[lbo-talk] Berlet on Democracy Now

[C. G. Estabrook]

As I understand it, there's no consensus among historians on the real 
responsibility for the Reichstag Fire, in spite of a general agreement that it 
was set by a mentally-disturbed Marinus van der Lubbe. It was, as I said, a 
crime perpetrated by a crazy person.

But the point is how it was used.  And the question for us is how the Tucson 
shootings - arguably a greater crime, in that more people were killed and 
wounded - are being employed politically.

On 1/12/11 8:59 PM, Shane Mage wrote:
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> On Jan 12, 2011, at 9:23 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
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>> The Tucson shooting is fast becoming a Reichstag fire for American liberals - 
>> a crime perpetrated by a crazy person, employed to pillory those who have 
>> unacceptable political ideas...
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> Do you seriously imagine that you can get away with portraying the Reichstag 
> Fire, the signature event and emblem and decisive coup of the Nazi regime, as 
> "a crime perpetrated by a crazy person?"
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> Shane Mage
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>  This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it
>  always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire,
>  kindling in measures and going out in measures."
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>  Herakleitos of Ephesos
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