Article I found on another message board.

Animalor · Post by **Animalor** » March 28, 2003, 1:25 pm

It essentially compares what's happening now and the parallels in another event in history.

http://www.commondreams.org/views03/0316-08.htm

I thought it was an excellent article. Informative for me as I didn't know how this event has originally unfolded.

*edit* I suspect that this will stir up a LOT of shit however that wasn't my intent. I just thought it was a good article and worthy of a debate.

Trek · Post by **Trek** » March 28, 2003, 1:43 pm

I guess the first shit I would stir up is the title

When Democracy Failed: The Warnings of History

At what point did we have a democracy? Or is that what the article gets into? (I did not read it yet)

Animalor · Post by **Animalor** » March 28, 2003, 1:45 pm

It goes into a previous example of when democracy failed.

miir · Post by **miir** » March 28, 2003, 1:47 pm

People were so intent on equating Saddam with Hitler they failed to notice the almost spooky similarities between Bush and Hitler.

I don't really have the time to verify all the alleged 'facts' in that article but I'm truly surprised at the number of parallels between those two.

vn_Tanc · Post by **vn_Tanc** » March 28, 2003, 1:49 pm

Nazi-analogy is a double edged sword.
Good article but it stretched the point a little thin in places.

Trek · Post by **Trek** » March 28, 2003, 1:49 pm

Ah, being a citizen of the USA I never saw Democracy in action, I read about it in a few books, but its been a long time, maybe I will read that article later.

miir · Post by **miir** » March 28, 2003, 1:50 pm

Good article but it stretched the point a little thin in places.

That's what I suspected, but it was an entertaining read, nevertheless.

Trek · Post by **Trek** » March 28, 2003, 1:55 pm

Actually that is a fun article, if you throw in some of our homeland security act, well my son should be getting his 'freedom knife' pretty soon

Marbus · Post by **Marbus** » March 28, 2003, 2:35 pm

Miir, please enlighten us on the Bush / Hitler comparison. I see people speak of this but have yet to see ANY credible comparisons. I would personally love to see some facts or at least true similarities.

Marb

vn_Tanc · Post by **vn_Tanc** » March 28, 2003, 2:38 pm

If you read the article and didn't see any I don't think we can help you.

miir · Post by **miir** » March 28, 2003, 3:09 pm

Marbus wrote:Miir, please enlighten us on the Bush / Hitler comparison. I see people speak of this but have yet to see ANY credible comparisons. I would personally love to see some facts or at least true similarities.

Marb

Read the fucking article, dumbass.

Boogahz · Post by **Boogahz** » March 28, 2003, 3:12 pm

I think the comparisons are more than stretched...it looks like this person was reaching so far to make connections that he was able to pull his spleen out of his ass. While reading it, all I could think of to compare it to were some of my comp101 classes in college that gave examples of "papers written on pure bullshit" as my prof called it.

VeeshanVault

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