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Why are war profiteers who play both sides of the fence not
prosecuted as Vice President Harry Truman said they should be in 1942?
Did IBM knowingly assist the Nazis in rounding up the Jews and are
big American corporations now helping our government prepare for the next
roundup of scapegoats, trouble makers, and dissidents?
Video that answers this question. (Warning: a few very disturbing images. )
It's
a well-documented fact that IBM assisted in the Nazi's Final Solution. Its financial and other assistance to the Nazi
goal of conquering Europe was widely touted in Germany -- the same with regard
to Ford, DuPont and other big US corporations. But our powers-that-be kept that quiet
here, of course.
The
method for how they kept things like that quiet is interesting. Ford never had to tell the newspapers to keep his factories' participation in the
Nazi war machine secret. The editors all knew that any mention of it would mean the withdrawal of Ford
advertising.
And
if you don't think this "ancient history" has any relevance to what is
happening today, skip down to the last several paragraphs of this article, and
then to the first comment in the discussion.
Or just read the following excerpt from an article in a recent issue of
the N.Y. Times. It shows that our
military and our corporations are taking over our government.
"The
trauma of Sept. 11, 2001, gave rise to a dangerous myth that, to be safe,
America had to give up basic rights and restructure its legal system. The United States was now in a perpetual state
of war, the argument went, and the criminal approach to fighting terrorism --
and the due process that goes along with it -- wasn't tough enough.
"President
George W. Bush used this insidious formula to claim that his office had the
inherent power to detain anyone he chose, for as long as he chose, without a
trial; to authorize the torture of prisoners; and to spy on Americans without a warrant. President Obama came into office pledging his
dedication to the rule of law and to reversing the Bush-era policies. (Instead he continued them and even stepped
them up.)
"Mr.
Obama refused to entertain any investigation of the abuses of power under his
predecessor, and he has been far too willing to adopt Mr. Bush's extravagant
claims of national secrets to prevent any courthouse accountability for those
abuses. (This week he stated his
intention to sign into law the terrible new measures that will make indefinite
detention and military trials a permanent part of American law.)
"The
measures, contained in the annual military budget bill, will strip the F.B.I.,
federal prosecutors and federal courts of all or most of their power to arrest
and prosecute terrorists and hand it off to the military, which has made clear
that it doesn't want the job. The legislation could also give future presidents
the authority to throw American citizens into prison for life without charges
or a trial. The bill, championed by Republicans in the House and Senate, was
attached to the military budget bill to make it harder for Mr. Obama to veto
it.
"Nearly
every top American official with knowledge and experience spoke out against the
provisions, including the attorney general, the defense secretary, the chief of
the F.B.I., the secretary of state, and the leaders of intelligence agencies.
And, for weeks, the White House vowed that Mr. Obama would veto the military
budget if the provisions were left in. On Wednesday, the White House reversed
field, declaring that the bill had been improved enough for the president to
sign it now that it had passed the Senate.
"This
is a complete political cave-in, one that reinforces the impression of a
fumbling presidency. To start with, this bill was utterly unnecessary. Civilian
prosecutors and federal courts have jailed hundreds of convicted terrorists,
while the tribunals have convicted a half-dozen.
And
the modifications are nowhere near enough. Mr. Obama, his spokesman said, is
prepared to sign this law because it allows the executive to grant a waiver for
a particular prisoner to be brought to trial in a civilian court. But the
legislation's ban on spending any money for civilian trials for any accused
terrorist would make that waiver largely meaningless."
Will
the "journalists" who operate our mainstream media even try to protect us from this continuing takeover by the
military-industrial complex? Quite
unlikely. Consider the following example
of why I say that:
A
friend of mine was recently annoyed with an ad from 'The Plastics Council' on
TV:
"Do
they think this will make us buy more plastic?"
