Posted on 09/26/2014 5:16:37 AM PDT by Kaslin
Something completely ignored by almost everyone. The only reason 9/11 was possible was because the government had completely disarmed everyone, and told them to cooperate with hijackers.
The U.S. government is directly at fault for this failure.
I remember quite distinctly saying to my coworkers that day, that I wondered how many freedoms would be demanded of us.
I’d wager that the term tested well with women and that’s why it was employed.
Because I am a naturalized citizen the US is my adopted home. It can not be my fatherland
The use of the word “Fatherland” is extremely sarcastic, as it is closely associated with Nazi Germany.
So, for example, calling them the Department of Fatherland Security, would be seen as a close parallel to Germany’s Sicherheitsdienst (SD) (”Security Service”).
You don’t even know what you are talking about, besides when I grew up and went to school in Germany no one used the word Vaterland, we said Heimat, which means home
Fatherland, along with many, many other words and symbols, have been criminally forbidden from use in Germany since the war.
But in the US, many people remember Goebbels’ propaganda, and while such words and symbols are not unlawful here, they bear a strong taint from that time.
Oddly enough, though the Nazis tried to integrate Heimat, it never took on the severely negative connotations internationally, as did Vaterland. This was likely that during the rise of the Nazis, in 1931, it was, as a concept, also embraced in international law in The Hague.
“In international law the “right to one’s homeland” (German: Recht auf die Heimat; French: droit au foyer; Italian: diritto alla Patria; Spanish; derecho a la patria) is a concept that has been gaining acceptance as a fundamental human right and a precondition to the exercise of the right to self-determination.
“In 1931 at the Académie de Droit International in The Hague (Hague Academy of International Law), Robert Redslob spoke of the right to the homeland in connection with the right to self-determination in Le principe des nationalités.”
It then was revitalized after the war by the UN, which affirmed the rehabilitation of the word heimat.
Isn’t the US your home? *rme* Did you btw read Hitler’s “Mein Kampf”? It would not surprise me if you did
Yes I did, in a college course about Adolf Hitler, taught by a history professor who had received an award from the German government for his scholarship about and promulgation of the German language.
But judging from your tone, were you suggesting that I might have embraced Mein Kampf? That would not be the case. Familiarity with a subject does not mean you endorse it.
Likewise, it is rude for polite people to even insinuate that another person has fascist leanings. That is something that Democrats do.
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