Hitler’s Resurrection – USA

Adolf Hitler, a murderous fiend who should have been buried over 70 years ago, seems to pop out of his grave regularly to create more evil mischief. He is the hero of active neo-fascist groups in Europe and America; he is an inspiration of the what is left of the Ku Klux Klan; the white supremacist militias adore him; and ironically, he is promoted inadvertently by Jews who publicly excoriate him in their holocaust museums, films, literature and news reports – this negative publicity, as horrible as it is, backfires as it keeps Adolf's narrative alive from generation to generation.

There is another factor that befuddles his detractors and that is of all the ISMs fascism is the most theatrical. Its flags, weapons, equipment, uniforms, medals, badges and films are highly sought after by contemporary collectors – to such a high degree that there is a lucrative market in reproductions of most objects.

If you question the theatrical appeal of fascism, check out Hollywood that pumps out films on the subject annually; many of these films are promoted by American Jewish producers or film companies; and, they make a profit or would not be continually made. (FYI: Schindler’s List grossed 110 million.) All of these films deplore fascism and the Furhor, but continuously function de facto to keep the ideology alive. To some, these anti-fascist films unintentionally glorify evil. Despite de-nazification, outlawing the party and in some countries, making it illegal to deny the Holocaust, neo Nazi movements persist, but with more noise and little political power.

Hitler's perfidious reputation is now being used to malign President Obama and his programs. Town Hall meetings have pictorial posters depicting Obama as Adolf Hitler along with signage that does the same. Politics are a dirty business, however this conduct has nothing to do with discourse and everything to do with character assassination by false association.

There is a persistent belief projected by the media that Obama is under attack at the town hall meetings this August because his health care proposals are so controversial. This is only partially true. The virulent attacks are race based. Their expanded intensity was signaled by Obama's bungling of the black professor Gates and the white Irish cop Crowley incident in Boston.

The same group that likes tea bags, is concerned with death tribunals; it is a group that worships firearms, challenges the president's citizenship, finds a Communist behind every bush, and is concerned over government spending for anything but open ended wars. They also provide an umbrella for the Hilter spouting crack pots. This larger group lost the last election and is using the town hall venue to continue to peddle their rejected political products. TV cameras make them all eager to be celebrities.

This group is dumb enough to want to continue to buy heath insurance privately at $375 a month with a $2000 deductible. This fleecing by the insurance companies comes with the prospect of raising premiums and deductibles annually. These losers are mostly abject followers of a howling full-moon Sister Sarah Palin, so what hell... no loss to the body public.

For Obama however, his big problems could come from progressive Democrats as they lose confidence in his ability to fulfill his campaign promises to them. The disenchantment has already begun.

As things stand, in the end, there should be little frustration by the right wing over the Administration proposed health care reform. President Obama has appointed the two Emanuel brothers to command his health care juggernaut through congress. They so far have protected the drug and medical insurance companies and sold out the little guy.

Brothers Emanuel have reached their level of incompetence early in Obama's administration. Ezekiel is a physician and medical ethicist turned bureaucrat. Rahm is a trained ballet dancer turned politician and when he is not doing pirouettes in the White House, he acts as Obama's chief of staff. Ezekiel already is in hot water because he has espoused rationed care to certain groups. He is, however, on record against euthanasia.

It has been reported that the White House Emanuels have already cut a bad deal for Americans favoring Big Pharma over drug prices that will be part of a Senate health bill. As far as a government insurance public option, the White House has apparently dropped it to the delight of Big Insurance. So where is the serious reform? In the end Obama's health reform will come out well below expectations as hamburger, but the White House will call it more elegantly, Salisbury steak.

In the USSR, in the mid 1960s, the Soviets in Moscow celebrated their national holidays with anchored barrage balloons illuminated at night with ground search lights. The search light focused on a profile of Vladimir Lenin (DOD 1924) with the words written in cyrillic, LENIN LIVES which always reminded me of the Gotham City distress signal for Batman... crazy stuff.

Dictators are hard to kill. Most die with their boots off. They are hard to forget compared to benign leaders who are quickly forgotten. The 20thc is packed with dictators. Pol Pot, Josef Stalin and Hitler are the grand prize winners for murder and mayhem. Stalin was the biggest killer of the three, but Hitler is the favorite bete noire... so popularity in this bloody circle depends on whom you kill rather than how many. Colonel Robert E Bartos USA Ret.