This site is awesome. If you study politics and rhetoric, you can see in these Nuremberg trial documents how the German Wiemar Republic was transformed into the Third Reich through brute force, manipulation of the media and courts, and corruption of the political system.
Nuremburg Trial Documents: Means Used by Nazi Conspirators in Gaining Control of the German State
After reading many of the documents, I can see the same forces at work in our country: ie. restrictive voter ID laws; drones used by police departments for surveillance; condemnation of unpopular groups and ideas from the pulpits; destruction of the trade unions; control of public media (efforts by conservatives to defund PBS and NPR); government monitoring our communications (Utah Data Center); and, the fundamentalist movement to dominate the courts, police departments and military academies; the authority of the government to assassinate US citizens; and, a gridlocked government that is no longer able to adequately respond to the needs of the people which will, one day, lead to a crisis giving the fascist the opportunity to create a "national emergency" as justification for a coup. Many of our individual rights have been eroded in the "War on Terrorism" with no defined end in sight or guarantee that they will be restored when the "war" ends.
Whether the forces of fascism win or lose in our country, only time will tell; however, sunlight is the best disinfectant and it helps "to know it when you see it."
Take some time out for an interesting read and a little introspection.
Just my opinion.....
No Fear, Just Knowledge.
