Saturday, 17 January 2009

Join Obama's Brownshirts

You heard me. Sieg...


"In participating Starbucks stores across the nation, the American public will have an opportunity to pledge five hours or more of community service toward a local volunteer opportunity of choice. Starbucks will honor each person who pledges with a free tall brewed coffee beginning Wednesday, Jan. 21 through Sunday, Jan. 25."

(Images: Obama fans above, Nazi supporters at a Nuremburg rally below. This is not a suggestion Obama is like Hitler, that's crazy; however, it is a reminder that we humans can make terrible decisions in crisis times; especially when two awful main choices are presented. McCain/Obama, Nazis/Communists. The lack of real democracy is the comparison.)

Hitler's Sturm-Abteilung (SA), translation Stormtroopers, aka Brownshirts, were a volunteer force which acted as the strong arm of the Nazi party until their 1933 election, and for a short time after, until their leadership's destruction in the Night of the Long Knives.

Is it too much to make a Hitlerian comparison? With all the talk about drafts and national service over in America, along with the Obama-mania and fanaticism, I say nein.
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2 comments:

  1. Anonymous3 February 2009 at 06:42

    I don't know why you "pulled your punches." This is what it is and I don't think there is any misunderstanding in what this represents. It takes us right back to the late 30s in Germany.

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  2. AdamS5 February 2009 at 20:33

    In my defence, Obama at least has not been like Hitler quite yet.

    I was specifically looking at the blind fanaticism, which is comparable.

    Hopefully he won't start a war that will kill 50 million people. Fingers crossed.

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