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“ Isn't It Time To Abolish The IRS ? “

“ Isn't It Time To Abolish The IRS ? “

Welcome to the question many are asking themselves these days. In light of all the crazy and insane things that our Federal, State, County and local Government's are doing to us, including violating nearly every aspect of our United State Constitution, there is no doubt in my mind as well as well as the mind of many Americans, it seems high time we start to disassemble our government and “default” to year 1776. In all honesty, I couldn't think of a better government agency to begin with in regard's to disassembling the Federal Government than the Internal Revenue Service. In talking with both “Liberally” and “Conservative” minded as well as politically inclined folks on each end of the spectrum, most all agree with me--- it's time to say “bye-bye” to the IRS.

Let's discuss why here....

The Internal Revenue Service was and is to this very day being used as a agent to bully people. As it has also been brought to light in the course of this nation's history from time to time, once again we see and read in the media that the IRS was targeting “politically conservative groups as well as Tea Party's groups.” It appears that applications for IRS Tax Exempt Status for 501c3 and 501c4 during years 2010, 2011 and 2012 were largely either held up and or strange and unconstitutional questionnaires from the IRS were sent to the groups seeking the Tax Exempt Status and were used to solicit information not required or just plain illegal in the asking by the IRS. I want to make it quite clear, the Obama Administration of using the Internal Revenue Service as a agent of bullying is not the first to do so. As a reminder to those with short memories and or have forgotten, it was Bill Clinton who was also caught using the IRS to bully his political enemies as well. “At least a dozen Clinton witnesses-including Sexgate accusers Gennifer Flowers, Paula Jones, Elizabeth Gracen and Juanita Broaddrick-were targeted by audits during the 1990's. Conservative groups critical of the Clinton Administration were also audited, including the Christian Coalition, Citizens for a Sound Economy, the Freedom Alliance, the Heritage Foundation, the NRA and others” http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1390217/posts. Make no mistake about it, sending the IRS to bully people is not just a Democrat problem. In fact, it was none other then George W. Bush who could have stopped the attacks on some peace loving Mennonite friends of mine in New York State in the 1990's but instead, let the IRS attack- dogs do their worse to this very loving and kind family. Because of all the government abuse and injustice, the Lapp Family no longer are citizens of the USA. They have instead migrated to Costa Rica where they live, work and help others. Make no mistake about it, Republicans as well as Democrats have used their power to utilize the Internal Revenue Service to harm those whom they see as their “political enemies.” The Lapp Family is just one of many families who have been abused by such powerhttp://corruptgenesee.com/lapps.html.

The Internal Revenue Services violates the US Constitution by putting people in prison. The United States Government had eliminated putting people in “debtors prison” (http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/14/opinion/return-of-debtors-prisons.html?_r=0) but routinely incarcerates those who owe back taxes whether they have means to pay or not. Most of our Federal and State Government as well, both routinely extort money from it's own citizens for matters those citizens object to. Important and conscientious as well as moral decisions are made on behalf of citizens whether they agree or object. The vast majority of US Citizens have no say so when it comes time to having a say so in regards to how their tax dollars are spent. Since our so called “elected representatives” are in the pockets of corporations and self serving lobbyists, he wishes of the majority of tax payers are often just plain ignored and “political and elected representatives” do as they like instead. Some examples of what the IRS forces citizens to pay for are matters such as that of the killing of children through abortion. Also, the waging of what is seen as an unjust war, or the use of extorted tax funding in clear violation of US Constitutional Rights such as the freedom of Speech, freedom of religion, or even the freedom to own and use a firearm. The Internal Revenue Service is being used over and over again to forcibly collect money from good people who do not agree with using their hard tax revenue for “blood money” and to harm others who are also peace loving people.

