By Paula Helton ——Bio and Archives--May 14, 2013
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"From 1940 to 1945, about 2.8 million German children were sent to these camps. There were separate KLV camps for boys and girls. Some 5,000 camps were eventually in operation, varying greatly in sizes from the smallest which had 18 children to the largest which held 1,200. Each camp was run by a Nazi approved teacher and a Hitler Youth squad leader. The camps replaced big city grammar schools, most of which were closed due to the bombing. Reluctant parents were forced to send their children away to the camps.
"Essential to the intimidating effects of the terror was the willingness of many German citizens (whether out of conviction, greed, envy, or vengeance) to denounce their fellow citizens, Jewish and non-Jewish, to the police. The Gestapo could not have exercised such control over German society without the benefit of this steady stream of denunciations, many of which were entirely unfounded."
The "If You See Something, Say Something™" campaign -- originally implemented by New York City's Metropolitan Transportation Authority and now licensed to DHS for a nationwide campaign -- is a simple and effective program to engage the public and key frontline employees to identify and report indicators of terrorism, crime and other threats to the proper transportation and law enforcement authorities. WASHINGTON--Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano announced new partnerships between the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) "If You See Something, Say Something™" public awareness campaign and several sports organizations and collegiate universities. Partnerships include National Football League (NFL) teams, Major League Baseball (MLB) teams, the U.S. Open Tennis Championships (USTA), Ohio State University, and the University of Oklahoma. Over the past year, DHS has collaborated closely with federal, state, local and private sector partners, as well as the Department of Justice, to expand the "If You See Something, Say Something™" campaign and the Nationwide Suspicious Activity Reporting (SAR) Initiative--an administration effort to train state and local law enforcement to recognize behaviors and indicators related to terrorism, crime and other threats; standardize how those observations are documented and analyzed; and ensure the sharing of those reports with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) led Joint Terrorism Task Forces for further investigation. Other partnerships with the "If You See Something, Say Something™" campaign have been recentlylaunched by the states of Florida and Maryland, the cities of Baltimore and Newark, the Inaugural Baltimore Grand Prix, and state and major urban area fusion centers across the country. DHS will continue to expand the "If You See Something, Say Something™" campaign nationally to help America's business, communities and citizens remain vigilant and play an active role in keeping the country safe.A 2009 article from the Washington Timesdescribed a new Department of Homeland Security Report this way:
"The Department of Homeland Security is warning law enforcement officials about a rise in "rightwing extremist activity," saying the economic recession, the election of America's first black president and the return of a few disgruntled war veterans could swell the ranks of white-power militias. A footnote attached to the report by the Homeland Security Office of Intelligence and Analysis defines "rightwing extremism in the United States" as including not just racist or hate groups, but also groups that reject federal authority in favor of state or local authority. "It may include groups and individuals that are dedicated to a single-issue, such as opposition to abortion or immigration," the warning says. The nine-page document was sent to police and sheriff's departments across the United States on April 7 under the headline, "Rightwing Extremism: Current Economic and Political Climate Fueling Resurgence in Radicalization and Recruitment." It says the federal government "will be working with its state and local partners over the next several months" to gather information on "rightwing extremist activity in the United States." The joint federal-state activities will have "a particular emphasis" on the causes of "rightwing extremist radicalization."The nine page DHS report can be found here Ric Bradshaw, a Palm Beach County Sheriff anxious to do his part to encourage his constituents to become spies for the Obama Gestapo, was recently awarded one million dollars by the Florida Legislature. As for what the funds will be used for, Sheriff Bradshaw summed it up in this article from the Palm Beach Post :
"We want people to call us if the guy down the street says he hates the government, hates the mayor and he's gonna shoot him," Bradshaw said. "What does it hurt to have somebody knock on a door and ask, 'Hey, is everything OK?"Mein Fuhrer would be proud!
"The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force."...Mein KampfAnother excerpt from "Nazi Terror Begins" points out the intimidation tactics used by by the Hitler SS to silence his opponents:
"Hitler and the Nazi regime also resorted to simple and extra-legal terror to intimidate opponents. Nazi paramilitary formations, such as the Storm Detachments (Sturmabteilungen or SA, more commonly known as Storm Troopers) and the Protection Squads (Schutzstaffel or SS), had been established during the 1920s to terrorize political opponents and to protect Nazi leaders."
