Arizona: Neo Nazis Patrol Border

Where is the financing coming from to support these goons?  How many of us could afford to take off work and spend our summer near the Mexican border, hunting humans?

When we consider the most vivid example of Nazis taking control of a country (i.e., World War II Germany), they were not satisfied with controlling that country alone.  If no one were to stop them, where would this all end?  If they can recruit enough new killers (perhaps disillusioned, long-term unemployed), would they have any qualms about taking over your town, city, county or state?

So, we send our state national guard members to Iraq and Afghanistan to wage a war of choice, and ignore the nascent rumblings of a war on our own soil here at home?

As our elected representatives, ever fearful of having their name associated with anything but a tax cut, reduce the size of our police forces, making us even more vulnerable to takeover by splinter militant factions, we become even more vulnerable to incipient anarchy and/or control of ever larger areas of our country under extremist groups.  

If we continue down our current path for long enough, we need only consider what life is like in other countries where the law is enforced by whatever group has the most guns.  

Despite our knee-jerk tendency to deny that something like that could happen here, we can’t say we haven’t been warned.

“Blowing out another’s candle will not make yours shine brighter.” — Unknown.

“Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.” — Aristotle

“The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crises maintain their neutrality” — Dante Alighieri

“So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.” — Voltaire

“Free people, remember this maxim: We may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.” – Rousseau

“No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.” — Edmund Burke, “A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful”, 1756

“Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.” — Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

“No protracted war can fail to endanger the freedom of a democratic country.” ~Alexis de Tocqueville

“There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.” — John Adams

“All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.” — Thomas Jefferson

“The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.” — James Madison

“A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.” – Napoleon

“I apprehend no danger to our country from a foreign foe… Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence, I must confess that I do apprehend some danger.” — Daniel Webster, 1837

“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter, and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” — Abraham Lincoln

“Every snowflake in an avalanche pleads not guilty.”  — Stanislaw J. Lec

“You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man’s freedom. You can only be free if I am free.” — Clarence Darrow

“If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too.” — Somerset Maugham

“We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can’t have both.” — Louis Brandeis

“The Framers (of the Constitution) knew that free speech is the friend of change and revolution.  But they also knew that it is always the deadliest enemy of tyranny.” — Hugo Black

“The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.” — Woodrow Wilson

“Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.” — William O. Douglas

“When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered.” — Dorothy Thompson

“When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.” — Sinclair Lewis

“The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is fascism–ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power.”  — Frank Delano Roosevelt

“The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the government.” — Franklin Delano Roosevelt

“When even one American – who has done nothing wrong – is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth – then all Americans are in peril.” — Harry S. Truman

“Preventive war was an invention of Hitler. Frankly, I would not even listen to anyone seriously that came and talked about such a thing.” ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

“The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.” — Dwight D. Eisenhower

“We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.” — Edward R. Murrow

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” —  Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.” — Noam Chomsky