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TruthIsAll Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 09:35 AM
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MUST READ! When Democracy Failed: The Warnings of History
Edited on Sun Oct-26-03 09:39 AM by TruthIsAll
This article says it all. I have posted it before, but it must be read. Keep kicking it and keep shouting...the TRUTH...

When Democracy Failed: The Warnings of History - by Thom Hartman
Web source Common Dreams News Centre

The 70th anniversary wasn't noticed in the United States, and was barely reported in the corporate media. But the Germans remembered well that fateful day seventy years ago - February 27, 1933. They commemorated the anniversary by joining in demonstrations for peace that mobilized citizens all across the world.

It started when the government, in the midst of a worldwide economic crisis, received reports of an imminent terrorist attack. A foreign ideologue had launched feeble attacks on a few famous buildings, but the media largely ignored his relatively small efforts. The intelligence services knew, however, that the odds were he would eventually succeed. (Historians are still arguing whether or not rogue elements in the intelligence service helped the terrorist; the most recent research implies they did not.)

But the warnings of investigators were ignored at the highest levels, in part because the government was distracted; the man who claimed to be the nation's leader had not been elected by a majority vote and the majority of citizens claimed he had no right to the powers he coveted. He was a simpleton, some said, a cartoon character of a man who saw things in black-and-white terms and didn't have the intellect to understand the subtleties of running a nation in a complex and internationalist world. His coarse use of language - reflecting his political roots in a southernmost state - and his simplistic and often-inflammatory nationalistic rhetoric offended the aristocrats, foreign leaders, and the well-educated elite in the government and media. And, as a young man, he'd joined a secret society with an occult-sounding name and bizarre initiation rituals that involved skulls and human bones.

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http://www.vcn.bc.ca/srsnetbc/mar02home/thomhartman.htm

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absolutezero Donating Member (879 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 09:51 AM
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1. scary isnt a word for it....
that is absolutely fucking horrfiying
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JohnOneillsMemory Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 10:06 AM
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2. Print this out and give it to everyone you know!! Mind changer, for sure.
Many don't understand how dire the situation is and dismiss urgency as unwarranted dramatics or obsession or any of the many intellectual anaesthetics dispensed by TV-world.

Articles like this detail how IT CAN HAPPEN HERE AND IT IS!!

I opened a few minds at work with this one. Thanks for re-posting.
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Padraig18 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 10:09 AM
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3. Precisely!
This is why I am apalled at anyone who is NOT "ABB"; do they not understand that 2004 may well be the last chance we have to reclaim our right as sovereign people to self-governemnt? it is, quite literally, US vs. THEM! :scared:
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sventvkg Donating Member (448 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 10:18 AM
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4. I try to warn people but i'm scoffed at....
Most people just do not get it and I feel there is a REAL danger of it happening here...I'm not very optomistic about next year's election anymore unless something drastic happens on the left...I.E. They start to make some serious noise!!! I mean DEAN Times 1000!!!!!! that's is our only hope..:(
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laura888 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 10:27 AM
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5. I'm saving this one to my files
thanks for this important information!
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chimpymustgo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 11:03 AM
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6. Thank you for posting this. Everyone at DU should send this to
everyone we can. We may support different people to change the regime - but the regime MUST be changed. WE have to save our country.
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amber dog democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 11:05 AM
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7. Each generation
seems to be confronted by some kind of dire challenge. This time its an experiment to see how far the power of totalinarism can be imposed - only like the Nazis, the Neo Cons are acting in dead earnest. Ultimately its all going to unravel, but how far will it go before it happens, and at what cost? You can see the high value in human lives the regime places on its policies. Kind of reminds me of Upton Sinclair's IT Cant Happen Here.
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jmcgowanjm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 11:12 AM
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8. Smoking mine field
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teryang Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-26-03 11:27 AM
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9. I don't think that serious scholars question
...who started the Reichstag fire. Goring, Diehls, and Heydrich planned it. The group of men who carried out the arson entered from a tunnel to the basement of the Reichstag from Gorings residence.
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