We can read over and over again that everything Hitler did in Nazi Germany was legal at the time he was doing it! Look how many laws are actually being embraced here, as our freedoms erode! I am particularly troubled by the direction of the law enforcement and military, while being applauded by many. Don't get me wrong, there are still good cops and good soldiers, but there is a rising number of incidents that seem very "police state" and some of us are becoming alarmed. Individuals retired from the military are very supportive of many things that make some of the rest of us cringe, at times of crisis.
The alarming trend toward the idea that only police, military, and bad guys would have guns, concerns me greatly. Although I'm not even a gun owner, I am very much in support of the Bill of Rights, including the second amendment. As I watch what has happened in precisely my lifetime, here in the US, I can't help but draw a parallel to Hitler's Germany in the 30's.
Gold confiscation occurred before I was born, but the silver standard was dropped when I was a child. Our economic system is based upon nothing more than perpetual motion, with arbitrary values assigned plated coins and paper currency.
The US Interstate Highway System was designed for defense and the German autobahn was the prototype. Just like Hitler's Germany, highway construction became and still is considered to be valuable in creating jobs. Just this past couple of years, my home state changed the number of a major highway, causing new signage to be required, and embarked on much construction that has literally blocked smaller county highways, and killed small businesses throughout the state.
Once the Federal Highways became established, many downtowns became ghettos. Also a haunting similarity to Nazi Germany, except in America, most of the Jewish businessmen headed to other parts of town to live and moved their businesses to the newly thriving malls. They were also wise enough to see that their children had no future in ongoing family businesses, so they encouraged higher education, and relocation, which has left many older cities with a very, very small Jewish population.
Socialized medicine came next, in the form of Medicare and Medicaid, which then brought agencies to supervise and facilitate a.k.a. control not only the services provided, but control the clients who receive these services. Socialized medicine has expanded since the late 60's and has become an arm of power for the Federal Government. Socialized medicine and social work already include mental health labeling, involuntary confinement and HIPAA which is presented to protect the patient's privacy, actually prevents friends and loved ones from being able to obtain information about someone trapped in the system.
Don't think "death for the good of society" has not followed. It's already here. It will not stop with abortion. I am, personally, unsettled on the decisions regarding life support being removed and nourishment being withheld, in that I'm not sure they should be introduced and I'm uncertain as to the criteria in which the decisions are made, but clearly life and death have now been claimed to be in the hands of man . . . per individual case, at this time.
Gun registration is here. In case it hasn't dawned on anyone, the conceal and carry permits . . . that is gun registration. Background checks for purchasing, also: gun registration. A number of retailers carrying ammunition require a signature, which of course is then kept in a data base. You may not have to register every gun, at this time, but if you've bought ammunition, the assumption is, you have a weapon that fires that particular size of ammo. The second amendment never has to be repealed, the ammunition can simply become unavailable!
We are already so close, and sliding closer daily. More new laws just went into effect, with government controlled health care looming. It all began so gradually and seemingly for such good reasons . . .
