Isn't it time for a little bit o' THIS?

[Gabi Hayes]

http://www.ericblumrich.com/ihr.html

EDIT: strongly recommended...another one...Cindy Sheehan vs. the FASCISTS!
amazing

http://www.ericblumrich.com/vigil.html

[Gabi Hayes]

1. they are NOT

sees?

[Gabi Hayes]

2. German American Bund; 1930s

it can't happen here?

it already did

[Gabi Hayes]

3. Fritz Kuhn

[eleny]

4. I never seem to get tired of that!

[Gabi Hayes]

6. really! it's a GREAT song, all by itself. unfortunately, IIRC, the

version that's available is different than this one, and I don't like it as much

[Minnesota Libra]

5. I love it that video!! and I'm with you on hating republicans. nt

[Gabi Hayes]

7. I don't really like using the "H" word, cause it's too redolent of that

against which we strive, and that which fuels support of those who would rule us forever

loathe is a word I'd use, but it doesn't resonate as well in the song

[Minnesota Libra]

9. OK how about "loathe republicans"?? heehaw nt

[Gabi Hayes]

11. much more socially acceptable, nein?

[Minnesota Libra]

13. Oh perfect!!! Bush worshiping Cheney. nt

[Gabi Hayes]

14. HAAAAAAAAAAAR! am I ever glad I wasn't drinking anything!

that's by FAR the post of the day

too much

[Minnesota Libra]

17. Thanks!!!

[Gabi Hayes]

8. the triumph of PR, from Freud to Bernays to Goebbels to Rove

The Triumph of “Turd Blossom”
Karl Rove—given the above nickname by our jocular President—is an extraordinarily keen student of American psychology and history. He is well aware of the back story to contemporary political fixtures like the focus group—a technique innovated by Edward Bernays. Consequently, it doesn’t take too much effort to discern the afterimage of Bernays’s teachings in Bush’s rhetoric.

In Crystallizing Public Opinion, Bernays related how governments and advertisers can “regiment the mind like the military regiments the body.” This discipline can be imposed because of “the natural inherent flexibility of individual human nature.” He also instructed that the “average citizen is the world’s most efficient censor. His own mind is the greatest barrier between him and the facts. His own ‘logic proof compartments,’ his own absolutism are the obstacles which prevent him from seeing in terms of experience and thought rather than in terms of group reaction.”

In addition to what Bernays saw as a widespread individual resistance to reason in public affairs, he contended “physical loneliness is a real terror to the gregarious animal, and that association with the herd causes a feeling of security. In man this fear of loneliness creates a desire for identification with the herd in matters of opinion.”

Once within the “herd,” the “gregarious animal” still wishes to express his or her opinion. Therefore, the public relations counsel must “appeal to individualism goes closely in hand with other instincts, such as self-display.”

....much much more in a great article

http://www.americanidealism.com/articles/karl-rove-and-the-spectre-of-freuds-nephew.html

[Gabi Hayes]

10. this makes me ill. I used to go to restaurants right around the corner

from this place



they flew the nazi flag over the entrance for years...

[Gabi Hayes]

12. Rumsfeld Jugen?

young bund acolytes, ca. late 1930s

[Gabi Hayes]

15. The real story of the pledge of allegiance? how creepy is THIS?

sounds a little over the top, but there's another photo of kids in the US saluting in 1912 with their arms extended ala Nazi salute!

[Gabi Hayes]

16. see? click on photo to enlarge

http://www.cafepress.com/rexy.9216669

[Gabi Hayes]

18. wake up time

We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world- a nation of bullies and bastards who would rather kill than live peacefully. We are not just whores for power and oil, but killer whores with hate and fear in our hearts. We are human scum, and that is how history will judge us...no redeeming social value. Just whores. Get out of our way, or we'll kill you...Who are these swine? These flag-sucking half-wits who get fleeced and fooled by stupid little rich kids like George W. Bush? They are the same ones who wanted to have Muhammed Ali locked up for refusing to kill gooks. They speak for all that is cruel and stupid and vicious in the American character. They are the racists and hatemongers among us-- they are the Ku Klux Klan. I piss down the throats of these Nazis. And I am too old to worry about whether they like it or not. Fuck them. --Hunter S. Thompson