Crossroads

Our nation is at a crossroads in history. Sadly, our president, vice president, attorney general, and most of the appointed cabinet members, never studied American history or world history for that matter. The true genius and mastermind of this regime is Stephen Miller. He is the puppet master and the man behind the curtain. His evil genius has found the perfect storm. But for his religion, he would have been an ideal fit in the Third Reich.

It was George Santayana who said, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it". He was also responsible for a comment on fanatacism and described it as, "Redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim."

It was February 27, 1933, when the Reichstag fire broke out in the parliament building of Nazi Germany. While the true cause of the fire was of some debate, it was blamed on the “communists” and used to justify a consolidation of power. The German Nationalist coalition partners and the Nazi leadership used this event to issue a decree, The Reichstag Fire Decree, to suspend the right to assembly, freedom of speech, and freedom of the press. The police had all restraints removed for any investigations they deemed necessary and basic constitutional protections were suspended.

With the formality of the decree, political opponents were arrested without charge, political organizations were dissolved, and opposition publications were suspended. The central government now had the authority to overrule state and local laws and to overthrow state or local governments.

In summary, a boogeyman had been found and was used as an excuse for a suspension of civil rights to the cheers of the German people who now thought the nation had been saved from the Bolsheviks. The fact that no such plot was afoot by any organization to overthrow the government was of no consequence, the damage had been done. The cost for this miscalculation by the German people was 8 million of their lives. On the German side of this two ocean war, a total of 30 million people would lose their lives on this, the Eastern Front of World War II.

Could Los Angeles be the Reichstag fire for the Trump regime? Could Trump's evil genius Stephen Miller, be so deviant to try to use this minor outbreak to justify the suspension of habeas corpus that President Trump’s Homeland Security Secretary, Kristi Noem say is, "a constitutional right that the president has to be able to remove people from this country and suspend their rights". I won't justify her idiocy with an explanation of something she should have learned in high school.

The fictional world of Lewis Carrol’s Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There, would be a wonderful place for Ms. Noem. There, to reach a destination your walked away from it. Left is right, and right is left. Text must be read in a mirror. As noted by the Red Queen, "Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!"

In this, the Red Queen has the final word, “You're right, Stayne. It is far better to be feared than loved.” It reflects Machiavelli’s idea that a ruler can maintain power more effectively by inspiring fear than by relying solely on love.