Originally published November 7 2003
Post 9/11 American patriotism sure looks familiar in my history books
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
This is how Hitler got away with genocide: everybody went along. The same fervor was alive and well in the U.S. media following the 9/11 attacks, in which "national pride" and anger towards the so-called aggressors was at a peak. I'm not saying America is Nazi Germany, but these are precisely the emotions that fueled the Nazis. There are many parallels that deserve an honest look without being labeled anti-patriotic.
In the U.S., all this emotional momentum was nurtured by the White House, broadcast by Fox News, and followed to the letter by Joe Public who went on to patriotically support our military assaults on a country that wasn't even in volved with 9/11: Iraq.
Our justification for attacking? As the White House puts it, "pre-emptive defense." Also known as an attack. Also known as the exact same way Hitler justified invading neighboring countries. Hitler would move German troops near the border of a country he wanted to invade, and then, a few days later, he would have SS troops plant a bomb in the barracks of his own Army regulars. The bomb goes off, troops die, and most importantly for Hitler, he claims that the enemy assaulted the Germans. In retaliation, Hitler would launch a full scale assault and wipe out the neighboring country. All in the name of peace and national pride. War is peace, get it?
Sound familiar? All those flag-waving bumper-stickers you see in America that say, "American pride" would have been right in line with the pro-Nazi rhetoric of the 1930s. Again, I'm not saying America is Nazi Germany, but a lot of what's going on today sure looks familiar to the pictures in my history books. Weren't we supposed to learn from history?
Dan Rather, the star news anchor for the US television network CBS,
said last night that "patriotism run amok" was in danger of trampling
the freedom of American journalists to ask tough questions.
And he admitted that he had shrunk from taking on the Bush
administration over the war on terrorism.
"It is an obscene comparison - you know I am not sure I like it - but
you know there was a time in South Africa that people would put flaming
tyres around people's necks if they dissented.
It carries through with a certain knowledge that the country as a
whole - and for all the right reasons - felt and continues to feel this
surge of patriotism within themselves.
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