The IRS will be overseeing “Obama Care.” If that wasn't bad enough, the Federal government will soon begin to newly hire thousands of IRS employees to oversee and to insure you are paying “your fair share” towards your Obamacare “benefits”(including shaking you down with fines and or jail if you don't). Get this though... the IRS is also overseeing your medical health records ! Think that's insane ?!?, wait, it get's worse.... the Internal Revenue Service is now stock piling shotguns and ammunition. What the heck for I ask ???http://www.examiner.com/article/u-s-agencies-stockpiling-ammo . Do we really want the IRS making our health decisions for us and if we don't like their answers or decisions, should we have to live in fear that armed IRS agents will come crashing through our front door at 3am hauling us all off to some FEMA Camp in the middle of the night ? Sound Orwellian to you ? It sure sounds that way to me ! Isn't it bad enough we have to be concerned about our local and state police beating us up and or handing us some sort of unconstitutional traffic violation “ticket” without the Fed's(IRS) also giving us a hard time or trying to kill us also ?

Again, I couldn't think of a better Federal agency to start dismantling then the Federal Government by beginning with the Internal Revenue Service. Yes, we need to collect taxes, I know the basics of having a government. You know what though, instead of keeping around a government agency that is so corrupt, so arrogant in throwing away our hard earned tax dollars, so eager in wishing in putting us all in jail(well many of us anyway), let's just get rid of the IRS. A flat tax can and should be implemented. We can do this... the fewer people wanting to abuse me or kill me, the better off I and may family are. I believe most of you would agree, right ?

Rev. Paul P. Waldmiller~Black Robe Regiment Pastor

Kerry is forcing Israel to meet with Palestinians for peace talks; it's the Palestinians who've been refusing to talk.  It's the Palestinians that refuse to make peace.  Missile attacks never stopped.  Attacks on Israeli civilians continue.  Obama supports the Palestinians and condemns Israel. The stupid Jews of America who supported Obama may not regret any of this; unfortunately, many others will have to suffer.

Damn this Obama.

Murders per 100,000 people:

#1 Honduras at 91.6 per 100,000 people....to

#110 United States of America at 4.2 murders per 100K people.

ALL 109 countries before America have 100% gun bans!

Switzerland has no murders.

Switzerland's law requires EVERYONE to:

1. Own a gun.

2. Maintain Marksman qualification regularly.

3. "Carry" a weapon.

What a week this has been.  But not for Fox News, we would not know the depth to which this administration has fallen in deceiving the people they were elected to serve.  If these incidents had taken place under a Republican administration, it makes my blood run cold to think how fast the left would demonize and ultimately “throw the bum out”.

I was going through some old photos and found this picture of a much younger John Drew graduating from Occidental College back on June 9, 1979. As you can see, I'm wearing a red arm band. I was doing this to protest Occidental College's investments in South Africa. The fellow handing me my diploma was Occidental College president Richard C. Gilman. As I've written before, I was one of the founders of the anti-apartheid group that President Obama mentions in his book, Dreams of My Father.

From what Obama writes, I guess I had the unusual opportunity to meet the young Barack Obama at a turning point in his life. In Dreams of My Father, Obama writes he got one of the early signs of his interest (and ability) in public speaking during his participation in an anti-apartheid rally at Occidental College in Los Angeles in the spring of 1981.

I met him for the first time in late December 1980. By then, I was in my second year of graduate school at Cornell. I was visiting a girlfriend who was still attending Occidental College who introduced me to him and his friend Mohammed Hasan Chandoo, a wealthy Pakistani student.

John Drew graduates from Occidental College as a fully trained Marxist in June, 1979.

My most vivid memory of my time visiting with Obama was the way he strongly argued a rather simple-minded version of Marxist theory. I remember he was passionate about his point of view. As I remember, he was articulating the same Marxist theory taught by various professors at Occidental College. Based on my more detailed studies at Cornell, I remember I made a strong argument that his Marxist ideas were not in line with contemporary reality - particularly the practical experience of Western Europe.

I went on to become an assistant professor of political science at Williams College in MA, and won the William Anderson Award from the American Political Science Association for my doctoral dissertation. See,

http://anonymouspoliticalscientist.blogspot.com/2010/01/victory-is-so-sweet-for-those-who-have.html

Obama, of course, became President of the United States in 2009. I cannot help but wonder if my common sense arguments ended up impacting his decision-making and career planning.

