[lbo-talk] Awww...soo sad....

[npchilds at connect.ab.ca]

I'd suggest that with the 'Enemies List', Plumbers, using the IRS to
harass opponents and Chuck Colson talking about firebombing the Brookings
Institute the US was a lot closer to Nazism that many would believe.

The problems seemed to be in competence and execution (the plumbers were a
bunch of bumblers) rather than in concept. I have no doubt that had Nixon,
Kissinger, John Mitchell and the rest of the boys been a little better
organized the history of the last 33 years would have been quite
different. It might not have been black shirts and Kristallnacht but the
right of the state to use its power to protect the party in power by
marginalizing, intimidating and killing opponents was accepted and
exercised in the Nixon White House.

PC


>Agreed. For all the talk among some leftists about this country being on
> the verge of Nazism, the Jim Crow/lynching period was probably the
>closest the U.S. ever got to that sort of condition, although the
>Cointelpro/J. Edgar/Tricky Dick period was certainly a runner-up.