{"id":1057,"date":"2003-06-02T14:21:56","date_gmt":"2003-06-02T18:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/archives\/2003\/06\/02\/\/"},"modified":"2003-06-02T14:21:56","modified_gmt":"2003-06-02T18:21:56","slug":"1057","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2003\/06\/1057\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pics\/hitler.jpg\" alt=\"Hitler\" class=\"oldblogthumb\" \/><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/c0balt.com\/resources\/terror\/terror.shtml\" rel=\"external\">Nazi Germany&#8217;s War on Terror<\/a><\/strong><br \/>&#8220;<strong>Hitler used the 1933 burning of the Reichstag (Parliament) building by a deranged Dutchman to declare a &ldquo;war on terrorism,&rdquo; establish his legitimacy as a leader<\/strong> (even though he hadn&rsquo;t won a majority in the previous election).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You are now witnessing the beginning of a great epoch in history,&rdquo; he proclaimed, <u>standing in front of the burned-out building<\/u>, surrounded by national media. &ldquo;This fire,&rdquo; he said, his voice trembling with emotion, &ldquo;is the beginning.&rdquo; He used the occasion \u2013 &ldquo;<u>a sign from God<\/u>,&rdquo; he called it \u2013 to declare an <u>all-out war on terrorism<\/u> and its ideological sponsors, a people, he said, who traced their origins to the <u>Middle East<\/u> and found motivation for their &ldquo;<strong>evil<\/strong>&rdquo; deeds in their religion.<\/p>\n<p>Within four weeks of the terrorist attack, the nation&rsquo;s now-popular leader had <u>pushed through legislation<\/u>, in the name of combating terrorism and fighting the philosophy he said spawned it, that suspended constitutional guarantees of <u>free speech<\/u>, <u>privacy<\/u>, and habeas corpus. Police could now <u>intercept mail<\/u> and <u>wiretap phones<\/u>; suspected terrorists could be <u>imprisoned without specific charges<\/u> and without access to their lawyers; police could sneak into people&rsquo;s homes without warrants if the cases involved terrorism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aladdin.com\/#fascism\" rel=\"external\">THE IDENTIFYING CHARACTERISTICS OF FASCISM<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul><\/p>\n<li>Powerful and Continuing Nationalism<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights <\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Identification of Enemies\/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause <\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Supremacy of the Military <\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Controlled Mass Media <\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Obsession with National Security <\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Religion and Government are Intertwined <\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Corporate Power is Protected <\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Labor Power is Suppressed <\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts <\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Rampant Cronyism and Corruption <\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Fraudulent Elections<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>(Articles found on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chapel-perilous.net\" rel=\"external\">Chapel Perilous<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nazi Germany&#8217;s War on Terror&#8220;Hitler used the 1933 burning of the Reichstag (Parliament) building by a deranged Dutchman to declare a &ldquo;war on terrorism,&rdquo; establish his legitimacy as a leader (even though he hadn&rsquo;t won a majority in the previous election). &#8220;You are now witnessing the beginning of a great epoch in history,&rdquo; he proclaimed, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}