Re: [Gnu-arch-users] [OT] facism gaining ground in US

[Tobias C. Rittweiler]

On Monday, July 12, 2004 at 11:29:47 PM, 
    Florian Weimer <address@hidden> wrote:

> * Tobias C. Rittweiler:
>
> > What you have to fear is that this could develop in the direction of
> > something like a Notstandsgesetz (emergency law)
>
> I think you mean "Notverordnungen" (presidential emergency
> directives).  The "Notstandsgesetze" were enacted more than thirty
> years later.

ACK.

> > back to the Weimarer Republik, on that behalf and as a propaganded
> > *preventive* consequence of directly *imminent danger* the Republik
> > mutated to a fascist state.
>
> The Weimar Republic died because it lacked active supporters in key
> positions, not because there were loopholes in the constitution, or
> because of a strong presidency.

Why else do you think this loophole got marjorly defused in the
Grundgesetz? Let us both not cut the failure down to one reason. Let's
not be that stupid.


-- tcr (address@hidden)  ``Ho chresim'eidos uch ho poll'eidos sophos''