Nobody Remembers The Silvershirts…Yet February 29, 2008
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John McCain is what my Father would have dead-on pegged as a silvershirt: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silver_shirts
The difference is that it is not the 1930’s, it’s 2008. There’s no Nazi Germany to inspire McCain’s militarism.
However, he and his ilk find an outlet in an all-out support for the American Empire — overseas and at home — whatever it takes to suffocate our civil liberties in the name of “security.” And that includes American men and women crippled for life and dying in Iraq for 100 years. That, says McCain, “would be fine with me”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFknKVjuyNk.
Think about it. How was Nazi Germany different, except in degree? We have Gitmo now. How long will it be before we have domestic Gitmos? (Possibly we do — who would know?)
All it takes is a few more regulations to give some TSA agent the power to decide that because you don’t look right to him or her you need to be “detained.”
McCain does remind me of a German stormtrooper. If he were elected, he would think nothing of amassing power and taking away more of our freedoms. I am sure your father would have agreed.
We have already seen the equivalent of the Nazi SS and the Soviet Secret Police when our government agents went to Elian Gonzalez’s home in the middle of the night and took him away from his family.
The Thought Police here will be as bad as any Communist regime or Nazi Germany in a few years.
There seems to be no outcry from the public about Homeland Security or more government surveillance.
Perhaps because school children are too busy getting sex ed, and have been fed revisionist history, the general public seems to have no sense that we are now a Fascist state on the way to being a Communist one.
There are a number of studies (books) in the past few years about the similarity between the rise of Mussolini and Hitler, and recent trends in the United States. I read Leonard Peikoff’s “Ominous Parallels” over a decade ago, and there is a more recent book on this growing totalitarianism by some left-of-center writer (forget her/s name). I was spotting Giuliani as the most authoritarian among the GOPers, but you are correct about McCain.
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Regards, Joe Cobb
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