Biden’s Reichstag Fire: How the Left is Using an Unfortunate Event to Erase Liberty

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the reichstag fire of 2021

The Reichstag Fire of 1933

In my view, the Reichstag Fire is one of the more misunderstood historical events from the mid-20th Century. People often confuse it with other perfidious acts committed by the Nazis. It most likely wasn’t fake, unlike the supposed Polish attack on a German radio station that started World War II but was really a false flag operation, nor was it instigated by the Nazis like the street-fighting between SA stormtroopers, Freikorps volunteers, and communist street fighters that led to the Nazi rise to power.

No, the Reichstag was set alight by a disaffected communist named Marinus van der Lubbe who received help from three other Bulgarian communists, Georgi Dimitrov, Vasil Tanev, and Blagoy Popov. Maybe the SA was tangentially involved, maybe it wasn’t. Either way, those four men were the ones responsible. They weren’t acting on orders of Nazis; they wanted to strike a blow against the German government.

The result, as any student of history knows, was a cynical and predatory overresponse. The German Reichstag (Weimar Germany’s parliamentary body) responded to the act of arson by blaming a communist conspiracy and passing the Reichstag Fire Decree, which President Hindenburg signed of his own volition. That decree gave the Nazis unprecedented power.

With it, they could suspend the civil liberties that we in the West hold dear. Those civil liberties included habeas corpus, freedom of expression, freedom of the press, the right of free association and public assembly, and the secrecy of the post and telephone.

The Nazis, already in power but buoyed with their new powers, duly suspended those once-cherished civil liberties and used the decree’s provisions to ban publications unfriendly to their cause.

They then used inflammatory news releases to isolate the communists, inciting the population against them.

Finally, the Enabling Act was signed, giving Herr Hitler, that evil Austrian corporal, dictatorial powers. The end result, 12 years later, was a broken Germany, tens of millions dead, and an unimaginably horrible host of tragedies.

All of that came about because a few communists attacked Germany’s seat of power.

the reichstag fire of 1933: not dissimilar to the reichstag fire of 2021
The Reichstag set alight, image in public domain

The Storming of the Capitol: America’s Reichstag Fire

Now, before I begin relating that tragedy to the recent storming of the Capitol, let me clearly state two things: I do not think Joe Biden is in any way comparable to Adolf Hitler, nor do I think the events at the Capitol were much more than a mass trespass.

That should go without saying, but, just to be clear, while I disagree with him, I in no way think he wants to implement the horrific policies of the Nazis. Nor do I think that most of the Americans who stormed the Capitol were as bad as the communist arsonists; Buffalo Headdress Man was nowhere near as destructive as van der Lubbe and much of what transpired was blown way out of proportion (much as the burning of the Reichstag was blown out of proportion). In America, we’re fortunate to not have such horrific people in the mainstream of our political process, for now, at least.

The similarity is in the response. How the left, namely the Big Tech giants that I have termed the enemies of freedom, responded to the Capitol Hill riot is somewhat similar to how Germans responded to the Reichstag Fire.

Just think about what has happened since the events of January 6th. Because a few radical Trump supporters broke into the Capitol, Big Tech has blamed a Trumpian conspiracy and launched an unprecedented attack on free speech. They’re using it and unfounded assumptions about it as an excuse to disappear us all, silencing us and banishing us from the public square in an attempt to combat “extremism.”

Trump was banned from all mainstream social media platforms, as were many Trump supporters. The Big Tech oligarchs silenced the other side by cracking down on any speech with which they disagreed. Their ostensible goal was to prevent any more riots, but we all know the real reason for that crackdown was to silence dissent and prevent future pro-Trump protests.

Like freedom of the press, freedom of expression, the right of free expression, and the right of free association were banned in Germany, the leftist oligarchs in Silicon Valley placed collective blame on every conservative and purged them from social media platforms. Our right to speak freely and associate with whom we please has been done away with by a few unelected tech CEOs.

Similarly, as the Nazis used those emergency powers to get rid of unfriendly publications, Big Tech has used America’s acceptance of its new censorship policies to ban apps like Parler that are unfriendly to its cause. Parler was booted off the App Store and Google Play store and was purged from Amazon’s servers, which had previously been open to all. Will Fox News be next? Newsmax? The Daily Wire? Other conservative companies? Whoever or whatever is next, more purges will follow; the oligarchs are taking full advantage of their new-found emergency powers.

What remains to be seen is what Enabling Act-like powers will be given to the newly installed government. Biden won’t take on overtly dictatorial powers, that contention would be absurd, but his administration might use the outrage from Jan. 6 to further crackdown on conservative thought. Already there is talk of a new bill, similar to the unconstitutional PATRIOT Act, that would be used to root out “extremism.” By extremism, of course, they mean conservative thought.

Under that same attempt to attack “extremism,” the Democrats have launched a full-out purge of the military that, in terms of intent, closely resembles Stalin’s attempts to cleanse the Red Army of dissenters and political enemies.

