Neo-fascists and terrorists against liberty come in all shapes and sizes and in every human era. 9/11 = the burning of the Reichstag. What followed in both cases evidences that history does indeed repeat itself.  But were most of us astute enough to see it happening again?

On September 11, 2001, seventy-one years after the Berlin Reichstag fire that Hitler exploited to make himself supreme dictator, a heart-rending tragedy struck the United States. More than three thousand people died suddenly in an inferno of flames in the pulverized wreckage of the most prestigious building of international capitalism: the World Trade Center in New York City.

No Air Force defense was triggered after the first and then after the second plane hit the most prominent target in the financial capital of the world. An F-16, where normally stationed, could have scrambled from about 20 miles away and could have saved the Pentagon from the third attack that followed 44 minutes later. Instead, there was no alert whatsoever when a still unidentified craft or missile struck the headquarters of America’s military might, opening a 15 ft diameter hole and penetrating deep into the building. Not a single defense shot fired – not even a beep – to warn people in the buildings.

The fourth hijacked plane went down at a 90º angle. The Government did not release the voice recorder from the cockpit. A piece of that plane was found two miles away from the point of impact. To those who have studied all reports available, the 9/11 Commission’s conspiracy theory never rose to the lowest level of a joke.

“Elementary!” Sherlock Holmes would say, but then our mainstream media (now generally known as the cloaca maxima media – the Roman Empire’s name for the main sewer of ancient Rome) – yes, friends and citizens, our mainsewer media did not report what could be easily deducted from obvious facts.

Deranged individuals at the service of global plutocrats moved to entrench a new kind of totalitarianism – inverted totalitarianism – disguised as democracy under a fake state of war against an invisible enemy called “terror.” Following 9/11, instant war drumming began against alleged foreign terrorists by an illegitimate administration. Later many facts were exposed proving that top criminals at the wheel of our government had long been seeking a new Pearl Harbor-type crisis to justify a war of aggression to steal the oil wealth of Iraq and to occupy that country as a base for further dominion of the region.

By spreading death and destruction at will upon defenseless populations in any region of the globe it chooses to attack, enslave, and pillage, the ruling global oligarchy hopes for forever-flowing profits. This insane permanent global war on an invisible specter of fabricated terror is being pitifully justified as America’s effort to establish and defend democracy. Such a deceitful justification has opened a new era, transforming the entire planet into a scientific battlefield that destroys our freedom and suspends civil liberties indefinitely – even habeas corpus which was granted to everyone since the days of the Magna Carta.

Does history repeat itself? Let us compare the events in 1933 Germany to the unfolding anti-democratic events that began with the 2000 election coup d’etat that ended America’s democracy, unfolded into a covert totalitarianism after the 2001 false flag attack of 9/11, and was followed by the dictatorial Patriot Act.

Seven decades ago Adolf Hitler abused democracy to establish his dictatorship. To do this Hitler manipulated President Hindenburg into dissolving the Reichstag and calling for new elections. He then sought a Nazi majority in the Reichstag to rubber-stamp whatever laws the big corporations financing him desired.

In Election 2000, George Bush usurped the presidency and crushed democracy when he subverted the vote of the people with the help of five treasonous black-robed Supreme Court justices. In one blow, they destroyed America’s 225-year Constitutional tradition of democratic elections by denying the people’s fundamental right of having all votes counted. Bush then got the well-paid support of a majority of goose-stepping neo-fascist in Congress to rubber-stamp everything his corporate masters desired as payback for financing his campaign (witness the colossal tax cut for the rich, corporate favors, and the anti-labor and anti-environmental laws pushed through during of the first year of his illegal administration).

In 1933 Germany, law enforcement officials were replaced by Nazi SA and SS troopers. Anybody harassed, arrested, beaten, or even murdered by these criminals had no one to turn to for help. (Extreme right-wing American racists as far back as the Nixon days secretly admired the Nazis.) That same year the Nazis began their attack on democracy by raiding the headquarters of the Communist Party to steal its membership list.

