In other words: A discussion of The Bush Administration
Kristolnacht
Well Mr. Kristol, your message finally sunk in to the young impressionable minds on college campuses across this great land. Let's trade in those bow ties and searsuckers for jackboots and brownshirts and call it a day, hmm? Freedom of speech is a privilege, not a right, and should only be accorded to the chosen few -- in this case, only those who agree with you before they've even heard you speak:
6. College Republicans of Kalamazoo College
Here's more proof that the Republican youth of today are the Bush Brownshirts of tomorrow. It appears that certain students were barred from a recent Bush campaign rally at Kalamazoo College in Michigan when College Republicans stationed at the event identified them as liberals. Seven students - who had valid tickets for the event and were not dressed inappropriately, nor wearing any kind of political paraphernalia, were turned away by security guards at a checkpoint. According to The Nation, one of the students, Ted Hufstader, said, "They told us that we failed a background check, that we had been identified by volunteers as a potential threat, and that if we didn't leave we would be arrested." Those volunteers were College Republicans. Said Hufstader, "We were very disappointed that our peers singled us out for what they thought we might do. And we later heard they had been trained to find potential threats at the event. But we were not a threat. We're even friends with some of these College Republicans. This was a sad commentary about the bitter divide of American politics. Look how hard it was for us to hear a contrary view. We wanted to see the president and then talk about what he said afterward. We felt like we were being blacklisted by our campus peers, and this is a campus that is supposed to be open to different political views." Heh, sorry Ted. You're in Bush's America now. You'd better start bowing down before Our Great Leader if you want to get anywhere.
Normally I leave it to Rob to post this week's Top 10 Conservative Idiots, but this little item has more the character of a newsflash -- or should I say a dummy run to the preapproved smashing of plate-glass windows?
Here's a little century-sucking history from the last millennium:
1933. Jan. 30. Adolf Hitler is appointed Chancellor and Franz von Papen Vice Chancellor.
Feb. 15. Minister Goering instructs all Prussian provincial governors and vice-governors that all political meetings are to be policed by Nazi storm troops.
Feb. 28. By presidential decree, all constitutional guarantees of private property, personal liberty, freedom of the press, secrecy of postal communications, and the right to hold meetings and form associations are suspended. The Government is authorized to seize the executive power in any German State. All Communist newspapers in Germany and all Socialist papers in Prussia are suppressed until after the March 5 elections.
March 5. Elections for the Reichstag. The National Socialist party gains 93 seats, obtaining a total of 288. This gives the National Socialists and Nationalists a clear majority in the Reichstag. On the same day, elections to the Prussian Diet result in an overwhelming victory for the National Socialists.
March 6. Executive power is seized by the Reich Government in the Free Cities of Hamburg, Bremen, and Lubeck. The authorities of the State of Hesse are replaced by a Reich Commissioner.
March 8. The Reich government seizes police power in the States of Saxony, Baden, Wurttemberg, and Schaumburg-Lippe, leaving Bavaria the only state not under Nazi direction.
March 9. Bavaria is placed under National Socialist control.
March 23. The Enabling Act is passed (441-94), transforming the Hitler Cabinet into a dictatorship. This gives the Cabinet authority to make laws by decree for four years. The Reichstag is indefinitely adjourned.
April 1. Under the Enabling Act, the Hitler government rules that all State diets (except those elected March 5) are to be dissolved and that State governments have authority to rule by decree. All municipal diets and councils of small communities are likewise dissolved. Provincial legislative bodies shall not be elected until new Reichstag elections are held and the dissolution of the Reichstag shall dissolve these bodies. The ban on the Communist party is legalized and the election of Communist deputies on March 5 to the Reichstag and Prussian Diet is revoked.
April 4. Minister Goering announces that "all persons" must have a police permit to leave Germany. On April 5 this regulation is revoked as regards foreigners.
April 8. By cabinet decree, Germany is converted into a centralized State, Chancellor Hitler becoming governor of Prussia with the power to propose for appointment by the President governors for the States. Hitler appoints Hermann Goering as Premier of Prussia.
April 27. A secret political police force is established in Prussia.
May 2. The headquarters of the trade unions, labor banks, and consumers' co-operatives are occupied by National Socialist storm troops.
May 10. The students in the universities throughout Germany burn books which they consider "un-Germanic."
June 22. The Government dissolves the German Social Democratic party, ousting its representatives from seats in the Reichstag and other representative assemblies, depriving civil servants and public employees of their pay and pension until they resign from the party, prohibiting the publication of newspapers or periodicals by the party, and confiscating property of the party.
June 27. The Nationalist party "is voluntarily dissolved by agreement."
July 2. A new law prohibits the employment of "non-Aryans" (Jews) as officials of the Reich -- the States, municipalities, or municipal associations, or any other kind of public or legal corporation, institution, or endowment.
July 5. The Centrist party and the Bavarian People's party are dissolved.
July 14. Cabinet adopts decrees confiscating all property of individuals or organizations adjudged hostile to the State; and the seizure of property and withdrawal of citizenship of critics of the government who refuse to return to Germany.
Oct. 14. The German Government officially withdraws from the Arms Conference at Geneva.
Oct. 19. Germany formally notifies the Secretariat of withdrawal from the League of Nations.
Nov. 19. A plebiscite, held to endorse the government's policy of withdrawal from the disarmament conference and League of Nations, results in a favorable vote of 40,583,000 as against 2,052,000. for the election of candidates to the Reichstag the National Socialist candidates, being the only ones, received 39,642,000, against 3,348,000 votes.
Dec. 18. As a result of six laws, the powers of provincial governors are increased and membership in provincial, communal, and municipal assemblies becomes appointive with only advisory functions.
Dec. 20. It is announced that 40,000 Germans are liable to sterilization because of hereditary disease.
That came from Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition (unabridged) with Reference History, from the mid 1930s. The historians could only write this chronology up to December 1933.
I wonder if they knew what was coming.
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