Glenn Beck: Is he part of a movement with Nazi roots?
El Mercurio, Spain
The 'Neo-Nazi' Campaign Against President Obama
"The goal is
for the U.S. right and ultra-right to win the upcoming legislative elections
and reach a majority in Congress to prevent the passage of laws that affect the
interests of large corporations. At the same time, all of this continues to
generate movements and state laws that target minorities and migrants."
The campaign in the United States unleashed against
President Barack Obama is far from being just part of an electoral contest. It reflects
the advance of the neo-Nazi movement, which has always been latent in the country
to the North and has acquired new vigor since 2000 - coincidentally the year of
George W. Bush's arrival at the White House. The defeat of Germany in the
Second World War and the physical passing of Hitler didn't mean the demise of
Nazism. Rather, Nazi ideology was disseminated at by former
officials from various levels of that regime, who found refuge in other countries. Leading figures received
passports with new identities, which were issued to them by respectable
institutions and governments.
Thus, those known for their scientific research or expertise
in the matter of armaments were taken in by the West's most developed countries
and the Soviet Union. Others, who were prosecuted as war criminals, used less
developed countries and bought high-level protection.
They were joined by groups who adhered to these former Nazi
officials and who arrived as colonists, reproducing their own models of
organization in places they settled. They became very effective collaborators with
Latin American dictatorships and were supported by national political figures
and groups sympathetic to Nazism.
Racism in the United States surfaced with the colonization
of its territory. Its victims were not only Native Americans, but Blacks who
were purchased or kidnapped in Africa and taken to the American continent as
slaves. The U.S. group most equivalent to what now amounts to Neo-Nazism is the Ku-Klux-Klan.
OBAMA AND WHITE SUPREMACY
Bringing this precursor up to the current era, we find a President
Barack Obama besieged by an opposition with all the characteristics of
neo-Nazis. With Bush they felt represented, battling Muslims who had been
declared the new enemies - added, of course, to the old ones: Blacks, Latinos,
Jews, socialists and homosexuals.
The neo-Nazi movement in our northern neighbor is derived
from the Nazi Party. Created in the 1920s, the Nazis joined with the Free Society of Teutonia and formed the German American Bund.
That party achieved notoriety in the 1930s, when Hitler and Mussolini were at
the pinnacle of power. The defeat of Germany dispersed them; but they
re-emerged in 1959 as the American Nazi Party
led by Lincoln Rockwell.
There are now several groups, the most important of which is
the Aryan Nations,
which the FBI considers a terrorist threat and the Rand Corporation
describes as “the first truly terrorist organization.” But it was the National
Alliance (for White supremacy) that declared war on Barack Obama after he
won the Democratic nomination for the presidency of the republic.
Paul Michael Schlesselman
and Daniel Gregory Cowart, the two
neo-Nazis who in 2008 were charged with
plotting to kill Obama
At the time, two members of the Alliance were detained while
planning to kill 102 African Americans, of whom they wanted to behead 14. But
their main objective was to kill Obama - and to do so, they planned to don
white tuxedos and top hats. They didn't mind dying in the process of this
endeavor, but were caught in time.
SARAH PALIN, FOX NEWS AND TEA
PARTY
The main figure in the current offensive against the U.S.
president is Sarah Palin, former Republican vice presidential candidate, with
the financing being paid from the accounts of Fox News. The company hired
Palin as a political “commentator” at an exorbitant salary.
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Another star commentator from this TV channel is Glenn Beck,
the master-of-ceremonies at the recent rally held in the same place Martin
Luther King delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech in defense of Black civil
rights. The event, during which Obama was accused of being a socialist and a
“Muslim who hates Whites,” is considered a provocation and insult to the memory
of King.
There are other business-related groups that contribute to
these demonstrations and the creation of entities opposed to policies put
forward by Obama. They have succeeded in convincing 25 percent of U.S. people
that their president is a Muslim and hence, not a Christian. The White House
has had to deny the rumors.
But the campaign continues. The goal is for the U.S. right
and ultra-right to win the upcoming legislative elections and reach a majority
in the House of Representatives to prevent the passage of laws that affect the
interests of large corporations. At the same time, all of this continues to
generate movements and state laws that target minorities and migrants.
Meanwhile, on the radio and on TV, certain commentators
attack both Black and Latino communities and now Muslims born in the U.S. Alienating
and turning Muslims into enemies has led to episodes like that of a doctor [Major Nidal Hassan],
who had been the subject of mockery and discrimination and which led him
to start shooting at the military base on which he served.
American neo-Nazis: More influence than meets the eye?
But despite of alarming level of anti-Muslim attitudes in
the United States, the only government entity to express concern has been the
CIA. The Agency fears being accused of exporting terrorism, because in the
current situation, American Muslims have joined with Muslims in other
places against their native land.
THE EUROPEAN CORRELATE
But racism, which is swelling the ranks of neo-Nazis, is not
only growing in the United States. Groups of this persuasion are also gaining
strength in Europe, while governments apply xenophobic policies that affect
ethnic and religious minorities. France and Italy are in the vanguard of the
trend.
Both French and Italian governments have stiffened their actions
against the Gypsies [aka/the Roma]. Hitler did the same, eliminating thousands.
In this respect, there is a legal void in the European
Union, which “recognizes” Gypsies as citizens, but doesn't give them the right
to circulate across its entire territory, nor does it give them the right to
work.
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Not to be outdone, the British have announced that they, too,
fear terrorist acts by Muslims. And all of this is going on as the U.S. media
is warning of a new recession, and that ten banks could fail in the coming
months. Provoking racism to disguise other problems causes the ranks of neo-Nazis
to swell.
*FridaModak
is a journalist and was press secretary to former Chilean President Salvador Allende.
