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Re: the folks who brought you the Reichstag fire...
by Thomas Juli
25 July 2003 07:50 UTC
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John,

thanks for your very true words.  As a Native German I
can say you hit the nail on its head.

TJ
 --- John Leonard <leonardjp@earthlink.net> schrieb: >
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???
> 
> 
> 
> 
>  

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