Images like this make me cringe.

[Nordmadr]

I don't care who says the Nazi comparisons are bogus. Shit like this sure as hell IS reminiscent of it.

We've got our own offices of propoganda, bought news, war fears, an image or idea to point hate at, etc.

The whole "Homeland" thing, and all the other big billboard propoganda (Plan for VICTORY) just freak me the hell out. Combine this with all the secrecy, current and sought (new secret agency anyone) and you have one lovely new fascist government. Go ahead, try it out, kick the tires. Isn't it just grand?

Olaf

[atommom]

1. It's so cheesy. It looks like a scene from a bad miniseries

based on a bad book about a bad president.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

2. Replace "Homeland" with "Fatherland"

and it is very ominous.

[deutsey]

6. According to Thom Hartmann, the Nazis first use the word "homeland"

He played a speech of Goebbles (I think) using it for the first time in the '30s.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

13. ...gulp....

[Blue_In_AK]

21. George needs his Lebensraum...

I guess that's what we're doing in Iraq.

[FreedomAngel82]

3. Yep

Just like the Nazi's. EVERYthing. Only thing different is Hitler was actually elected (I've never read if he stole the election or not).

[IronLionZion]

9. 30% of the vote

Between the Nazis, Communists, Social Democrats, and other parties, nobody had a majority so they gave the presidency to Paul von Hindenburg of the Social Democrats and gave the chancellorship to one Adolf Hitler of the NSDAP in a bipartisan power-sharing agreement. Then Hindenburg died.....:scared:

[Vickers]

19. Plus Hitler was actually a decorated war hero

Wee Cowboy isn't even up to HITLER standards. :rofl:

Oh wait, he did get a Good Conduct Medal. :patriot:

[bballny]

4. The thing that is eerie

is the angle of the shot. Looking up in awe and looking for guidance.

[Arkansas Granny]

35. "Eerie". That's the word I was looking for. It's almost as though

he's been anointed by some supernatural light ray. Just a little spooky.

[RaleighNCDUer]

39. Follow the podium up, and his head is the top of a cross

with arms outstretched...

Another very obvious "Christ" symbology.

Could they be any more blatant?

[PistolSteve]

5. Pictures like these make me wish I could throw up

....but I can't

[mattomjoe]

7. Did Clinton ever use backdrops like this?

I don't recall it, but maybe I have a selective memory.

[satireV]

17. It was Reagan

who first used the backdrop images to help during his speeches.
later....

Clinton perfected the rapid response to issues.

NOW...

Bush has integrated both the visual backdrop images and the rapid response to his speeches.

It is a masterful move.

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[IronLionZion]

12. There's a black officer in that picture

I was told by black friends in NO that even black police officers there think in racist stereotypes too.

[Ferret Annica]

29. Yes there is a Black officer there...

But the militarization of the police and the desire to homogenize the mindset as much as it has become in the military with a right wing cast to it, it doesn't matter.

Negroes are not the wedge issue these days; homosexuals and the new craze of dehumanizing illegal immigrants is the general neocon choice of target to inspire unity through fear and lynch mob like rage.

Things are scary now, but what is really scary is how fast things can - and probably will - get allot worse.

[unblock]

16. help me identify the nazi symbols?

thanks!

:hi:

[Ferret Annica]

27. Stylized win lightning bolts for one.

Many who admire the cold efficiency of the Waffen S.S. if not their chosen wedge issue of anti-Semitism and exact ideology.

The sword of righteousness is a good feature incorporated in many U.S. Army patches such as the Special Forces crest and the "Electric Butter knife" arrow shaped patch with three lightning bolts to symbolize the three main means of deployment, land, sea and air.



'Electric Butter Knife'

However, in this SWAT Tee shirt, it has a skull impaled on it. The skull is a Waffen SS symbol as well.

[enid602]

10. prez seal

It even looks as though the presidential seal on the podium has been super-sized. Has it lalways been so large?

[Captain Hilts]

11. Same size, smaller podium. nt

[atommom]

15. Interestingly, it looks bigger than Junior's head now.

Symbolism counts for more than brains these days. :shrug:

[spindrifter]

14. It's like he's on the cross!

[Lars39]

18. That was my first impression, too!

Creepy as hell.

[MrMonk]

22. He's blessing the multitudes

[soothsayer]

25. gawd i wish he was!

[Zhade]

31. Worse, it looks like he's PART of the cross.

NT!

[electron_blue]

20. Can you imagine Clinton doing this?

Or Reagan for that matter.

[LeftNYC]

23. 2+2=5 nt

[Nordmadr]

24. Protecting the Homeland...Protecting the Homeland...Protecting the Homelan

"See, in my line of work you got to keep repeating things over and over and over again for the truth to sink in, to kind of catapult the propaganda." —George W. Bush, Greece, N.Y., May 24, 2005


"Haven't we already given money to rich people? Why are we going to do it again?" —George W. Bush, to economic advisers discussing a second round of tax cuts, as quoted by Paul O'Neil, Washington, D.C., Nov. 26, 2002

"I'm the commander — see, I don't need to explain — I do not need to explain why I say things. That's the interesting thing about being president." —George W. Bush, as quoted in Bob Woodward's "Bush at War"

"See, free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction." —George W. Bush, Milwaukee, Wis., Oct. 3, 2003

[MADem]

26. And they bitch when people counter with images that fairly represent this

horseshit for what it is:

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[FSogol]

28. This one is worse:

[Zhade]

32. The Red X Of Doom!

:P

[MADem]

34. Right click, cut properties and stick it in your browser

It's the pope!!! And a weeping eagle!!! And the two towers!!! with a logo, NEVER FORGET!!! Cheesy to the max!!!

Not worth sending out the troops to bring it up! Unless you have a strong stomach!

[FSogol]

36. and Terry Schaivo and Dale Earnhart! n/t

[MADem]

37. Yeah, I figured enough was enough!!

It is pretty damn cheesy, ya gotta wonder what genius really is feeling the nexus there!!!

[schmuls]

33. the angle they are shooting the resident at makes him look like

an important guy. The outstretched arms almost give a cross-like effect. Our great protector!!!

[zann725]

38. Ever notice how all his "backdrops" have words that repeat & repeat

the same few words...much like his speeches.

And the angle they photographed this from is that Evangelical pulpit look.

[kwolf68]

40. You sure hes not singing...

Come gather round people from wherever you roam
and admit that the waters around you have grown.

Ahh, probably not.

[Vidar]

41. Of course, for shrub, it's a Motherland, not Fatherland.