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Ben Carson stands by comparison of U.S. to Nazi Germany
CNN ^ | 12/4 | Alexandra Jaffe

Posted on 12/04/2014 6:11:50 AM PST by TangledUpInBlue

Neurosurgeon Ben Carson stood by his controversial comparison of the United States to Nazi Germany in an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer on Wednesday.

Asked by Blitzer whether he would amend or take back his comments, Carson said "Absolutely not."

Carson made the comments during a March interview with conservative news outlet Breitbart.com. He noted that the Third Reich was "using its tools to intimidate the population," and said that "we now live in a society where people are afraid to say what they actually believe."

"The point of what I'm saying...is a major fundamental shift of power has occurred," from the people to the government, and "if we continue down that road the United States of America becomes something very different than it was intended to be."

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hmmmmmmmmm
1 posted on 12/04/2014 6:11:50 AM PST by TangledUpInBlue
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Alan Keyes redux.


2 posted on 12/04/2014 6:14:07 AM PST by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Hard to argue that.


3 posted on 12/04/2014 6:15:05 AM PST by refermech
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To: refermech

Yeah it is.


4 posted on 12/04/2014 6:16:48 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: refermech

One of the things Dr. Carson and I agree upon


6 posted on 12/04/2014 6:17:07 AM PST by DaveA37
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To: Zhang Fei
Not sure what you mean by that ...

Fact is, he's telling the truth. Totalitarianism begins with thought control.

7 posted on 12/04/2014 6:17:26 AM PST by NorthMountain
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To: TangledUpInBlue

And this man truly, honestly believes that he is the one best qualified to be president of the Nazi States of America?


8 posted on 12/04/2014 6:17:30 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: Zhang Fei

He’s right.


9 posted on 12/04/2014 6:18:19 AM PST by JaguarXKE (1973: Reporters investigate All the President's Men. 2013: Reporters ARE all the President's men d)
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To: Zhang Fei
Alan Keyes redux

But without the superciliousness.

10 posted on 12/04/2014 6:19:02 AM PST by Sans-Culotte (Psalm 14:1 ~ The fool says in his heart, “There is no God.”)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Well the modern progressive uses the same techniques that Hitler used to gain power, and never forget Hitler was elected during a time of severe economic depression. These totalitarians all read the same playbook.


11 posted on 12/04/2014 6:19:04 AM PST by YankeeReb (Pants up!!! Don't Loot!!!)
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To: TangledUpInBlue
"Crime is contagious.
If the government becomes a law breaker,
it breeds contempt for the law."

Justice Louis D. Brandeis
12 posted on 12/04/2014 6:20:01 AM PST by Diogenesis
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To: TangledUpInBlue

OK Ben Carson has some good thoughts, but he is no longer “leadership” material in my book.

I CAN see his point if you consider that DEMOCRATS are very much like nazi’s in Germany

(not the whole USA)


13 posted on 12/04/2014 6:20:07 AM PST by Mr. K (Palin/Cruz 2016)
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To: TangledUpInBlue
...is a major fundamental shift of power has occurred," from the people to the government...

He's right. I don't see anything wrong with what he said.

14 posted on 12/04/2014 6:20:14 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Remember! When the GOP wins, it means the stupid American voters want bipartisanship.)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

I have been thinking the same thing for years, the US is the 21st century version of the Nazi’s except without the aggressive territorial ambutions.

Heck, the ongoing abortion holocaust is already 10 times worse than what was done to the Jews! and it’s continuing EVERY DAY!

I can almost read the history books a hundred years from now... How did the average American allow babies to be butchered!?! How did they not KNOW ! ect ect the same things we say about the germans today and the Jews.


15 posted on 12/04/2014 6:20:36 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (Obama lied .. the economy died.)
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To: DoodleDawg

He is correct in his analysis, but he is also proving he has no business running for President. If you want to win anything, you don’t give your enemy everything they need to destroy you.


17 posted on 12/04/2014 6:22:28 AM PST by Mr Rogers
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To: YankeeReb
These totalitarians all read the same playbook

Yeah, they never let a crisis go to waste.
How is it controversial to draw an ideological line from the Nazis to modern liberals?

18 posted on 12/04/2014 6:22:46 AM PST by stormhill
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To: TangledUpInBlue

I’ll add a dose of USSR revisionist history also.


19 posted on 12/04/2014 6:22:56 AM PST by Vinnie
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Filed under Don’t Quit Your Day Job.


20 posted on 12/04/2014 6:25:51 AM PST by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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