In early 1933 Hitler stood before a receptive audience in the Kroll Opera House, made a speech blaming the Reichstag fire on Communists (who hadn’t committed the offense) and thundered HE ALONE could save Germany, HE ALONE could protect its citizens and HE ALONE could usher in a 1000 year Reich the likes of which the world had never seen… if only HE had the power.
On the 23rd of March 1933 a cowed German political class passed the “Enabling Act”, which was signed into law by a milquetoast German President Paul Von Hindenburg who was attempting to “uphold democratic norms” and appease Hitler and his band of thugs.
With the enabling act the chancellor (Hitler) could pass and enforce laws without checks and balances. This act along with the Reichstag Fire Decree was used by Hitler to end political opposition and 6 moths later the NSDAP was THE ONLY political party in Germany.
While this was happening, on the outskirts of Munich in a beautiful medieval town in Bavaria, dark forces were quietly at work building a camp that was sold to the people of Germany as a “reeducation and training camp” for “wayward Germans” and “deportation staging” for illegal emigrants.
Dachau started operations on March 22nd 1933.
A quick look at the operation dates of Dachau (March 22nd, 1933) and the passage of the Enabling Act (March 23rd, 1933) one can easily imagine the culture of fear that Hitler created prior to the signing of the Enabling Act on which his reign of terror against Germany, and then the world, was built…
On July 1, 2024 the supreme court of the United States in TRUMP V. UNITED STATES the supreme court decided, in spite of 200+ years of cultural and legal tradition, that the President of the United States was ABOVE THE LAW in the exercise of his “official duties” WITHOUT decreeing the difference between “official”and “unofficial” duties.
In late June and early July, 2024 Stephen Miller, railed for the deportation of millions of “illegal immigrants” and championed the construction of “deportation camps” as “collection points” for “illegal immigrants” and once again called for roving bands of “immigration police” with unlimited legal power to execute the roundup and no constraints on how…
Stephen Miller has made it clear that one man with the power could make it happen.
On Tuesday July 2nd, 2024… Kevin Robert’s, the head of the radical right wing Heritage Foundation stated on the War Room podcast “We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be…” and stated the chief executives new found “legal immunity” would usher in the draconian, unchristian and unconstitutional “Mandate for leadership” in the “2025 Presidential Transition Project" from the “Heritage Foundation” IF one man were elected.
Also on Tuesday July 2nd, a Former President of the US posted calls for televised military tribunals and the “jailing” of top elected officials including;
President Joe Biden,
Vice President Kamala Harris,
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell,
Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi,
Former VP Mike Pence, and
members of the house select committee investigating the January 6th 2021 attack on the US Capital.
When I think about the blood shed and resources expended to establish and defend our democracy and the “rule of law” in light of how billionaires have dismantled it in dark back room deals for fishing trips and RVs… enabling the emergence of a vengeful King, I’m filled with fear, anguish, despair and anger!
The echo of history is deafening…
It’s time for discussion, organization and action among people of all race, ethnicity, religion, socioeconomic background, gender, and political affiliation to talk about how we 1) defend ourselves against unmittigated political terrorism and violence and 2) continue to seek a more perfect union!