This past few days has seen a constitutional crisis in Washington, D.C. The ability of individuals in congress to rise to fillibuster has been challenged in the same way such individual rights were challenged and destroyed in Germany in 1923 when Hitler came to power.
The congress of the United States has always held certain rights of its members to be sacrosanct. That is, no legislation could be passed that would erode these rights.
One of these rights has been the right of an individual to block passage of any legislation on grounds of conscience alone. If some legislation were to challenge one's conscience to that extent, a member could fillibuster until the effort to pass the legislation was called off.
It is this ability that has been most protective of the rights of individuals in the United States. Now that we have in the presidency a man who shares the political views of Hitler, and who has the support of the same kind of Wafen SS mentality that arose in the Munich beer halls in the early 1920's, we may be in trouble.
The right wing defeated soldiers of Munich were the people who were most bitter about their defeat. It was their loud voices that stirred up the pot that produced Hitler. It was their drinking and bitterness that formed the core of the SS, and later the Third Reich itself. Now America struggles with the same kind of loss of freedom.
The American SS now is populated by the political and religious right wing, just as it was with Germany. The enemy to this group is only now beginning to seriously challenge for prominence. This is the core of Americans who still believe the fundamental nature of the United States of America was good when it started, and is still good today.
It is these people, the real holders of American truth, who know that the existence of terrorism in the world is not good reason to destroy American liberties and strengths. It is these people who know that Jefferson and the others had the right idea of freedom of the individual being one of the pillars of the "more perfect union."
We must be on our guard. We can not afford to let the American SS take over our nation, or WW III will be fought on our own soil.
