Time for us to wake up and see what day it is.
What happened on Feb 27th, 1933? Hitler declared a state of emergency. He had been elected the year before. There was a fire in the legislature – this was
blamed on the communist party and so he declared a state of emergency, then under
his super powers of the state of emergency the communist party was disbanded and
by a month later his party voted in the 1933 “Enabling Act” which allowed him
and his cabinet to make laws without the legislature (or Reichstag in
German.) The German Constitution was
never suspended but the Reichstag did not meet for the rest of Hitler’s reign
of terror. Nor was there another
regularly scheduled election. The first laws and regulations against Jews began
in 1933. By Oct 1933 the Nazi’s passed a
law censoring the press. Also in 1933
the League of German Worker Youth (which previously existed) was designated a
paramilitary organization. By Nov 1938
Kristallnacht happened and Pogroms began.
Parents were separated from children at the camps mostly to never be
reunited. By 1939 the Nazi’s invaded
Poland and world war II began.
The media is so missing the story when all the reports talk
about Trump declaring a state of emergency so that he can build a racist
wall. We are confusing the symptoms for
the disease. Yeah, he will be happy if he gets to build a wall. But that is really not what this is about.
Muller is closing in on him, indicting more of his cronies, getting more
evidence against him by flipping them.
The wall drama, even the govt shut down is a big distraction and now he
is grabbing power right at a moment
that could stop the progression of law against him. He is two years in rather than 1 (in a
country with a larger history of protest) but his laws and procedures against
his target group: Hispanic and Muslim people started with months of taking
office.
He has already separated parents in the target group from
their children and kept them in inhumane camps. Like Hitler, the targeting while
racist, is really a means to an end. It
is a way of whipping up fear in the general population, convincing them they
need a strong man to protect them.
Creating enough fear that they will give up rights and give up
ultimately Democracy. The month long
shut down was a further salvo in the weakening of our governmental structures
(already weakened by Secretaries whose goals are to dismantle the government work
of the depts they head.) It was a way of
off balancing us, so we are disoriented when the next assault comes, as it now
does. He has attacked the press since
the beginning, trying to undermine their legitimacy by calling it fake news and
now cancelling press access. During the last year the Selective service (draft
board) has been quietly been conducting a study just released in Jan
recommending that we institute a “national services” which all young people
would compulsorily serve in for several years.
The Republican Party has a decision to make right now about
whether they will be recorded in future history books as the next Nazi Party or
whether they will remember the oath to protect the Constitution they each took
when they took office. Please stop
contacting Congress to tell them to stop the bogus State of Emergency because
we do not need a wall, and start contacting them to stop the state of emergency because only they can stop the loss of a
democratic system. The courts have
already been stacked by Trump and thus cannot protect us – yes this is illegal
by any definition of the State of Emergency laws – but that is not enough to guarantees
courts will act appropriately. Congress
was designed to be a check against abuse of power by a President. Yet Congress also is timid and does things
only by the demand of the people. We
have marveled for years at how the German people “allowed it to happen”. This is how, by not wanting to believe it was
happening, and closing their eyes as each step happened. Stay awake.
1. 1. Write and Call all of the Republican Senators reminding
them they swore to protect the
constitution.
2. 2. Start the proper framing of this issue with
every one you know – name what is really happening.
3. 3. Go to one of the many local protests happening
on Monday (or organize one…see Move On site)
4. 4. Be prepared if that does not work for a national
strike – stopping everything is the only way to stop a dictator.
5. 5. Resist all unjust and unconstitutional laws and
policies.
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