- "Dictatorships start wars because they need external
enemies to exert internal control over their own people." -Richard
Perle
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- Americans are the new Nazis. There, that's earned me
a lot of enemies very quickly hasn't it?
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- "How dare you," comes the riposte from the
neo-cons in the administration and the right-wing think tanks like JINSA
and the PNAC, as well as the "Fox news compliant" brigade whose
heads are still stuck up their backsides enjoying the televised view. "America
is a democracy, a free country run by a democratically elected government.
It is the land of the free, the home of the brave and the protector of
the free world," I hear them chorus.
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- To that I say, bullshit.
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- To say America is a democracy these days is just stretching
things too far. Consider: Bush was not elected by the majority of people
in the USA. Admittedly the turnout was low (you do, after all, get the
government you deserve if you don't exercise your franchise) but George
W didn't get a mandate. To do that more than 50 percent of the voters have
to vote for you, and that didn't happen. In fact, Georgie boy lost. However,
good old George made sure that, mandate or not, win or not, with a little
help from friends and family in Florida he could win it by cheating. Let's
not mince words, George W Bush stole the presidency of the United States.
He is not the democratically elected leader of America.
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- It also appears that some unelected officials in the
Bush administration may have acquired more power than the president himself.
Perle, Wolfowitz, Feith, Bolton, Abrams, Rumsfeld all share the same right-wing
neo-conservative views held by organisations such as the Project for a
New American Century, the Zionist Organisation of America and the Jewish
Institute for National Security Affairs. As members of these organisations,
it could be said that this unelected cabal of neo-cons in the White House
and the Pentagon have interests other than America at heart. This is not
only undemocratic, it is treason.
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- So, we now see that America is governed by a president
who was not democratically elected, supported by an unelected cabal of
people with very extreme and in some cases, very un-American views. This
cannot, therefore, classify America as a democratic country. A country
that is governed by a non-elected power is, as we have seen and heard these
last few months concerning Iraq, Iran and North Korea, classed as a "dictatorship".
Dictatorships are fascist by nature. Fascism is described as "right-wing
dictatorship". Look up the word fascism. See what I mean?
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- Now let's take a quick look at Germany in the 1930s and
'40s as the Nazis reared their ugly heads. Here was a country that was
financially crippled with a massive budget deficit owing billions of dollars
to the rest of the world. Just like the USA.
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- In the 1930s Germany was a country where the burning
of the Reichstag, Germany's 9/11, engineered by Hitler and his henchmen,
was used to create external enemies and to exert internal control over
the German people. Hitler then used the media to lie, frighten and deceive
the population, allowing a bunch of vicious, extreme, right-wing megalomaniacs
to gain power. Just like the USA.
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- In the 1930s Hitler was surrounded by a group of unelected
officials whose sole objective was to take control of Germany for their
own ends and with the use of their military might, take control of the
assets and prosperity of other, weaker countries. Just like the USA.
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- In 1939 Hitler embarked on a series of pre-emptive attacks
on sovereign nations in the name of "freeing the people" of that
country. Just like the USA.
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- In 1940 the German hierarchy started building special
"camps" or detention centres in which to incarcerate and eventually
execute those people considered to be "against" their regime.
Just like the USA.
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- As Germany invaded the countries surrounding them during
World War II, they found that far from having conquered the country and
"liberated" the people, the people of that country formed nationalist
"resistance" groups and used guerilla warfare to kill, harass
and slowly demoralise the occupying army. Just like the USA.
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- "History is little more than the register of crimes,
follies, and misfortunes of mankind" wrote Edward Gibbon, the British
historian in The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. History should teach
us a great many things, but unfortunately the majority of Americans know
very little about history, or for that matter, the rest of the world. Don't
believe me? Ask an American where Admiral Lord Nelson, one of the worlds
greatest naval commanders, died or what nationality Alexander the Great
was? Better still, ask an American to point to pretty much any foreign
country on a map. Try North Korea.
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- If you know nothing of history, you cannot learn the
lessons history teaches. You continue to make the same mistakes. Hitler's
mistake was to wage war on too many fronts at once and underestimate the
ferocity of the guerilla wars being fought against him by resistance groups
all over Europe. Eventually it was Russia, or to be more precise, the Russian
winter and Hitler's hubris, that proved to much for the disillusioned German
troops, sick and tired of fighting and dying for a regime that they belatedly
realised was illegitimate.
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- Hitler, in the last desperate act of a cowardly tyrant,
committed suicide. Germany, defeated and destroyed, had lost everything.
Those who had been instrumental in Germany's war and propaganda machine
were tried and executed. Eventually Germany once again became a democracy,
but it had taken the deaths of many millions of people to restore that
democracy.
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- Despite Germany's huge arsenal of weapons, it had lost
the war because those running Germany were not the democratic leaders of
a democratic country, but were fascist, right-wing neo-conservatives: Nazis,
who propagated an illegal war through lies and deception and stirred up
the anger of all decent thinking people on the planet with their evil deeds.
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- Just like the USA.
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- Copyright © 2003 Ian Gurney
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- Ian Gurney is a broadcaster, journalist and the author
of the bestseller, "The Cassandra Prophecy-Armageddon Approaches,"
published by International Global Press. ISBN: 0953581314. Ian welcomes
your comments at info@caspro.com
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