[Green-Activist] Bush family closet of skeletons
Roy Garner
rrgarner at bigpond.net.au
Sun Apr 1 07:53:50 EST 2007
Hi, Frank
You've been pretty liberal in your use of the term 'Nazi', so I'd like
to reflect on this for a moment.
I think historical specificity is a greatly sobering approach to
analysing the emergence of such political manifestations as Nazism in
German from the 1920s to mid-1940s.
Seeing things in their historical context is important if we, as social
commentators, are not to become a little extreme ourselves in the way
we see things.
The political manifestation known as Nazism, of course, continues to be
raked over by historians, and it would seem that there's no end to the
revelations of this thoroughly bad regime, or kakocracy (rule by the
bad or criminals). Finding historical associations with people who
really were Nazis is useful if we are to fully understand the extent of
this regime's influence, and certainly proof of a cash or trade nexus,
such as shown in the John Buchanan investigation, is pretty
unambiguous.
It's important to know that some family dynasties profited from their
trade with the Nazis—"national socialists" ("nationalists" YES,
"socialists" NO!!)—and it's important to follow the paper trail because
the Nazis were thieves who worked out elaborate schemes to conceal the
money and other treasure they stole from their victims.
Sometimes the trail runs dead against the wall of silence from certain
banking institutions. There have been some embarrassing revelations on
stolen art, but much still remains hidden.
Most important, if you have the urge to compare the Nazis with anyone
else, as you seem to do indiscriminately, you must remember the Nazis
stole people's lives and inflicted unspeakable suffering on generations
of survivors, including their own.
The so-called 'concentration' camps were in fact death camps, and those
of its inmates who walked free were indeed lucky. Imprisoned were Jews
and gypsies, political prisoners, gays...Those who were fit were
pressed into slave labour until they were deemed no longer
useful—exhausted, weak, ill. Women and children, the old, the weak and
the sick often went straight to their deaths in purpose-built
extermination chambers. The commencement of the Nazis' so-called
'Thousand Year Reich" threatened another 'dark age' for the world, but
for those who lived through it, it was a dark age.
The Nazis burnt books, destroyed synagogues, invaded neighbouring
countries, inflicted death and destruction on subject populations and
deported many of these to death camps. They forced their own people to
conform to their single party state apparatus. Swastika flags were
displayed everywhere and the population subjected to displays of
senseless marching, and screaming, bigoted rallies. Neighbour was set
against neighbour. The state intruded into the classroom and the
nation's youth regimented into the Nazi doctrine of hatred and
suspicion, encouraged even to inform on their own families. Doctors
conspired at the outset to exterminate their own nationals judged to be
genetically inferior (eugenics)—mentally ill, intellectually deficient
or physically deformed. This formed the basis of their more ambitious
campaign against Jewish populations throughout occupied Europe, known
as "the final solution".
What about Stalin, you may protest. And I agree Stalin presided over a
state that was 'socialist' in name only, and deadly to its opponents.
Like the Nazis in Germany and its Axis nations, the Stalinist era was
characterised by fear and conformity of its people, and by mass murder.
Enemies of the state were savagely suppressed, with millions
incarcerated or "disappeared"—a death toll exceeding the Nazis'
estimated 11 million.
As one of the Allies against Hitler, the USSR was devastated by the
Nazis' invasion, losing more of its population than any other occupied
country—a fact still dimly understood. But this tragedy was no excuse
for the world turning a blind eye to the crimes of Stalinism.
To my mind, there's no way you can pin such an historically specific
label as "Nazi" on Australian political parties, even though the
current government has done many things I would regard as unambiguously
undemocratic and in breach of human rights, and certainly the Coalition
politicians continue to diminish Australia in the eyes of the world
with their meanness and cynicism.
I think the Government's complicity in the invasion of Iraq is illegal
and criminal, and many of the weapons of mass destruction employed in
the invasion/occupation are outlawed under international agreements. A
change in Administration in the US (not possible under a Nazi regime
like Germany's) will see the current crop of baddies thrown out, and
some are already being prosecuted or face it. Some will also
unfortunately get away with it.
The Howard government's record so far is certainly worthy of our
condemnation, and it would certainly rack up its unpopularity were it
to pass legislation to disfranchise sections of the population (but the
current system of representation does that, anyway!). It has denied
respect and safe haven to boat people, and it has imprisoned many of
these in hellish 'concentration camps', though there are not to my
knowledge any facilities in these camps to exterminate the inmates.
Australians have not been rounded up or summarily executed and dumped
in anonymous mass graves simply for expressing their opposition to the
Howard Government, and there have been no book burnings, or any of the
other historically specific manifestations of fascism in Europe.
It is such a bad government that it will take many years to reverse
some of the changes it has forced on our society, including subjecting
it to exaggerated fear of terrorist intrusions. They never think about
the affect on children of these 'adult' games.
If you are to condemn the Howard government—which it richly
deserves—how about giving it an historically specific label of its own?
On 31/03/2007, at 12:44 PM, frank wrote:
> What Roy! Didn't u know Bush, Blare and Howard are Nazis. What'd u
> think they were? Boy scouts? The currant Australian government is
> Nazi. The Labor party is Nazi. If u like, i'll use another term,
> "religious extremists" which translates to the same thing. And it
> doesn't matter what religion it is.
>
> All religions are intolerant of anyone not conforming to their
> beliefs. You've only to look at what Christian extremists have done
> in this country. Billions of dollars are wasted trying to prevent the
> use of recreational drugs both legal and illegal because the Christian
> extremists, (Nazis) are intolerant of people who use them.
>
> The religious schools receive more public funds than state schools.
> This enables them to, not only have a greater selection of children
> for their pedophile rings to choose from, but also allows them
> to brainwash a greater number children.
>
> Unrealistic drink driving laws have virtually destroyed the social
> fabric of Australia. Discriminatory anti smoking laws came into force
> without a whimper. Australia's buggered, thanks to these Christian
> extremists, (Nazi).
>
> I don't know why we continue to tolerate the intolerant. I believe
> religions should be prevented by law from having any contact with
> children till they've reached the age of consent, at least.
>
> frank brown
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Roy Garner
>> To: maillist for Green Activists
>> Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2007 10:40 AM
>> Subject: [Green-Activist] Bush family closet of skeletons
>>
>> Dear Activists,
>>
>> Digging around in George W. Bush's family history shouldn't shift our
>> focus on the current state of his Administration's culpability for
>> massive death and destruction in their overdetermined campaign
>> against so-called "enemies of the State"--the lies about the weapons
>> of mass destruction, the misplaced blame for 9/11, the massive deaths
>> of civilians in Iraq alone, now estimated at 650,000 (Lancet study,
>> reported at
>> http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17429.htm)
>>
>> The 'embedded' nature of war profiteering, however, should not
>> surprise us, as former President and Second World War Supreme
>> Commander of the Allied forces in Europe, General Dwight D.
>> Eisenhower warned in his Farewell Address to the Nation, where he
>> coined the term 'industrial military complex'.
>> http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17429.htm
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower
>>
>> Veteran US investigative journalist John Buchanan's interview on the
>> Bush family's Nazi links can be found at
>> http://www.ichblog.eu/index.php?
>> option=com_seyret&task=videodirectlink&id=55575
>>
>> Documents found in the US National Archives and the Library of
>> Congress convince Buchanan that Bush predecessors were "Nazi traitors
>> to the country who should have been tried for treason".
>>
>> What do you think?
>>
>>
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