Bush-Hitler

To the Editor:

President Bush's comparison of Democratic leaders to those who empowered Hitler is backwards. Hitler pioneered the mass media, judicial and political tactics that Bush and his Republican handlers have copied to win and consolidate power. Ordinary Germans were seduced by Hitler's nationalistic rhetoric, appeals to patriotism and attacks on scapegoat minorities (aka non-Christians, immigrants and homosexuals) for post-WWI suffering and failure of the German economy. The German people then elected rubberstamp politicians and judges who allowed the Nazi Party to "legally" consolidate power by terrorizing, arresting, detaining and killing German citizens without warrants or due process.

With the exception of Ron Paul, virtually every Republican inf the US Congress, including Clifford Stearns, blindly supports Bush Administration policies, such as extraordinary rendition, torture and domestic spying, that have subverted basic protections for individual liberties enshrined in the US Constitution. This skillfully organized attack on fundamental freedoms, civil liberties and human rights has been executed under the cover of a mass-media propaganda campaign that would have made Goebbels proud.

Hitler used his propaganda machine to convince the German people to violate international treaties and rebuild the German war machine; he then used that power to invade and occupy Czechoslovakia. The Bush Administration and its rubberstamp enablers in the US Congress enacted polices of pre-emptive war and have squandered trillions to occupy Iraq. This propaganda machine is now focused on Iran.

I thank God every day that enough Americans woke up in 2006 to elect a Democratic majority in the US House of Representatives; a majority that is now exposing abuses of power and the extraordinary incompetence and corruption within the Bush Administration. Now if only the news media could find a way to convince average American citizens to demand accurate and thorough journalism rather than shock-value entertainment that currently passes for news.

David E. Bruderly, PE
http://www.cleanpowerengineering.com
http://www.bruderly.com

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