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Tuesday, 25 March 2003
Disturbing historical parallels ::
When Democracy Failed: The Warnings of History, by Thom Hartmann:
The 70th anniversary wasn’t noticed in the United States, and was barely reported in the corporate media. But the Germans remembered well that fateful day seventy years ago - February 27, 1933.
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It started when the government, in the midst of a worldwide economic crisis, received reports of an imminent terrorist attack.
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Within four weeks of the terrorist attack, the nation’s now-popular leader had pushed through legislation - in the name of combating terrorism and fighting the philosophy he said spawned it - that suspended constitutional guarantees of free speech, privacy, and habeas corpus. Police could now intercept mail and wiretap phones; suspected terrorists could be imprisoned without specific charges and without access to their lawyers; police could sneak into people’s homes without warrants if the cases involved terrorism.
And this is just the beginning. A very sobering must-read.
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