Creating Laws to Prevent Crimes that Do Not Exist
Sadly, there are American voters–plenty of them–who believe what they want to believe, despite all evidence.
A good example is that a law already exists that prohibits non-citizens from voting. And it’s not some obscure law like those concerning jaywalking or spitting on a sidewalk. It’s the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
Yet we have the Republican Speaker of the House stirring our country’s most ignorant people into an uproar over this point. Most of the folks are no more familiar with the Constitution than they are with the procedures of open-heart surgery or sending rockets into space, and the Speaker knows this goddamn well.
If you need another reason to believe this, Johnson is an utterly disgusting human being.
Hermann Goering, a principal architect of the police state under the Third Reich, as quoted in the 1947 book “Nuremberg Diary” by Gustave M. Gilbert, a psychologist who had access to the prisoners during the trials:
“It is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship… voice or no voice, 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.”
Sound familiar…?