HITLER-LY CLINTON
I have been for a long time trying to write something like this when liberals call conservatives NAZIs. The label actually belongs to liberals. The best examples are liberals attacking their opponents by implying that liberal elitists were better, caring people and conservatives are mean spirited and less than human.
Put this elitist attitude together with Hitler's favorite tactic, the "Big Lie", and you find the base of lies liberals use instead of the facts. Remember the charges that Republicans wanted to poison the air and water? Mediscare, throwing old people out of their homes and cutting off their medical care? Starving children by "cutting" school lunches by reducing taxes for the rich?
And lets not forget about Affirmative Action where people, by official government policy, are classified by racial characteristics and "Protected Classes" are given special privileges and protections not available to non-protected people. Nazis also had affirmative action spelled out in their laws pertaining to relations between their Aryan Master Race and non-Aryans. The following letter appeared in Carolyn's Conservative Corner and it is reproduced unchanged here:
Washington Times
Letters to the Editor
June 7, 1997 - Arlington, VADuring the past several months in the American press, the Democrats have frequently denounced the Republicans as Nazis due to their attempts to control runaway federal spending. How very ironic. I remember the Nazis. Let me share a little about them and recall some of their exploits.
First of all, "Nazi" was gutter slang for the verb "to nationalize". The Bider-Mienhoff gang gave themselves this moniker during their early struggles. The official title of the Nazi Party was "The National Socialist Workers Party of Germany". Hitler and the Brownshirts advocated the nationalization of education, health care, transportation, national resources, manufacturing, distribution and law enforcement.
Hitler came to power by turning the working class, unemployed, and academic elite against the conservative republic. After Der Fuhrer's election ceased being a political conspiracy and was transformed into a fashionable social phenomenon, party membership was especially popular with educators, bureaucrats, and the press.
Being a Nazi was "politically correct". They called themselves "The Children of the New Age of World Order" and looked down their noses at everyone else. As Hitler acquired more power, he referred to his critics as "The Dark Forces of Anarchy and Hatred". Anyone who questioned Nazi high-handedness in the German press was branded a "Conservative Reactionary". Joseph Goebbels, minister of communications, proclaimed a "New World Order".
The Nazi reign of terror began with false news reports on the Jews, Bohemians and Gypses who were said to be arming themselves to overthrow the "New World Order" and Hitler demanded that all good people register their guns so that they wouldn't fall into the hands of "terrorists and madmen". Right-wing fanatics of the "Old Order" who protested firearms registration were arrested by the S.S. and put in jail for "fomenting hatred against the Government of the German people".
Then the Reichstag (government building) was blown up and Hitler ram-rodded an "Emergency Anti-Terrorist Act" through Parliament that gave the Gestapo extraordinary powers. The leader then declared that for the well-being of the German people, all private firearms were to be confiscated by the Gestapo and the Wermotten (federal law enforcement and military). German citizens who refused to surrender their guns when the "jack-boots" (Gestapo) came calling, were murdered in their homes. By the way, the Gestapo were the federal marshals' service of the Third Reich. The S.W.A.T. team was invented and perfected by the Gestapo to break into the homes of the enemies of the German people.
When the Policia Bewakken, or local police, refused to take away guns from townsfolk, they themselves were disarmed and dragged out into the street and shot to death by the S.A. and the S.S. Those were Nazi versions of the B.A.T.F. and the F.B.I. When several local ministers spoke out against these atrocities, they were imprisoned and never seen again.
The Gestapo began to confiscate and seize the homes, businesses, bank accounts, and personal belongings of wealthy conservative citizens who had prospered in the old Republic. Pamphleteers who urged revolt against the Nazis were shot on site by national law enforcement and the military. Gypsies and Jews were detained and sent to labor camps. Mountain roads throughout central Europe were closed to prevent the escape of fugitives into the wilderness, and to prevent the movement and concealment of partisan resistance fighters.
Public schools rewrote history and Hitler youth groups taught the children to report their parents to their teachers for anti-Nazi remarks. Such parents disappeared. Pagan animism became the state religion of the Third Reich and Christians were widely condemned as "right wing fanatics".
Millions of books were burned first and then people. Millions of them burned in huge ovens after they were first gassed to death. Unmarried women were paid large sums of money to have babies out of wedlock and then given medals for it. Evil was declared as being good, and good was condemned as being evil. World Order was coming and the German people were going to be the "peacekeepers".
Yes, indeed, I remember the Nazis and they weren't Republicans, or "right wing", or "patriots" or "militias". They were Socialist monsters.
— Thomas Colton Ruthford
The author of this piece recently e-mailed me:
I enjoyed your pan of one of my old newspaper articles on my position on the Nazis. While earning my Social Psychiatry degree at UW Seattle I was taught to intuit hidden agendas and motivations.Later, when earning my Philosophy degree at UW Seattle I was taught to appreciate all sides of an argument. However; two and two always do make four, no matter what our opinion of math is. And so it is that the Nazis were pagan, new age socialists on the outside and monsters on the inside. It is also true that the very first people they tormented were the Wiemar Republicans, The German Lutheran Ministry and German firearms owners. They only went after Bolsheviks after they broke faith with Stalin. The USSR thought they had compacted with kindred spirits when they made an alliance with Hitler. The Nazis did a splendid job of fooling the world until they invaded Poland. Lord Author Neville Chamberlain was completely conned into thinking the Nazis were Liberal Cosmopolitan Globalists. It was only later on in their career when the world discovered the Nazis were persecuting Poles, Gypsies, Jews, Bolseviks, Dissenters and Homosexuals. For years the Nazis preached a Global Socialist Multiculturism to be overseen by Aryan Big Brothers. The Nazis socialized most of the German infrastructure. The Powerful and the Mighty went along with them or "disappeared". Most of Europe believed them and so did many Americans. The 1930's saw the global rise of collectivism and The National Socialist Workers Party of Germany was considered "tre' chic" in many progressive captials of the world. Let us remember that politics is art of appearance over substance and all those who aspire to high office are manipulators. We only believe what we want to believe and quite often even in the face of overwhelming proof of our mistaken opinion on things.
Finally, I leave you with a few thoughts:
"I hold that scripture can be allegory for our edification and enlightenment"
-- Moses Maimonides in The Guide of The Perplexed
"He who is deprived of his means of self defence is held in thrall and subjugation." ( I paraphrase here )
-- Bishop Baruch Spinoza, Article 10, Chapter 2 of his Political Treatise
"There you go man, keep as cool as you can... Face piles of trials with smiles. It riles them to believe that you perceive the web they weave---And keep on thinking Free!"
-- The Moody Blues
Cordially,
Thomas Colton Ruthford aka Tom Colton
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