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I have compared Obama to Hitler, notwithstanding readers telling me that’s over the line. No, it’s not. See my line-by-line comparison in my Obama victory article. The other articles where I saw similarities between Obama and Hitler are:

http://johntreed.com/outlawopposition.html
http://johntreed.com/Obamaflag.html

One similarity is Obama’s efforts to use businesspersons and investors or “speculators” as scapegoats. Hitler used the Jews.

I increasingly see headlines about Obama’s anger at Wall Street and big corporations. It succeeded enough that a Republican Senator, Grassley of Iowa, called on AIG CEO Edward Liddy to commit suicide. The guy has only been in the job since September and gets paid $1 a year for crissake! AIG executives have had their lives threatened.

On 3/19/09, I saw scenes of demonstrators chanting and marching in front of AIG. Congressmen are yelling at business executives at hearings which border on show trials of those executives.

Watching all these denunciations and the stoking of as much anger as possible, I wonder,

When is Obama’s Kristallnacht?

The original Kristallnacht was the night between November 9th and 10th, 1938.

“Kristallnacht” is German for “crystal night.” They called it that because the streets of German cities were covered with broken glass. Where did the broken glass come from? Shop windows of shops owned by Jews.

Kristallnacht was a coordinated attack, in the form of seemingly spontaneous riots, on Jews all over Germany. 91 were murdered and 20,000 to 30,000 were arrested and sent to concentration camps. More than 200 synagogues were destroyed and thousands of homes and businesses were ransacked. All Jews in Germany were forced to pay a collective huge fine (one billion Deutsche marks—$5.5 million 2009 U.S. dollars) for the assassination of the diplomat. The Nazi government collected the fine by confiscating 20% of all Jewish property. The government also confiscated the insurance payments to the shop owners for the riot losses.

This is somewhat similar to the unconstitutional 90% tax on executive bonuses levied almost overnight by the Congress on the pretext of the AIG bonuses. Jews were denounced as “parasites,” not unlike the denunciations of corporations and banks who received bailout money and behaved in their normal ways thereafter.

Hitler also used the Jews as a way to distract the German people from the economic problems that had not been eliminated by the Nazis. Here are two quotes from the Wikipedia write up on the word “scapegoat.”

Scapegoating is an important tool of propaganda; the most famous example in modern history is the singling out in Nazi propaganda of the Jews as the source of Germany's post-World War I economic woes and political collapse.

Scapegoating is an effective if temporary means of achieving group solidarity, when it cannot be achieved in a more constructive way. It is a turning inward, a diversion of energy away from serving nebulous external purposes toward the deliciously clear, specific goal of ruining a disliked co-worker's life. ... Mobbing can be understood as the stressor to beat all stressors. It is an impassioned, collective campaign by co-workers to exclude, punish, and humiliate a targeted worker. Initiated most often by a person in a position of power or influence, mobbing is a desperate urge to crush and eliminate the target. The urge travels through the workplace like a virus, infecting one person after another. The target comes to be viewed as absolutely abhorrent, with no redeeming qualities, outside the circle of acceptance and respectability, deserving only of contempt. As the campaign proceeds, a steadily larger range of hostile ploys and communications comes to be seen as legitimate.

Who coordinated the original Kristallnacht? The Nazi party which had been in power since 1933.

The pretext of the original Kristallnacht was the assassination of a German diplomat by a German-born Polish Jew. The pretext for Obama’s Kristallnacht is the payment of $165 million in retention bonuses to AIG executives for remaining with the company until a certain date, a common arrangement with Wall Street executives, major college football coaches, and professional athletes. Essentially, the company is willing to pay a guy, say, $5 million. However, they back-end load it—say $2.4 million in regular salary and $2.6 million as a bonus for staying for two years or whatever. They make sure he stays there for a reasonable period of time. Democrats are also stoking anger over other routine events like corporate parties, living up to contracts with foreign counterparties, renovations of corporate executive offices, and so forth.

In fact, there are an endless number of such incidents that Democrats can feign outrage at. Corporate executives are politicians like the Congress. There is also an endless number of politician scandals if you want to look for them.

I appreciate informed, well-thought-out constructive criticism and suggestions. If there are any errors or omissions in my facts or logic, please tell me about them. If you are correct, I will fix the item in question. If you wish, I will give you credit. Where appropriate, I will apologize for the error. To date, I have been surprised at how few such corrections I have had to make.