Welcome to Germany, 1933

"The Defense Department has expanded its programs aimed at gathering and analyzing intelligence within the United States, creating new agencies, adding personnel and seeking additional legal authority for domestic security activities in the post-9/11 world."

I took the above article quote from the page of another blogger, who, like me, has seen little to nothing made of this story, that came out in the Washington Post several days ago. I waited to see if there would be any reaction before posting it myself, but haven't found any. This appears to be another example of how very important information does manage to come out, yet no one seems to care. I blogged directly to this bloggers page instead of the article because it also gives a link to a year-old Guardian article that reminds, or informs us (if you hadn't heard yet) about our Presidents' family connection to Nazi fascism.

You may, by now, be getting tired of seeing references made of our current situation, to that of Nazi Germany, but that's just too bad. The grave mistake that always takes place when the original Nazis are brought up, is that the reader/listener immediately thinks of the end result; "Holocaust", "Genocide", "Deathcamps". Understandable, but you cannot prevent historical repeats, unless you understand the roots of historical events. Immediately dismissing any comparisons between the Germany of old, and the U.S. today, also dismisses any attempts at preventing history from repeating itself, because too many think "it can't happen here"

The end results in Germany didn't come about overnight, the German people were conditioned first, and todays events are too serious not to fully comprehend the potential of what may come in the future.