From: Jei (jei@cc.hut.fi)
Date: Sun Dec 07 2003 - 10:31:57 MST
Enjoy. ;)
http://c0balt.com/resources/terror/terror.shtml
NAZI GERMANY'S WAR ON TERRORISM
Hitler used the 1933 burning of the Reichstag (Parliament) building by a
deranged Dutchman to declare a "war on terrorism," establish his legitimacy
as a leader (even though he hadn't won a majority in the previous election).
"You are now witnessing the beginning of a great epoch in history," he
proclaimed, standing in front of the burned-out building, surrounded by
national media. "This fire," he said, his voice trembling with emotion, "is
the beginning." He used the occasion –"a sign from God," he called it – to
declare an all-out war on terrorism and its ideological sponsors, a people,
he said, who traced their origins to the Middle East and found motivation
for their "evil" deeds in their religion.
Two weeks later, the first prison for terrorists was built in Oranianberg,
holding the first suspected allies of the infamous terrorist. In a national
outburst of patriotism, the nation's flag was everywhere, even printed in
newspapers suitable for display.
Within four weeks of the terrorist attack, the nation's now-popular leader
had pushed through legislation, in the name of combatting terrorism and
fighting the philosophy he said spawned it, that suspended constitutional
guarantees of free speech, privacy, and habeas corpus. Police could now
intercept mail and wiretap phones; suspected terrorists could be imprisoned
without specific charges and without access to their lawyers; police could
sneak into people's homes without warrants if the cases involved terrorism.
To get his patriotic "Decree on the Protection of People and State" passed
over the objections of concerned legislators and civil libertarians, he
agreed to put a 4-year sunset provision on it: if the national emergency
provoked by the terrorist attack on the Reichstag building was over by then,
the freedoms and rights would be returned to the people, and the police
agencies would be re-restrained.
Within the first months after that terrorist attack, at the suggestion of a
political advisor, he brought a formerly obscure word into common usage.
Instead of referring to the nation by its name, he began to refer to it as
The Fatherland. Ashoped, people's hearts swelled with pride, and the
beginning of an us-versus-them mentality was sewn. Our land was "the"
homeland, citizens thought: all others were simply foreign lands.
Within a year of the terrorist attack, Hitler's advisors determined that the
various local police and federal agencies around the nation were lacking the
clear communication and overall coordinated administration necessary to deal
with the terrorist threat facing the nation, including those citizens who
were of Middle Eastern ancestry and thus probably terrorist sympathizers. He
proposed a single new national agency to protect the security of the
Fatherland, consolidating the actions of dozens of previously independent
police, border, and investigative agencies under a single powerful leader.
Most Americans remember his Office of Fatherland Security, known as the
Reichssicherheitshauptamt and Schutzstaffel, simply by its most famous
agency's initials: the SS.
And, perhaps most important, he invited his supporters in industry into the
halls of government to help build his new detention camps, his new military,
and his new empire which was to herald a thousand years of peace. Industry
and government worked hand-in-glove, in a new type of pseudo-democracy first
proposed by Mussolini and
sustained by war.
http://c0balt.com/resources/terror/terror.shtml
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