There is a poem written by a German citizen about his people and his government. He watched the rise of the Nazis to power, and bemoaned the political apathy that allowed it, that allowed the eventual extermination of 6 million human beings.
When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.
When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.
When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.
When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out.
Remember the blitzkrieg, the "lightning war," launched by Hitler against an unsuspecting and defenseless Poland? That has absolutely no relationship to Bush and Iraq. Nothing.
Remember the horrors of Warsaw, as the people were herded into smaller and smaller, and more controlable communities? It began with a hateful division of humans, Them and Us. The neighborhood baker was a Them.
Do you remember the terrible confessions of German soldiers after the war, totally mortified by what they'd done in the name of "True Germany"? We're in luck. American's haven't taken up guns against their fellow contrymen--yet.
All wars have a single starting point, where threat and malice explode into violence. In Germany, it was Krystalnacht. Before that, Nazis supporters spit in faces. But no one cared. No one stood up against the hatred gathering steam across the nation. No one stood up before that night, so that it might never happen.
In Bill O'Reilly, America has found its Joseph Goebbels--the orchestra leader driving a campaign to undermine the real patriots of this nation and to win the loyalty and blind obedience of Americans who, for whatever reason, are unable to see behind the propaganda of its leaders.
Consider O'Reilly's unending fount of vitriol aimed against anyone with the slightest hint of "liberalism." We are his Jews.
Not his Nazis. We are his Jews. He is the Nazi. He is the propagandist. He is the liar. He is the hater. He wishes us dead. In O'Reilly's world, a dead liberal is a good liberal.
We are his Jews.