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| Re: Civil Contingencies Bill Interesting to see this kind of thing that you're saying being volunteered, at last. Eventually it has to be discussed on street corners by strangers, curfew or no curfew. Half the problem during the foot and mouth extermination -- three long years ago now -- was people paralysed by their own denial. People did nothing because they didn't ever want to understand the possibility of government being totally corrupt, demonically evil. But at least we've got to the stage where now everyone denies the evil by acknowledging it with a shrug, "oh yes, it's all corrupt, none of 'em are any good, tsk, tsk". They're able to do it because we're all very comfortable still. Let us eat cake. You say "Can it be totally denied there is not a parallel between this Civil Contingencies Bill and what Hitler strove for in March 1933?" Right now, yes it can, it's totally denied. If it were not Bryn, many members of parliament would already be murdered, Tony Blair, ripped out of his car by the crowd, beaten to death and strung up, swinging from a street lamp in Trafalgar Square. This is coming, and everyone, even the hippy doddering fools sense it, queuing in the uneasy quiet, at the Post Office Counters for their pensions. Even the tipsy newscasters on the radio, reading out the lies at the top the hour, sense it. I have acquaintances in London, perfectly fine reasonable, comfortable, middle class couple. The sort of normal reasonable caring twits you can hear on BBC radio 4 any time of the day or night. (Imagine Joan eff-ing Bakewell on the subject of "parallels with Hitler".) I feel I can reply confidently to your question, simply by thinking of and picturing them. You say "Why now; a General election next year". This isn't 30 years ago. Small boys playing football in the park, jumpers for goalposts; Ted Heath, sampling wine, conducting, plotting treason on the nation. Today, in Europe, our comfortable cosy democracies are an empty shell, a semblance, a mask, like the people and lives in it. The obligatory clapping of the Politburo. Mammon is now the god of this world. An "election"? A "proactive Democracy and Freedom brand image deliverable". The great Satan. But it's nothing compared to what's coming. It takes a long time for people to wake up. Eventually ...one way or another... we always do. I met a traveler from an antique land Who said: "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on those lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed: And on the pedestal these words appear: 'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The Lone and level sands stretch far away." Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1817 With kind regards, Sandy |
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| Can it be totally denied there is not a parallel between this Civil Contingencies Bill and what Hitler strove for in March 1933? Is it so very different? Maybe the Storm Troopers are not visible, but the under-current of Blair wanting FULL Powers is plain as a Pike Staff. Travel Health ID Cards; FULL ID cards; driver's licence with photo; Passports with DNA will be next!
We have had (have) our deep troubles with the IRA and never was a CCB mentioned. Why now; a General election next year, and the shadow of the EU ever darkening our door. "All it takes for evil to flourish is for good men to do nothing" - Edmund Burke Are YOU going to do nothing? PLEASE check this out. Bryn Hitler's Enabling Act http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/timeline/enabling.htm On March 23, 1933, the newly elected members of the German Parliament (the Reichstag) met in the Kroll Opera House in Berlin to consider passing Hitler's Enabling Act. It was officially called the 'Law for Removing the Distress of the People and the Reich.' If passed, it would effectively mean the end of democracy in Germany and establish the legal dictatorship of Adolf Hitler. The 'distress' had been secretly caused by the Nazis themselves in order to create a crisis atmosphere that would make the law seem necessary to restore order. On February 27, 1933, they had burned the Reichstag building, seat of the German government, causing panic and outrage. The Nazis successfully blamed the fire on the Communists and claimed it marked the beginning of a widespread uprising. On the day of the vote, Nazi storm troopers gathered in a show of force around the opera house chanting, "Full powers - or else! We want the bill - or fire and murder!!" They also stood inside in the hallways, and even lined the aisles where the vote would take place, glaring menacingly at anyone who might oppose Hitler's will. Just before the vote, Hitler made a speech to the Reichstag in which he pledged to use restraint. "The government will make use of these powers only insofar as they are essential for carrying out vitally necessary measures...The number of cases in which an internal necessity exists for having recourse to such a law is in itself a limited one." - Hitler told the Reichstag. He also promised an end to unemployment and pledged to promote peace with France, Great Britain and the Soviet Union. But in order to do all this, Hitler said, he first needed the Enabling Act. A two thirds majority was needed, since the law would actually alter the German constitution. Hitler needed 31 non-Nazi votes to pass it. He got those votes from the Center Party after making a false promise to restore some basic rights already taken away by decree. However, one man arose amid the overwhelming might. Otto Wells, leader of the Social Democrats stood up and spoke quietly to Hitler. "We German Social Democrats pledge ourselves solemnly in this historic hour to the principles of humanity and justice, of freedom and socialism. No enabling act can give you power to destroy ideas which are eternal and indestructible." This enraged Hitler and he jumped up to respond. "You are no longer needed! - The star of Germany will rise and yours will sink! Your death knell has sounded!" The vote was taken - 441 for, only 84, the Social Democrats, against. The Nazis leapt to their feet clapping, stamping and shouting, then broke into the Nazi anthem, the H�rst Wessel song. They achieved what Hitler had wanted for years - to tear down the German Democratic Republic legally and end democracy, thus paving the way for a complete Nazi takeover of Germany. From this day on, the Reichstag would be just a sounding board, a cheering section for Hitler's pronouncements. |