BTW, here's a link to those Nazi Empire Enabling Acts, which like our current Empire's NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act) allowed for plenary power enforcement of unconstitutional executive (read dictatorial powers, beyond the legislature) to do just about anything to anyone in secret --- which Hitler took great advantage of:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enabling_Act_of_1933
Actually the Nazi Empire, and Hitler, were quite open and candid in making these Enabling Acts a brief and clearly understood set of "un-laws" (which you can easily read in the wikipedia English translation), whereas our current Empire, and Obama, hid the meat of their unconstitutional executive powers in some buried sections (10 - 21 thru 10 - 34) of the massive and quietly passed National Defense Act (which had to be passed for the military to continue to be paid and operate).
It was quite interesting that Obama in his SOTU (or as I would say, SOTE, State Of The Empire) speech, several times strongly pointed out that he would use his "Executive Powers" for several important issues to get around any stalling or disagreement in Congress (which is, after all, the American equivalent of the German Republic's Reichstag --- which Hitler also circumvented with plenary, or executive, powers).
It was also quite interesting that in his SOTE speech that Obama focused on the need for increased "efficiency of government" --- a goal worth using his "Executive Powers" to achieve --- in what could be viewed as reprising the claims of another 20th century leader, Benito Mussolini, who was famous for promising to "make the trains run on time" and coincidentally was the one who coined the political philosophy of "fascism" (to achieve such executive powers to circumvent a slow legislative branch). BTW, he also later said that the term he coined as 'fascism', should really have been called "corporatism".
Anyway, I'm certainly glad I haven't been secretly picked-up without charges and am not in a FEMA detention center without access to lawyers or habeas corpus rights, under the NDAA "un-laws" yet --- how about you?
WOW, this really is the American Dream today.
BTW, if you have a chance and want to read the best book I have ever seen on the death of the American Dream (and how it was killed), by Johns Hopkins Ph.D., Morris Berman (who is safely in Mexico now), get a copy (or Kindle version) of his newest 2011, "Why America Failed: The Roots of Imperial Decline". His older 2006, "Dark Ages America: The Final Phase of Empire" also reads as more up-to-date than most anything written by others in the last three years.
Best luck and love to the Occupy Empire educational and revolutionary movement.
Liberty, democracy, justice, and
equality
Over
Violent/Vichy
Empire,
Alan MacDonald
Sanford, Maine
PS. Obama needs to be CHALLENGED in the primaries --- just as the pro-war LBJ was challenged in his own party until he had to withdraw from the '68 presidential campaign.
The PRIME reason that Obama needs ot be CHALLENGED is that he is covering up for and will not even whisper about the disguised corporate/financial/militarist (and media) EMPIRE that has 'captured' and now fully "Occupies" our former country by hiding behind the facade of the Empire's modernized TWO-Party "Vichy" sham of faux-democratic and totally illegitimate government --- just as surely as the Nazi Empire tried to hide behind the facade of its crude single-party "Vichy" phony government in 'captured' and 'occupied' France c. 1940-44.
Challenge Obama not just because he lies smoothly for the Empire, but because if he continues as the political pawn and treasonous tool of this global "Vichy Empire" that we, and our children, and grand-children, will live only shortly to regret it.
