So They Call you a NAZI?

Washington Times
Letters to the Editor
June 7 - Arlington, VA 

During the past several months in the American press, the Democrats 
have frequently denounced the Republicans as Nazis due to their 
attempts to control runaway federal spending. How very ironic. I 
remember the Nazis. Let me share a little about them and recall some 
of their exploits. 

First of all, "Nazi" was gutter slang for the verb "to nationalize". 
The Bider-Mienhoff gang gave themselves this moniker during their 
early struggles. The official title of the Nazi Party was "The 
National Socialist Workers Party of Germany". Hitler and the 
Brownshirts advocated the nationalization of education, health care, 
transportation, national resources, manufacturing, distribution and 
law enforcement. 

Hitler came to power by turning the working class, unemployed, and 
academic elite against the conservative republic. After Der Fuhrer's 
election ceased being a political conspiracy and was transformed into 
a fashionable social phenomenon, party membership was especially 
popular with educators, bureaucrats, and the press. 

Being a Nazi was "politically correct". They called themselves "The 
Children of the New Age of World Order" and looked down their noses 
at everyone else. As Hitler acquired more power, he referred to his 
critics as "The Dark Forces of Anarchy and Hatred".

Anyone who questioned Nazi high-handedness in the German press was 
branded a "Conservative Reactionary". Joseph Goebbels, minister of 
communications, proclaimed a "New World Order". 

The Nazi reign of terror began with false news reports on the Jews, 
Bohemians and Gypses who were said to be arming themselves to overthrow 
the "New World Order" and Hitler demanded that all good people register 
their guns so that they wouldn't fall into the hands of "terrorists and 
madmen".Right-wing fanatics of the "Old Order" who protested firearms 
registration were arrested by the S.S. and put in jail for "fomenting 
hatred against the Government of the German people". 

Then the Reichstag (government building) was blown up and Hitler 
ram-rodded an "Emergency Anti-Terrorist Act" through Parliament that 
gave the Gestapo extraordinary powers. The leader then declared that 
for the well-being of the German people, all private firearms were to 
be confiscated by the Gestapo and the Wermotten (federal law enforcement 
and military). German citizens who refused to surrender their guns when 
the "jack-boots" (Gestapo) came calling, were murdered in their homes. 
By the way, the Gestapo were the federal marshals' service of the Third 
Reich. The S.W.A.T. team was invented and perfected by the Gestapo to 
break into the homes of the enemies of the German people. 

When the Policia Bewakken, or local police, refused to take away guns 
from townsfolk, they themselves were disarmed and dragged out into the 
street and shot to death by the S.A. and the S.S. Those were Nazi 
versions of the B.A.T.F. and the F.B.I. When several local ministers 
spoke out against these atrocities, they were imprisoned and never 
seen again. 

The Gestapo began to confiscate and seize the homes, businesses, bank 
accounts, and personal belongings of wealthy conservative citizens who 
had prospered in the old Republic. Pamphleteers who urged revolt against 
the Nazis were shot on site by national law enforcement and the military. 
Gypsies and Jews were detained and sent to labor camps. Mountain roads 
throughout central Europe were closed to prevent the escape of fugitives 
into the wilderness, and to prevent the movement and concealment of 
partisan resistance fighters.  

Public schools rewrote history and Hitler youth groups taught the 
children to report their parents to their teachers for anti-Nazi remarks. 
Such parents disappeared. Pagan animism became the state religion of the 
Third Reich and Christians were widely condemned as "right wing fanatics". 

Millions of books were burned first and then people. Millions of them 
burned in huge ovens after they were first gassed to death. Unmarried 
women were paid large sums of money to have babies out of wedlock and 
then given medals for it. Evil was declared as being good, and good was 
condemned as being evil. World Order was coming and the German people 
were going to be the "peacekeepers". 

Yes, indeed, I remember the Nazis and they weren't Republicans, or 
"right wing", or "patriots" or "militias". They were Socialist monsters. 

-- Thomas Colton Ruthford