Half a century later, Republican neo-fascists repeated the same history by burglarizing the Democratic Party’s Watergate headquarters, which ended in Nixon’s resignation. That GOP crime was just a preview of coming attractions for Election 2000. During the days after the 2000 Election, GOP goons were bussed to Florida and paid to riot at vote counting locations to intimidate election officials into stopping their manual recount.

The pattern of historical repetition begins to appear clearly with an even more frightening contemporary aspect. While in Nixon’s times there existed independent investigative reporters willing to bust treasonous plots, today mainstream media is fully under the control of right-wing mega-corporations whose interests are carefully protected.

Göring and Goebbels, with Hitler’s approval, hatched a grandiose plan to shock public opinion and cause massive national panic. They coaxed and helped a psychotic communist to torch prepared combustible fuel caches set up by the Nazis (through an underground tunnel) to burn the Berlin Reichstag – the building where elected representatives of the Republic met in Congress. The crazed arsonist worked a long time to start many fires in the enormous edifice while the efficient German police were inexplicably and conveniently absent from this most important of government buildings. No one explained this abysmal lack of security, just as today no one can explain how allegedly 18 men with box cutters could hijack four airliners on the same morning or how the mighty Pentagon could be struck without warning 45 minutes after a colossal catastrophe hit New York City – even though the FBI had received information that strikes involving civilian airlines were being plotted.

Nazi reactions to the Reichstag catastrophe were without the least reflection as were, 70 years later, the Bush-ists’ reactions to the heart-breaking national tragedy of 9/11. Both the Nazis and the American right-wing chose to instantly beat revenge war drums and rattle swords to reap a maximum political bonanza from public shock, anguish, panic, and anger.

Investigate? Later. Reflect? Never! That might reveal the real causes behind the attack. That might bring to light the many acts of U.S. terrorism throughout the world. Let the press concoct polls created for propaganda and provocation. “98% of the people are lining up behind our glorious neo-Führer!” This is the kind of journalism that gives bullshit a bad name.

Unfurl the battle flags! Sing the national anthem! Unite the people behind the Commander-in-Chief, no matter how evil and corrupt. Sound familiar in both German and English? “Deuschland, Deutchland über Alles!”

Immediately after the fire, Hitler rushed from the scene to his newspaper, the Völkischer Beobachter, to oversee coverage of the story. He worked all night with Goebbels putting together tales of Communist plots to seize power violently. The same security apparatus allegedly caught with its pants down was suddenly so clever and efficient that it instantly spotted culprits and terrorists everywhere and was able to harangue Germany into a frenzy of violent revenge against Communists, Jews, gypsies, and all non-Arian races.

An emergency meeting of government leaders was held in Berlin. Hitler made himself a spectacle of deliberate rage to fan the flames. “The German people have been soft too long. Every Communist official must be shot. All Communist deputies must be hanged this very night. All friends of the terrorists must be locked up. And that goes for the Social Democrats and the Reichsbanner as well!” As a preamble to declaring war on the world, he literally declared war on his own people.

At a cabinet meeting held later in the morning, Chancellor Hitler demanded an emergency decree to overcome the crisis. He met little resistance from lawmakers or his cabinet. That evening, Hitler and Papen went to Hindenburg and the befuddled old man signed the Emergency Decree “for the protection of the state.” The Decree proclaimed: “Restrictions on personal liberty, on the right of free expression of opinion, including freedom of the press; on the rights of assembly and association; and violations of the privacy of postal, telegraphic and telephonic communications; warrants for house searches; orders for confiscations; as well as restrictions on property, are also permissible beyond the legal limits otherwise prescribed.”

A few days after the Reichstag fire, as if by collective hypnosis, the Nazis were seen as all-knowing heroes. They deftly captured the lone culprit (an easy task, since, having helped him, they knew who he was) and grabbed a bunch of others as well. The Nazi Party was instantly believed to be courageous and patriotic. The more the Party blamed foreign and domestic Communists, painted German liberals and democrats as enemies, and threatened to crush its enemies by force, the more the public became deliriously titillated.

