For U.S. Dissidents, Life Keeps Getting More Like Being a Jew In Nazi Germany

If you've ever studied the history of the Third Reich, you know that the Nazis increased their repression of Jews and other "enemies" by degrees. Jews were banned from various professions, banned from using public transport, banned from more and more activities, and so on. Later came the roundups and eventual extermination.

Immediately after 9/11/01, the FBI used its new powers to put Greens and other activists on the no-fly list, banning them from air travel. Now New York Senator Charles Schumer has a brilliant idea- he wants to put the hundreds of thousands of people on the no-fly list on a no-train list, meaning they can't travel by train. I guess next will be a no-bus list, and finally a no-driving list. (Ironically, this guarddog of Wall Street interests refuses to oppose an actual menace, the Indian Point nuclear power plant, which endangers at least 20 million people who live within a 50 mile radius of it. His pet duckling, the junior U.S. senator from New York, Kirsten Gillibrand, does likewise, since she copies all his positions.)

The FBI has for decades kept lists of thousands of people they hate on detention lists, to be rounded up and put in concentration camps during "national emergencies." In the past few months they have been raiding the homes of peace activists, seizing their computers and other property, and dragooning them before grand juries to force them to give information on their organizations, contacts, and activities. I.e. the U.S. is a police state that monitors and represses dissent.

This is not new. In fact, it has been this way since John Adams was President.  Under Adams, Alien and Sedition Act, publishers and critics of Adams were imprisoned.

Meanwhile the Supreme Court has just "legalized" police breaking down people's doors without warrants if they THINK "evidence" is being "destroyed" inside. The case arose out of a marijuana case. Marijuana, of course, shouldn't even be illegal. Under the excuse of a "war on drugs," for 40 years now civil and human rights have been systematically stripped from people in this country. Since 2001 the "war on terror" has provided an excuse to ramp up this repressiveness. (In the name of "defending freedom," of course. Paging George Orwell...we've got a case of Newspeak here, where words mean their opposite, straight out of 1984.

World War One gave us Wilson's "Espionage" Act, used to imprison pacifists and anyone who spoke against U.S. involvement in that war. Today it is being used by the Obama regime to persecute NSA whistleblowers for daring to expose abuses by that super-secret-police spy nest to their own superiors and to Congress.

The tiny minority who think for themselves, or even "worse," dare to protest and resist, are isolated from the pacified sheep majority, so there is no way to reverse this fascist tide from continuing to rise. The only hope is eventually their economy will collapse and something new can arise out of the rubble.