The Five-Minute Reich

Adolf Hitler predicted, on a number of occasions, that his regime, the Third Reich, would endure for a thousand years. It lasted for just twelve, from 1933, when he was elected Reichschancellor, to 1945, when he poisoned his bride and blew his brains out -- or was it the other way around?

During those twelve years, Adolf and his Third Reich did plenty of damage. They executed ten or twelve million folks at home. They set off a worldwide war that murdered about sixty million more. They inspired quantum advances in the technology of killing appalling numbers of human beings in the shortest time possible, reversing the alphabet from Zyklon B to A-bomb, culminating in the annihilation of hundreds of thousands in an hour or an instant in Dresden, Tokyo, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki. They caused the United Nations to be created. Worst of all, their ultimate war crime, they made the United States government come to believe that it was, and ought to be, an elite world power and the Planetary Police.

One of the Third Reich's most recognizably totalitarian trademarks was the demand, "Your papers!", as issued by some morally-deficient cretin in a black trenchcoat, or merely being held erect by a stiff woolen uniform. Like almost every "civilized" country following the "progressive" turn of the 20th century (before the late 19th century, nobody had ever heard of a passport, and people were freer to "vote with their feet"), Germany required individuals to carry officially issued identification.

All of the expectable abuses followed, not just in Germany, and not just to Jewish people. Throughout the first half of the 20th century, the government of Switzerland, idyllic, pastoral land of cuckoo clocks, chocolate, and lederhosen, kidnapped Gypsy children -- how would they know without demanding, "Your papers!" -- bestowing them upon more genetically and socially respectable volk to bring up. Motherly Sweden rounded up and sterilized "undesirables" as late as the mid-1970s.

As an aside, I'd say that's reason enough, right there, for those Americans who still care about survival, let alone liberty, to demand the abolition of all forms of compulsory ID -- yes, including drivers' licenses -- rather than inventing new kinds of sorting systems for the sake of the New World Order, the War on Practically Everything, and the President's glorious new Department of Heimatsicherheitdienst. Any problems generated by nobody having any ID are vastly exceeded by the major inconvenience of someday being rounded up and shoved into a giant microwave oven provided by some corporation owned by one of W's pals.

Another famous trademark of Hitler's Thousand Year Reich was a way it had of encouraging "good Germans" to spy on one another, reporting each other to the secret police for behavior or perceived attitudes that were even slightly suspicious -- meaning un-Nazi in character. Their proudest achievement in this field was turning little children against their own parents, something William Bennett tried to emulate when he was the Drug Czar (a position that I have tried assiduously, but without success, to find any provision for in Article I, Section 8). So much for the conservatives' widely-advertised regard for the Constitution.

And now, not to be outdone by the Nazis' Gestapo, or by similar accomplishments by Stalin's Soviet Union, East Germany's Stasi, or Mao's China, Silverfoot Junior's orcish minions have a "Citizen's Corps" decreed, which would enlist Americans to rat each other out like good Germans. This is all being done in the name of the War on Practically Everything, which is actually a war to drive a pipeline through a nation that had to be destroyed to make it safe for Bush's petrocratic buddies.

If this administration were really sincere about apprehending the culprits responsible for what happened at the World Trade Center, then, following current WoE procedures, they'd have to arrest, and possibly torture, everyone who worked for the U.S. State Department from 1945 to September 11, 2001; it was policies they crafted and carried out that have made everybody else in the world hate us enough to try and kill us.

If this administration were sincere about preventing all future atrocities of this nature, then they'd abolish the State Department altogether, and bring everybody -- soldiers, sailors, airmen, diplomats, spies, everybody who works for the government -- home for good.

If they were sincere, then they'd make sure that the unalienable individual, civil, Constitutional, and human right of every man, woman, and responsible child -- to obtain, own, and carry, openly or concealed, any weapon, rifle, shotgun, handgun, machine-gun, anything, any time, any place, without asking anyone's permission -- remained sacred and inviolate, even -- or especially -- aboard commercial airliners.

It's said that in the Soviet Union, everyday human life became so hideously distorted by the police state that nobody ever spoke freely about anything, even to his or her spouse. Toward the end, it was said six Muscovites in ten were alcoholics. No wonder the Russians are having such a tough time recovering.

We Americans are now on a path toward the same kind of half-human existence, driven -- the shabby fact itself is enough to make you retch -- by a gang of mercantilist thugs and political shapeshifters whose goal is to get richer than they are now by pretending to fight a just and noble war, following a catastrophe that they brought upon us themselves. To do this, they require that we make "sacrifices" (as if we weren't doing plenty of that already, to keep them in limousines and caviar) of our basic rights today, and of any remnant of decent civilization tomorrow.

