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Path to 9/11 is like Nazi Propaganda

Fri Sep 08, 2006 at 02:08:42 PM PDT

I was writing my letter to ABC and all the honchos there, and it occured to me that this kind of manipulation of the facts and exploitation of people's grief and fear is very similar to what Hitler did during his rise to power. Is this the beginning of American's Nuremburg Rallies?

I am also increasingly worried but also deeply offended by this administrations attempts to label me and my felllow Democrats as some kind of Nazi appeasers.

So I looked up Nuremburg Rallies on Google. Guess what I found.

The Nuremburg Rallies
1934 This rally initially did not have a theme. Later it was labeled "Rally of Unity and Strength" (Reichsparteitag der Einheit und Stärke), "Rally of Power" (Reichsparteitag der Macht) or, relating to the movie by Leni Riefenstahl, "Rally of Will" (Reichsparteitag des Willens).
1935 "Rally of Freedom" (Reichsparteitag der Freiheit). 'Freedom' refers to the reintroduced compulsory military service and thus the 'liberation' from the Treaty of Versailles.
1936 "Rally of Honor" (Reichsparteitag der Ehre): The invasion of the demilitarized Rheinland, in the eyes of the NSDAP leadership, constituted the restoration of German honor.
1937 In the "Rally of Labor" (Reichsparteitag der Arbeit) what was referred to was the reduction of unemployment since the rise to power.
1938 Because of the annexation of Austria to the German Reich, this event was called "Rally of Greater Germany" (Reichsparteitag Großdeutschland).
1939 The name "Rally of Peace" (Reichsparteitag des Friedens) was to reiterate the German will to peace, to the population and other countries. It was cancelled on short notice, as one day before the planned date on September 1st, Germany began its offensive against Poland (which ignited World War II).

http://en.wikipedia.org/...

My letter to ABC's big wigs.

My family and I are long time fans of ABC, especially of Peter Jennings, who was a journalist in the best sense of the word. But we are increasingly outraged at what we are hearing about the upcoming mini-series about 9-11. The New York Times is reporting that this "docudrama" is "fraught with factual errors and fabrications."  The Washington Post says that several people depicted in the scenes in which their characters appear to be "false and defamatory." Richard Ben-Veniste, a member of the 9/11 commission, appeared on MSNBC's program "Countdown" and said that the series is full of "errors and mischaracterizations", that it is "inaccurate and unfair" and that the actual commission findings reached the opposite conclusions.

 In response to the recent criticism ABC is now apparently claiming that this is a dramatization meant to be entertainment.

HOW DARE YOU! I am furious that ABC would make an "entertainment" out of one of the horrible events in our nation's history. There is nothing "entertaining" about 9/11. Why would ABC do this? Simply for ratings and hence, money? This is completely sickening, to try to profit from the suffering, trauma, and murder of thousands of Americans.

But I suspect that there is an even more reprehensible motive. The Path to 9/11 was being pitched as educational, with educational materials being made available to schools -- educational materials that are filled with "fabrications", which are "false and defamatory", and are full of "errors and mischaracterizations". Hugh Hewitt of townhall.com claims that ABC has told him that minor changes have been made but "- The average viewer would not be able to tell the difference between the two versions. - The message of the Clinton Admin failures remains fully intact."  http://hughhewitt.townhall.com/...

I can only concluded that this piece of fiction has been produced as propaganda to smear Bill Clinton and blame his party on the eve of an important election. This kind of blatant political manipulation of the facts surrounding the tragedy of 9/11 is on a par with the tactics used by the Nazi Party and their propaganda wing in the 1930s. I am writing to my congressman and senators to urge an investigation and sanctions against ABC. This the type of unAmerican activity that I will not tolerate. I am also contacting as many of your sponsors as I can find and forwarding this information to my large extended family, as well as members of my church, PTO, and local newspaper, where we are close friends with both the publisher and managing editor.

Although ABC has many fine programs, I am now blocking it on our televisions. Peter Jennings must be turning in his grave.

Sincerely,

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