Didn't nazi germany pass a bill similar to Bush's patriot act?

Question

What was it called?

Answer 1

The Enabling Act of 1933

Answer 2

...."Consider the following two statements, and see if you can identify the authors.
Statement Number One: "The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country."....

...Statement Number Two: "To those who scare peace-loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: Your tactics only aid terrorists, for they erode our national unity and diminish our resolve."...

...The first statement is a quote from Hitler's right hand man, Hermann Goering, explaining at his war crimes trial how easily he and his fellow Nazis hijacked Germany's democratic government. The second statement is a quote from Bush's right hand man, John Ashcroft, defending the Patriot Act and explaining why dissent will no longer be tolerated in the age of terrorism. If that doesn't send chills down your spine, nothing will....

Secret arrests? Did we hear that right? It seems that the Homeland Security Department (HSD) is about to become the KGB. The first Patriot Act already allows for people to be locked up indefinitely without a lawyer and without being charged with a crime. If Patriot Act II passes, then arrests would also be secret. That means that dissenters (or anyone else, for that matter) could disappear without a trace, just as they did in Nazi Germany, in Stalinist Russia, and in Pinochet's Chile.

Patriot Act II would also grant even more immunity to Big Business. A corporation could pour toxins into your local river, for instance, and you wouldn't know about it until all the fish died and your neighbor’s kids were born with missing limbs. And then when you went to court and demanded to know what the company was dumping in your river, the company could deny you that information on the grounds that it's a national security secret. Jim Hightower put it this way: "All a company has to do to shield anything it wants to keep from the public eye--say, an embarrassing chemical spill--is give the documents to the Homeland Security Department and call them "critical infrastructure information."

Ah, but there's even more to be concerned about here. The document was created back in early January, but so far it appears that the only members of Congress who even know of its existence are House Speaker Dennis Hastert and Vice-president Dick Cheney. (The Vice-president presides over the Senate, which makes him a member of the legislative branch as well as the executive branch.) This raises a troubling question: Why has the White House been sitting on this bill for a month? If the CEOs down at Bush, Inc. really believe that they need these broad new powers to protect us from terrorists, why not roll out that bill and start the debate? The answer is all too plain. In all likelihood, the Bush administration was planning to avoid debate entirely by springing this bill on the American people in the midst of a perceived national crisis. Perhaps during the war with Iraq, for instance. Or perhaps in the aftermath of the next terrorist attack. Or perhaps right after the Reichstag fire.

Had some courageous soul not leaked this document out of the Justice Department, the White House might easily have succeeded in passing it through Congress without debate in the midst of our next perceived national crisis, much as it did with the first Patriot Act in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks. A thorough debate of this bill right now, under fairly stable circumstances, would defuse it and prevent its passage even under more frightening circumstances later on. There's just one problem. The debate can't begin until more Americans know about this bill, but so far the Washington Post is the only major news outlet to even MENTION this story since Bill Moyers broke it on Friday night.

Answer 3

properly, the project for sure is that the reaction is coming formerly any genuine legislative movements or any type of concrete idea that we can critique. the tale only says he helps extending elements of the patriot act and is open to writing them with better privateness protections for civilians. at this element that would want to intend many stuff, i'd extremely debate it even as they exhibit their new plan than debate it now in accordance with conjecture and open statements.

Answer 4

After the Reichstag fire in 1933, President Paul von Hindenburg was pressured to sign the Decree for the Protection of the People and the State, which suspended the civil liberties that were guaranteed to the German people by the Weimar constitution.

Answer 5

Beg your pardon there young fella but, this would be the next president's patriot act. Yes, the one that just got renewed and Hillary voted for.......TWICE!
If she gets elected, she will make the most use of it. We can only hope that she confines the activity to the terrorists and doesn't use it on the political opposition or tha media ooooor for that matter, as a way to find out where Bill is getting his jollies.

Answer 6

The Nazi's did like to "preemptively" attack other countries, daring the League of Nations to stop them.

Answer 7

"the German patriot act part One"?

Well, Bush's partiot act is anything BUT patriotic.

And before you go giving me a thumbs down for being soft on a "Bush=Hilter" question, remeber it is mnay true conservatives that take serious issue with the Patriot act.

Some of them are even friends of mine!

Answer 8

Perhaps, so did Presidents Lincoln, Wilson and FDR.
Notice a trend there?

Answer 9

It's hilarious how the Left compares GWB to the Nazi's, when it is the Lefties that want our guns, run our schools, and want to stifle any opposing views they dont agree with (Fairness Doctrine).

You people are so backward in your thoughts it's scary. Dont you see how well your agenda follows the Nazi beliefs?

Answer 10

Yes. And promised it wouldn't be sued against law-abiding German citizens.

I'm sure the inmates of the concentration camps would be glad to testify as to how well the Nazis kept that promise.