This happened in 1933. No independent investigation or a shred of evidence was brought forward about who had plotted the fire. The press and radio (owned by the state and its sponsors) trumpeted the Nazis as being the only force qualified to protect Germany from evil. Germany’s citizens were called upon to unite behind the Führer, to be seen as patriots or else. “You are with us or you are against us!” This climate of hysteria foreshadowed the ultimate destruction of Germany and death of millions in Europe and across the globe.

Seventy years ago, after the Reichstag burned, the neo-Nazi police was ordered to show no mercy to those suspected of independent thinking, i.e., those hostile to Hitler, and especially any alleged “Communist terrorists” who were suddenly believed to be hiding under the beds of all German-Jewish homes or wherever mixed blood might be found. The pure Arian race alone was German and trustworthy enough to goose-step for the Führer.

A similar mindless reaction was sponsored immediately by George Bush and his neo-fascist Republicans. We were told that we must accept limitations on our liberties in the name of national security. One of the most frightening threats to civil liberties was the draconian Senate bill deliberately rushed through by GOP neo-fascists that would dramatically expand the use of secret searches to every criminal case, going far beyond anything necessary to conduct investigations on terrorism. The bill permitted wiretap information to be used and disseminated without prior judicial review or safeguards. It created a new crime of “domestic terrorism,” which could easily transform protestors into terrorists if protestors engaged in conduct that “involved acts dangerous to human life” (this vague wording might include blocking traffic or dropping a banana peel on a sidewalk).

For example, Operation Rescue, the Environmental Liberation Front, and Greenpeace have all engaged in activities that could subject them to a Nazi-style prosecution as terrorists. Under this legislation, those who provide lodging or other assistance to “domestic terrorists” – which could includes parents and relatives of environmentalists protesters or literally anyone who objects to environmental exploitation – could have their homes wiretapped and be prosecuted.

Fascist-style patriotism translated into uncritical and sniveling support of whatever actions a half-witted Führer deemed appropriate as well as withholding constructive criticism.

Arab-Americans and people with Middle Eastern names or ancestors were vilified and subjected to special scrutiny by the Government and by their fellow citizens. No American should be persecuted or abused as “disloyal” because of race or national origin. This great democratic ideal is what makes America a civilized country. However, many liberals were cowardly silent and shamelessly unable or unwilling to voice opposition to the illegitimate Bush administration. The U.S. is perilously close to the same situation Germany was in 1933 when the democratic forces there put their tails between their legs and easily allowed Hitler to take over and destroy democracy and Europe along with it, because no one wanted to find out who really burned the Reichstag and for what reason.

After security laws were rubber-stamped by the Nazis, as was done in the U.S. with the passage of the Patriot Act I and II, there followed the first big Nazi roundup as truckloads of SA and SS roared through the streets busting in on known liberal and communist hangouts and barging into private homes. Thousands of citizens, Communists as well as Social Democrats and Progressives, were taken away into “protective custody” at SA barracks where they were tortured and many killed.

Always remember the FBI’s abuses and harassment of individuals like Martin Luther King, Jr. and the official violence it generated to disrupt the Civil Rights and Antiwar Movements. Remember the students killed at Kent State University and never forget the CIA’s history of helping some of the world’s most evil violators of human rights. Let us recall Kissinger’s role in Operation “Condor” where international squads under Latin American dictators sought, tortured, carved eyes out of people, killed, and made thousands disappear.

Next Hitler turned his attention to Election Day. All resources necessary for a big win were placed at his disposal by the same large industrialists who had helped him gain power and who now gladly coughed up millions of Marks. Representatives from Krupp munitions and I. G. Farben were among those reaching into their deep pockets; several American corporations were also included.

Today the same corporate beasts are supporting war, ecological devastation, exploitation of labor, oppressive dictators, censorship by media control, medical monopolies, and a pseudo war on drugs that covers up the reality of an ocean of ill-gotten money supporting political abuse and fraud.

