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like web sites that suggest that the administrations of america, britan, australia, spain and italy tricked their citizens into invading a country based on forged evidence for reasons that have little to do with oil or terrorism (oil has gone way up in price...)

those naughty naughty web sites err "blogs". i'm just relieved that the mainstream media keeps relentlessly attacking the validity and credibility of blogs and the internet. if it weren't for the mainstream media's absolute backing of the administration, imagine the horrors we would be subject to?

stuff like schools not having to have 75 students per teacher, roads being kept up, hospitals well-funded, millions of new jobs being created. damn, i'm so glad the media holds onto the administration's word without question. i cannot imagine the consequences and lobbyists pay our congress enough to do the worrying for us.

keep us safe please. those damn ay-rabs are gonna get us. never mind that the hijackers passports survived and the world trade centers didn't or that the air force didn't respond until half an hour after the planes that hit the towers, when normally they respond within seconds. or that the esteemable "president" and his secret service knew that he was safe in the school reading about goats, which was announced days earlier to the public, deemed that they shouldn't evacuate lest a plane should hit.

i just love the smell of a reichstag fire in the morning.

http://www.google.com/search?q=reichstag

http://www.weyrich.com/political_issues/reichstag_ fire.html

For the curious: Reichstag fire.

All the people who always compare Saddam to Hitler and want to install a democracy in Iraq always seem to forget that Germany was a democracy before Hitler.

Hitler didn't even get a majority of his own, he had to rely on other support in the parliament. He also had to instigate a "terror attack" on the parliament for his power grab.

The similarities are eerie indeed. I do not want to demonize Bush but please watch out for your rights and freedoms. Observing this from the outside (I am German) it seems to me that your freedoms are more threatened from the inside then from the outside.

If it were available, it would have to have been leaked by someone in the studio. Such a leak could only be intentional, a way of setting up a straw man to bolster the MPAA/RIAA legislative agenda. It is the MPAA's own version of Reichstag Fire.

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Learning from history
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February 27, 1933

The German Parliament (Reichstag) burns down. A dazed Dutch Communist named Marinus van der Lubbe is found at the scene and charged with arson. [He is later found guilty and executed].

February 28, 1933

President Hindenburg and Chancellor Hitler invoke Article 48 of the Weimar Constitution, which permits the suspension of civil liberties in time of national emergency. This Decree of the Reich President for the Protection of the People and State abrogates the following constitutional protections:

Free expression of opinion
Freedom of the press
Right of assembly and association
Right to privacy of postal and electronic communications
Protection against unlawful searches and seizures
Individual property rights
States' right of self-government
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Check out e.g. http://www.weyrich.com/political_issues/reichstag_ fire.html.