The seat of the German parliament (the Reichstag) burned on February 27, 1933. And Hitler had lost no time in exploiting the fire to the limit.
Here is what I read this morning in William L. Shirer's fantastik
Rise and Fall of the Third Reich:
On the day following the Reichstag fire, February 28, Hitler prevailed on President Hedinburg to sign a decree "for the Protection of the People and the State" suspending the seven sections of the Constitution which guaranteed individual and civil liberties.
Described as a "defensive measure against Communist acts of violence endangering the state," the decree laid down that:
"Restriction on personnal liberty, on the right of free expression of opinion, including freedom of the press; on the rights of assembly and association; and violations fo the privacy of postal, telegraphic and telephonic communications; and warrants for house searchers, orders for confiscations as well as restrictions on property, are also permissible beyond the legal limits otherwise prescribed."
In addition, the decree authorized the Reich government to take over complete power in the federal states when necessary and imposed the death sentence for a number of crimes, including "serious disturbances of the peace" by armed persons.
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The day after the Reichstag fire the Prussian government issued a long statement declaring that it had found Communist "documents" proving:
"Government bluidings, museums, mansions and essential plants were to be burned down ... Woment and children were to be sent in front of terrorist groups ... The burning of the Reichstag was to be the signal for a bloody insurrection and civil war ... It has been ascertained that today was ti have throughout Germany terrorist acts against individual persons, against property, and against the life and the limb of the peaceful population, and also the beginning of general civil war."
Publication of the "documents proving the Communist conspiracy" was promised, but never made.
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The idea for the fire almost certainly originated with Goebbels and Goering.
The point here is
NOT that "Bush=Hitler". No, that would be outrageous.
The point is that the state of emergency that has clearly emerged in the
Military Order that Bush issued on November 13, 2001 is analogous to the decree proclaimed by Hitler the day after the Reichstag fire, on February 28, 1933: the Decree for the Protection of the People and the State.
This decree suspends all the articles in the Weimar Constitution maintaining individual liberties. And this decree was never revoked. From a legal perspective, the entire Third Reich was a twelve year-long state of emergency.
The issue of Bush's Military Order was to subject non-citizens suspected of terrorist activities to exceptionnal jurisdiction that would include "indefinite detention" and military tribunals. Bush's Order eradicated the legal status of every alien suspected of endangering national security, and produced entities that could be neither named nor classified by the Law.
From a legal perspective, the situation of the detainees in Guantanamo is analogous to the situation of the Nazi camps detainees: they both have no legal status, and are thus exposed to potential bloody violence.
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