Scapegoats for their own misdeeds

We've been seeing this crop up in right wing circles for a spell. Obviously it's being shared in a piss poor attempt to to align the Nazis with the modern day abolitionist movements.

SO LET'S FACT CHECK.

Prior to the 1930's Germany, the police forces were very decentralised and municipal in nature. The nazis in their rise to power instituted reforms to create a police state. The first of these was The Enabling Act 1933 which pretty much gave political power across a very diverse Germany, to the singular state authority. Part of this process was the creation of a unified central command for the police.

They were then placed under the control of the SS, who in turn placed members of the Gestapo and security services within the ranks of the local police forces. Subsequently the focus changed and they began to treat crime as a matter of race. 

All police forces act on the mandate of the state.

Criminal Intent

I've been limiting my exposure to news for the past several weeks for reasons I won't go into here, now.

Events of the past few days has penetrated my self-imposed news diet. I'd rather be sharing my own words but I find myself with a lack of them.

However, the whole article which I quote below is well worth a read. 

He knew, and because he knew, my mind is reeling with questions. How many times has he put his own supporters in danger, as they gathered by the thousands without protection, while knowing he was putting them in danger? How many times has he golfed while knowing the pandemic was killing so many people city officials had to dig mass graves? How many times has he ridiculed people for wearing masks, thereby insulting the memory of the dead, while knowing the virus was airborne. How many times has he attacked public officials, whose job is serving the public’s interest, while knowing their service prevented the death toll from being even bigger? Most important of all, how many Republicans understood that a man who commits treason is the kind of man who stands by while Americans die in droves—if that’s what it takes to win?

Give the whole article a read. It feels good to know you're not alone.

"America First" is a Theological Heresy

Look, we are supposed to love our neighbors. There isn't anything intrinsically wrong with loving your home. And that may be extended to include your community, city, and even state and country. 

But to consider yourself better than others by the shear chance upon which you were born, and others somehow less by virtue of their not sharing that chance in common with you is not only wrong, it's a sin!

And it's nationalism bordering on fascism. If you take a kind of hyper pride in where you are from, and consider yourself a Christian, you should probably read this article:

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/freelancechristianity/america-first-is-a-theological-heresy/