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In reply to the discussion: Active Shooter at Cielo Vista Mall area in El Paso [View all]kentuck
(116,280 posts)86. Somewhere in the back of the mind...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_fire
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The Reichstag fire (German: Reichstagsbrand, About this soundlisten (help·info)) was an arson attack on the Reichstag building, home of the German parliament in Berlin, on Monday 27 February 1933, precisely four weeks after Adolf Hitler was sworn in as Chancellor of Germany. Hitler's government stated that Marinus van der Lubbe, a Dutch council communist, was found near the building, and they attributed the fire to communist agitators in generalthough a German court decided later that year that Van der Lubbe had acted alone, as he claimed. After the fire, the Reichstag Fire Decree was passed. The Nazi Party used the fire as a pretext that communists were plotting against the German government, and the event is considered pivotal in the establishment of Nazi Germany. The term "Reichstag fire" has come to refer to false flag actions facilitated by an authority to promote their own interests through popular approval of retribution or retraction of civil rights.
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The Reichstag fire (German: Reichstagsbrand, About this soundlisten (help·info)) was an arson attack on the Reichstag building, home of the German parliament in Berlin, on Monday 27 February 1933, precisely four weeks after Adolf Hitler was sworn in as Chancellor of Germany. Hitler's government stated that Marinus van der Lubbe, a Dutch council communist, was found near the building, and they attributed the fire to communist agitators in generalthough a German court decided later that year that Van der Lubbe had acted alone, as he claimed. After the fire, the Reichstag Fire Decree was passed. The Nazi Party used the fire as a pretext that communists were plotting against the German government, and the event is considered pivotal in the establishment of Nazi Germany. The term "Reichstag fire" has come to refer to false flag actions facilitated by an authority to promote their own interests through popular approval of retribution or retraction of civil rights.
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Amazon.com is going to grow even bigger as people become too afraid to go anywhere
tblue37
Aug 2019
#3
I have never been fond of crowds or of events that draw crowds, but if I were, I would
tblue37
Aug 2019
#12
A Texas mall? There must be several hundred "Good Guys with Guns" who can stop him before the PD.
TheBlackAdder
Aug 2019
#8
As soon as we get a Democrat in the Presidency, it's time to put an end to this madness.
Oneironaut
Aug 2019
#17
They want gun control? They should get gun control. Total fucking gun control.
nolabear
Aug 2019
#29
"Assault rifles"? You'd get the NRA babbling points for posting that elsewhere, maybe even here.
brewens
Aug 2019
#35
You have a Constitutional right to guns, not assault rifles, cheap bullets, or high capacity
Oneironaut
Aug 2019
#96
Alcohol is a Constitutional right, and they tax that. And that's pretty damn regressive.
Crunchy Frog
Aug 2019
#97
we'll find out soon enough what the race of the persons are, which will dictate the media response
Takket
Aug 2019
#30
JJ MacNab: FWIW, I have the El Paso shooter's purported manifesto. It's ugly, but...
demmiblue
Aug 2019
#44
If we don't know how others "truly think" by now, reading *another* manifesto isn't going to get us
WhiskeyGrinder
Aug 2019
#50
Mentions they will turn the TX state away from republicans and vote as democrats
lunasun
Aug 2019
#67