Nevertheless, I think my experience with the young Barack Obama is useful evidence of why he was able to win the trust and support of Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn and Alice Palmer. In 1995, as you may know, Alice Palmer represented the state of Illinois' 13th District. After she decided to run for the United States Congress she named Obama as her hand-picked successor to replace her. In June 1986, Palmer wrote an article for the Communist Party USA's newspaper, the People's Daily World, now the People's Weekly World. Amazingly, it detailed her experience at the 27th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

Regarding Rev. Wright's affection for Marxism and socialism, please view the YouTube video below:

My gut feeling is that Obama won the trust of folks like Palmer because he never surrendered that tough, Marxist socialist ideology I saw in him as a sophomore at Occidental College. All in all, it takes me back to remember my days as a young revolutionary, the moments when - like Barack Obama - I sincerely believed a Marxist socialist revolution was coming to turn everything around and to create a new, fairer and more just world.

John C. Drew, Ph.D. is an award-winning political scientist.

I am kind of proud to report that I got a call from Dinesh D'Souza inquiring about this photograph the young Obama. I explained that I found it while I was skimming the Occidental College alumni magazine (Summer 2010). At the same time,  I also went through the class notes and found that Hasan Chandoo has been in touch with my old girlfriend Caroline Grauman-Boss and her friend Susan (Keselenko) Coll over the years.

I expect that all additional information regarding the lasting social ties between young Obama and his Occidental College friends will give additional credibility to my statements that I knew the young Obama and can affirm that he was a Marxist socialist in 1980-1981. As I have reported elsewhere, Obama and I used to be part of a strong, committed group of revolutionaries. The only difference, as far as I can tell, is that I aged out of that obnoxious ideology in my mid-20s.

Also, this photo illustrates other themes I've communicated regarding the young Obama including the fact that I never saw him with a girl and that he was strikingly effeminent at the time. The larger point, of course, is that the picture of himself that he created in Dreams from My Father is very different from the real Obama that I knew during the 1980-1981 school year.

UPDATE #1: Jerome Corsi has published a new article featuring my first impression of the young Obama. People ask me about my first impression and I tell them the truth.

UPDATE #2: Ironically, Michelle Robinson - the future first lady - apparently had her own doubts about the young Obama. She asked her brother Craig Robinson to check out Barack. Here is a great passage from Christopher Andersen's book, Barack and Michelle: Portrait of an American Marriage:

Right after the game, Craig called Michelle with his verdict. "Your boy is straight," he told her, "and he can ball." (p. 126.)

Obviously, I was not the only person in young Obama's life who had questions about his sexual identity.

UPDATE #3: Jerome Corsi has another new article regarding Obama's time in Chicago which suggests that Obama hid his gay life to become president.

UPDATE #4: Rachel Maddow at MSNBC has launched an attack seeking to ridicule my first impression of young Obama.

I imagine Maddow does not have the nerve or the guts to air my complete and unedited first impression of the young Obama. Nevertheless, I am hoping this little bit of national television exposure will cause more people to look up my take on young Obama and judge its accuracy for themselves.

John C. Drew, Ph.D. is an award-winning political scientist.

I was startled last year by a large number of phone calls and e-mails alerting me to the fact that my story about the real, white Regina was mentioned on the Rush Limbaugh radio program.

Apparently, Rush had read through, or scanned, my recent article on how my white college era girlfriend, Caroline Boss, became the black Regina in Obama's Dreams from My Father. Here's the actual transcript right off of Rush's website.

RUSH: There's also a guy out now, John Drew, I forget where this is. I've got somewhere in the stack. Apparently this guy dated one of the composite women in Obama's book. The woman named Regina, this guy dated her for two years. And according to this guy, Regina was not black. She wasn't from the south side of Chicago. She was white. They were all left-wing radicals. They spent their summers in San Francisco. Obama, at Occidental College, was a Marxist. This is this guy's writing. We finally found a friend of Obama's from back then. Now, this is not gonna get a wide berth, but it's out there. I don't care about the labels, communist this, we don't even need 'em. Obama is now telling us who he is. And I must admit, there's a bit of rejoicing going on with me, El Rushbo.

