Sociologist compares today's crisis to Nazi smear campaign

National Catholic Reporter ^ | 4/17/2010 | John L. Allen

[markomalley]

Shocking that such an article would appear in the NC Reporter, of all places.

[ClearCase_guy]

Fascism is on the march. This time, America may not rise and up and stop it. Today, the president dreams of leading the stormtroopers.

[albie]

“Fascism is on the march. This time, America may not rise and up and stop it”

...I don’t know where you get that idea. I don’t know a single soul who isn’t outraged by everything that Obooba did or does. Indeed, fascism is on the march, but the Tea Parties are too.

[gunnyg]

sociology???

NOW JUST WHERE THE HELL DID “SOCIOLOGY” COME FROM?
http://gunnyg.wordpress.com/2009/02/04/and-just-where-did-sociology-come-from/
PSEUDO-SCIENCES: SOCIOLOGY and PSYCHOLOGY...
http://gunnyg.wordpress.com/2009/04/29/pseudo-sciences-sociology-and-psychology/

[Vaquero]

Sociologist compares today's crisis to Nazi smear campaign

right off the bat, I see the word ‘Sociologist’, and it might as well read ‘witchdoctor’ or ‘mental patient’

[Desdemona]

Shocking that such an article would appear in the NC Reporter, of all places.

Yes, and reading it tells me one thing - none of the current smear campaign is original. Somebody out there studied Bernays, just as Goebbels did, and is creating chaos.

[Bahbah]

This time, America may not rise and up and stop it.

Oh yes we will.

[Yardstick]

Well, you should suppress that reflex because in this case the socialist has something very interesting to say.

[Yardstick]

I was totally unaware of Goebbels plotting against the Catholic church like this. This is great info because it shoots down the leftist notion that the Nazis were aligned with Christianity. I would love to see some quotes from the smuggled Nazi documents with Goebbels laying out plans to harm the Church. I’ll bet he sounded like a liberal.

[Pollster1]

“Fascism is on the march”? Why would you say that? Other than another totalitarian socialist with no experience taking power based only on eloquent delivery of speeches, taking control of manufacturing and banking and medical care, demonizing the opposition and ‘undesirable’ groups and moral organizations that might stand up against their power grab, and ignoring the Constitution. Other than those details, there aren’t yet all that many parallels between the Obama/Pelosi regime and previous fascists, are there?

[vladimir998]

You might find this interesting: http://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/view.cfm?id=2857

And you would love this book from 1941: http://www.marianland.com/romancatholicbooks/persecutionthirdreich.html

[Judith Anne]

I totally agree.

[Judith Anne]

I would laugh, but you are completely on the mark, here.

[vladimir998]

By the way, the compiler of that book I linked to was none other than Fr. Walter Mariaux (mentioned in the article above).

[Judith Anne]

Do you think any of the “usual suspects” will respond to this article?

[Yardstick]

socialist = sociologist

[markomalley]

Do you think any of the “usual suspects” will respond to this article?

I certainly hope so ;-)

[Yardstick]

Thanks for the links, and I was about to ask whether it was the same guy.

[Natural Law]

"Do you think any of the “usual suspects” will respond to this article?"

For the last six months I have been making this point ad naseum to the "usual suspects". I have actually gone further and provided information about the Nazi's eager accomplices in the German Protestant Church, formed at the behest of the Nazis, founded on anti-Catholic hatred, and who were rewarded with the cabinet level position of Reichsbishop. As you would expect it was met with derision.

[Natural Law]

Ping!

(Hey, you might be able to pick up some pointers here)