The following appeared as an editorial in the "Letters
to the Editor" in the Washington Times (Arlington, Virginia) on June 7,
199-. The piece, in totality,
speaks for itself.
Chilling Similarities
During the past
several months in the American press, the Democrats have frequently denounced
the Republicans as Nazis due to their attempts to control runaway federal
spending. How very ironic. I remember the Nazis. Let me share a little about them and
recall some of their exploits.
First of all, "Nazi" was
gutter slang for the verb "to nationalize." The Bider-Mienhoff
gang gave themselves this moniker during their early struggles. The official title of the Nazi Party was
"The National Socialist Workers Party of Germany." Hitler and the Brownshirts
advocated the nationalization of education, health care, transportation,
national resources, manufacturing, distribution, and law enforcement.
Hitler came to power by turning the
working class, unemployed, and academic elite against the conservative
republic. After Der
Fuhrer's election ceased being a political conspiracy and was transformed into
a fashionable social phenomenon, party membership was especially popular with
educators, bureaucrats, and the press.
Being a Nazi was "politically
correct." They called
themselves "The Children of the New Age of World Order" and looked
down their noses at everyone else.
As Hitler acquired more power, he referred to his critics as "The
Dark Forces of Anarchy and Hatred."
Anyone who questioned Nazi high-handedness in the German press was
branded a "Conservative Reactionary." Joseph Goebbels,
minister of communications, proclaimed a "New World Order."
The Nazi reign of terror began with
false news reports on the Jews, Bohemians, and Gypsies who were said to be
arming themselves to overthrow the "New World Order." Hitler demanded that all good people
register their guns so that they wouldn't fall into the hands of "terrorists
and madmen." Right-wing
fanatics of the "Old Order" who protested firearms registration were
arrested by the S.S. and put in jail for "fomenting hatred against the
Government of the German people."
Then the Reichstag (government
building) was blown up and Hitler ram-rodded an
"Emergency Anti-Terrorist Act" through Parliament that gave the
Gestapo extraordinary powers. The
leader then declared that for the well-being of the German people, all private
firearms were to be confiscated by the Gestapo and the Wermotten
(federal law enforcement and military).
German citizens who refused to surrender their
guns when the "jack-boots" (Gestapo) came calling, were murdered in
their homes. By the way, the
Gestapo were the federal marshals' service of the
Third Reich. The S.W.A.T. team was
invented and perfected by the Gestapo to break into the homes of the enemies of
the German people.
When the Policia
Bewakken, or local police, refused to take away guns
from townsfolk, they themselves were disarmed and dragged out into the street
and shot to death by the S.A. and the S.S. Those were Nazi versions of the B.A.T.F.and the F.B.I. When several local ministers spoke out
against these atrocities, they were imprisoned and never seen again. The Gestapo began to confiscate and
seize the homes, businesses, bank accounts, and personal belongings of wealthy
conservative citizens who had prospered in the old Republic. Pamphleteers who urged revolt against
the Nazis were shot on site by national law enforcement and the military. Gypsies and Jews were detained and sent
to labor camps. Mountain roads
throughout central Europe were closed to prevent the escape of fugitives into
the wilderness, and to prevent the movement and concealment of partisan
resistance fighters.
Public schools rewrote history and
Hitler youth groups taught the children to report their parents to their
teachers for anti-Nazi remarks.
Such parents disappeared.
Pagan animism became the state religion of the Third Reich and
Christians were widely condemned as "right wing fanatics."
Millions of books were burned first and
then people. Millions of them
burned in huge ovens after they were first gassed to death. Unmarried women were paid large sums of
money to have babies out of wedlock and then given medals for it. Evil was declared as being good, and good was condemned as being evil. World Order was coming and the German
people were going to be the "peacekeepers."
Yes, indeed, I remember the Nazis and
they weren't Republicans, or "right wing," or "patriots,"
or "militias." They were
Socialist monsters.
— Thomas Colton Ruthford
He who ignores the past is doomed to
repeat it. In 60 short years, the
people have forgotten what happened in Germany leading up to, and during, World
War II. It is not a lesson that
should ever be forgotten. One only has
to read the above to see the ominous parallels with America as we prepare to
enter the 21st Century. For anyone
who wants an eyeful of the parallels between our "emerging" society
and Germany leading up to, and during, Hitler's reign of terror, The Ominous
Parallels by Leonard Peikoff (New York: Meridian
Publishing; 1982), is recommended reading.
For those who need to be reminded of what madmen can do in their lust
for power and position, I Cannot Forgive by Rudolf Vrba
and Allen Vestic (New York: Bantom
Books; 1964) is a must read.
Rudolph Vrba was a Jew who spent the years of
World War II in a German concentration camp where he was an eyewitness to the
atrocities of the German madmen at the helm, finally escaping to Hungary where
his efforts stopped the exporting of Jews to the gas chambers of Germany.
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