“I read this book 45 years ago and it is as fresh in my memory today as when I read it. I remember while reading it, "feeling", what it was like to live under such oppression and with such fear. Stacylebbon: QUOTE: This is a book you need to read to help you understand that we can NEVER allow something like this to happen ever again.END QUOTE. Ann's diary did not reveal much about what we now know to be true of the rise of Hitler. The events that occurred before 1942, the slow consensual progression from freedom to fascism, can be seen to have occurred so insidiously that to assume that there was a point where they could have "prevented" this from happening would be ludicrous.
People were busy with their lives. Later they were busy trying to recover from a horrific war(WW1) and a crumbling economy. History, though gives us a chance to see a pattern and possibly turn the tide as our own government is taking liberties with our constitution. The old phrase "history ignored is history repeated", has never been so true as it is right now. QUOTE: At first, the Nazis were small and relatively ineffectual. But after worldwide depression in 1929 began to weaken Germany, people began to listen to Hitler. He eventually developed a following so large that in 1933, the president of the republic, Paul von Hindenburg, appointed Hitler Chancellor of Germany. From this position Hitler bullied the other, weak members of the government until they all dissolved, granting him total power. He established a totalitarian state and ruled by decree. Propaganda flooded the country. All political parties other than the Nazis were outlawed, and all civic institutions--churches, youth leagues, the press--were made tools of the state. To enforce his power, Hitler used teams of secret police called the Gestapo. Members of the Gestapo were well-schooled in physical, emotional, and psychological torture and did not hesitate to use any or all methods.END QUOT(http://www.gradesaver.com/classicnotes/titles/frank)
Today, we no longer have political parties, the democrats who were supposed to ride up on silver steeds and put our constitution back together, were just waiting in the wings to join in the fray. Our president has set himself up to be judge and jury issuing PD's like they were party favors at a wedding, proclaiming himself the dictator and stating that the constitution, defended by a few lone congressmen, was "nothing but a goddamn piece of paper".
At what point do you say, "I think we're headed for trouble". Wake up people, it's already too late.
prisonplanet.com infowars.com givemeliberty.com after that it's your responsibility to find out what's going on and do something.”
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