The gist of this article is that Congress is negotiating in the open what will ultimately become the US police state:
http://truth-out.org/news/item/17070-indefinite-surveillance-say-hello-to-the-national-defense-authorization-act-of-2014
Folks, that's what the Nazis did. They openly broadcast what they were doing at every step on the road to totalitarianism. If you don't believe me, read Backing Hitler: Consent and Coercion in Nazi Germany, by Robert Gellately:
Culling chilling evidence from primary news sources and citing dozens of case studies, Gellately shows how media reports and press stories were an essential dimension of Hitler's popular dictatorship. Indeed, a vast array of material on the concentration camps, the violent campaigns against social outsiders, and the Nazis' radical approaches to "law and order" was published in the media of the day, and was widely read by a highly literate population of Germans. Hitler, Gellately reveals, did not try to hide the existence of the Gestapo or of concentration camps. Nor did the Nazis try to cow the people into submission. Instead they set out to win converts by building on popular images, cherished ideals, and long-held phobias. And their efforts succeeded, Gellately concludes, for the Gestapo's monstrous success was due, in large part, to ordinary German citizens who singled out suspected "enemies" in their midst, reporting their suspicions and allegations freely and in a spirit of cooperation and patriotism. [from Amazon.com]
That's the scariest thing about what is happening in America today: the possibility that the majority of people will go along with what the government is doing, for the same twisted reasons the Germans did so many years ago.
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