75th Anniversary of the Night of the Long Knives

The American Thinker has a great article on the 75th anniversary of Night of the Long Knives by Bruce Walker. Bruce reminds us that the goal of every totalitarian is always the same: power. No matter what ideology espoused, the goal is always the same, to acquire and maintain power.

The Night of the Long Knives was not an attack on the "socialism" in National Socialism, as it is so often suggested. Two weeks after the Night of the Long Knives, Graf von der Golz, Deputy Commissar in the Ministry of Economics in July `5, 1934 speech to businessmen said: "Any organization that represents the interests of the employer will be regarded as illegal and disbanded and the guilty parties will be prosecuted."[i]

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As we watch our Leader's face everyone on television, his words as answers to every problem, and his inspectors general fired when they find malfeasance, his legislators asked to vote for bills they have not read, our media practically scripted in its treatment of him, is it not prudent to ask how little the lust for power has changed in the last seventy-five years?