agencies are aggressively pushing government-produced-and-distributed 'news' segments on hundreds of local television stations." And surprise, these tapes laud the president and his programs.
The Government Accountability Office, the investigative arm of Congress, has ruled that using tax dollars "to proselytize, deceive and distort in order to influence the public amounts to government sponsored propaganda, which is illegal."
Now here's an update. The Justice Department has issued a legal opinion that declares GAO opinions are not binding on the White House, and that a memo has been sent to all agencies "telling them to ignore the GAO findings and merrily keep on propagandizing," according to Jim Hightower. <snip>
If we are using the past as an analogy, I would say the pace lately is a full sprint -
... and we're well past 1933.
If the events of 9/11 were Hitler's Reichstag Fire (which he used to seize the Chancellery and issue emergency orders giving him virtual control of the government), then where have we gone from there?
Hitler invaded Austria and Czechoslovakia, Bush invaded Afghanistan and Iraq.
Hitler began, by 1935 or 1936, putting thousands of Jews and dissidents in jail and eventually in concentration camps (well, Shrub beat him by a few years on that with his round-ups of Muslims around the world).
By the fall of 1939, Hitler had amassed enough power to invade Poland, on the pretext of Poland attacking Germany (some accounts say that began by a few German soldiers dressed in Polish uniform, running across the border, then shooting at a German radio station and running back).
Any bets on Dubya's Poland?
There's a book called "They Thought They were Free" by an author whose name I can't remember. It's interesting, taking a look at how the Third Reich came to power while rank and file Germans remained complacent. It was written a while back, but contains some eerie parallels to our time. Not that I expect us to invade Poland any time soon, but it never hurts to be vigilant about what's going on in our government and our society.
I really worry about Dan sometimes.
i really worry about police states sometimes
More parallels -- Congress recently passed a highway bill that includes money for more superhighways! Hitler built autobahns! AUUGGHHH!!!
Hitler mastermined the Volkswagen, an affordable car for workers! Hyundai recently was allowed to build a production facility in the U.S.! AUUGGHHH!!!
The Nazis cut down on free speech and burned books! Americans frown on explicit hardcore pornography! AUUGGHHH!!!
Hitler wanted to exterminate all Jews! The Republicans don't want to affirm the morality of sexuals!! AUUGGHHH!!!
It's happening!!! It's happening!!!
Wow you guys are right!
Germany was a country, so is the US!
We're all doomed!!!
I'm reminded of the old addage, "First they came for the [whatevers] and I said nothing because, I wasn't a [whatever]."
Well, rest assured, I will definitely say something AFTER they come for the Nbadans!
Ah, you're no fun. Don't you love the smell of burning flesh in the morning? If we say something, you know they'll make us give back our Bill Frist-autographed jackboots!
Okay, I'll wait two weeks, then I'll say something.
Holocaust Survivor
Leaving US - Sees
What's Coming
By Joey Picador
Justice For None.com
5-27-5
Justice4NooneOne of our neighbors is moving. I've been in this neighborhood for about six years now, but didn't really know them very well at all - just waves and nods, mostly.
So I heard the moving van pull up this morning. When I got home this evening I happened to spy my neighbor (he's like 85 years old - I don't know exactly, but he's old, talks and moves very slowly) standing on the sidewalk next to the van. I walked over and shook his hand, and we started talking. I asked him where he was moving, and he said, "Back to Germany."
I had been stationed in Germany for two years while in the military, so I lit up, and commented about how beautiful the country was, and inquired if he was going back because he missed it. "No," he answered me. "I'm going back because I've seen this before." He then commenced to explain that when he was a kid, he watched with
his family in fear as Hitler's government committed atrocity after atrocity, and no one was willing to say anything. He said the news refused to question the government, and the ones who did were not in the newspaper business much longer. He said good neighbors, people he had known all his life, turned against his family and other Jews,
grabbing on to the hate and superiority "as if they were starved for it" (his words).
He said he was too old to see it happen right in front of his eyes again, and too old to do anything about it, so he was taking his family back to Europe on Thursday where they would be safe from George W. Bush and his neocons. He seemed resolute, but troubled, nonetheless, as if being too young on one end and too old on the other to fight what he saw happening was wearing on him. I gotta tell you - it was chilling. I let him talk, and the whole time, my gut was churning, like I had mutated butterflies in my stomach. When he was finished, he shook my hand, gripping it really hard, until his knuckles turned white and he was shaking. He looked me in the eyes, hard, and said, "I will pray for your family and your country." He let go of my hand and hobbled away.
I have related this event to you in the hopes it will serve as a cautionary anecdote about the state of our Union, and to illustrate the path we Americans are being led down by a group of fanatics bent on global economic and military dominion. When a man who survived the fruits of fascism decides its time to leave THIS country because he's seeing the same patterns that led to the Holocaust and other Nazi horrors beginning to form here, it is time for us to recognize the underlying evil inherent in the actions of those who claim they work for all Americans, and for all mankind. And it is in bent upon all Americans, Red and Blue, Republican and Democrat, to stop them.
Senility is so sad.
What a bunch of BS.
like he would be in danger here! dumbass! let him go back and be a drain on their ss system. better for us.
There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)
Posting Permissions
