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"The Gestapo (contraction of geheime Staatspolizei: "Secret State Police") was the official secret police of Nazi Germany. Under the overall administration of the Schutzstaffel (SS), it was administered by the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA) ("head office of the Reich's security service") and was considered a dual organization of the Sicherheitsdienst (SD) ("security service") and also a suboffice of the Sicherheitspolizei (SIPO) ("security police").

History

As part of the deal in which Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany, Hermann Göring was named as Interior Minister of Prussia. This gave him command of the largest police force in Germany. Soon afterward, Göring detached the political and intelligence departments from the police and filled their ranks with Nazis. On April 26, 1933; Göring merged the two units as the Gestapo.

He originally wanted to name it the Secret Police Office (German: Geheimes Polizeiamt), but discovered the German initials "GPA" would be too similar to the Soviet GPU.

Its first commander was Rudolf Diels, a protégé of Hermann Göring (the commander of the Luftwaffe and an influential Nazi Party official). Diels was best known as the primary interrogator of Marinus van der Lubbe after the Reichstag fire. Göring himself took over the Gestapo in 1934 and urged Hitler to extend the agency's authority throughout Germany.

This represented a radical departure from German tradition, which held that law enforcement was (mostly) a Land (state) and local matter. In this, he ran into conflict with Heinrich Himmler, who was police president of the second most powerful German state, Bavaria.

In April 1934, Göring and Himmler agreed to put aside their differences (largely because of mutual hatred of the Sturmabteilung) and Göring transferred full authority over the Gestapo to Himmler, who was also named chief of all German police forces outside Prussia.

In 1936, most German police forces were united under Himmler's command. At that point, the Gestapo was incorporated into the Sicherheitspolizei and considered a sister organisation of the Sicherheitsdienst.

The Gestapo had the authority to investigate treason, espionage and sabotage cases, and cases of criminal attacks on the Nazi Party and Germany. A law passed by the government in 1936 gave the Gestapo carte blanche to operate without judicial oversight. The Gestapo was specifically exempted from responsibility to administrative courts, where citizens normally could sue the state to conform to laws. As early as 1935, however, a Prussian administrative court had ruled that the Gestapo's actions were not subject to judicial review.

A further law passed later in the year gave the Gestapo responsibility for setting up and administering concentration camps. Also in 1936, Reinhard Heydrich became head of the Gestapo and Heinrich Müller, chief of operations; Müller would later assume overall command of the Gestapo after Heydrich's assassination in 1942 and Ernst Kaltenbrunner would take over as overall head of the RSHA and SD. Adolf Eichmann was Müller's direct subordinate and head of department IV, section B4, which dealt with Jews.

The power of the Gestapo most open to misuse was called Schutzhaft - "protective custody", a euphemism for the power to imprison people without judicial proceedings. The person imprisoned even had to sign his or her own Schutzhaftbefehl, an order declaring that the person had requested imprisonment (presumably out of fear of personal harm). In addition, thousands of political prisoners throughout Germany – and from 1941, throughout the occupied territories under the Night and Fog Decree – simply disappeared under Gestapo custody.

During World War II, the Gestapo was expanded to around 46,000 members."
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Like Germany before the Nazis took over and after the Allies defeated the Nazis, the United States leaves most law enforcement in the hands of state and local governments.

And like Germany just before the Nazi takeover, the United States of America has a charismatic candidate for the highest office in the land who really, really wants to consolidate power in his hands.

Like Adolf Hitler, Obama has either directly or through subordinates threatened newspapers and radio stations (television didn't really come to Germany until sometime in the Third Reich) who published or broadcast articles critical of Obama and his associates (like admitted SDS Weatherman terrorist bomber William Ayers).

In the case of the NRA-ILA TV and radio advertisements, broadcast station managers were threatened with civil and criminal court action as well as revocation of their Federal broadcast licenses.

Just after that, a group of city and county prosecutors and elected law-enforcement officers in the state of Missouri calling themselves "Barack Obama's Truth Squad" announced before the press that they would be going on a tour of the state exposing what they considered "smears" of Barack Obama and looking at statements and advertisements critical of Barack Obama with an eye toward bringing court action under "Missouri's ethics laws."

We have some ominous parallels here between the Obama campaign here and now and the Hitler campaign in Germany in 1933:

- Barack Obama's public call (in a July 2 speech at Colorado Springs) for a "civilian national security force" funded to a greater degree than our current military (over $430 billion dollars, which may not include funding of military programs through agencies other than the US Department of Defense);

- it's difficult to imagine why a Federal police force this large would be required unless Obama wishes to replace our current state and local law-enforcement agencies with a single national police force - just like Hitler and his cronies did with the Gestapo. Not even the advocates of fuller funding of the Homeland Security Department call for that kind of over-arching consolidation of our country's law-enforcement into a single agency;

- Like Hitler before him, Barack Hussein Obama has begun using sworn law-enforcement personnel for political purposes - beginning in a single state (for Hitler it was Prussia; for Obama, Missouri);

- Barack Obama, despite some semantic wiggling, has not retreated from his stated intention to drastically increase the reach of gun control past the high point reached under the Clinton Administration - banning the transfer or sale of ALL semiautomatic weapons, not just those with large-capacity magazines or "military accessories" such as bayonets.

There's no legitimate reason for this increase in gun control.  After the sunset provision of the Assault Weapons Ban (passed by the hard left-wing Democratic Congress of 1992-1994) expired, seven years went by with no increase at all in gun-related violence.

However, there's an historical precedent for this - Hitler had the Gestapo round up weapons in private hands and confiscate them, because weapons in private hands threatened Hitler's absolute hold on power.

Why else would Barack Hussein Obama want to go to all the trouble and expense to enforce a gun control ban that is unnecessary to keep the crime rate low, if not to satisfy a troubling need to control other Americans to a degree no other President has expressed since John Adams and his Sedition Acts?

The logical progression from disarming individual Americans would be to disarm their local law-enforcement agencies or place them under a Federal "civilian national-security force." That would make any independence that state and local governments have under the "Compact Theory" of the US Constitution a theory rather than a fact - if everyone in the United States with a gun takes his orders directly from Barack Hussein Obama.

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The people who complain most about the Republican party and who support Obama most are a funny bunch.

They weep crocodile tears and pine for Constitutional rights we've supposedly lost under George W. Bush (most of these complaints were about the so-callled "privacy right" which isn't even in the Bill of Rights); and are trying to exchange him for Barack Hussein Obama, who has already shown his utter contempt for our First Amendment freedom of speech and Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms, and even talked prosecutors and deputies to go lean on his political opponents for him in Missouri.

Worse still, Barack Hussein Obama went out of his way to void our freedom of speech because people were saying bad things about him and his friends.

Sound familiar? A blast from the past? As in the Third Reich?

We can't gamble on Barack Hussein Obama not being as much like Hitler as he seems to be. There's no real reason to vote for him