Trump's Reichstag?

On February 27th 1933 Van der Lubbe set fire to the Reichstag Parliament building in Germany.  This action, coming only four weeks after Adolf Hitler had  been sworn in as chancellor, opened the door for Hitler to take sweeping action to stabilise his position.

Van der Lubbe was born in the Netherlands, his parents divorced, his mother died when he was an adolescent and he moved in with his half sister.  A few years later the teenager being naturally very strong found work on a building site.  While there he became interested in the Labour movement and became involved in Communism.  An accident with lime almost blinded him and he found work difficult, though his interest in communism did not ease.  He worked among the unemployed to support the movement. 

For reasons unclear Van der Lubbe, who had been involved in other minor arson attacks, found himself in the Reichstag late one night setting it ablaze.  The blaze spread quickly and totally destroyed the building.  The police soon found the culprit who had not escaped and took him to court.

Adolf Hitler was delighted.

With Lubbe's admission of being communist Hitler arrested the leading Communists at the time, and thousands of others, real and imaginary possibly, were also taken in by the police.  Thus at the next elections soon to follow a vast number were unable to vote or put forward their case.  In this manner the Nazi stronghold was created and after announcing an emergency order, civil liberties were removed.  Hitler had complete power as dictator from this moment on.

Van der Lubbe was tried, found guilty, and executed.  

Whether he was working alone, whether others were behind him, or indeed whether Hitler himself had found a way to put the arsonist up to this cannot be proved today.  However, this action led to Adolf Hitler's complete control of Germany.

Many are asking, is the death of Charlie Kirk Trump's Reichstag moment?

His dementia led statements are often senseless, but he is asking his justice secretary to arrest people who speak against him.  The democratic niceties of the USA are now being pushed aside for a mentally ill, spoilt brat, seeking vengeance on any who speak the truth.  The Reichstag fire destroyed Germany, will Kirk's death lead to the destruction of the USA as we know it?

Charlie Kirk and Laptops

The story infesting our right wing media is the shooting of Charlie Kirk, a very far, right wing activist in the USA.  He was shot during one of his sessions at a university during a tour of such places, where he went to propagate his politics and oppose any who opposed him.

Loved by Donald Trump because Charlie encouraged some young Americans to vote for him, hated by many others for his statement on migrants, gays, women, guns, Israel and almost anything else that came up during his time.  

Born in small town Illinois during 1993, (surely that was only yesterday?) He quickly took to politics, dropping out of a college course before being certified.  (Have I got that right?) He was befriended by Bill Montgomery, a Tea Party candidate who began Turning Point USA with Kirk.  He also began 'Turning Point Faith,' with a Pentecostal pastor, the intention being to encourage the church into civic action, though it appears, only from a right wing viewpoint which is not biblical.  

Underlying all Charlie Kirk proposed was a far right USA myth of politics, based on a very poor understanding of history or world politics and especially Biblical Christianity, this was merely 'America is Great' once again.  

His comments down the years are interesting.  Disinformation is the term.

During 2018 he claimed the Justice Department stats showed an increase in human trafficking from 1952 to 6087.  He deleted the claim when a fact checking site indicated this came from the conspiracy site 8chan, a site linked to neo nazi and white supremacist sites.

'Prowling blacks go around for fun to target white people -that's a fact!'

'Why are whites taking this? Why are we just sitting idly by and allowing corporate America to give all the jobs to non white people?'  'Where is this headed? South Africa, that is where this is headed. They repeatedly have call for genocide against white people.'

Charlie Kirk suggest children should watch public executions. 'Newsweek' 

Charlie Kirk calls for shooting and whipping of migrants on the Southern Border. 'If you enter, we have lethal force and are willing to use it.' 'They are bringing force upon themselves.'

'It was a huge mistake to pass the Civil rights bill in 1964.'  

He blamed 'Jewish money for ruining American culture.'

'Charlie Kirk says "A patriot should bail out alleged Paul Pelosi attacker."'

Zelensky he said, was 'a puppet of the CIA who marched his own people into needless slaughter.'  

He opposed aid to Ukraine.

Charlie Kirk somewhat ironically also stated 'The Second Amendment is worth the cost of some gun deaths.'   

He may feel differently about this now.

Charlie Kirk came over as a clever politician, young, good looking, and capable of debate - US style.  He was not a Christian as far as I can see, his bible may have been with him but much of it unread, and his words were encouraging for racists, white supremacists and what we must call today, 'haters.'  He is in my opinion no loss to the USA however, his death will bring repercussions.   Whoever killed him, and the army snipers commentating indicate this was an 'internet shooter,' not a professional sniper, could be one of several factions opposed to Kirk.  He had enemies on the left and right and easily made enemies everywhere else.  As the days pass by we will learn more, once the right wing press stop pretending he is another John F Kennedy or suchlike, more information will arise and I feel sure the US cops will soon identify a proper suspect and bring him in.

It may be that time again, the time to buy a new laptop, one that works without having to hit your fist on the button to click on something.  This Dell product may well be going on for 8 or 10 years in use.  Most of the time it has worked quite well, though the screen is dimmer than I would like.  Now the button is being a wee problem, though it can go on for a while yet, but I must decide whether to seek a new grossly overpriced laptop or endure Win 11, which I, like almost everybody else, do not like.  If I hang on maybe Win 12 will arrive first?  

In the UK all the shops work together, while stating that they do not.  All similar laptops just happen to offer the same prices and similar offerings, especially Norton or McFee virus offers.  Both Norton and McFee take over the machine and render it useless!  McFee died in prison if I remember rightly, he was there because he shot someone.  Living the American Dream perhaps!

A glance at suitable Dell, HP, Asus and many other products see prices that make me go back to pencil and paper.  However, you cannot watch football on paper you need the laptop for that.  So for the next few weeks I will be prowling the adverts for new laptops, no way am I going for 'refurbished' or 'Second hand' ones again.  This is not yet urgent, and who knows what Microsoft will be doing, apart from making thousands of staff redundant and replacing them with AI.