America and the Third Reich

I call for a sense of extreme caution to descend upon all Americans at this time. We find ourselves at a crossroads in history that will define us for the rest of our nations existence. We stand at the edge a of a precipice that once stumbled into, it will be impossible to scale back out of. I have always found it perplexing that in this great land (with so much freedom and education so readily available), that we have not looked to the past for the wisdom of it’s triumphs and mistakes. Let us follow Patrick Henry‘s great example when he said:

“For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth -- to know the worst and to provide for it. I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience. I know of no way of judging of the future but by the past.”

Let us, at “what ever anguish of spirit it may cost” look to the past that we may “know the whole truth” and “provide for it”. I use the words of this great founding father of ours here because it is; indeed, painful to the spirit when you look into the face of evil and find there a shadow of the country you so dearly love. I do not say these things to hurt any person in this country. I do not say these things because I hate this country. I say them because I love my country and wish to protect it from grave peril that is in fact present.
When our great nation declared its independence from England, the document declaring that independence bore these magnificent words:

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal”

Notice that it says “all men” not all Americans, “ALL MEN”. Hitler’s Germany did not believe in this simple statement. This statement that our founding fathers found to be “self-evident”. The contrast could not be any clearer than in this example given by Kurt Hilmar Eitzen (part of the Nazi propaganda machine) written in an article on how to respond to arguments made against the nazi anti-Semitic doctrines:

“Argument 8: "Everything with a human face is equal." — Counterargument: Thirteen years ago, the "Stürmer" carried a cartoon. In it, a miserable pig looked up from his sty to a royal lion. "Everything with an animal face is equal!" But what did the lion growl in reply? "That's what you swine would like to think!"“

This statement is a stark contrast to our declaration of independence, but how do we today stand in comparison to these two examples? Are we closer to the declaration of independence, or the Third Reich’s “royal lion”?
It fills me with great trepidation that I now hear, openly stated, the opinion that people who are in our country, but not citizens of it, should not have the protection of the constitution. The idea that somehow the rights of the constitution should be held out for the citizens of this country alone.
In George Orwell’s book Animal Farm, (A book about a farm where the farmer is driven off and the animals begin to govern themselves. This story is about the decay of the government they established) some very relevant things happen. Upon setting up their government the animals write the rules of the farm on the wall of the barn, among them is the statement that “all animals are equal”(p.21). Over a period of time the statement is changed from “all animals are equal” to “ All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others” (p. 118). As the idea of all are equal changes to some are more equal than others the entire fabric of the animals society is changed.
Why are the words “all men are created equal” so very important? If only some people are equal, or some are more equal, then the government has the responsibility of deciding who are equals and who are not. Our founding fathers clearly saw the terrible end of giving a government this kind of power. To us all men should be equal no matter what there statues, legal, illegal, citizen, P.O.W or even enemy combatant.
When I say all are equal I mean that all rights are given, because all men have these rights “endowed by their Creator” and they are “unalienable Rights”.
These right are not given to men by their government, but are inherent to all men upon birth. We should be able to apply our laws and rights to all men, from what ever land they come from. According to the declaration of independence “to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men”. It is clear that the American government was meant to secure the inalienable rights of men and be limited to that responsibility. As our government moves away from that limited responsibility and takes on an ever expanding role, we run into the next similarity between us and the Third Reich. In the same article, Kurt Hilmar Eitzen supported the Nazi’s anti-Semitic policies with this defense:

“Argument 3: "The Jew has better prices than the German businessman." — Counterargument: Any crook can sell junk. Jewish crooks have driven thousands of German businessmen to bankruptcy with the glittering trash in their department store palaces. When someone does get good products more cheaply from the Jews than from Germans, it is only because the united Jewish firms force down prices from the manufacturers, which means reducing workers' wages. He who has bought good products cheaply from the Jew should never forget that the curse of a German worker and the tears of his hungry children come with them!”

How many times do we hear today about how the “illegal” worker is destroying our economy? How the “illegal” immigrant is driving down the wages of the American worker? Many people say their race has nothing to do with our feelings, it is simply that they are here illegally. I want you to ask your self the question, when I see a Hispanic person cutting grass, changing tires, gathering carts, or a truck load of them heading to a job, do you not get the automatic idea that they are illegal? You have to remember that the German society did not start out racist either.
It is not the immigrant worker, legal or illegal, that is hurting our economy. The socialist policies that our government has adopted is what is hurting us. If our government was limited to protecting men’s inalienable rights and not redistributing their wealth, all immigration, legal or not, would stimulate our economy. Socialist policies always fail in the end because more and more people start taking from the system without putting anything into it. We have many Americans that are doing the very same thing.
Socialist governments have to find scapegoats for the failing policies. The Germans had the Jews and the Americans have the illegal immigrant, which we all know to mean the Hispanic immigrant. The plain fact is that human nature will not allow a socialist economic system to work. Human nature is, if I can get something for nothing, I will. Let us not blame the flaws in these policies on a specific group of people. Let the blame fall to the policy itself.
Let us remember: it is a very dark and gruesome road ahead when people start seeing others as less than equals. In Germany it lead to the torture and death of millions of Jews. I pray with all of my heart that we will not let things go so far in our country. Let us stand up, with all of the passion and power of our great nation, and reaffirm “that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights”.



Henry, Patrick. Meeting of the Virginia colony delegate
http://www.historyplace.com/speeches/henry.htm
The declaration of independence.
http://www.law.indiana.edu/uslawdocs/declaration.html
Eitzen, Kurt Hilmar. Ten responses to Jewish lackeys. http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/responses.htm
Orwell, George. Animal Farm.