Thread: Before next election RESEARCH NEEDED TO BE DONE

An investigation carried out in 1945 revealed that the bank run by Prescott Bush was linked to the German Steel Trust run by Thyssen and Flick, one of the defendants at Nuremberg. This gigantic industrial firm produced fully half the steel and more than a third of the explosives, not to mention other strategic materials, used by the German military machine during the war years.
On October 28, 1942, the US government confiscated the assets of two firms that served as fronts for the Nazi regime—the Holland-American Trading Corporation and the Seamless Steel Equipment Corporation, both controlled by UBC. A month later, it seized Nazi interests in the Silesian-American Corporation (SAC), directed by Prescott Bush and his father-in-law, George Walker.
The seizure order, issued under the Trading with the Enemy Act, described Silesian-American as a “US holding company with German and Polish subsidiaries” that controlled large and valuable coal and zinc mines in Silesia, Poland and Germany. It added that, since September 1939 (when Hitler unleashed the Second World War) these properties had been under the control of the Nazi regime, which had utilized them to further its war effort.
Among SAC’s assets was a steel plant in Poland in the same district as Auschwitz. The plant reportedly used the concentration camp’s inmates as slave labor.
Among those who have investigated the links between the Bushes and the Nazis is John Loftus, a former prosecutor in the Justice Department’s War Crimes Unit, who now heads the Florida Holocaust Museum in Saint Petersburg. Loftus has charged that the Bush family received $1.5 million from its interest in UBC, when the bank was finally liquidated in 1951. “That’s where the Bush family fortune came from: It came from the Third Reich,” Loftus said in a recent speech.
Loftus argues that this money—a substantial sum at that time—included direct profit from the slave labor of those who died at Auschwitz. In an interview with journalist Toby Rogers, the former prosecutor said: “It is bad enough that the Bush family helped raise the money for Thyssen to give Hitler his start in the 1920s, but giving aid and comfort to the enemy in time of war is treason. The Bush bank helped the Thyssens make the Nazi steel that killed Allied solders. As bad as financing the Nazi war machine may seem, aiding and abetting the Holocaust was worse. Thyssen’s coal mines used Jewish slaves as if they were disposable chemicals. There are six million skeletons in the Thyssen family closet, and a myriad of criminal and historical questions to be answered about the Bush family’s complicity.”
Prescott Bush was by no means unique, though his financial connections with the Third Reich were perhaps more intimate than most. Henry Ford was an avowed admirer of Hitler, and together GM and Ford played the predominant role in producing the military trucks that carried German troops across Europe. After the war, both auto companies demanded and received reparations for damage to their German plants caused by allied bombing.
Standard Oil and Chase Bank, both controlled by the Rockefellers, invested heavily in Nazi Germany, as did many of Wall Street’s leading brokerage houses. These business dealings continued after the war had begun, with Standard Oil shipping fuel to the Nazis through Switzerland as late as 1942 and collaborating with I.G. Farben, the firm that manufactured Zyklon B gas for the Nazi death chambers and operated a synthetic rubber plant using slave labor from Auschwitz.
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Dr. Lawrence Britt has examined the fascist regimes of Hitler (Germany), Mussolini (Italy), Franco (Spain), Suharto (Indonesia) and several Latin American regimes. Britt found 14 defining characteristics common to each:

1. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism - Fascist regimes tend to make constant use of patriotic mottos, slogans, symbols, songs, and other paraphernalia. Flags are seen everywhere, as are flag symbols on clothing and in public displays.
2. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights - Because of fear of enemies and the need for security, the people in fascist regimes are persuaded that human rights can be ignored in certain cases because of "need." The people tend to look the other way or even approve of torture, summary executions, assassinations, long incarcerations of prisoners, etc.
3. Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause - The people are rallied into a unifying patriotic frenzy over the need to eliminate a perceived common threat or foe: racial , ethnic or religious minorities; liberals; communists; socialists, terrorists, etc.

