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January 06, 2005

Let's play 'Who Said That?!'

"These so-called ill-treatments and this torturing... were not, as assumed, inflicted methodically, but were excesses committed by individual leaders, subleaders, and men who laid violent hands on internees... It is obvious that there were elements among them who would ill-treat internees, but this ill-treatment was never tolerated."

"Who Said That?!"

Was it:

A) White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales in Congress today?

Or...

B) Nazi Auschwitz Kommandant Rudolf Hoess during the Nuremberg Trails?

The answer... after this.

By Kevin Siers, North Carolina, The Charlotte Observer
Cartoon by Kevin Siers, The Charlotte Observer

If you answered, A) White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales in Congress today, you'd be close... But wrong.

Rudolf Hoess said this about concentration camp abuses and torture, but doesn't it sound eerily familiar? Only the use of the word "internees" instead of "detainees" really gave it away.

Posted By Bob Cesca | January 6, 2005 09:20 PM | DIGG ME!

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What is also worth noting, is that the Nazi's lied to about their chain of command as well.

Posted by: Biederman at January 7, 2005 12:56 AM

The increasing parallels between the politics of our fatherland -- sorry, I meant, "homeland" -- and that of the Third Reich are undeniable and increasingly frightening.

Boxer and the Black Congressional Caucus were great today. But we have to keep our wits about us in every sense of the word, or we will see internment camps for Muslims and other "undesirables" (watch out, Queer Eye guys!) before 2006 is up.

And we don't need an opposition party moving closer to the leading party. We need the opposition to oppose. That's the whole point. We need to start taking action now in favor of candidates in 2006 and 2008 who don't buy into the lies, but who call lies what they are.

Posted by: Plummer at January 7, 2005 01:21 AM

DENIAL OF DEMOCRACY DENIED

The Presidential election of 2004, like that of its immediate predecessor, was stolen. Evidence of another stolen election, even when denied a congressional investigation or judicial review, is absolutely clear and convincing. However, no one in America, except for a few voices in the wilderness, knows or believes this to be true. More accurately, a deeply divided and spiritually troubled America does not want to know this awful reality to be true. For denial is much more than a river in Egypt. It is a national addiction in contemporary America. The delusion of democracy forever is more comforting that the brutal reality of democracy denied in the land of its birth.
Students of death and dying are all too familiar with such dynamics of denial.
It is the first stage of a series of reactions by a terminally ill patient. Apparently the reaction is the same for a body politic stricken with a terminal disease. Democracy in America at the national level has been dying peace by peace for years. First stricken by the lowest kind of deceit in the highest level of government four years ago, American democracy went into a deep coma on November 2 last year. The coma was officially certified on January 6 as its custodians in Congress embraced the bearers of the terminal disease rather than the sacred will of the people.
Thankfully, this is not the end of the story or struggle for life. For the second stage of the dying process is anger, and there is no anger better than righteous anger.
No lie lives forever. The lies and dirty tricks generated by the masters of deceit in the past election will be exposed as the awakening dawns and grows. The righteous anger over this stolen election, now only manifest in a few prophetic voices marginalized by the arrogant and ignorant, will inevitably come as the initial denial is irreversibly broken and the truth that sets us free is massively known. There will be day of reckoning when democracy in America ceases to be a spectator sport and the Spirit of ’76 will once again rise to reclaim its rightful place at the highest level of government, one of, for and by We, the People, never to perish from this part of the earth again. The nation that gave birth to democracy will not allow it to be buried in its homeland. Liberty is not only for all.
She is forever.

(something to think about - and do something about - on this 75th anniversary of the birth of Martin Luther King Jr.)


Posted by: Werner Lange at January 15, 2005 02:31 PM

I GREW UP UNDER GERMAN OCCUPATION IN POLAND. WHAT IS SO HEARTBREAKING FOR ME, IS THAT I CAME TO THIS COUNTRY BELIEVING THAT THE AMERICANS CAN DO NO WRONG, AND NOW, THIS REGIME REMINDS ME MORE AND MORE OF NAZI GERMANY. WAKE UP AMERICA, DO NOT BE LIKE THE GERMANS OF 1930-1940s!

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