“It was not Hitler or Himmler who abducted me, beat me and shot my family. It was the shoemaker, the milkman, the neighbor, who received a uniform and then believed they were the master race.”
Karl Stojka, Auschwitz survivor
These people – these fascist that are willfully signing up to hunt, abduct, beat, torture, and kill our neighbors – are not simply a cog in the machine that have no humanity after years of military in service of an empire. The truth is much more horrific. These are just regular American bigots with no training, emboldened by a regime that wants power above all else. They have voluntarily given up their humanity to become a modern day gestapo, not because they are brave or good, quite the opposite.
Orpo (the Green police = national police with long German history similar to FBI) had heavy SS influence throughout its post 1930s existence, and under direct SS control in 1936. Gestapo department IV B 4 told where ICE should go find some jews to deport. They also reported to SS. Orpo was the department who’d conduct surprise firing squads.
Police, as a rule, and ACAB, generally prefer the fascist option of “shoot to kill when they get scared” and a hierarchy that will support their decisions. Minneapolis officers involved in murder this week were definitely bad apples, but the much bigger MAGA = Nazi methods comparisons, is all of the doubling down on hate from Cabinet officials, and announcing door to door raids expansions to purge harder, are orders of magnitude more responsible for amplifying the national nightmare.
These people – these fascist that are willfully signing up to hunt, abduct, beat, torture, and kill our neighbors – are not simply a cog in the machine that have no humanity after years of military in service of an empire. The truth is much more horrific. These are just regular American bigots with no training, emboldened by a regime that wants power above all else. They have voluntarily given up their humanity to become a modern day gestapo, not because they are brave or good, quite the opposite.
Orpo (the Green police = national police with long German history similar to FBI) had heavy SS influence throughout its post 1930s existence, and under direct SS control in 1936. Gestapo department IV B 4 told where ICE should go find some jews to deport. They also reported to SS. Orpo was the department who’d conduct surprise firing squads.
Police, as a rule, and ACAB, generally prefer the fascist option of “shoot to kill when they get scared” and a hierarchy that will support their decisions. Minneapolis officers involved in murder this week were definitely bad apples, but the much bigger MAGA = Nazi methods comparisons, is all of the doubling down on hate from Cabinet officials, and announcing door to door raids expansions to purge harder, are orders of magnitude more responsible for amplifying the national nightmare.