This, my friends, is something that I've been confident in knowing since Obama was a Senator. It's not hard. Like I said, you don't even need a high school diploma. All you have to do is understand who modern liberals are and what they are, what they want to do. After that it's easy. The hardest part is admitting that there are people like that amongst us in positions of power with so many friends. But it ought not be. The more people that could come to grips with that, the farther along we would be.

Of course, what Rush may not have realized is that I have been trying to get my story to his attention for about four years now - ever since I first realized that I had valuable insight into the real Barack Obama. Ironically, I discovered that my take on young Obama's ideological extremism was also a topic of discussion on the Sean Hannity radio program featuring Paul Kengor and his new book, The Communist - Frank Marshall Davis: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mentor. The day before, Kengor cited my take on young Obama extremism on The Blaze TV - see my story featured at 12:20.

All in all, I'm particularly grateful to everyone who worked behind the scenes to assist me with writing the article that eventually came to Rush's attention this morning. For a short YouTube video including my take on young Obama's ideological extremism, please click here.

John C. Drew, Ph.D. is an award-winning political scientist.

If the current POTUS was WHITE or REPUBLICAN - impeachment proceedings would already be occuring. Is not obama's mother caucasion? Mmmm, what hypocrites!

The third doctor, of my medical care providers, has just dropped out of my insurance network.  THis is exactly what Glenn & Rush had predicted.  The brain-deal Liberals of America deserve this; unfortunately, they drag the rest of us down with them.

When are the constitutional checks and balances to be deployed?  When do the remaining viable, legitimate and constitutional branches of government reestablish the dominion of the U.S. Constitution?  Mr. Boehner, where are your checks and balances?

     THE VALUE OF FREEDOM IS NOT REALIZED, UNTIL IT IS LOST.  THEN IT'S TO LATE.

ABUSE OF NATIONAL SECURITY POWERS

INVASION OF PRIVACY OF ALL AMERICANS

DERELICTION OF DUTY IN BENGHAZI         

FALSIFICATION OF EVIDENCE IN BENGHAZI   

ABUSE OF POWER AT IRS

FALSE INCRIMINATION AND SURVEILLANCE OF JAMES ROSEN

ILLEGAL INVESTIGATION OF AP

USURPATION OF POWER

CONTROVERSION OF CONSTITUTION

TREASON

Obama said today that he KNOWS all about the people at the NSA who are capturing the electronic correspondence of all Americans.  He said he KNOWS what they're doing.  He KNOWS what is going on at NSA and he knows all about the people and he knows all about the organization and its activites and he knows that they are doing good things.  Funny, he DOESN'T KNOW what they did at BENGHAZI, the IRS, the AP, James Rosen wiretapping, Justice Dept and the notorious Eric Holder's office.  If Obama knows all about the NSA organization and what its people are doing, he KNEW all about Benghazi, IRS, AP, James Rosen, Justice Dept. and what ocurrs at every other governmental agency and dept.  OBAMA KNOWS.  OBAMA TOLD US SO.

11 million Mexicans are waiting for the government to give them welfare, food stamps, medical care, drivers licenses, affirmative action, quotas, utility subsidies, etc. and the right to vote.  This number is in addition to the 3 million given amnesty by Ronald Reagan and the so-called legal immigrants.  And, oh yeah, you better vote for them or conservatives will be deemed illegal.  Thanks Paul Ryan, Rand Paul and, the ex-Cuban, Marco Rubio.  Is it time for an American Spring?

Tommy Robinson, the leader of the English Defence League, says it's time for an "English Spring!"  After the public beheading of a British soldier by a member of the Muslum faith, Mr. Robinson says it's time to ignore political correctness and stand up for his country.  He says the nation is overrun with Muslums who have an average of 5.5 babies as the Saudi Arabians own every seaport.  Mr. Robinson believe his countrymen are ready to stand up for an "English Spring."

