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WhoIsNumberNone

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7. The only factual argument I have here is that the Reichstag fire wasn't a false flag attack
Sun Dec 18, 2011, 03:21 AM
Dec 2011

Most historians agree with this position. Of course the Nazis exploited it in much the same way that the US government exploited 9/11, even though their own documents captured after the war show that they privately believed that Marinus Van der Lubbe acted alone and wasn't part of any organized commuinst plot.

However I am pleased to see someone else- even if it's a Ron Paul supporter- finally making this comparison to the Nazis. These are exactly the sort of powers they gave the Gestapo (i.e. arrest without charge, indefinite detention, no legal rights for detainees) when it was first created.

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omg and not in a good way, signing statements? heard of any? China will give itself this power too StarsInHerHair Dec 2011 #1
What? TheWraith Dec 2011 #3
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The only factual argument I have here is that the Reichstag fire wasn't a false flag attack WhoIsNumberNone Dec 2011 #7
Thanks, as one who has talked to a lot of people (mostly Germans) who lived in JDPriestly Dec 2011 #9
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Ignorant Hyperbole. Yawn... RBInMaine Dec 2011 #11
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