How symbolic and hopefully prescient a warning it could be that a Mr. Brown, wearing a shirt, came to Washington on the same day that 'our' supreme court made a ruling which will surely allow "brown shirts' of Empire.
One can not overstate the assault on democracy that has been launched in this pre-planned attack that will "live in infamy" from the ruling-elite's Global corporate/financial/militarist Empire ---- which until now has been only guilefully controlling 'our' country by hiding behind the facade of its two-party 'Vichy' sham of democracy (aided by much of the equally 'Vichy' corporatist MSM).
Yes, there are significant differences between the events in Germany of the 1930's and America today:
1. The evolving Empire in Germany was nationalist in scope, though global in appetite and claims ("Thousand Year Reich"), while the evolving Empire, only currently headquartered here, is overtly global in scope from the get go (since Empire is a pathology of economics first and politics only second, and must be global if planned by any but a mad-man). This economic primacy reflects Sheldon Wolin's critique of modern Empire toward "inverted fascism', where economic power is senior partner in the merger of corporate and state.
2. The fast evolving Empire HQ in America is following a far more modern, sophisticated, long-term and guileful path than a Blitzkrieg and occupation of another country (competing national empire) with a crude first-generation, one-party "Vichy' thin-veil of disguise. This Empire is "Friendly Fascism" (Bertram Gross), so far --- although only in the U.S.However, Hannah Arendt's prescient truth about empire must be taken very seriously now, "Empire abroad (always) entails tyranny at home".
3. Naturally, given the superior long term planning and non-human corporatist nature of this modern beast, there are many structural differences in the political manipulations, modern "shock doctrine' pseudo-events, and infinitely more polished (softer) propaganda techniques that have been employed in the current global Empire take-over than were common to the Nazi path to power. No single human Chancellor was overtly appointed. There was no thin-veiled Reichstag fire used. The rein of Gleichschaltung, and other extra-judicial rulings have not so obviously been applied.
4. There's possibly a bit more time (and willingness) for the U.S. citizens (and a Global People's Movement) to confront this Global corporatist Empire --- as I wrote before the supreme court ruling:
"We are not quite yet in a situation like those trapped in Belzec, Majdanek, Sobibor, Treblinka, Dachau, and Auschwitz-Birkenau, where the only choice was between the "least worst" of the Nazis or their non-German guards.
However, we do not have the luxury that any formerly comfortable population might have enjoyed, of depending on their robust civil freedoms in a stable Republic, calling on their normal financial resources, and support of democracy in a Republic sliding down-hill fast on a slippery slope. The surprise can come quicker than the population of such a country senses, as it did in the 1930's in Germany --- until it is too late --- and today, there is no boat to the freedom and safety of a by-gone America that even one as smart as Einstein can take.
Everyone in America needs to put all their best efforts, financial resources, and the "good will of men" (as Kennedy said during the Cuban Missile Crisis) to the task of saving democracy and our 'shared' world from Global Empire. It is only through the solidarity of a Global People's Movement that we can mutually survive the coming Holocaust.
As was presciently and poetically said by Martin Neimoller:
"First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out--because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out--because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out--because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me--and there was no one left to speak out."
Remember this, like it was itched by a laser in your brain:
Today, those freely speaking of liberalism in America are already gone ---
Those who speak in America of the kind of sustainable "social democracy' that all of Europe and Japan adopted after their Empire experience of WWII are gone ---
Those who dare to openly call for socialism are gone --- and prevented from even using that nasty word in their Senate title are silenced.
The unions have been decimated without a whisper of resistance.
The blacks, and immigrants, and poor, and working poor, and now even the supposed American invented "middle-class' are disenfranchised without a whimper.
Then they will come for you --- and your choice now (but NOT THEN) will only be, "Are you for democracy or EMPIRE" --- so make your choice for inclusiveness and democracy smartly and strongly, or accept your fate to Global Empire foolishly."
Alan MacDonald
Sanford, Maine
