August 29, 2009

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The Goebbels Strategy Lives On

By Robert Ringer

Both Hitler's infamous Gestapo and Mussolini's OVRA (Organization for Vigilance and Repression of Anti-Fascism) were secret-police organizations that had as their aim the control and prevention of political dissent.

Though Heinrich Himmler modeled his Gestapo force after OVRA, it became much more violent than its Italian counterpart. A German law, passed in 1936, exempted the Gestapo from judicial oversight, which in turn exempted its henchmen from answering to administrative courts.

All this, of course, is enough to give most Americans concern, given that the increasingly red administration in Washington has been moving daily toward installing radicals in newly created positions of vast authority - radicals who answer to no one but the president.

The two men who have raised the most eyebrows recently are "green czar" Van Jones (a self-avowed communist) and FCC "Chief Diversity Officer" Mark Lloyd. Lloyd is the man BHO has put in charge of, in essence, eliminating conservative talk radio and Fox News by forcing them to subsidize their competition. This may be where Americans will have to make their last stand or go quietly to the gulag mumbling, "I thought it could never happen here."

The rapidly emerging dictatorship in Washington fully realizes that socialist Democrats are going to lose a huge number of House and Senate seats in 2012, most of them by a landslide. But they also know that a convenient "state of emergency" (as in, Hugo Chavez) is all it would take to "postpone" the elections.

Further, they realize that even if Republicans took control of the House or Senate, or both, there's nothing they could do about the czars, because they answer only to Der Fuhrbama. And if most of the Republican winners fall into the same old Hatch-McCain-Graham mold (you know, the guys who praised Ted Kennedy for decades while he moved the U.S. ever more rapidly down the road to socialism), there will be no calls for repeal, rescind, revoke, and abolish.

Which leaves the job of taking back America to everyday Americans. Unfortunately, most Americans are understandably timid because they believe that the Obama thugs have now infiltrated all aspects of American life and that if they speak out they will be harshly silenced.

Which brings me back to Hitler's Gestapo and Mussolini's OVRA. There is a little-known fact about these two secret-police organizations that is worth pondering. Both of them purposely created the impression that their thugs were everywhere, which paralyzed the masses with fear. And in Germany, that fear led millions of people to the gas chambers.

What made it so easy for these mass murderers was that their victims did not know about one of the best-kept secrets of the Gestapo, a secret that did not come out until well after World War II: The Gestapo was able to instill fear into the hearts and minds of the German people by making them believe that its agents were hiding around every street corner. But the truth is that their omnipresence was purposely exaggerated.

The strategy of making people believe that you are everywhere, at all times, is an effective one - so long as they do not discover that it's nothing more than an intimidation tactic. This is something that all Americans should ponder as the ranks of the U.S. version of a newer, slicker Gestapo continue to grow.

Ponder away ... think about it long and hard ... but not too long. Time is running short.

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