the folks who brought you the Reichstag fire...

At 15:55 23.7.03 -0500, you wrote:
> , if I say to my students during a lecture: "You should exercise
> more, because according to Hitler, exercise promotes good health
Alan, that statement would have made sense in the third reich, of course.

If today you tell them, "according to Hitler, exercise promotes good health "
that might be not only a true statement, but a very thought-provoking one

what we should have learned from the nazi calamity was that monsters don't 
come with horns
by demonizing and caricaturizing the nazi and communist experiences en bloc,
the Allied / Western media have rubbed out all the subtleties of our 
warlike history
you almost have to go to central europe to get any feeling for what really 
went down then

the lesson of that tragedy should have been the danger that barbarism can 
arise in the midst of civilization
we ignore that nazi germans loved their children, went to church, sang 
christmas carols and the rest.
having slept through this lesson, amerika is insensitive to the cues of our 
own fascism
how can we be fascists when we are good people? well, how else, stupid? 
grow horns?
no, you just follow the program, eat your oatmeal, wave your flag, and 
believe your media.
that's how you become a fascist, dummy!

today, you can depend on the "reliable sources" to toe the corporatist line 
on the taboo question of american fascism.
you can depend on them to ridicule the revelations that the Bushes,
Wall STreet, and Skull & Bones, directly sponsored Hitler and Stalin.
but that is something extremely significant -
it means that the driving force behind all those catastrophes is still with 
us, still driving....

after reading some of the "unreliable" intellectual outcast sources on this,
Anthony Sutton and Glen Yeadon, John Loftus and Wm. Tarpley,
i see no more reasonable explanation for 20th and 21st history

yet the "reliable" pundits never attack the iconoclasts' facts.
I've never seen them deny that Prescott Bush was indicted for trading with 
the enemy,
that he was Hitler's banker, that the Morgans attempted a fascist putsch in 
the USA in 1934,
that the CIA was built with Gestapo assets, or any of the other damning 
details.

they just call names and make a lot of noise. Loftus is "discredited", 
Sutton a rogue, Tarpley a conspiracy theorist, etc.

so who are they covering up for? for the real fascists, that's who - the 
anglosaxon corporatist oligarchs who spin this ball we live on.
it takes no guts to kick a dead wolf.
but what about standing up to the real thing?

Hm???