State of the Union

I've found myself preoccupied with the way the United States is treating detainees, its citizens, and more worriesome foreigners. A new bill in the works will deny the writ of haebus corpus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas_corpus. Which basically means anyone who is not a US citizen can be detained without reason or due trial. A clear violation of the US Constitution where all men are created equal, not just those of US citizenship. But what really scares me more are the consistencies that can be seen between this administration and the Nazi Party that came to power in Germany.

I am specicially referring to the targeted isolation and persecution of people without having to answer for those acts. All this reminds of a poem that was written by a Lutheran Pastor in Nazi Germany.

"In Germany, the Nazis first came for the communists,

and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a communist.

Then they came for the Jews,

and I didn't speak up because I wasn't Jewish.

Then they came for the trade unionist,

and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Catholics,

and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant,

Then they came for the homosexuals,

and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a homosexual,

Then they came for me,

and by that time there was no one left to speak for me."

--Rev. Martin Niemoeller, German Lutheran Pastor

If anyone in this country thinks that they will not find themselves on the other side of these laws at some point then I call you ignorant. Look at the history of any paranoid regime, administration, leader, or movement. Paranoia will spread. It will start with those who may legitimately be classified as outsiders, but it will not stop there. The list of outsiders will grow and grow until their is no one left. Stalin was historically probably the most paranoid leader, sentencing even those close to him to death, or to the Gulags. No one was spared.