The reason that this frightens me so is my deep study of prewar Germany. Josef Goebbels, in his seminal work, famously observed that only three things were required for absolute control: assent of the corporations, control of the media, and total control of the military. None but the most assiduous Bushie could yet claim that they do not have the first two, and pretty much only the JAG (and a few brave judges) has stood between the Bush fascists and their plans to establish American gulags across the world.


Should this nation somehow survive this assault, it will forever be our deepest shame (as it is in modern Germany) that we did not rise up and stop this long before it went this far.