"The documented camps include not only "killing centers" but also thousands of forced labor camps, where prisoners manufactured war supplies; prisoner-of-war camps; sites euphemistically named "care" centers, where pregnant women were forced to have abortions or their babies were killed after birth; and brothels, where women were coerced into having sex with German military personnel. Auschwitz and a handful of other concentration camps have come to symbolize the Nazi killing machine in the public consciousness. Likewise, the Nazi system for imprisoning Jewish families in hometown ghettos has become associated with a single site -- the Warsaw Ghetto, famous for the 1943 uprising. But these sites, infamous though they are, represent only a minuscule fraction of the entire German network, the new research makes painfully clear. The maps the researchers have created to identify the camps and ghettos turn wide sections of wartime Europe into black clusters of death, torture and slavery -- centered in Germany and Poland, but reaching in all directions. The lead editors on the project, Geoffrey Megargee and Martin Dean, estimate that 15 million to 20 million people died or were imprisoned in the sites that they have identified as part of a multivolume encyclopedia. (The Holocaust museum has published the first two, with five more planned by 2025."Another excerpt from Nazi Terror Begins recounts, "In the months after Hitler took power, SA and Gestapo agents went from door to door looking for Hitler's enemies. They arrested Socialists, Communists, trade union leaders, and others who had spoken out against the Nazi party; some were murdered. By the summer of 1933, the Nazi party was the only legal political party in Germany. Nearly all organized opposition to the regime had been eliminated. Democracy was dead in Germany"
"All propaganda must be so popular and on such an intellectual level, that even the most stupid of those towards whom it is directed will understand it. Therefore, the intellectual level of the propaganda must be lower the larger the number of people who are to be influenced by it."...Mein KampfI first became aware of the term "shelter in place" during the manhunt for the Boston Marathon Bombers. I was astounded that nearly one million people followed the order to stay confined to their homes and the city of Boston was completely shut down. Think about how easy it was to convince an entire city to obey the directive to "shelter in place" as armed government agents blocked off all points of exit. The full unbelievable account of American citizens, in a city known for it's contribution to the American Revolution, allowing themselves to be confined in their homes can be found in this NBC news article Watching dumbfounded the continuing coverage of "sheltering in place", I wanted to discover if this was phenomenon was occurring elsewhere. Apparently it's occurring all across America. A few of the instances I found can be found here , here, here, here [url=http://libertyfirewall.com/2013/04/29/houston-shelter-in-place-after-warehouse-fire/>here]http://libertyfirewall.com/2013/04/29/houston-shelter-in-place-after-warehouse-fire/>here[/url] here, and even at the U.S. Naval Acamedy Of course coverage of the "shelter in place" in the Boston suburb of Waterton wouldn't be complete without also mentioning the armed SWAT teams that roamed the streets, dragging residents from their homes and conducting warrantless searches of their homes. Video and pictures can be found here and here I find little difference between the actions of these SWAT teams and the Hitler SA and SS. How easy would it have been to install barricades and fencing and wall the people in? If you have a little time on your hands, more interesting reading on Hitler and Nazi Germany can be found in the "The Nazification of German Society" By Jake Cmarada. Hopefully more Americans will start connecting the dots in Obama's quest to become our Mein Fuhrer. For the sake of this country, it needs to happen soon. I leave you with this from an event in Florida as reported by Mike Synan, WOFL Fox 35 reporter:
"Crowd for #FLOTUS event in Daytona now chanting "Hail Obama," tweeted WOFL Fox 35 reporter Mike Synan. "Wow, just wow."The rally was held at Daytona Beach's Ocean Center. More than 5,000 people showed up -- the crowd described as restless and boisterous. Synan said the chanting came during a warm up session before the First Lady appeared on stage. He repeated the claim in a follow-up message on Twitter, "True. Would not lie. Chanting "Hail Obama." Synan later said someone in the crowd would yell "Hail Obama" and then "hundreds that could hear that person would repeat."
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Editor’s Note: Paula Helton Passed away on December 27, 2014. She will be greatly missed
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