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Tuesday, October 31, 2006
Defense Authorization Act
Is martial law just around the corner? The law Bush signed October 17th opens the way.
More about it here.
I used to wonder about how the German people could have allowed the Nazis to rise to power.
How could they have allowed the extermination of millions of people, claiming they didn't know what was happening? I believe I understand now that we are perilously close to 1930s Germany. People did not want to believe that such things could actually happen in their country. They were a proud people, a strong people, and believed they were on the side of "right" and that their leaders would surely not betray them. Surely those things people are whispering about couldn't really happen here. Mass deportations were unthinkable. Mass imprisonment was unthinkable. Mass executions were unthinkable. That is what the German people thought.
That is what Americans think today. Nothing that this administration does surprises me anymore. When martial law is declared, for whatever reason/pretext, I will not be a bit surprised. Why else are they pushing for the detention centers and the laws to implement them?
More about it here.
I used to wonder about how the German people could have allowed the Nazis to rise to power.
How could they have allowed the extermination of millions of people, claiming they didn't know what was happening? I believe I understand now that we are perilously close to 1930s Germany. People did not want to believe that such things could actually happen in their country. They were a proud people, a strong people, and believed they were on the side of "right" and that their leaders would surely not betray them. Surely those things people are whispering about couldn't really happen here. Mass deportations were unthinkable. Mass imprisonment was unthinkable. Mass executions were unthinkable. That is what the German people thought.
That is what Americans think today. Nothing that this administration does surprises me anymore. When martial law is declared, for whatever reason/pretext, I will not be a bit surprised. Why else are they pushing for the detention centers and the laws to implement them?
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She really wasn't expecting it to happen here.
For two months I have been writing that the elections are going to rip the covers off and reveal the cancer that has been eating us alive...and will continue to do so but in full view from that time forward. It is going to get ugly.