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Thursday, March 5, 2015

Obvious relationship to the past

FASCISM IS COMING ALIVE AGAIN

The wildly exaggerated threat of so-called Islamic terrorism is being shamelessly used by some western governments to boost their flagging fortunes at a time of economic malaise.
 
Marketing fear is a sure-fire political ploy, as the Bush administration showed.  But if you think promotion of “terrorism” hysteria in order to curtail democratic freedoms is something new, have a look at Germany, 1933.
 
In that year, Germany’s democratic Weimar republic was foundering under economic depression, mass unemployment and raging hyper-inflation. The Reichstag, or parliament, was deadlocked between bitterly feuding parties, including the minority  National Socialists, led by Adolf Hitler, the Catholics, Socialists, and Communists.  
 
In Berlin, on the night of February 23, 1933, the Reichstag was burned down by a massive fire set by an arsonist. A young Dutch Communist found on the premises was charged with the arson attack.  Germany was outraged and horrified by the crime – as much as was America after 9/11. 

Read More: http://ericmargolis.com/2015/02/fascism-is-coming-alive-again-2/

Thanks Ed

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