The Rise of the Fourth Reich - ThereAreNoSunglasses

PSYCHOLOGY AND PUBLIC CONTROL 335Homeland Security. Many conspiracy researchers suspect that the globaliststry out new policies and methods in the United Kingdom first, tosee if they are accepted by the public.Once offenders are picked up, today they face new types of unconstitutionaltrials. Some researchers saw Bush’s Military Commissions Act withits secret tribunals as an echo of the Third Reich “special courts,” whichwere designed to prosecute political resistance to the Nazi administration.“The main duty of the special courts was to criminally prosecute the politicalresistance to the Nazi regime,” wrote Dr. Thomas Roeder, VolkerKubillus, and Anthony Burwell in their book Psychiatrists—the Men BehindHitler. “During the Second World War, they gradually took over theduties of ordinary justice and from 1942 on, most of the sentencing. Expertsestimate that the special court of Hannover alone, one of several intoday’s Saxony, sentenced 4,000 defendants, about 170 of them to death.”Another eerie parallel between the Bush administration and the ThirdReich involved the Fuehrerprinzip, or leader principle, which was outlinedin Hitler’s book Mein Kampf. This principle stated the leader embodiedNational Socialism and therefore the people. All decision-makingrested with him. Such thinking evolves from the lack of trust in the people.National Socialism, like our democracy, was supposedly a movementof the masses. But its leadership had little faith in its followers.“[Nazi] ideology denounced civilian methods of elections, negotiation,and compromise as horse trading and called for authority of command,discipline and obedience,” noted Professor Louis L. Snyder in his Encyclopediaof the Third Reich. This top-down leadership principle sounds eerilysimilar to calls by President George W. Bush for a “unified presidency” aswell as his comment to reporters in April 2006, “I hear the voices, and Iread the front page, and I know the speculation. But I’m the decider, and Idecide what is best.” “Perhaps the most unique feature of the Bush administrationis its protracted period of unified party control of the government,a stark contrast to the divided governments of George H. W. Bushand Ronald Reagan,” noted Kathryn Dunn Tenpas, a senior fellow withthe Brookings Institution.Civil libertarians historically have heeded the statement of patriot ThomasPaine, who wrote in Common Sense, “In America, the law is king. For