[lbo-talk] USA 2003

[Devine, James]

I reject the Nazi analogy, but I have a question. it used to be that there were a lot of emergency laws already on the books that could allow the creation of detention camps for dissidents and the like. Have those expired? or are they still in place? what are they? 

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Jim Devine jdevine at lmu.edu &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Wojtek Sokolowski [mailto:sokol at jhu.edu]
> Sent: Monday, September 15, 2003 12:48 PM
> To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Subject: RE: [lbo-talk] USA 2003
> 
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> > 
> > Jon Johanning wrote:
> > 
> > > Doesn't sound much like Germany in 1932, does it?
> 
> More like 1933 - the burning of the Reichstag (the Twin 
> Towers in the US
> version) and the passage of the Nazi version of the Patriot Act - the
> Decree of the Reich President for the Protection of the 
> People and State
> and the subsequent Law for Terminating the Suffering of People and
> Nation, which created the office of the Fuehrer (which combined the
> offices of Chancellor and President).  The US equivalent of the latter
> is yet to be implemented, but it would not surprise me if Cheney and
> Rove pulled something of that sort in the next couple of months.  Say,
> they declare the code red (state of emergency) and pass all enabling
> legislation they need to "protect" the "American people" from a
> terrorist threat.
> 
> Wojtek
> 
> 
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