Tuesday, July 19, 2005
WHO BENEFITS?
The burning of the German Reichstag facilitated Hitler's rise to power, while Roosevelt's conscious efforts to bring about the bombing of Pearl Harbor made it possible for him to overcome public opposition to entering World War II.
Just as 9/11 in New York galvanized public opinion to support the invasion of Afghanistan which the administration had planned two years earlier, the London subway bombing will remove public opposition to the new British national ID card.
These are examples of the Hegelian Dialectic put to use to benefit the state at the expense of personal liberty and property rights.
The Problem Reaction Solution Paradigm (The Hegelian Dialectic)
1) The government creates or exploits a problem blaming it on others.
2) The people react by asking the government for help willing to give up their rights.
3) The government offers the solution that was planned long before the crisis.
Similarities
Steve
EPILOGUE
"Then I wanted to know the true meaning of the fourth beast, which was different from all the others and most terrifying, with its iron teeth and bronze claws-the beast that crushed and devoured its victims and trampled underfoot whatever was left. I also wanted to know about the ten horns on its head and about the other horn that came up, before which three of them fell-the horn that looked more imposing than the others and that had eyes and a mouth that spoke boastfully. As I watched, this horn was waging war against the saints and defeating them, until the
Ancient of Days came and pronounced judgment in favor of the saints of the Most High, and the time came when they possessed the kingdom." Daniel 7:19-22 NIV.
"He gave me this explanation: 'The fourth beast is the fourth kingdom that will appear on earth. It will be different from all other kingdoms and will devour the whole earth, trampling it down and crushing it. The ten horns are ten kings who will come from this kingdom. After them another king will arise, different from the earlier ones; he will subdue three kings. He will speak against the Most High and oppress his saints and try to change the set times and the laws. The saints will be handed over to him for a time, times and a half time. (Or for a year, two years and a half year). But the court will sit and his power will be taken away and completely destroyed forever.'" Daniel 7:23-26 NIV.
"In my vision at night I looked, and there before me was one like a son of man, coming with the clouds of heaven. He approached the Ancient of Days and was led into his presence. He was given authority, glory and soveriegn power; all peoples, nations, and men of every language worshiped him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion that will not pass away, and his kingdom is one that will never be destroyed." Daniel 7: 13-15 NIV.
May our Lord keep you in the palm of his hand.
"Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you and will rescue you," declares the Lord. Jeremiah 1:8 NIV(2).
This article may be reproduced WITHOUT CHANGE and in its entirety for non-commercial and non-political purposes.ourfutureworld.blogspot.com
END NOTES
(1)NAZI GERMANYS WAR ON TERRORISM,
Cloak & Dagger(http://www.declarepeace.org.uk/captain/
murder_inc/Reichstag.htm)
(2)Scripture taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION. Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984 International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Bible Publishers.
The burning of the German Reichstag facilitated Hitler's rise to power, while Roosevelt's conscious efforts to bring about the bombing of Pearl Harbor made it possible for him to overcome public opposition to entering World War II.
Just as 9/11 in New York galvanized public opinion to support the invasion of Afghanistan which the administration had planned two years earlier, the London subway bombing will remove public opposition to the new British national ID card.
These are examples of the Hegelian Dialectic put to use to benefit the state at the expense of personal liberty and property rights.
The Problem Reaction Solution Paradigm (The Hegelian Dialectic)
1) The government creates or exploits a problem blaming it on others.
2) The people react by asking the government for help willing to give up their rights.
3) The government offers the solution that was planned long before the crisis.
Hitler used the 1933 burning of the Reichstag (Parliament) building by a deranged Dutchman to declare a "war on terrorism," and establish his legitimacy as a leader (even though he hadn't won a majority in the previous election).
"You are now witnessing the beginning of a great epoch in history," he proclaimed, standing in front of the burned-out building, surrounded by national media. "This fire," he said, his voice trembling with emotion, "is the beginning." He used the occasion "a sign from God," he called it to declare an all-out war on terrorism and its ideological sponsors, a people, he said, who traced their origins to the Middle East and found motivation for their "evil" deeds in their religion.