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Abraham asked the Lord to spare 50 righteous people. God responded
to Abraham's plea "If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city,
then I will spare all ....Genesis 18:16-33

The movie " Corpus Christi " is due to be released this June to August. A disgusting film set to appear in America later this year depicts Jesus and his disciples as homosexuals! As a play, this has already been in theaters for a while. It's called " Corpus Christi " which means "The Body of Christ". It's revolting mockery of our Lord. But we can make a difference.

That's why I am sharing this with you. If you do send this around, we
just might be able to prevent this film from showing in Canada and America . Let's stand for what we believe in and stop the mockery of Jesus Christ our Savior.

Where do we stand as Christians?

At the risk of a bit of inconvenience, I'm sharing this to all I think
would appreciate it, too. Please help us prevent such offenses against our Lord. There is no petition to sign, no time limit, or minimum number of people to send this to.. It will take you less than 2 minutes! To copy and paste this and email it to as many people you know.

Some regions in Europe have already banned the film. All we need
is a lot of prayer and a lot of emails and sharing of this information

 JUST GET THE WORD OUT!

....Will God be able to find at least 50 righteous people who are willing
to express their concern and voice their opinion against this act of
blasphemy.

This is SHORT

Serena – Barack

I wish I could be as proud of Barack as I am of Serena!

• Serena ------ Makes America SHINE …. In French
• Barack ……. Beats America DOWN …. In EVERY Language

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There are only two types of Muslims crossing our borders – militant and non-militant. Because  authorities don't have a crystal ball identifying which Muslims are determined or destined to become terrorists, we the people must insist that government do more to “insure domestic tranquility” as required by the U.S. Constitution. We can start with a 99% reduction in U.S. visas and border crossing cards to citizens of Muslim countries.

Both Boston Marathon bombers and all 19 of the 9/11 hijackers came to the U.S. on student, business or tourist visas, some receiving Pell grants, food stamps, Section 8 housing and other taxpayer funded welfare. In essence, these militant Muslims got paid by Uncle Sam for coming to the U.S. to blow up Americans. The mainstream media incorrectly identified such terrorists as “radicals.”

From an Islamic standpoint, radical Muslims target fellow believers while orthodox Muslims target disbelieving infidels who reject the Koran as Holy Scripture.  Acts of terrorism against unbelievers are Koran sanctioned hits and examples of “outer Jihad,” a staple of orthodox Islam.

JIHAD 101

There are two types of Jihad – inner struggle and outer struggle, and every Muslim is called to be a practicing  “mujahid” (one following the path of Jihad). Muslims are collectively called “mujahideen.” One who wishes to “sit back” and wage purely spiritual warfare against sin is an “inner mujahid” while one who also accepts the higher calling of waging physical warfare against non-Muslims is an “outer mujahid.”

Thankfully, most Muslims visiting the U.S. are peaceful and have no desire to kill Americans. These non-militant Muslims simply want to visit relatives, study in our prestigious universities and maybe get their piece of the American pie rather than blowing it up into bloody little pieces.

According to the U.S. Department of State, in 2012 the number of visitors coming from the world's 51 Muslim nations was 813,157. Based on demographics, at least 695,000 were Muslim. A 2013 Pew Research poll found that 7% to 24% of Muslims surveyed by nation were willing to admit their support of terrorism and suicide bombings, which basically confirmed prior polling data.

Assuming no Muslim hid his or her support for terrorism when polled, and using the lower figure of 7% militancy, that translates into 48,650 militant Muslims crossing our borders last year. We should also beware of the tens of thousands of Muslims coming from other nations, including Islamic converts from South of the border.

48,000 plus militant Muslims also doesn't take into account those who will be persuaded to embrace the higher calling of outer Jihad terrorism as did the Boston Marathon bombers, and those who finance such acts. According to orthodox Islam, one donating money to what most would consider terrorist organizations or cells will be blessed as an outer mujahid without having to martyr himself or kill anyone.

Our government should aggressively prosecute these financial terrorists big and small, for it follows that anyone hiring a hit-man is just as much a murderer as the hit-man himself. 

