The Democrats’ own Reichstag Fire
It’s February 1933. Adolf Hitler has recently been appointed Chancellor of the Weimar Republic. A mysterious fire breaks out at the German Parliament, known as the Reichstag and totally destroys the building.
Near the scene of the fire a spaced-out Dutchman named Marinus van der Lubbe is taken into custody and it turns out he is a communist. Authorities quickly convict van der Lubbe who is then executed for his “crime.” But not before Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution is invoked, which gave Hitler total control of Germany and curtailed the country’s most basic rights, including the right to free expression, freedom of the Press, the right of free assembly, the right to secure postal and telephone communications, protection from illegal search and seizure, right to private property and the right of German states to self-government.
A supplemental decree added the creation of special police agencies such as the SS (Schutz Staffel , or protective echelon) and the SA (Sturm Abteilung, or Storm Troopers).
Fast-forward 73 years. It’s 2006 and a reporter for News of the World, a British tabloid is caught by the Metropolitan Police intercepting voicemails intended for the Royals. The reporter is tried and sent to jail in 2007. The police continue to investigate and discover that News of the World has made hacking private voice mails a bad habit, as it is revealed that the hacking was widespread and indiscriminate. News Corp., the owners of the paper do the honorable thing and on July 11, 2011 they close the 168-year-old publication, putting over 200 people out of work.
Always on the lookout for an opportunity to turn a crisis into a hard-to-swallow policy, the liberal establishment in the U.S. has seized the initiative to find cause to close down News Corp.’s holdings in America. News Corp. assets have long been a thorn in the side of liberals, progressives and Democrats, as they include such luminaries as Fox News Network, The Wall Street Journal and the New York Post. None of these news organs is particularly friendly toward the current occupant of the White House and they have been known to be highly critical of the Democrats’ efforts to introduce a socialist regimen into the American body politic.
Yesterday, Senator Jay Rockefeller (D. WV), who sits as chairman of the Senate’s commerce committee called for an inquiry into whether or not News Corp. had broken any U.S. laws.
And now… the rest of the story. …..
Harold
