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I post this to you because I have long respected your work on this forum for exposing the climate fraud. I often comment on those threads. Please bear with me as this will be a long post.

I obtained one of my degrees in Germanic Languages in 1981, and then went on to law school. Early in my first semester, my Civil Procedure professor turned the class over to a Holocaust survivor, who told us of what he had to do to be the only member of his family to survive Auschwitz. As he told his story, having been a keen student of history (another of my degrees) I thought “OK, yeah the Holocaust was bad, so....”

Then, at the end of the lecture, the professor took the podium and said “Your duty as lawyers is to make sure this never happens again.” That’s when it hit me like a punch in the gut. Where were the lawyers, where were the Courts, in Nazi Germany, to stand up and say “You can’t do this; these people have rights.”

After the presentation was over, in mingling with my classmates in the student center, their general attitude was “Yeah, that’s bad. But that can’t happen here.” Having read lots of German literature pre- and post-war, as well as having always had an interest in that period of history, I knew that if you had confronted the average German of 1927 with a hypothetical of what would happen in the next 20 years, they would have said “That can’t happen here.” Twenty years later their popular culture in film, theater and literature was filled with nothing but “How could we have let this happen?”

So as I heard my classmates in the fall of 1981 talk about how “That can’t happen here,” I thought they were fools. Their hubris was almost guaranteeing it would happen. WHen I read this one particular news item, it strikes a very serious chord within me. The FBI/KGB/Gestapo search of Michael Cohen’s office tells me:

It’s happening here. Right now. Just as I feared it would 30 years ago.

If you got this far, thanks for reading.