Here is one of the many closeups of Hitler and Röhm from the Nazi propaganda film, Der Sieg des Glaubens -aka-Victory of Faith, which shows a Hitler not quite at the pinnacle of power-as in the subsequent film, Triumph des Willens aka Triumph of the Will.

Keith Ellison’s recent remarks were waaaayyy off the mark, obviously. But looking at it more closely, you can see how far leftists are willing to go to obfuscate the truth.¹ The comparison Ellison made in front of a group of atheists was that the current administration reminded him of the burning of the Reichstag (German Parliament building).

“It’s almost like the Reichstag fire, kind of reminds me of that,” Ellison told the group, according to The Minneapolis Star Tribune. “After the Reichstag was burned, they blamed the Communists for it and it put the leader of that country [Hitler] in a position where he could basically have authority to do whatever he wanted.”²

This is similar to the 9/11 Truther rhetoric that 9/11 was an inside job. Or blaming two white guys for the Oklahoma City bombing. In reality, that is hardly the case. Bush hasn’t done anything outside of the law the way Hitler did…Hitler, in fact, declared martial law, and on the night of the long knives, murdered all of his political opponents. What I see is leftists advocating the deaths and imprisonment of their opponents, not the other way around.

Van Helsing at Moonbattery.com: The face of the “peace” movement, liberal icon Cindy Sheehan:

I have a dream of the detention centers that George [Bush] has built and filled being instead filled with Orange Clad neo-cons and neo-connettes.

Or this example pointed out at Sweetness and Light: GOP Walks Out After Vote Stolen In The House “Democrats gaveled the vote shut, 214 to 214, and declared that they had won. But the public tally showed that the Republicans had won, 215 to 213, just as the vote was declared for the Democrats. The official final tally was 216 to 212 in the Democrats’ favor.”

Ahh but who cares about ‘rules’, anyway. Just like the Nazis; they’re making up their own rules.

Also from Sweetness and Light-Court: “Freezer” Jefferson Raid Unconstitutional and concludes:

So it turns out that some people are above the law after all. (Of course this only applies to Democrats.) Meanwhile, the Democrats continue with their relentless witch-hunts against the Bush administration without let or hindrance.

And this from a lefty blogger at the American Prospect from the Yearly Kos Convention (Hat tip Michelle Malkin):

As the Military and Progressives panel came to an end, a young man in uniform stood up to argue that the surge was working, and cutting down on Iraqi casualties. The moderator largely freaked out. When other members of the panel tried to answer his question, he demanded they “stand down.” He demanded the questioner give his name, the name of his commander, and the name of his unit. And then he closed the panel, no answer offered or allowed, and stalked off the stage,

Wes Clark took the mic and tried to explain what had just occurred: The argument appears to be that you’re not allowed to participate in politics while wearing a uniform, or at least that you shouldn’t, and that the questioner was engaging in a sort of moral blackmail, not to mention a violation of the rules, by doing so.Knowing fairly little about the army, I can’t speak to any of that. But it was an uncomfortable few moments, and seemed fairly contrary to the spirit of the panel to roar down the member of the military who tried to speak with a contrary voice.

But anti-war demonstrators are appearing in uniform - even improperly worn uniforms - like with the wrong covers and with watches on, etc.. When I’ve asked for name rank and serial number, they fade into the background, unable or unwilling to respond. How interesting…they flip to both sides, but what is important here is that they shut down any speech that doesn’t agree; squooshing it underneath their leftist jackboots.

One of Bill Clinton’s mentors was Carroll Quigley, who pointed out (Tragedy and Hope, 1966) that Captain Röhm and his homosexual cadre of Storm Troopers staged the burning of the Reichstag.³

Accordingly…a plot was worked out to burn the Reichstag building and blame the Communists. Most of the plotters were homosexuals…⁴

Now even though political gay activists get a hearing in the Whitehouse to support their cause, I sincerely doubt that a reasonable person would compare homosexuals with the blatantly Christian outlook of President Bush. Atheists, the politically ideology without God, and homosexual deviance seems to be very similar to the crazies who made up the Nazi party.

We DO know, though, is that just like under the Weimarer Republik aka Weimar Republic, American Republicans today have drifted away from their principles. They have moved so far leftward so they are practically unrecognizable. There is not a single candidate that I would support as a candidate for the Presidency under the Republican banner - it’s as though Republicans have completely trashed the platform of the party and have adopted the democrats’. The democrats’ have now drifted to the socialist/communist/marxist worldview, although they’re not selling it by its brand name yet.

Christianity, is the diametrically opposed ideology of Darwinian Evolutionary Socialism, and was something that Hitler sought to destroy because he saw it as an extension of Judaism. The only difference being - he had to be careful where he demonstrated his homosexuality and that of his inner circle-because even after the nazi subversion of the Christian churches took place, still, most of the German people identified themselves as Christians.

The persecution of the Jews, on the other hand, was solely based on race.

In his introduction to Mein Kampf or Kempf,⁵ Konrad Heiden confirms Hitler’s hatred for Christianity, saying that the ‘belief in human equality’ is a Jewish plot, made popular by the “Christian churches.”

Jimmy Carter shares Hitler’s hatred for the Jews… What do you know? It’s not only Carter who hates the jews, or the Islamofascists who are calling for their removal from Israel, it’s the communists and others which can be traced back all the way to Engels and Marx, who hated them, too.

1. (July 16, 2007) In Meeting With Atheists, Rep. Ellison Compares President Bush to Hitler, Fox News.[back]
2. (July 16, 2007) In Meeting With Atheists, Rep. Ellison Compares President Bush to Hitler, Fox News.[back]
3. Quigley, C. (1966) Tragedy and Hope, Macmillan Company, New York p. 437.[back]
4. Quigley, C. (1966) Tragedy and Hope, Macmillan Company, New York p. 437.[back]
5. Hitler, A. (1925). Mein Kampf (aka My Struggle). Written from the viewpoint of victimhood and hatred while he spent 9 months in prison for his part as a revolutionary agitator in the Beer Hall Putsch. The Beer Hall Putsch was the failed coup d’état that took place on November 8 and 9, 1923 when he and others unsuccessfully tried to gain power in Munich, Bavaria, and Germany. This book blames everyone else for his failures, the key being the races of people who stood in his way, so they had to be killed.[back]