line "People look at all this and think of Hitler - and they are right
to do so" struck me as overstated.
http://worldcantwait.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2538&Itemid=2No more.
Sunsara Taylor's essay "Drawing Lessons for Today from Hitler's Rise" is I think
quite brilliant.
"People look at all of this and think of Hitler, and they are right to do so. The Bush regime is setting out to radically remake the world, in a fascist way, and for generations to come."
From the Call for The World Can't Wait - Drive Out the Bush Regime
"The Bush Administration is the most dangerous force that has ever existed. It is more dangerous than Nazi Germany because of the range and depth of its activities and its intentions worldwide. I give my full support to the Call to Drive Out the Bush Regime."
Harold Pinter, Nobel Laureate of Literature
Each time people attempt to draw lessons for today from the rise of Nazi Germany, hysterical pundits and politicians break into a chorus of condemnations. When Congressman Dick Durbin suggested that the accounts of Guantanamo could easily have been describing Nazi prisons, he was forced to tearfully apologize on the floor of the Congress. And not long ago, when The World Can't Wait Drive Out the Bush Regime ran a paid full-page ad in the New York Times, Fox News host Bill O'Reilly blew a gasket and argued that the Times should have refused the ad because it included this comparison.
Even among those who hate the Bush regime, many feel that making this comparison is too extreme.
But the question must be asked, is it true? Are there similarities that merit recognition? How did a nation of millions come to widely embrace and otherwise go along with Hitler's openly genocidal, brutally misogynistic, virulently racist, hatefully anti-gay regime?
http://revcom.us/a/029/drawing-lessons-hitler-rise.htm