Two weeks later, the first prison for terrorists was built in Oranianberg, holding the first suspected allies of the infamous terrorist. In a national outburst of patriotism, the nations flag was everywhere, even printed in newspapers suitable for display.
Within four weeks of the terrorist attack, the nations now-popular leader had pushed through legislation, in the name of combating terrorism and fighting the philosophy he said spawned it, that suspended constitutional guarantees of free speech, privacy, and habeas corpus. Police could now intercept mail and wiretap phones; suspected terrorists could be imprisoned without specific charges and without access to their lawyers; police could sneak into peoples homes without warrants if the cases involved terrorism.
To get his patriotic "Decree on the Protection of People and State" passed over the objections of concerned legislators and civil libertarians, he agreed to put a 4-year sunset provision on it: if the national emergency provoked by the terrorist attack on the Reichstag building was over by then, the freedoms and rights would be returned to the people, and the police agencies would be re-restrained.
Within the first months after that terrorist attack, at the suggestion of a political advisor, he brought a formerly obscure word into common usage. Instead of referring to the nation by its name, he began to refer to it as The Fatherland. As hoped, peoples hearts swelled with pride, and the beginning of an us-versus-them mentality was sewn. Our land was "the" homeland, citizens thought: all others were simply foreign lands.
Within a year of the terrorist attack, Hitlers advisors determined that the various local police and federal agencies around the nation were lacking the clear communication and overall coordinated administration necessary to deal with the terrorist threat facing the nation, including those citizens who were of Middle Eastern ancestry and thus probably terrorist sympathizers. He proposed a single new national agency to protect the security of the Fatherland, consolidating the actions of dozens of previously independent police, border, and investigative agencies under a single powerful leader.
Most Americans remember his Office of Fatherland Security, known as the Reichssicherheitshauptamt and Schutzstaffel, simply by its most famous agency's initials: the SS.(1)
Steve
"Then I wanted to know the true meaning of the fourth beast, which was different from all the others and most terrifying, with its iron teeth and bronze claws-the beast that crushed and devoured its victims and trampled underfoot whatever was left. I also wanted to know about the ten horns on its head and about the other horn that came up, before which three of them fell-the horn that looked more imposing than the others and that had eyes and a mouth that spoke boastfully. As I watched, this horn was waging war against the saints and defeating them, until the
Ancient of Days came and pronounced judgment in favor of the saints of the Most High, and the time came when they possessed the kingdom." Daniel 7:19-22 NIV.
"He gave me this explanation: 'The fourth beast is the fourth kingdom that will appear on earth. It will be different from all other kingdoms and will devour the whole earth, trampling it down and crushing it. The ten horns are ten kings who will come from this kingdom. After them another king will arise, different from the earlier ones; he will subdue three kings. He will speak against the Most High and oppress his saints and try to change the set times and the laws. The saints will be handed over to him for a time, times and a half time. (Or for a year, two years and a half year). But the court will sit and his power will be taken away and completely destroyed forever.'" Daniel 7:23-26 NIV.
"In my vision at night I looked, and there before me was one like a son of man, coming with the clouds of heaven. He approached the Ancient of Days and was led into his presence. He was given authority, glory and soveriegn power; all peoples, nations, and men of every language worshiped him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion that will not pass away, and his kingdom is one that will never be destroyed." Daniel 7: 13-15 NIV.
May our Lord keep you in the palm of his hand.
"Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you and will rescue you," declares the Lord. Jeremiah 1:8 NIV(2).
This article may be reproduced WITHOUT CHANGE and in its entirety for non-commercial and non-political purposes.ourfutureworld.blogspot.com
(1)NAZI GERMANYS WAR ON TERRORISM,
Cloak & Dagger(http://www.declarepeace.org.uk/captain/
murder_inc/Reichstag.htm)
(2)Scripture taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION. Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984 International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Bible Publishers.
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