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IIRC, during the American Revolution the support of one third of the population was enough to end the tyranny of King George III.
1 posted on 01/06/2009 8:06:44 PM PST by neverdem
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To: neverdem

What scares me is the millions of Americans who follow the party line, whose reality is consensus, who allow themselves to be lead by media propaganda, who do not think for themselves.


2 posted on 01/06/2009 8:12:06 PM PST by Savage Beast (The Left is decadence.)
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To: neverdem
After all, times were tough and both important politicians and leading intellectuals supported Nazi theories and policies.

American politicians and leading intellectuals easily fall prey to cockamamie theories. Both groups once paid homage to the wonderful field of eugenics. Today the same groups administer cackles of derision toward any "simpleton" who fails to keep the faith about the untestable (therefor unscientific) theory of man-made climate change.

3 posted on 01/06/2009 8:18:42 PM PST by Sgt_Schultze
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To: neverdem

Would You Have Been A Nazi?

...isn’t it a little unfair to ask the question having just witness what ACORN, the MSM and the ObamaBots did in 2008?

Of course, it’s still possible. And apparently not just possible but incredibly likely. If Obama sent out one of his email Commandments telling his followers to report all of their neighbors who were not recycling or driving gas guzzlers, there wouldn’t be enough bandwidth to handle the traffic coming back to him.


4 posted on 01/06/2009 8:23:52 PM PST by bpjam (GOP is 3 - 0 in elections after Nov 4th. You Can Smell the Rally !!!)
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To: neverdem
If I'm honest, I'd have to admit that I probably would have been a Nazi had I been alive at that time. I am by nature a very patriotic person, and the initial appeal of Nazism was its reverence towards the Garman nation. However, I would hope that I would have had the decency to resign from the party and become a dissident upon becoming aware of its evil nature and anti-Christian practices.

A Catholic should be patriotic, but when patriotism crosses the line into state-worship or a cult of blood and soil. our obligation ends. When Caesar requires of us more than God allows, we must respectfully refuse to obey Caesar and accept whatever punishment Caesar metes out.

5 posted on 01/06/2009 8:23:52 PM PST by B-Chan (Catholic. Monarchist. Texan. Any questions?)
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To: neverdem
the Abu Ghraib cruelties.

That is pretty harsh for just putting female underwear on the heads of prisoners...

6 posted on 01/06/2009 8:26:50 PM PST by John123 (The US may be going down the drain, but everyone else will drown first...)
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To: neverdem
I have to say the fanaticism of the Obamanation reminds me of a charismatic Hitler and his mesmerized public

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7 posted on 01/06/2009 8:27:50 PM PST by CougarGA7 (Wisdom comes with age, but sometimes age comes alone.)
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To: neverdem

>> we have had the good fortune to find ourselves in the situation where our social institutions have traditionally limited what authorities can get away with.

“we have had” but do we still have the good fortune? I’m not sure it matters to half the Country.


9 posted on 01/06/2009 8:32:17 PM PST by Gene Eric
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To: neverdem
The institutions of liberty are what enable people to act on what Lincoln called, "the better angels of our nature."

Ironic... President Lincoln was the 1st President that suspended the Habeas Corpus...

11 posted on 01/06/2009 8:33:13 PM PST by John123 (The US may be going down the drain, but everyone else will drown first...)
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To: neverdem

Preparing for the Obamajugend I see.

What did folks think those thousands of jobs would come from... brownshirts with little red books and jackboots.

Hey, those voter lists and donor info will come in handy.


12 posted on 01/06/2009 8:34:12 PM PST by AliVeritas (Prayers for Israel.)
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To: devolve; neverdem
Many Obama followers would easily fall into it. After all, they couldn't even pass a test on info about Obama. Many probably aren't well informed on history.

It's a hard thing to think about since we are aware of the Holocaust, know the end results.

[ Milgram did research involving ordinary residents of New Haven, Connecticut]

Connecticut again? Good grief, another article is about Transgenders there. Always something weird going on there.

14 posted on 01/06/2009 8:35:18 PM PST by potlatch
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To: neverdem

ping for future reference


22 posted on 01/06/2009 9:37:28 PM PST by jim-x (God help America survive its enemies within.)
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To: neverdem
... our institutions of freedom have maintained and expanded the norms that limit the powers wielded by authorities.

For example, a free press is able to criticize practices like ...

Just one arena where rot has set in.

23 posted on 01/06/2009 9:45:48 PM PST by RobinOfKingston (Democrats, the party of evil. Republicans, the party of stupid.)
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To: neverdem

I reject and resent this whole thread. I’ll have you know I lost family in the Holocaust. Poor uncle Fritz fell out of a guard tower.

;)


25 posted on 01/06/2009 10:10:08 PM PST by BigCinBigD ('When a man believes that any stick will do, he at once picks up a boomerang,')
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To: neverdem
However, the arc of American history has been toward correcting old evils and the commissioning of fewer atrocities over time.

Nonsense, we've killed 50 million unborn since 1973. We have a man who stands in front of cheering crowds declaring that unwanted children need to be disposed of (even if they've already been born), and a majority of Americans elect him to be our leader. I'm sure a lot of Obama supporters seem just as nice as Wolfgang and Gretchen, and just like the national socialists they don't think of themselves as being evil.

26 posted on 01/06/2009 10:18:08 PM PST by eclecticEel (In short, I want Obama given the same respect and deference that Democrats have given George Bush)
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30 posted on 01/06/2009 11:14:42 PM PST by neverdem (Xin loi minh oi)
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To: neverdem

Actually, I wouldn’t have obeyed. I always was stubborn and pigheaded, which of course got me into a lot of trouble...


31 posted on 01/07/2009 3:43:01 AM PST by LadyDoc (liberals only love politically correct poor people)
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To: neverdem

No need for those messy death camps. Just raise the kids to be dependent forever, on parents, on teachers, on government; and liberty will have no appeal for them. Liberty is for people who can stand on their own.


33 posted on 01/07/2009 4:17:23 AM PST by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast (Live your principles. Don't just type them here.)
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To: neverdem

And what percentage was it during the aftermath that incited the driving of Tories out of their homes and confiscation their properties?


34 posted on 01/07/2009 4:22:13 AM PST by Clive
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To: neverdem
Drop “earth daze”

and “globe-bullsh-t warming freak shows”

and ADD "how not to be a Nazi monster from hell" to school curriculum...

If kids get out of school not knowing how to read or write it's bad enough, but they don't need to come out ready to be good Nazis.

37 posted on 01/07/2009 7:53:15 AM PST by GOPJ (Newspapers don't need fewer journalists. Newspapers need more readers. STOP LIBERAL BIAS)
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To: neverdem

“IIRC, during the American Revolution the support of one third of the population was enough to end the tyranny of King George III. “

Yes, and only 17% actively participated in the revolution and changed the world. I just hope there is 17% of us left to save this country.


39 posted on 01/07/2009 8:26:33 AM PST by AuntB (The right to vote in America: Blacks 1870; Women 1920; Native Americans 1925)
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