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To: Olog-hai
In other news:

WH gives a nod and a wink to 81 major corporations to not audit them in the next 18 months.

16 posted on 10/21/2015 12:00:36 AM PDT by Michael.SF. (This tagline lists all of Hilary's accomplishments............................)
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To: Michael.SF.

https://www.facinghistory.org/for-educators/educator-resources/readings/do-you-take-oath

excerpts:

Those in civil service pledged: “I swear I will be true and obedient to the Führer of the German Reich and people, Adolf Hitler, observe the law, and conscientiously fulfill the duties of my office, so help me God.”...

Not everyone was willing to take the oath. Among those who refused was Ricarda Huch, a poet and writer. She resigned from the prestigious Prussian Academy of Arts with this letter. [Substitute American for German!]

“That a German should feel German, I should take almost for granted. But there are different opinions about what is German and how German-ness is to be expressed. What the present regime prescribes as national sentiment, is not my German-ness. The centralization, the compulsion, the brutal methods, the defamation of people who think differently, the boastful self-praise I regard as un-German and unhealthy.

Possessing a philosophy that varies so radically from that prescribed by the state I find it impossible to remain one of its academicians....”


21 posted on 10/21/2015 12:28:14 AM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
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