The difference between the Nazi rise to power and the takeover of the American Government by neo-fascists is that neo-fascism is not a strictly national sickness. America is being overrun by a multi-national corporate network positioning itself above national governments and the law through world trade and financial manipulations. The WTO is a rising super-government voiding national sovereignty. U.S. administrators are the errand boys of mega-corporations that have supported the likes of Reagan, Bush I, Clinton, Bush II, and Obama for over a century. The Congressional record reveals that the Bush family supported Hitler and also shows that Bush Sr. was in business with the Bin Laden family. What other information do we need to wake up?

Our last hope is in massive, overwhelming peaceful opposition. Unless Americans – refusing to be divided by the mainstream media – march as one people to defend freedom and turn the tables on its ruling criminals, what happened in Florida will go down in history as the end of our Republic. It is our ethical duty as a free people to oppose tyranny and deceit, to take control of our government, and to sue for peace and justice for all. It can be done when we – united and free – fully engage our proverbial courage and refuse to support evil.

On May 21, 2009, Obama’s talk on national defense showed the Ship of State falling off course. Immediate correction is needed to avoid the looming iceberg and shipwreck in these dangerous waters and to reach safe harbor. TheLuminousCompass.com, An Instrument For Multi-Directional Awareness, offers accurate bearings focused on the Magnetic Pole of Reality.    … _ _ _ …    … _ _ _ …   … _ _ _ …

Excerpts from Barack Obama’s 5/21/09 speech
Obama: [M]y single most important responsibility as President is to keep the American people safe.

TheLuminousCompass.com: To keep the American people safe, it is obvious that you must stop all wars and bring our boys home as you promised. Using our troops to take control of the assets of weaker countries for oil companies is a crime. Once our boys are back home, we the People can take care of our own safety, as we are morally much better equipped than the Homeland Security circus with its silly color-coded alerts. Remember Katrina? Bring our soldiers home, save trillions by closing all foreign bases, and protect 30,000 American lives every year by listening to the majority that elected you and now wants single payer health insurance. Adjust course, stop the rhetoric, and really keep America safe.

Obama: We are less than eight years removed from the deadliest attack on American soil in our history.

TheLuminousCompass.com: Here we go again! Mr. President, please! Don’t imitate the neo-cons’ frames of fear. 9/11 (still unexplained) has been overused by corrupt politicians who resolved nothing in eight years, other than to spend billions for the profitable slaughter of more than one million civilians and several thousands Americans. This is where studying the past may explain the present and save the future. You call it “the deadliest attack on American soil in history” (it was if we forget the genocide of 500 Native tribes).

After over a year of pleading by widows of the victims, George Bush’s un-elected criminal administration appointed a rigged kangaroo 9/11 commission that spent less than half as much to “investigate” what really happened – while failing to address WHO financed and carried out such a massive plot – than was spent to expose Whitewater and Bill Clinton’s personal escapades. The Ship of State needs a course correction on this unfinished business if you, Mr. President, really do support CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN.

Start by convincing our treaty partners to summon their experts, detectives, and scientists to investigate the myriad crimes committed under the Bush regime, crimes that have nearly destroyed our Republic, worsened our so-called international reputation, and bankrupted the American people, while super-rich scoundrel-banksters are helped to steal what’s left in the US Treasury. In other words, order that justice be served. Only then will you show the world, with more than rhetoric, that America is at last returning to its senses. Unfortunately, if you get serious about restoring a real democracy with clean elections, thieving banksters and the war profiting plutocracy will do all they can to make your presidency shorter that JFK’s.

Obama: We know that al Qaeda is actively planning to attack us again.

TheLuminousCompass.com:  Here we go again! See what we mean? You’re off course, caught in the Republican paranoid counter current. The millions who lost families to American bombers, drones, white phosphorus, aggression, calumnies, and lies are dreaming of revenge.

A remedy can be found in Dennis Kucinich’ proposal for a Department of Peace and in answering his call: “Come home, America.”

Countries that have suffered centuries of abuse are breeding more and more people who hate the Anglo-American evil empire. We do not need a Sherlock Holmes to figure that many are planning to fight back.