It's time to tell the bastards no. It's time to take America back and restore the Bill of Rights to its proper legal and political supremacy. That's the only genuine way to make the country safe from terrorism.

As a first step, I suggest an experiment. That's all it is. That's all the significance it has. It's just an experiment. Write to your congressthing today, and your senator, as well. Throw in some state legislators and a couple of judges. Tell him, her, or it that there will be no "Citizens' Corps" or anything even remotely like it, if he, she, or it plans to keep his, her, or its phony-baloney job. Make it clear that you're fed up, and that you're joining a new movement to vote for no incumbent until the Bill of Rights is stringently and energetically enforced and the government is back inside its cage, the Constitution.

It's just an experiment. Let me know what happens. If you're afraid of what might happen, doesn't that prove it's time to do something?

This joker and others who ridiculed the TIPS proposal will change their tunes following the (unfortunately likely) next terror attacks.

Is that not a chilling revelation of how too many Americans are thinking today? As if TIPS is what it takes to stop the next inevitable terror attack! Scary lack of brain matter. Thank the governmental indoctrination camps.

Nazi comparisons are *always* pointless.

The media numbed masses in our republic simply do not have the knowledge base or a properly cultivated faculty of discrimination to recognize the underlying truth of the Nazi comparison. So much the worse for us.

"Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it." Unfortunately.

You make excellent points about PC: gleichschaltung, our knowledge base and the overall ability of American to reason.

You have identified the "magnitude of disruption required to really awaken America" after our return to daily stupor. Very true.

And, Americans were given every aid to forget possible. Veterans were forbidden to fly American flags; newcasters were discouraged from wearing flags in their lapels, Newspeak of "Islam= Peace. . .to name very few. All patriotic sympathies were extinguished ASAP. All sparks of life from an awakened American public were stamped out with no waste of time.

And while we examining our American malaise, let's be sure to notice the role of ACLU, PC, the INS, members of Congress and the MEDIA for their help in our arriving in this state. It was choreographed like a stately dance.

Now, most importantly: What are we going to do about this?

Whoa this is so friggin' wierd! This guys is close to being a doppelganger of ME! My dad was in the Air Force. I also loved in Newfoundland (not far from St. Johns). I also studied Latin and German. I also read the same sci-fi. I also played at guitar. I also flirted with Libertarianism. Man, if I had only been a little less logical and intelligent, I might have ended up being this dude. Scary. parsy the "there but the for the grace of God" would have been a goober, too.

Your comments about the underlying Anti-American themes in the various manifestations of the media post 9/11 are well taken. I would be careful in using the word 'choreographed' only in that some would interpret that to be an overt conspiracy. There are overt conspiracies (to wit, the Hillary Regina/Bubba Rex/T. McAuliffe Mafia), and there is a real larger conspiracy, but one of a more diffuse character.

It takes the form of a common mindset among many of the intellectual elites which is inherently anti-constitutional. Many of our universities have become PC Madrassas. Sowell's "Vision of the Anointed" is a compelling book in this respect. These folks are the precursors of tyrants - ironically the very last thing they think themselves to be! They gravitate together, work together and coalesce like iron particles on a magnet. They show up in the same place, pointing the same way because of the larger governing field. I see this as a spiritual issue. A pretty unpopular view.

The 'Islam = Peace' canard is a symptom/function of the general spiritual blindness. Which points to the answer to your very important question: "What to do...?" While very much wishing to avoid any religious debate on this thread, I cannot see any answer but that embodied in the old hymn of the church, "Onward Christian Soldiers..." So? Pray, confront evil head on, be engaged politically and beg for mercy for America. In short fight 'Liberalism' any way you can that is legal. Some day we may be 'illegal.'

Please don't think that this is a fundamentalist rant. Most of the university educated folks I know who agree with this are very much advocates of free, fair and open forums. One of the more painful aspects in an honest approach to all this is that my faith requires permitting Hillary Regina, Ted Kennedy and others full and free access to the public square. Something I doubt they would allow us, if they could get away with it.

Now donning my neutronium flame retardant full body shield.

Blessings on Freepers Everywhere.

"Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it." Unfortunately.

A favorite cliche, but I'm not sure if history ever repeats itself, in any meaningful sense. The problem is usually the opposite. People are still fighting the last wars in the current wars.

America fought Vietnam like it was WW2. The French fought WW2 like it was WW1. Europe fought WW1 like they were stilll living in Napoleonic times.

And we're still preparing for "another 9/11."

How about we try and think outside of the box? Instead of war-hysteria and a socialist police state, let's try small govt and foreign non-intervention. Let's try it and see what happens.

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