Dictatorship
Source: www.ThreeWorldWars.com
American Dictatorship 29th November 2006 by Michael Haupt A Dictatorship is form of government in which one person or a small group possesses absolute power without effective constitutional limitations.
When Hitler was appointed in January 1933, Germany was a democracy. Germany had fair elections; nobody had their right to vote abused; there were numerous political parties to choose from at voting time. To pass a law, the Reichstag had to agree to it after a bill went through the normal processes of discussion and debate.
Hitler had promised a general election for March 1933. One week before the election was due to take place, the Reichstag building burned down. Hitler knew that if he was to convince President Hindenburg to give him emergency powers - as stated in the Weimar Constitution - he had to play on the old president's fear of communism. What better than to convince him that the communists were about to take over the nation by force?
Unsurprisingly, a convenient patsy, and known Communist supporter - Marianus van der Lubbe - was caught near the Reichstag building immediately after the fire started. Those that arrested him - Nazi officials - claimed that Lubbe confessed that the fire was a signal to other communists to start the revolution. Matches were allegedly found on van der Lubbe and those who arrested him claimed that he smelt of petrol.
Hmmm, how convenient.
Hitler asked Hindenburg to grant him emergency powers in view of the 'communist takeover'. Using the constitution, Hindenburg agreed to pass the Law for the Protection of the People and the State. In the months and years thereafter, Hitler steadily introduced law after law, which gradually turned Germany into a Dictatorship.
Exactly the same process commenced on September 11, 2001 in the USA, and concluded with the inclusion of law HR6166 into the American Constitution on the Sept 28, 2006.
A good friend, Peter from Australia, has provided the following summary of HR6166:
Revokes habeas corpus
Ends enforcement of the Geneva Conventions
Legalizes torture
Gives the President the power to imprison anyone, without need for explanation, once the President declares the imprisoned person to be an "enemy"
Ends the right to a speedy trial, allowing imprisonment without criminal charges for long periods of time - potentially for a lifetime
Sets up show trials that allow conviction to happen before an investigation into the alleged criminal activity has even begun
Allows the government to use secret evidence to convict defendants, which not even the defendants' lawyers can see
Legalizes the use of testimony that was obtained through torture or other means of coercion - much as occurred at the Salem Witch Trials to force people to testify that their neighbors were witches
Keeps the processes of trials, the results of the trials, and even the existence of the trials, secret from the American public
Ends the enforcement of the 5th Amendment protection against self-incrimination
Allows defendants and their lawyers to be prevented from cross examining witnesses, while placing no such restriction on the prosecution
Gives anyone suspected of war crimes, including President Bush himself, immunity from prosecution.
Clearly the time for Martial Law in the US is rapidly approaching. Remember that the dollar has been plummeting recently, and plans for a currency to replace the US and Canadian dollars and Mexican Peso are well established. All we need is for another staged terrorist attack and the US will be this age's great dictatorship.