Unfortunately, the U.S. needs to have a policy that discriminates equally against all visiting Muslims by suspending the visas of hundreds of thousands of Muslim nationals and only allowing diplomats and those benefiting American interests to come within our borders. We need to stem the Muslim tide flooding into the U.S. before the wave of jihadi violence turns into an unstoppable Islamic tsunami that could sweep our nation with American blood. To fail to do so would be tantamount to having allowed German Nazi sympathizers to vacation at Coney Island during World War II, with Uncle Sam buying the tickets.

Lance Hunter Voorhees is a Yahoo! News contributor, actor and former radio talk show host living in

Abilene, TX. You can reach him at Lance@LanceVoorhees.com.

Copyright © 2013 by Lance Hunter Voorhees, All rights reserved.

Hitler Becomes Dictator

After the elections of March 5, 1933, the Nazis began a systematic takeover of the state governments throughout Germany, ending a centuries-old tradition of local political independence. Armed SA and SS thugs barged into local government offices using the state of emergency decree as a pretext to throw out legitimate office holders and replace them with Nazi Reich commissioners.

Political enemies were arrested by the thousands and put in hastily constructed holding pens. Old army barracks and abandoned factories were used as prisons. Once inside, prisoners were subjected to military style drills and harsh discipline. They were often beaten and sometimes even tortured to death. This was the very beginning of the Nazi concentration camp system.

At this time, these early concentration camps were loosely organized under the control of the SA and the rival SS. Many were little more than barbed-wire stockades know as 'wild' concentration camps, set up by local Gauleiters and SA leaders.

For Adolf Hitler, the goal of a legally established dictatorship was now within reach. On March 15, 1933, a cabinet meeting was held during which Hitler and Göring discussed how to obstruct what was left of the democratic process to get an Enabling Act passed by the Reichstag. This law would hand over the constitutional functions of the Reichstag to Hitler, including the power to make laws, control the budget and approve treaties with foreign governments.

The emergency decree signed by Hindenburg on February 28th, after the Reichstag fire, made it easy for them to interfere with non-Nazi elected representatives of the people by simply arresting them.

March 21, 1933 - With the eyes of Germany and the whole world on him - a respectful stroll by Hitler toward the Garrison Church in Potsdam for ceremonies opening the new Reichstag session. Below: Reassuring to all - Hitler greets President Hindenburg in the manner of the age-old German custom - hand outstretched and head bowed.

Below: Inside the Garrison Church - Hitler speaks as President Hindenburg (lower right) and Germany's old guard listen.

Below: Outside the church, a bemused Chancellor Hitler chats with the Kaiser's son and heir, Crown Prince Wilhelm.

Below: Two days later - March 23rd - Hitler appears before the Reichstag in Berlin to reassure them that - if granted - his new powers under the Enabling Act will be used sparingly.

As Hitler plotted to bring democracy to an end in Germany, Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels put together a brilliant public relations display at the official opening of the newly elected Reichstag.

On March 21st, in the Garrison Church at Potsdam, the burial place of Frederick the Great, an elaborate ceremony took place designed to ease public concern over Hitler and his gangster-like new regime.

It was attended by President Hindenburg, foreign diplomats, the General Staff and all the old guard going back to the days of the Kaiser. Dressed in their handsome uniforms sprinkled with medals, they watched a most reverent Adolf Hitler give a speech paying respect to Hindenburg and celebrating the union of old Prussian military traditions and the new Nazi Reich. As a symbol of this, the old Imperial flags would soon add swastikas.

Finishing his speech, Hitler walked over to Hindenburg and respectfully bowed before him while taking hold of the old man's hand. The scene was recorded on film and by press photographers from around the world. This was precisely the impression Hitler and Goebbels wanted to give to the world, all the while plotting to toss aside Hindenburg and the elected Reichstag.

Later that same day, Hindenburg signed two decrees put before him by Hitler. The first offered full pardons to all Nazis currently in prison. The prison doors sprang open and out came an assortment of Nazi thugs and murderers.

