Posted on 06/23/2009 4:59:20 AM PDT by FromLori
On June 7, 1995, the Washington Times printed a letter to the editor from a man named Thomas Colton Ruthford in which he described the Nazis and how Hitler came to power and then abused that power. In light of current events, this letter could be quite chilling. There are those who say that "Those who will not learn from history are doomed to repeat it," but I would like to modify that and say that, "The only lesson we learn from history is that we don't learn from history."
Gary
****************************** **** Letter to the Editor
6/7/95 - Arlington, Washington Times
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 accrued 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 Gypses who were said to be arming themselves to overthrow the "New World Order" and 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
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The term Nazi is derived from the first two syllables of Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei
I see the same thing happening in America and the people say “it can’t happen here” - it can and it is.
All socialism leads to extreme Federal control. Those dead white guys on over 200 years ago warned us about. Too bad nobody believes them any more.
If you had gone around in 1910 telling people “In a generation the Germans will be gassing and incinerating people by the trainload” you would have been either shot for slanderous insults or locked up as insane.
Have you read “Road to Serfdom”?
Any/all collectivism leads to arbitrary totalitarianism is one of the major concepts.
I thought of a nice little acronym last night for
“feminist socialist”. Since a National Socialist is a Nazi, a feminist socialist is a Fazi (pronounced Fatsy).
I find it amazing how liberals continue to relate NAZI as a right wing party despite the factual history. Another example how libs (like mooslums) lie to further their assault on total power.
This is SUCH an abjectly basic and ‘history 101’ description of the road to totalitarianism (any totalitarianism) that it is almost embarrassing that any adult would need to be reminded. You see now how far public education has failed.
Women are a big voting block. This is why RINOs think they have to go left in their thinking.
This is part of the societal decline.
Women are wired to be dependent for provision and protection,
and when society and feminists tell them that it is shameful to depend on a man for these needs, they will gravitate toward the state to provide them.
I’m donning a flame suit, but I will defend this concept all the way down!
I stand right next you.
While the spirit of the letter is indeed correct, it’s a matter of historical record that Hitler and the Nazi’s tended to demonize people on the *left* more. Their favorite targets (in no particular order) where communists, trade unionists, bolsheviks, Jews, and I think it was the Social Democrats which was the major party to the left of them.
There may have been some demonization and targeting on the right, but much more so on the left.
Still I totally agree with the spirit of the letter.
One other important lesson to learn from Hitler’s rise to power. He did it completely legal and within the laws of the Weimar Republic. The Nazi party won a large percentage of the seats in the Reichstag. To make a coalition government, Hindenburgh was forced to appoint Hitler as Chanellor. When Hindenburgh died, he became the President. It was only after the Reichstag fire that Hitler started to break the laws of the Weimar republic and consolidate all power to himself. But getting there was all legal.
The Nazis and Communists were only at odds
because they were competing for the same segment of the ideological spectrum.
once upon a time (19th century)a liberal meant those whe support individual freedoms and rights.
Then those who hated freedom needed a new name for socialism, because socialism wasn’t acceptable to Americans. So they co-opted the name and began calling themselves liberal, called their opponents conservatives.
But a rose by any other name smells the same, and so does liberalism, facisim, socialism, and communism. A great big heaping pile of “ism” poop, and the stench is smelled round the world!
As the world war II generation dies off, the lessons learned are lost and history is ignored.
I fear for may children and their children’s future-it seems that history may be doomed to repeat itself.
I would like to see a bumper sticker:
“NOTHING LEFT”
(multiple meanings)
Which made "Road to Serfdom" a mind jarring experience. Collectivists or "central planners" were the opposite of "liberals".
Wonder if obamageddon got there legally no one can find out the “one” refuses to provide proof. I think of him as the Usurper Thief in Chief.
God, showing his transcendance has several references to “the left” being the way of evil and worldliness and ungodliness.
Ecclesiastes 10:2
The heart of the wise inclines to the right,
but the heart of the fool to the left.
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