However, Mr. President, do not replace “change we can believe in” with “terror we can believe in!” Time to wake up! As long we fail to punish ALL those who ordered and committed torture, we’re in deadly danger. Jews, Christians, and Muslim should remember that the first suicide terrorist was a biblical hero. First blinded and tortured, Samson then took his revenge and collapsed the temple of his tormenters by killing himself along with 3000 Philistines in the region we now call the Gaza Strip. Same number as 9/11. A coincidence?

Obama: We know that this threat will be with us for a long time, and that we must use all elements of our power to defeat it. 

Already, we’ve taken several steps to achieve that goal. For the first time since 2002, we’re providing the necessary resources and strategic direction to take the fight to the extremists who attacked us on 9/11 in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

TheLuminousCompass.com: The Bush Doctrine of never ending war and of taking the fight to the terrorists while invoking 9/11 over and over are a myopic looking-back as well as a repetition of the same catastrophic errors.

Obama: [T]he Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights-these are not simply words written into aging parchment. They are the foundation of liberty and justice in this country, and a light that shines for all who seek freedom, fairness, equality, and dignity around the world… I’ve studied the Constitution as a student, I’ve taught it as a teacher, I’ve been bound by it as a lawyer and a legislator.  I took an oath to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution as Commander-in-Chief, and as a citizen, I know that we must never, ever, turn our back on its enduring principles for expedience sake.

TheLuminousCompass.com: The people desperately want to trust you. These are not words an honest man can speak lightly, especially as a President. Your predecessor blabbered many such empty words and never respected the Constitution. Of course, he was not legitimately elected; he was appointed to reside in the White House by a lunatic court majority. You, Mr. President, on the other hand, have been given a mandate by a large majority of the people for CHANGE WE CAN BELIEVE IN. Therefore, you must act with courage and honesty and use your eloquence to educate the millions who placed their hopes in you to save the People, not just the banksters. By doing so you can become a truly great President.

Obama: From Europe to the Pacific, we’ve been the nation that has shut down torture chambers and replaced tyranny with the rule of law. That is who we are.

TheLuminousCompass.com: Mr. President, take time to review history. Start with the book Hugo Chavez gave you, Open Veins of Latin America. Examine the shameful genocide and continued oppression of Amer-indian Natives. Learn about the 1973 murder of President Salvador Allende in Chile. Take a good look at your first employer, Henry Kissinger, that international criminal who took part in Chile’s fascist criminal tragedy. Regard what our government did in Timor, Nicaragua, Guatemala, El Salvador, Panama. Read Howard Zinn’s, A People’s History of the United States. Consider the 2002 CIA coup against democratically elected President of Hugo Chavez and the flood of corporate media lies about what happened there. Learn about the shocking U.S. interference in Bolivia’s democracy. Consider the half century of economic sanctions against the people of Cuba, only because Cuba rejected savage capitalism. Take notice that corporations, like the hypocrites they are, avoid comments when their Chinese communist partners sell us cheap labor and massacre Tibetan people in their own homeland. The list is too long. But you are an educated man. Surely you get the point.

Here is a clear image of what we as a nation have become in the eyes of the world:

The crimes of the United States have been systematic, constant, vicious, remorseless, but very few people have actually talked about them. You have to hand it to America. It has exercised a quite clinical manipulation of power worldwide while masquerading as a force for universal good. It’s a brilliant, even witty, highly successful act of hypnosis…It’s a scintillating stratagem. ~ Harold Pinter

Mr. President, your credibility can only be sustained by your teaching truth to our young people who worked so hard to elect you. That’s why you need to learn from the most maligned President in the world: the courageous Hugo Chavez, who stood firm for free education and free health care for all his people. He removed the power of thieves and is working to return his country’s commonwealth to the common good. Instead of giving away the people’s treasury to worthless banksters and corporate cronies, he nationalized crooked banks and warned the others to straighten out.

Obama: After 9/11, we knew that we had entered a new era-that enemies who did not abide by any law of war would present new challenges to our application of the law.

