[justlurking]

Anybody who stands with the scum protesting Wall Street are too stupid to be taken seriously and would have happily stood with the nazis in 1930s Germany.

I'm finding that history is indeed repeating itself.

Use your favorite search engine to look for "Brechung der Zinsknechtschaft", or "manifesto on breaking the shackles of interest". It was written by Gottfried Feder.

It calls for the nationalization of banks, and abolishing the assessment of interest on loans. Sound familiar?

Feder is also known for something else: Along with three other guys, he founded the Deutsche Arbeiterpartei ("German worker's party", or DAP) in 1919. You may not have heard of them, but you may have heard of the name they later adopted: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei.

A certain paper-hanger joined with Feder that same year. He would go on to be somewhat... infamous. Feder's economic views has been credited for his opposition to "Jewish finance capitalism".

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to fulfill it. -- George Santayana.

[arkady_renko]

There's something really big going on here, isn't there?

Almost like America has reached "the fullness of time" and everything is in place for a revolutionary change.

I wonder where Fast and Furious was supposed to fit in? Disarm us by popular demand?

[cripplecreek]

Workers of all lands, unite — to smash the rule of English capitalism! You young upward-striving nations of the earth, combine to annihilate the old English dragon who blocks the treasures of the earth and withholds from you the riches of the world.

-Robert Ley, German Labor Front leader (Hitler's Trumpka)