![]() I am stunned that the recent resignation of Michael Flynn - the National Security Adviser - because of illicit communications with Russia, after and probably before the election, has not resulted in bipartisan cries for an independent investigation. What if Trump HIMSELF is the “staged national crisis”? I have been bewildered at the acquiescence of Republicans in Congress as revelation after revelation of Trump aides’ dealings with Russia unfold, as detailed in the great Belly of the Beast blog. I am afraid many of our fellow Americans might fall for that.Īnd then it hit me. However, I too have wondered if we are soon to witness a staged “crisis” that Bannon and others in the Trump White House will seize upon to justify sweeping restrictions on personal liberty. Bush.ĩ/11 was real and was not staged by the U.S. It was also used to quash any dissent or criticism of the Bush administration by labeling that as “unpatriotic” and insisting on the title of “wartime President” for George W. That was real, but it was seized upon by the Bush administration, especially Vice-President Dick Cheney, to justify the Patriot Act and the invasion of Iraq as well as Afghanistan. An example that was NOT staged was the terrorist attack launched on 9/11. When people now refer to a modern “Reichstag Fire”, they mean some kind of staged national crisis, which is claimed to justify sweeping restrictions on the liberty rights of free private citizens and others, in the name of national security. It also gave the central government the authority to overrule state and local laws and overthrow state and local governments. Justified on the false premise that the Communists were planning an uprising to overthrow the state, the Reichstag Fire Decree permitted the regime to arrest and incarcerate political opponents without specific charge, dissolve political organizations, and to suppress publications. Popularly known as the Reichstag Fire Decree, the regulations suspended the right to assembly, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and other constitutional protections, including all restraints on police investigations. Hitler’s coalition government, the Nazis and the German Nationalist People’s Party, blamed the fire on the Communists and used it as leverage to get President von Hindenburg to issue another, more far-reaching decree “for the protection of the People and the State.” According to the United States Holocaust Museum: On February 27, 1933, arsonists set fire to the Reichstag, the German parliament building. In other words, it basically suspended some of the rights we take for granted under the First Amendment of the U.S. ![]() Hitler’s Cabinet had issued “temporary” restrictions on the press and political marches, campaigning, etc., claiming a national security emergency. ![]() This was an incident early in the rise of Hitler to absolute power, in 1933. Transcripts of each episode will be made available by the next workday.For some days, I have been reading articles that raise concern about the Trump administration staging its own version of a “Reichstag Fire”. Trump and his backers say revelations about the Steele dossier show the Russia investigation was a “hoax.” That is not what the facts indicate.įor more information on today’s episode, visit /thedaily. And for an exclusive look at how the biggest stories on our show come together, subscribe to our newsletter. Sign up here to get The Daily in your inbox each morning. Schmidt, a Washington correspondent for The New York Times. But now, a main source of the dossier’s findings - Igor Danchenko, a Russian analyst - has been charged with lying to federal investigators. The document, full of salacious allegations, captured and cleaved America. Trump, then a presidential candidate, and his supposed links to Russia. The Steele Dossier - compiled by Christopher Steele, a British former spy - was born out of opposition research on Donald J.
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