Big Government: "The Healthcare Bill Would Be Obama's 'Enabling Act'"
March 14, 2010 10:37 am ET by MMFA Staff
From a March 13 Big Government post:
Here's what else they know. History affords many examples of regimes whose motto was "Never let a crisis go to waste." In 1933, having campaigned for "hope" and "change," the National Socialist Worker's Party forced through the German parliament a Law to Remedy the Distress of the People and the Nation, also known as the Enabling Act.
This new law enabled the German chancellor and his appointees to bypass parliament in imposing sweeping regulations on the people:
"In addition to the procedure prescribed by the constitution, laws of the Reich may also be enacted by the government of the Reich [i.e., the Cabinet]."
The constitution of the Weimar Republic became so irrelevant that the new regime never saw a need to actually repeal it.
By this vote, the National Socialist Workers Party assumed absolute power and the Chancellor made history.
Couldn't it possibly be that, Obama and the Democrats WON some elections back in November of 2008, and since they did win, it stands to reason that, yes, they MIGHT just get to do what they want to do, and or work on things that they want to work on.
Obama and the democrats are NOT Nazis, nor do they even come close.
It's all they've got.
That act was passed after the Reichstag fire. The Nazis, with Goering as their main mouthpiece, blamed it on communists and started screaming about other attacks, other acts of terror that they were certain were to come unless an all too infamous chancellor was granted increased powers that allowed him to suspend civil liberties.
This holds a greater resemblance to the Patriot Act than the Health Care Bill.
I'll post some of the responses later.
Firefox (my browser of choice) has a plug in for it, don't know which you're using, but anyone can use TOR.
BigGovernment.com and others like them had NO PROBLEM with the PATRIOT Act during the Bush administration. They didn't object to Bush's election stealing, warrantless wiretaps, sneak and peak searches, ability to review library book and bookstore records with no probable cause, detentions without charges, exposing of a covert CIA agent's identity, paying journalists to produce pro-administration stories, appointment of politically motivated US Attorneys who were willing to bring false prosecutions against Democrats while ignoring real evidence of crimes by Republicans, a Vice President who claimed that he was neither in the executive or the legislative branches of government, the same Vice President refusing to acknowledge the number of people who worked for him or what they did, the dismissal of military leaders who were perceived to be in disagreement with the administration's political positions and appointment of spineless "yes" men, the occupation of two countries under false pretenses, and the unwillingness of the Bush administration to kill or catch the ringleader of the one group that DID attack us.
I won't give BigGovernment.com and those other "only when the Democrat party is in charge" conspiracy theorists the benefit of the doubt when it comes to the motive for their "the Nazis are coming" rants.
For something a little more current, and closer to home, this clown should read, "THE SHOCK DOCTRINE, by Naomi Klein.
These detestable cretins wouldn't have gotten away with these comparisons ten years ago. There were more people alive then who actually experienced Nazism and fought to defeat it. I know my parents, aunts and uncles would have never stopped screaming if they knew that someone was saying that the duly elected president of the US was Nazi-like.
With every passing day, the right minimizes the horrors committed against the world by Hitler, Mussolini and the Japanese with their use of these tactics.
Are they trying to say that these children of privilege, who show up at Tea Parties are the equivalent of those who died at Auschwitz, that these loathsome politicians who seek the endorsement of this crowd are similar to those who landed on the beaches at Normandy or died trying to take Mount Suribachi?
Someone has to stand up to these people and expose them as traitors to our history. Or we can just keep quiet as they re-write it.
Remember the "NO" votes on Stimulus from Republicans? What about those photo-ops when the Stimulus funds went to Republican Districts? "Distraction" is ALL they have when faced with facts. Uh, oh. LOL.
HCR will be Obama's "enabling act" which leads to his "Waterloo" on the "Ides of March" which will turn us all in "Nazis".
Sheesh, can't they just pick one freaking analogy and stick with it?
I thought that was the Bush administrations motto?