Republicans learnt one thing from the Nazis. Tactics

This is a re-post of an article I wrote 3 months ago warning about Republican tactics with regard to Cordoba House.
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When the American right were being taught second world war history in their youth, they did not learn anything about the horrors of the period they learnt how to modernise the NAZI tactics of spreading fear and hate and to do that they would have to slander whole races of people and a religion.

Lunatic right-wing bloggers have started a campaign against a “mega mosque to be built on the ground zero”. There is no such plan. The bloggers on the right doing the most to spread this are doing it only for their personal and political gain at the expense of slandering a religion and enraging Americans. It should be of no surprise that Fox News will be getting in on selling the bigotry. Fox have invited Pamela Geller of Atlas Shrugs and “Executive Director” of “Stop the Islamification of America” (whose equivalent group is very closely related to the Neo Nazi British National Party) to spread her lies.

Geller has already been on Sean Hannity’s radio show spreading her lies.

Here is a quote from one of the right-wing blogs spreading her lies.



Never mind how disgusted people should be for the suggestion that the victims of 9/11 should be modelled as pigs. People should feel disgusted that that quote is from a now mainstream Republican blog. What would the reaction be if this was written about the building of a synagogue?

Yet you have a national news network, that is syndicated in many Countries across the World helping to sell this crap.

So what is the truth?

No mosque is being proposed for Ground Zero. It is a complete and utter lie designed to spread hate.

What is actually proposed? A cultural outreach building to counter misunderstanding and fear about Islam that will have within it a mosque.

From the developers site:

Why the Cordoba House?



So where is it? It is not on Ground Zero.



Slandering a religion and creating the politics of fear did not work out well in the 1930′s. The difference between then and now was that the far right did not have a 24 hour news network to back them.

I really do worry about America. An election defeat should have given the right an opportunity to look at their principles and beliefs and offer something to the American people. Instead they are promoting the only beauty queen to have never called for world peace as President, one who is busy endorsing convicted war criminals for Congress. They are creating and fostering a culture of fear and hate.

Appealing to the very worst of peoples fears and bigotry should never again be acceptable. It is shameful that hate has become a mainstream Republican viewpoint.

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What is worse is that potential Presidential Candidates have jumped on this bigotry. Sarah Palin got so confused in her new white sheets that she "invented" a new word.

For the sake of all that is decent, please think what happened before when politicians decided to blame a whole religion for one of act of terrorism in order to gain power.

via Godwin's law.

Republican tactics are to deliberately demonise a whole religion and blame every single Muslim for the attack on 9/11.

Lessons from history about the dangers of doing that are not just a blog debating point.

Extreme nationalism? Check.

Corporations married to Government? Check.

Discrimination against the "others"? Check.

"Fascism Anyone?" by Laurence W. Britt, courtesy Free Inquiry magazine, Volume 23, Number 2.
http://www.secularhumanism.org/library/fi/britt_23_2.htm

He found these 14 things in common between the regimes of Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Franco’s Spain, Salazar’s Portugal, Papadopoulos’s Greece, Pinochet’s Chile, and Suharto’s Indonesia.

1. Powerful and continuing expressions of nationalism.
2. Disdain for the importance of human rights.
3. Identification of enemies/scapegoats as a unifying cause.
4. The supremacy of the military/avid militarism.
5. Rampant sexism.
6. A controlled mass media.
7. Obsession with national security.
8. Religion and ruling elite tied together.
9. Power of corporations protected.
10. Power of labor suppressed or eliminated.
11. Disdain and suppression of intellectuals and the arts.
12. Obsession with crime and punishment.
13. Rampant cronyism and corruption.
14. Fraudulent elections.

Any of these have any relation to the GOP? Nahhhh....
Godwin's Law indeed. :eyes:

and the first step is to break out of denial.

People on the left often do not want to draw a line in the sand. This country has sailed along until the last 10-15 years, recovering from recessions by being propped up with financial wizardry, and most of the overseas shenanigans not coming to light.

Now it has become obvious that the agenda of the MIC/powers that be are indeed dangerous, trillions disappearing in the Pentagon black ops hole, while the rest of us are not important enough to house, feed or educate. The very value of life has been degraded domestically first so it can be exported in the form of war.

I do not know how this country can deal with the sociopathic ones, but calling them by their real name is a start. Reframe the truth!