4. Supremacy of the Military - Even when there are widespread domestic problems, the military is given a disproportionate amount of government funding, and the domestic agenda is neglected. Soldiers and military service are glamorized.
5. Rampant Sexism - The governments of fascist nations tend to be almost exclusively male-dominated. Under fascist regimes, traditional gender roles are made more rigid. Divorce, abortion and homosexuality are suppressed and the state is represented as the ultimate guardian of the family institution.
6. Controlled Mass Media - Sometimes to (sic) media is directly controlled by the government, but in other cases, the media is indirectly controlled by government regulation, or sympathetic media spokespeople and executives. Censorship, especially in war time, is very common.
7. Obsession with National Security - Fear is used as a motivational tool by the government over the masses.
8. Religion and Government are Intertwined - Governments in fascist nations tend to use the most common religion in the nation as a tool to manipulate public opinion. Religious rhetoric and terminology is common from government leaders, even when the major tenets of the religion are diametrically opposed
to the government's policies or actions.
9. Corporate Power is Protected - The industrial and business aristocracy of a fascist nation often are the ones who put the government leaders into power, creating a mutually beneficial business/government relationship and power elite.
10. Labor Power is Suppressed - Because the organizing power of labor is the only real threat to a fascist government, labor unions are either eliminated entirely, or are severely suppressed.
11. Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts - Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to higher education, and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other academics to be censored or even arrested. Free expression in the arts and letters is openly attacked.
12. Obsession with Crime and Punishment - Under fascist regimes, the police are given almost limitless power to enforce laws. The people are often willing to overlook police abuses and even forego civil liberties in the name of patriotism. There is often a national police force with virtually unlimited power in fascist nations.
13. Rampant Cronyism and Corruption - Fascist regimes almost always are governed by groups of friends and associates who appoint each other to government positions and use governmental power and authority to protect their friends from accountability. It is not uncommon in fascist regimes for national resources and even treasures to be appropriated or even outright stolen by government leaders.
14. Fraudulent Elections - Sometimes elections in fascist nations are a complete sham. Other times elections are manipulated by smear campaigns against or even assassination of opposition candidates, use of legislation to control voting numbers or political district boundaries, and manipulation of the media. Fascist nations also typically use their judiciaries to manipulate or control elections.
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As for the Bush family, old man Kennedy was a nazi sympathizer, so it's nothing new form both sides. I've heard it before.

Answers to Dr. Lawrence Britt stupid liberal fourteen point laughable diatribe.

(1) Gee, I guess that means no one is suppose to be patriotic, and wave the American flag at any of the anti-illegal immigration rallies. According to this everyone is a fascist that does.

(2) How transparent... I believe he's talking about Guantanamo detainees. I guess during WWII we should of not exucuted some of the Germans that caused the deaths of American soldiers by infiltrating behind the lines wearing US uniforms. I guess we were Fascist then? These guys at Guantanamo want to kill us!! How hard is that to understand? And yes there is a "need" to keep these killers locked up.

(3) I'm sorry, if any group of people, or government, disregards the intent of the founding fathers, the Constitution, and does not have allegiance to this country, you better believe this patriotic American will label you ant-American.

(4) I salute our troops, and so should everyone that loves freedom. Without our soldiers defending our freedom, the educated idiot that wrote this fourteen point diatribe would be denied his. Freedom is not free.

(5) I do believe I will stay with time tested, proven, traditional family units please. This is an insane, liberal piece of trash. Libertine thinking is one of the things that brought about the fall of Rome. I believe I'd like to keep America from going down that path, if possible.

(6) Gee, wonder why censorship is needed during war time? They did it during WW I and WWII, and we seem to have come through it. Once again the US seemed to have all been fascists during WWII. The internet is hardly being controlled, so anyone wanting to get any story out should have at it.

(7) We're all blind easily lead dunderheads. No, no the Muslim's don't want to kill us, they're our friends, right? The World Trade Center was just our imaginations. The 3000 killed were made up by the media. Yeah, Right!

(8 Could he be speaking of Christianity? I guess we just have to ignore the religious references that saturates many of the documents written by the founding fathers. Including the Constitution. The Christian philosophy is one of the elements that has helped make America, the great nation she is.

(9) Now that one could be true. It does look that way.

(10) The labor unions are losing members because there are now laws on the books to protect workers in most cases. Therefore most people do not feel the need to join one anymore. At one time we did need labor unions, but not as much as in the past.

(11) I have hostility towards higher education that are overwhelmingly liberal/socialist/communist as most of the colleges and universities are now. They teach hatred for traditional American principles, heritage, values, and culture.

(12)This is ridiculous! The ACLU would be all over this, like white on rice.

(13) Give me a break! This stuff has been going on ever since there were governments. It's wrong, but hardly facists. Greedy human nature maybe.

(14) Oh I don't know, how about Democrats that rig voting machines, and vote in dead peoples name. That's been proven here where I live, by the feds. Both sides have done unethical things, but by far the Dems are masters of it. Gerrymandering is wrong, and should be outlawed. Even when the courts say the lines are not gerrymanderd, you can bet they are. Straight lines should be required when drawing districts. Smear campaigns if not true, don't matter and are a waste of time and money. I'm for getting it all out in the open, warts and all.

This article is form one of those crazy, liberal/peace sites. This is the looney left.