Homeland Security: Hitler Redux

"An evil exists that threatens every man, woman and child of this great nation. We must take steps to insure our domestic security and protect our homeland." Sound familiar? Which of the following made the above quote: President George W. Bush, U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft, Homeland Security Czar Tom Ridge, or Secretary of State Colin Powell?

The correct answer is none of the above. In 1922 Adolph Hitler, writing about the creation of the German Gestapo wrote the above. What Hitler knew and every totalitarian government knows is that the way to gain additional power and control over the people is to have a major crisis which makes the people feel insecure and unsafe. The government then offers to protect the people from this 'new' threat. All that is required is for the people to give up some of their liberties and freedoms.

- Taken from this Prison Planet article by Kirt R. Poovey

The Patriot Act was conceived before 9/11 and rushed through afterwards without being read by those who voted on it. (I doubt hundreds of pages were written in the two days between 9/11/01 and the first draft appearing on the 13th September '01.)

Without 9/11 this act would not have had even a possibility to pass.

9/11 enabled the creation of the Department of Homeland Security just like the Reichstag Fire enabled the creation of the Gestapo.

9/11 is the reason trillions of $$$ and thousands of soldiers have been spent waging geopolitical wars in the Middle East.

Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.