When Government Turns Against Its Own

Dr. Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s propaganda minister, rose to power in 1933 along with Hitler and the Nazi party. One of his first acts was the burning of books rejected by the Nazis. With totalitarian control over the media, arts, and information in Germany, Goebbels perfected the "Big Lie" technique of propaganda. Followers were taught the principle that a lie, if big enough and repeated a sufficient number of times, would be believed by the masses.

From the beginning of his tenure, Goebbels organized attacks on German Jews and other dissidents, accusing them of acting like terrorists and attempting to destroy Germany. It became the Nazi’s excuse for taking totalitarian power over all of Germany and murdering millions of civilians.

What’s that you say? It can’t happen here? Obama’s chief of Homeland Security has already charged that many of us are terrorists because we appose abortion, believe in the Second Amendment, are against illegal immigration and some have even served in the armed forces and have become radicalized by the experience. We are dissidents. And we have already been targeted by our own government. Can’t happen here? Nonsense.

Through Thomas Jefferson’s reading of history, he was convinced "that most bad government results from too much government." During the 1930s and early 1940s Germany had too much government. We now have too much government. And it is turning on us.

How can a government turn on its own people? Well the short answer is that it can’t. Government is very much like a gun. It cannot act on its own. A gun must be picked up, loaded and fired by a human being to have any effect. Likewise government must be loaded with people and picked up by those people in order to have any effect. And when the people holding the government have agendas clearly opposite to that of the electorate, it turns on its own people.

Obama appointed Janet Napolitano to be the head of Homeland Security. Under her direction, a lie was spread through the government’s propaganda devices. A lie about us. About all those who dare to disagree with Obama and the view of his extremely liberal Democrats. Those Democrats and their supporters, which includes some Republicans, will, of course, say that they won the election. That the victory in November of 2008 proved that most Americans agree with them.

This pathetic claim ignores the enormous disappointment felt by millions of Americans in the performance of the Republican party during the preceding sixteen years. The Democrat victory in November of 2008 expressed two things. American voters wanted to chastise the GOP for their malfeasance and they wanted to believe in the hollow promises of hope and change given them by a black candidate, the very essence of change in American politics.

There was no great upheaval or majority of voters who wanted their government to take on the characteristics of an earlier, notorious and failed government of fascists. Few voters, if any, went to the polls hoping taxes would be raised, freedoms would be curtailed and that those elected to government would turn against them once in office. But here we are. Those that voted for them and those who voted against them are all in the same boat. The elitists have taken up control of the government and they are aiming it at us.