TheLuminousCompass.com: There you go again, adopting Bush’s BS. To begin with, 9/11 was a major crime still to be seriously investigated. No new era was started and “the war on terror” is a false verbal frame repeated to fool simple people. 9/11 was either an act of well-financed, super-organized revenge or the most sophisticated false flag operation ever produced to provide big enough public terror to justify immediate massive military action (conveniently pre-planned) for global expansion of “the evil empire” and to fatten the bottomline of the oil-military-financial complex. In this sense, one might say that Bush’s “mission impossible” did succeed. So, Mr. President, you are duty-bound to take a serious look at recent history to realistically understand the present and be prepared for the future.

Obama: [F]aced with an uncertain threat, our government made a series of hasty decisions. I believe that many of these decisions were motivated by a sincere desire to protect the American people.

TheLuminousCompass.com: Apologizing for Bush’s crimes is a serious deviation from your course. You are too intelligent not to know it. George Bush gave numerous brays about protecting the American People, but Katrina alone tells the real story. The list of wrongs and crimes is too long and you are not uninformed. The People are not dumb. They may go into denial for a while, but unless you correct course, they will soon see that they have been deceived again. Think carefully about that, Mr. President.

Obama: Now let me be clear: We are indeed at war with al Qaeda and its affiliates. We do need to update our institutions to deal with this threat. But we must do so with an abiding confidence in the rule of law and due process; in checks and balances and accountability.

TheLuminousCompass.com: Again, you adopt Republican frames of fear, this time with Nixonian flair. Let us see how faithfully you follow the rule of law. Start by applying our laws to the past, present, and future and bypass feel-good rhetoric. As long as Justice remains Justice, we do not need to update our institutions. Instead, let us restore our Bill of Rights, restore habeas corpus, restore due process, all precious rights the preceding criminal administration trashed. Your administration needs to be busy restoring, not updating.

Obama: I knew when I ordered Guantanamo closed that it would be difficult and complex.

TheLuminousCompass.com: Exactly what is so difficult and complex about closing Guantanamo and housing its 250 prisoners in our penitentiary-bloated country, now holding 3 million of its citizens behind bars? Hard to find space when America has built more prisons than colleges in the last 20 years? What is so difficult about that when it was as easy as snapping his fingers for Bush to round up five hundred kidnapped derelicts and a few genuine enemy combatants and have them shipped like animals from one side or the world to the other? Americans know when they are hearing...oh baloney!

Obama: We’re confronting some of the most complicated questions that a democracy can face. But I have no interest in spending all of our time re-litigating the policies of the last eight years.

TheLuminousCompass.com: Spending all our time? Whose time? What time? Re-litigating? What? The treason, fraud, and myriad crimes that have devastated our people have never been litigated. We have courts and law enforcement to handle criminals. You, Mr. President, need take no time other than to order that justice be done. You can attend to your work undisturbed by the wheels of justice grinding on.

If we are a country under law, as you affirm, then we are duty bound to investigate and prosecute all crimes. We cannot gloss over the colossal economic fraud that has plunged America and the world into an economic and human catastrophe! Changing the dialogue to avoid action will only serve to make it obvious that America is at the end of the line as a free nation and cannot be trusted.

Obama: [A]s President, I too am bound by the law. The United States is a nation of laws and so we must abide by these (lawful) rulings…I am not the only person in this city who swore an oath to uphold the Constitution-so did each and every member of Congress…I ran for President promising transparency, and I meant what I said.

TheLuminousCompass.com: We The People continue to hope that you mean these all-important affirmations.

Obama: [T]o a call for a fuller accounting, perhaps through an independent commission.  I’ve opposed the creation of such a commission because I believe that our existing democratic institutions are strong enough to deliver accountability.

TheLuminousCompass.com: Have they delivered full accountability in the last eight years? Did they call to account the Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, and the rest of the neo-con mob?

Obama: The Department of Justice and our courts can work through and punish any violations of our laws or miscarriages of justice.

TheLuminousCompass.com: So, let’s get started. The crimes America must deal with are so many and so serious that a major investigating commission, numerous grand juries, and ultimately a full Nuremberg-type special court are absolutely essential. The attempted destruction and plunder of our country deserves as much attention as did prosecuting Nazi crimes against humanity.

Correct course, Mr. President. There is a big iceberg dead ahead!