From: Enzo de Ianni <enzodeianni@t...>
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 18:21:28 +0100
Subject: UNSC (emotional rant)
> Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 16:23:49 -0800 (PST) Either a sudden change or a violent one or a series of slow modifications of the laws, it definitely happens (or happened) because people thought those guys had the answer to someterrible crisis; yes, I think you are right. > Yes, Hitler won a fair election. The election was Well, first of all, some political systems, like Weimar Germany or contemporary Italy, do not permit the direct election of the executive chief (the chief of the government, prime minister or chancellor... whatever) but ask for a further nomination by elected members of parliament... the different parties form an "alliance" that will support a government headed by this guy or the other... that's no backroom deals, just a different constitution. The fact that a single party do not have a clear majority do not make less authorized to rule... today's Germany chancellor is a leftist, whose government is supported by Greens... so what? Is he not a constitutionally sound governor? He won because some parties, among them all, are the majority and could find a commom way to rule things, nominate him and support him. The oft-quoted "even Hitler > was elected" statement is pure myth. As you saw, no myth. Sorry. It's also not > true that the various parties' thugs had "equality of That's definitely true... I never heard about organized militias other than Communist and Nazi. and even then the > German law enforcement tended to deal with Nazi thugs Well, you may remember that the Reds tried to overcome the country in a bloody revolution and that veteran organizations were instrumental to save the day... most of those organizations supported, later, the Nazis... so you can understand that the authorities took it easy, some times... they were brothers-in-arms... TWICE! And, anyway, the violent takeover that Nazis tried, before, winning the elections, was blunted by a limited if very professional intervention of the army, at Munich... not exactly a supportive attitude, I would say. Concerning > the "brownshirt" disbandment, the SA continued in But the SS were not a party militia, they were a new "police" force... with some twists, to put it mildly. And I heard that during the later stages of the war, the SA saw a comeback, even originating their own "military" branch... Bye