The Fool posted:
> http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0316-08.htm > > 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. They commemorated the > anniversary by joining in demonstrations for peace that mobilized > citizens all across the world. > > It started when the government, in the midst of a worldwide economic > crisis, received reports of an imminent terrorist attack. A foreign > ideologue had launched feeble attacks on a few famous buildings, but the > media largely ignored his relatively small efforts. The intelligence > services knew, however, that the odds were he would eventually succeed. > (Historians are still arguing whether or not rogue elements in the > intelligence service helped the terrorist; the most recent research > implies they did not.) *snipped* the rest of this. Oooooh. How original - a comparison of Bush to Hitler. Feh. Adam C. Lipscomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Silence. I am watching television." - Spider Jerusalem _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
