Time: Tue Dec 02 08:08:24 1997 To: From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar] Subject: SLS: FBI Bombed Murrah Building (OKC) to Ensure Funding of US Spy Agencies (follow-up)] Cc: Bcc: sls References: <snip> > >Immediately after the bombing of the Murrah building in OKC on April 19, >1995, President Clinton began whipping the public into hysteria in a >cynical effort to get his counter-terrorism legislation passed. Within >days after the bombing, a small group of patriots (in the traditional use >of the word) walked the halls of Congress delivering pamphlets to every >senator and every representative asking them not to pass any >counter-terrorism legislation as a knee-jerk reaction to the bombing. >The pamphlets suggested that the FBI and ATF be viewed as suspects and >compared the OKC bombing to the Reichstag Fire which gave birth to Nazi >Germany in the early thirties. Then Senator Majority Leader Bob Dole >tabled the legislation indefinitely.* Here is an excerpt from that >pamphlet: > >Echos of the Reichstag Fire, by ..** > >In 1933, Adolph Hitler, Chancellor of Germany, was preparing for the >upcoming elections. He and his supporters used all manner of brutality >to provoke the armed resistance of his political opponents, the >Communists. Nazi terrorists roamed the streets freely. Despite all >efforts, there was no sign of revolution. If it could not be provoked, >might it not have to be invented? On the night of February 27, 1933, >Hitlers stormtroopers using underground passages, made their way to the >Reichstag (the German Parliament) and scattered gasoline and other >chemicals. They were aided in their plans by a half-witted Dutch >communist, Marinus van der Lubbe, who had been heard boasting in a bar a >few days before that he planned to set the Reichstag on fire. Van der >Lubbe was the dupe. He was encouraged to set the Reichstag on fire. But >the main job was done by the stormtroopers without his knowledge, of >course. [Nazi politician] Goering, prior to the fire, had drawn up a list >of those to be arrested after the fire. When he arrived at the fire, >Goering loudly proclaimed, "This is the beginning of the Communist >revolution! We must not wait a minute. We will show no mercy. Every >Communist official must be shot where he is found. Every Communist >deputy must this very night be strung up." The day following the fire, >seven sections of the German Constitution which guaranteed individually >and civil liberties were suspended. The arrests were made. The Nazi >state was born. (See pages 190-195, "The Rise and Fall of the Third >Reich," by William Shirer, Simon & Schuster, 1990.) > >* Counter-terrorism legislation was eventually was passed in reaction to >the TWA Flight 800 crash. President Clinton used the crash as an excuse >to whip the public into hysteria over terrorism once again. This time he >won. Ironically, the CIA and FBI recently announced that the crash was >not an act of terrorism. > >** I have kept the authors anonymous to guard against government >reprisals; however, the article is merely a summary of historical facts >about Nazi Germany. > >SHARP > <snip>
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