The second decree signed by the befuddled old man allowed for the arrest of anyone suspected of maliciously criticizing the government and the Nazi Party.

A third decree signed only by Hitler and Papen allowed for the establishment of special courts to try political offenders. These courts were conducted in the military style of a court-martial without a jury and usually with no counsel for the defense.

On March 23rd, the newly elected Reichstag met in the Kroll Opera House in Berlin to consider passing Hitler's Enabling Act. It was officially called the "Law for Removing the Distress of the People and the Reich." If passed, it would in effect vote democracy out of existence in Germany and establish the legal dictatorship of Adolf Hitler.

Brown-shirted Nazi storm troopers swarmed over the fancy old building in a show of force and as a visible threat. They stood outside, in the hallways and even lined the aisles inside, glaring ominously at anyone who might oppose Hitler's will.

Before the vote, Hitler made a speech in which he pledged to use restraint.

"The government will make use of these powers only insofar as they are essential for carrying out vitally necessary measures...The number of cases in which an internal necessity exists for having recourse to such a law is in itself a limited one," Hitler told the Reichstag.

He also promised an end to unemployment and pledged to promote peace with France, Great Britain and Soviet Russia. But in order to do all this, Hitler said, he first needed the Enabling Act. A two-thirds majority was needed, since the law would actually alter the constitution. Hitler needed 31 non-Nazi votes to pass it. He got those votes from the Catholic Center Party after making a false promise to restore some basic rights already taken away by decree.

Meanwhile, Nazi storm troopers chanted outside: "Full powers – or else! We want the bill – or fire and murder!!"

But one man arose amid the overwhelming might. Otto Wells, leader of the Social Democrats stood up and spoke quietly to Hitler.

"We German Social Democrats pledge ourselves solemnly in this historic hour to the principles of humanity and justice, of freedom and socialism. No enabling act can give you power to destroy ideas which are eternal and indestructible."

Hitler was enraged and jumped up to respond.

"You are no longer needed! The star of Germany will rise and yours will sink! Your death knell has sounded!"

The vote was taken – 441 for, and only 84, the Social Democrats, against. The Nazis leapt to their feet clapping, stamping and shouting, then broke into the Nazi anthem, the Hörst Wessel song.

Democracy was ended. They had brought down the German Democratic Republic legally. From this day onward, the Reichstag would be just a sounding board, a cheering section for Hitler's pronouncements.

Interestingly, the Nazi Party was now flooded with applications for membership. These latecomers were cynically labeled by old time Nazis as 'March Violets.' In May, the Nazi Party froze membership. Many of those kept out applied to the SA and the SS which were still accepting. However, in early 1934, Heinrich Himmler would throw out 50,000 of those 'March Violets' from the SS.

The Nazi Gleichschaltung now began, a massive coordination of all aspects of life under the swastika and the absolute leadership of Adolf Hitler.

Under Hitler, the State, not the individual, was supreme.

From the moment of birth one existed to serve the State and obey the dictates of the Führer. Those who disagreed were disposed of.

Many agreed. Bureaucrats, industrialists, even intellectual and literary figures, including Gerhart Hauptmann, world renowned dramatist, were coming out in open support of Hitler.

Many disagreed and left the country. A flood of the finest minds, including over two thousand writers, scientists, and people in the arts poured out of Germany and enriched other lands, mostly the United States. Among them – writer Thomas Mann, director Fritz Lang, actress Marlene Dietrich, architect Walter Gropius, musicians Otto Klemperer, Kurt Weill, Richard Tauber, psychologist Sigmund Freud, and Albert Einstein, who was visiting California when Hitler came to power and never returned to Germany.

In Germany, there were now constant Nazi rallies, parades, marches and meetings amid the relentless propaganda of Goebbels and the omnipresent swastika. For those who remained there was an odd mixture of fear and optimism in the air.

Now, for the first time as dictator, Adolf Hitler turned his attention to the driving force which had propelled him into politics in the first place, his hatred of the Jews. It began with a simple boycott on April 1st, 1933, and would end years later in the greatest tragedy in all of human history.

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