Posted on 10/19/2004 4:46:44 PM PDT by Scarpetta
whoooops. Fair Use? I did link to it. :)
From what I have read on this site, for fair use you can not post the entire article you can only posts snips of it.
Not trying to be a meanie or a rules lawyer, but I would hate to see the site go down over a stupid lawsuit, I bet edwards would jump at the chance.
Thanks for the ping!
"I'm John Kerry and I approved these Gestapo tactics."
The playing field never seems to be even with the RATS , does it? thanks for thread/information
H-Y-P-O-C-R-I-T-E-S. DemocRats are the biggest hypocrites on earth.
BTTT!!!!!!!
Conservatives live in fear of the mob at the gate.
That's why we support the Second Amendment and the rats don't.
BUMP
Fair use for education and commentary. G-d Bless the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights.
> --how many times was a showing of
> Frickenlies 9/11 cancelled due to threats
> of violence?
Rumor has it the premier was delayed due to an earthquake retrofit in anticipation of Moore himself showing up. Other than that, smooth sailing for that pack of lies. Only the truth offends.
Made from Hemp fibers of course....
Copyright is a restricted GRANT, not a natural or absolute right. Despite the "right" in the word "copyright", it is a right created only by OUR grant, a right of grant under restrictions.
However the right to copy is a natural right, the right to comment about a copy in polital context is a natural ABSOLUTE right.
When there is a conflict between rights we grant, in our being as a sovereign goverment formed of representative agents, and the natural rights we retain individuals also sovereign -- why the ABSOLUTE right remarked and protected by the Bill of Rights by the individuals, or the States, must be given the higher weighing.
Fyi above
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Published on Thursday, September 2, 2004 by CommonDreams.org
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Brownshirts Dressed in Blue?
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by Stephen M. Osborn
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| I have observed the Republican fascist takeover of our government with great trepidation, as I am a student of history. The parallels with the Germany of the 30's are frightening. The Weimar Republic was under attack and the economy was failing. They could have balanced the budget, but chose not (or were not allowed) to tax the wealthy Junkers, the owners of most of the agriculture and heavy industry of Germany. Instead, the burden fell on the middle classes. Hitler had written his plan for Germany and the World in Mein Kampf and there was little of freedom in it. The Nazis had a small minority in the Reichstag, but there was a large organization of thugs known as the SA, or Brownshirts. These stormtroopers protected Hitler’s rallies by driving off or beating up on the opposition. They destroyed polling booths and drove off opposition party voters at the polls, stole ballot boxes, and generally brutalized any opposition. Hitler made a pact with the army Officer Corps and the Junkers, that the army would be rebuilt and supplied. They would be given free rein. The Junkers would not be taxed or their profits reduced by the Nazi government. They poured huge amounts into the Nazi coffers, which was used to fuel a propaganda machine unmatched until today. The Nazis finally won and took power. Hitler quickly suborned the Reichstag into a rubber stamp congress for his programs. He used a phony terrorist act (The SS set fire to the Riechstag Building and blamed it on the communists) to clamp down on the people, for their own security of course. “Restrictions on personal liberty, on the right of freedom of expression of opinion, including freedom of the press; on the rights of assembly and association; and violations of the privacy of postal, telegraphic and telephonic communications; and warrants for house searches, orders for confiscations as well as restrictions on property, are also permitted beyond the legal limit otherwise prescribed.” No, that is not a quote from the PATRIOT ACT, it is taken from a decree “for the Protection of the People and the State” issued on 28 February 1933, the day after the Reichstag fire, suspending the seven sections of the Weimar constitution which guaranteed individual and civil liberties. It was described as a “defensive measure against Communist acts of violence endangering the state.” Once the Nazis had consolidated their power, newspapers or radio stations expressing opposition were either shut down, or the Brownshirts destroyed their presses and offices. As the newspapers were suppressed, they were “bought” by Nazi propagandists. Soon, all that one heard or read in Germany was the Nazi’s “fair and balanced” viewpoint. Soon, it was death or a concentration camp for those who disagreed or even listened to another viewpoint. Labor unions quickly came under fire and were abolished. The various churches who tried to protest were silenced or outlawed. Pensions were erased and labor laws were abolished. New ones were substituted which left the workers with no right but to do what they were told. Then came the book burnings and an attempt to erase anything that did not agree with the Nazi view of the world. Don’t get me wrong, I do not equate Bush with Hitler. Bush doesn’t have Hitler’s charisma, nor is he anywhere close to as intelligent. I am just trying to point out that the United States is poised on a slippery slope and the lesson is there to be read in fairly recent history. In both Italy and Germany, the government and big business were closely tied and business had the right to unlimited profit. The government passed laws against organized labor and repealed any laws that guaranteed worker’s rights. Pensions were repealed and the funds returned to business and government to use as they wished. Both governments invented foreign enemies that “threatened their existence.” The people were expected to approve any measure that protected them from those enemies. People who protested these policies were automatically classified as traitors or enemy agents. They were tried, often in secret tribunals, and executed, or just disappeared, often to a concentration camp. Ethnic groups were singled out as scapegoats and persecuted, often winding up in concentration camps. The above description is only a thumbnail sketch of what happened, but one can get the idea. The result in each case was a nation whose citizens were bombarded with only one point of view until they came to believe it, who marched lock step with their leader right into the abyss, dragging millions of innocents along with them. In four years, we have gone from a respected nation that worked with the world to try to make it a better place, to a nation hated and despised for being a bully, a liar, a killer, a torturer and a gross polluter, raping the environment for private profit and greed. I would like the United States to be remembered as something better; as a nation of law and empathy and respect; as a nation with a marvelous Constitution and Bill of Rights that is a model for any emerging nation. Watching the actions of the NYPD suppressing the people exercising their First Amendment rights, while the major “fair and balanced” media ignored it, made me realize how fragile these freedoms and that Constitution have become under the Cheney/Bush regime. These latter day Brownshirts are rapidly gaining power. We the People are rapidly running out of options and we had better exercise them at the polls before it’s too late. Stephen M. Osborn (theplace@whidbey.net) is a freelance writer living on Camano Island in the Pacific Northwest. He is an "Atomic Vet." (Operation Redwing, Bikini Atoll 1956, ) who has been very active working and writing for nuclear disarmament and world peace. He is a retired Fire Battalion Chief, lifelong sailor, writer, poet, philosopher, historian and former newspaper columnist.
Who "owns" the press? (the left's obsession with fox's 'fair and balanced' always goes overboard). Who has made a threat to Sinclair? Who are destroying ballots, etc.? Who is "brutalizing" the opposition by storming political campaign offices? Who is driving off or beating up on the opposition? Yes, the parallels with the Germany of the 30's are frightening, but the parallels are from the Democratic socialist, not the republicans. |
If this be war, let it begin here.
I am so glad to see the real America finally standing up to these leftover '60's hippie Marxists. If this be war, let it begin here....
not me personally. i was yelling at the in-your-face kerry goon to back-off lest he drop dead of a heart attack (he was obese).
i made it a point to stand around the kerry vets and say things like "I smell 'rats," and "for warriors they sure are cowards about the truth," etc.
i so wanted to tell the cops that they were obviously here to give only the kerry supporters protection, but i have a toddler at home and couldn't risk a night in the pokey.
actually, the theatre was miffed before it was threatened with a lawsuit because they agreed to show the film before knowing its content was political (anti-kerry).
my guess is that it went against the grain of their own political leanings and welcomed the threat of a lawsuit to yank it with cause.
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