The Democrats, whether in private industry or the government, are taking full advantage of the opportunities and leeway afforded them by the mass trespass at the Capitol.

The Reichstag Fire of 2021 might prove just as transformative as the Reichstag Fire of 1933.

Before that terrorist attack on the Reichstag, few Germans really believed that the Nazis would assume dictatorial powers and do away with civil liberties. Similarly, before Jan. 6, I didn’t believe the tech oligarchs would so obviously and directly censor conservative thought. Now, the only question that remains is how many more individuals they will blacklist, how many more ways they will attack freedom of expression and thought.

Additionally, the powers given to Hitler became long-lasting. A shortsighted overreaction from the Reichstag meant that civil liberties did not exist in Germany again until it was defeated, crushed by the forces of Eisenhower and Zhukov. In East Germany, those liberties did not exist until the wall fell in 1989.

Will the same thing happen in America? Some think this social media censorship and attack on free speech will be short-lasting. I disagree. I think the Rubicon has been crossed and this is the new normal. Conservatives are not welcome on those platforms and should boycott them and boycott every other leftist company that stands against freedom. Why enrich those that hate you and want to make you a serf of the state?

The Capitol Riot was America’s Reichstag Fire. Yes, the two events have their many differences. But they were also not dissimilar. It was undoubtedly a horrific event that never should have taken place in the same way that the arson attack on the Reichstag was. But, in both cases, the response was worse. Fighting terrorism or unrest with tyranny is an evil response and that must be recognized.

The Left, both in Silicon Valley and Washington, seems intent on using it to isolate us and banish us from civil society similarly to how the NSDAP used the Reichstag Fire to banish the opposition to the fringes of society. While the reprisals will not be as severe here, the clouds of tyranny are forming on the horizon and quickly headed in our direction. It’s tech tyranny, not Naziism, but the censorship will prove devastating to the American notion of freedom of speech.

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whoopie
whoopie

No, Biden is not Hitler, he’s a doddering old Hindenburg, handing off power to the Hitlerian wing of his Party.

I'm the Man on the Silver Mountain
I'm the Man on the Silver Mountain

Except this bunch of socialist idiots seem hell bent on destroying the currency and economy as quickly as possible, unlike their fascist forebears who actually realized repudiating the debt would have to be backstopped with a real money standard worthy of a new Thousand Year Reich.
Nationalism is now a dirty word. Double speak and political correctness with a huge dollop of American-style amoral lunacy is now being served – while it lasts. Their New Order, like a Thousand Year Reich, will get dumped into a deplorable lake of fire of their own making.

Montefrio

“Horrific”! Quite.

A minor nit to pick: “With it, they could suspend the civil liberties that we in the West hold dear.” Perhaps “held” w0uld be more accurate.

Ed
Ed

The sheer tonnage of what this guy hasn’t realized would sink the US Pacific Fleet.

Hardscrabble Farmer
Hardscrabble Farmer

“In America, we’re fortunate to not have such horrific people in the mainstream of our political process, for now, at least.”

Is this guy serious? That may the single most disingenuous comment I think I have ever read.

Ken31
Ken31

The errors of fact and logic are legion

Anonymous
Anonymous

I refuse to read or listen to anymore dribble about Americans forcing their way into a building they own while guards they pay attempt to stop them from reaching elected employees that Americans pay because the American citizens employees refuse to listen and have destroyed every aspect of our free republic .
The real insurrectionists were hiding in their Capitol offices while at least one guard murdered an unarmed citizen a veteran in her property !
Far to many government employees elected , appointed and hired seem to forget just who the hell they work for !
As for the Capitol incident on Jan 6 2021 there is overwhelming evidence of agent provocateurs and advanced knowledge of what was going to happen !
Like the NAZI party and the Reichstag fire the Democrats (The True NAZI’s) in control of much of the US GOVERNMENT have their Joesph Gobbles clones in the MSM propagandizing the hell out of this and twisting and shaping the lies they will repeat over and over till a majority will believe it or at least fear not to believe it !
That’s how socialism and true believers in socialist causes work . DING DING DING wake up call their shit is working !

Mary Christine

This is as good a place as any to post this. I’m not sure I quite trust Millie Weaver. That said, this could be a very interesting documentary.

grace country pastor

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anon
anon

” The end result, 12 years later, was a broken Germany, tens of millions dead, and an unimaginably horrible host of tragedies.”

The result was that within only a couple of years, Germany made a huge transformation. Find pictures or footage from those years before the war. You will see why it had to be destroyed.

Enabling Act -23 March 1933
Judea Declares War on Germany -24 March 1933

“With it, they could suspend the civil liberties that we in the West hold dear. Those civil liberties included habeas corpus, freedom of expression, freedom of the press, the right of free association and public assembly, and the secrecy of the post and telephone.”

What a joke.

m
m

I in no way think he [Biden] wants to implement the horrific policies of the Nazis.

Oh-kay… we will review this statement about Biden and the puppeteers behind him, ten years from now.

Ed
Ed

Fuckin’ A.

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