Achtung, Baby! Avoid Nazi Terminology -- Speak the Language of Freedom
Who would have known that the Bush Takeover would be cut-and-paste job? As soon as I heard the word “Homeland” being paraded around like a flag that you had to salute every time someone invoked it, I felt like I was in Nazi Germany. Clearly the Democrats have blundered by adopting the language of oppression that is fabricated by the demonic wordsmiths of the Rove-Cheney-Limbaugh-Coulter Academy of Lying, Hating & Berating. A friend sent me a link to the article below about how the Nazis burned the Reichstag, blamed it on the liberals, rammed through a Homeland Security Act, and bludgeoned Germany into the shape of a monster. It's all accomplished with language, because what people speak, they think.
Funny, when Democrats want to sound tough, they talk like Republicans. I remember when I heard Kerry talk in Medford, Oregon, and he explained how he was a Vietnam hero and he would kill terrorists. Gee, do you think he thought that was why people wanted to get Bush out of office? So someone else could pound his chest like an ape and try to wash off blood with blood? Of course not. That's why the old saying is, “If you give voters a choice between a Republican and a Democrat who talks like Republican, they'll vote for the Republican every time.” The current crop of Democratic contenders haven't learned this lesson.
When our reigning pretender to eminence, Barack, said he'd go hunting for terrorists in Pakistan if he had “actionable intelligence,” he lost any hope of getting my vote. With that kind of instinct for adopting the other guy's lingo, he'll never make it to the Oval Office. Clinton, of course, has been parroting the oppressor language, ever since she got into the Senate. Edwards has tried to work fields that haven't been ploughed by the Republicans, adopting a populist slant and focusing on domestic issues, and that's a good strategy, but incomplete. You can't avoid the other guy's issues like that and win, but Edwards is a smart guy and I don't count him out. To actually become real Democrats, capable of exciting people with their own vision, they need to come up with their own vocabulary, that is not accusatory or whiny, but dispenses with all the courtly nonsense and talks to the issues.
When discussing issues like protecting our society from death and destruction, they could say things like, “If we let all our bridges and infrastructure decay, we do the work of terrorists, who can all just stay home and watch our country fall apart.” When talking about bringing peace to Iraq, they could talk about bringing peace to our neighborhoods. Bring together, in a lively way, the disparate threads of our experience, so that people can see that we are made less safe by our Byzantine border-sealing mania, hiding out in our crumbling castle. Better we should open our society to trade with other nations, share our educational riches, and open our borders to those looking for a better life. These are appealing goals that compete with stentorian notions of “Homeland Security.”
Funny, when Democrats want to sound tough, they talk like Republicans. I remember when I heard Kerry talk in Medford, Oregon, and he explained how he was a Vietnam hero and he would kill terrorists. Gee, do you think he thought that was why people wanted to get Bush out of office? So someone else could pound his chest like an ape and try to wash off blood with blood? Of course not. That's why the old saying is, “If you give voters a choice between a Republican and a Democrat who talks like Republican, they'll vote for the Republican every time.” The current crop of Democratic contenders haven't learned this lesson.
When our reigning pretender to eminence, Barack, said he'd go hunting for terrorists in Pakistan if he had “actionable intelligence,” he lost any hope of getting my vote. With that kind of instinct for adopting the other guy's lingo, he'll never make it to the Oval Office. Clinton, of course, has been parroting the oppressor language, ever since she got into the Senate. Edwards has tried to work fields that haven't been ploughed by the Republicans, adopting a populist slant and focusing on domestic issues, and that's a good strategy, but incomplete. You can't avoid the other guy's issues like that and win, but Edwards is a smart guy and I don't count him out. To actually become real Democrats, capable of exciting people with their own vision, they need to come up with their own vocabulary, that is not accusatory or whiny, but dispenses with all the courtly nonsense and talks to the issues.
When discussing issues like protecting our society from death and destruction, they could say things like, “If we let all our bridges and infrastructure decay, we do the work of terrorists, who can all just stay home and watch our country fall apart.” When talking about bringing peace to Iraq, they could talk about bringing peace to our neighborhoods. Bring together, in a lively way, the disparate threads of our experience, so that people can see that we are made less safe by our Byzantine border-sealing mania, hiding out in our crumbling castle. Better we should open our society to trade with other nations, share our educational riches, and open our borders to those looking for a better life. These are appealing goals that compete with stentorian notions of “Homeland Security.”
Profit Over Life wrote:
On February 27, 1933, the Nazis set the German parliament building (Reichstag) in Berlin on fire, which was completely destroyed (picture at left). February 27, 1933, was precisely the date when the check from the IG Farben headquarters had arrived at the Nazi bank accounts (see letter on opposing page).
In other words: on the very day the largest German corporation, IG Farben, made its first strategic financial investment in the Nazi party, these unscrupulous elements organized a political coup to seize dictatorial powers.
And here was their master plan: the Reichstag fire was immediately blamed by the Nazis on their political opponents. The German mass media – already staunch supporters of the Nazis – supported this witch hunt.
The Enabling Acts granting dictatorial powers to the Nazi government were already prepared and ready to be enacted. On March 24, 1933, the Nazis passed the first of these major laws that would turn German democracy into a dictatorship.
This law was entitled “Homeland Security Act”.
Article 5 of this law contained the provision that this dictatorial law would expire four years later, on April 1, 1937. Of course, the Nazis never had any intention to let their dictatorial powers expire at any time.
The Nazis knew that with the acceptance of the huge IG Farben payment, their order was clear: prepare for war and for the military conquest of the oil fields and the chemical factories of the world.
http://www.profit-over-life.org/about/reichstag.html