Hitler’s generals realized too late the direction he was leading Germany. Will our own generals realize this of Bush in time? Is a Seven Days in May in the offing? When things begin to spiral out of control, the unthinkable often becomes the reality. Like concentration camps here in America, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, these were unthinkable until they became a reality.

While enduring some part of the GOP “debate” last night I was reminded of P. T. Bridgeport’s “wind-up candidates.” Since the time of Walt Kelly’s spoof of presidential candidates nothing has changed for the better among either Republicans or Democrats. What We the People are still being offered is wind-up toys, cookie-cutter mannequins as choices. It crossed my mind that to have persons like Jerry Falwell and Al Sharpton on the stage would at least have been interesting, and in their cases you would at least be entertained. A “What you see is what you get” choice would at least be a choice.

One thing has changed, however, and that is the amount of blatant corruption to be found in the White House and Congress. It’s one thing to treat elected office as a license to steal, but quite another when it is flaunted shamelessly for the whole world to see on a daily basis and the whole bunch are so corrupt none of them dare hold any of the others accountable. But it is obvious in a divided “Press one for English” America, something those advocating for Mexican slave labor to satisfy Corporate Greed do not seem to realize is increasing the anger and resentment toward Mexico and Mexicans throughout our nation, things are spiraling out of control as those lusting for power stumble about like blind men trying to grab the gold ring, seemingly oblivious of the fact America lacking any leaders of virtue is like a house of cards inviting collapse, and the mounting corruption in the White House and Congress could cause the collapse of America as a nation. I repeat from earlier writings:

There are times when the “unthinkable” becomes thinkable by force of circumstances and there is no muddling through. For those of us who lived that era of WWII and went on to study the history of the war at length it is impossible to miss some very disturbing parallels to what is happening with our present government and that of Germany leading to the Nuremberg Tribunal.

That our present White House has become so ultra-secretive is a case in point. One cannot but help wondering what the President and his administration have to hide? Once secrecy for whatever reason is invoked, especially on the seemingly too oft specious argument “national security” all becomes suspect. None of us question the need of secrecy where actual national security may be at risk, there are valid cases of “need to know,” but there is Sandy Berger. And we know there are many Berger’s in the present administration.

But there is little in the Congress to give us hope corruption in government will be ended, or even contained. When it comes to politics it is business as usual and we would be hard pressed to point to any one politician and say we have faith in that person to act with virtue. Some say they have faith, but let’s see them prove that faith by their works.

Sen. Gordon Smith, a moderate Republican from Oregon who has been a supporter of the war in Iraq, said months ago “the U.S. military’s tactics have failed and he cannot support that anymore.” Smith went on to say he is at, “the end of my rope when it comes to supporting a policy that has our soldiers patrolling the same streets in the same way, being blown up by the same bombs, day after day… That is absurd...It may even be criminal.”

While Smith’s use of the word “criminal” has caused him to do some furious back-peddling the word has been used, and there is no going back from it. He may have fallen under the spell of his own rhetoric, a typical cause of politicians putting their foot in their mouth, but many understood the enormity of such a word being used. I certainly understand it and had already written about it back in April before Smith uttered the word, knowing as I do the lessons of history and human nature teach there is nothing too fantastic to imagine happening in a world seemingly lunatic because of being dominated by religious and political hatreds.

While Hitler’s underlings “were just following orders,” while Hitler received “credit” as the architect of Nazism, his generals and others faced Nuremberg, the verdict of both that tribunal and that of history. I maintain Caesar Bush and his underlings will yet face a “Nuremberg” in absentia if not in reality.

In addition to the list of crimes on the part of Caesar’s underlings, is Caesar’s own betrayal of America through selling out our nation…with the cooperation of a treasonous Congress refusing to secure our borders and for betraying We the People to a half trillion dollar debt, Globalization, Outsourcing, NAFTA, CAFTA, La Raza, Mexico, and Saudi Arabia, all with the clear intent of making Americans slave labor to benefit the wealthy, ruling elite! We are going to hear more people using the word IMPEACH! But can an equally corrupt Congress sold out to corporate masters, all of them in the same bed betraying America and refusing to secure our borders thereby inviting nuclear terrorism be expected to follow through?

Those of us who lived the years of WWII and Nuremberg, who know the history of that era, know circumstances can lead to the unthinkable. None of the ordinary citizens of Germany or Japan could possibly believe how catastrophic for them would be the decisions their leaders were making. None of us at the time could possibly believe there would be concentration camps being set up right here in America. But when corrupt leadership betrays the ordinary citizens of any nation, the unthinkable often and cataclysmically becomes the reality. It would be foolish for any to say it can’t happen again when the circumstances are pointing to it happening again.