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t is also a metaphor and a cautionary tale for our time let me tell you about it 1933 marinus van der lubbe was born in 1909 and grew up in leiden in utter poverty his drunken father deserted the family and by the time he was 12 his mother had died he trained as a mason where he discovered the labour movement and joined the communist youth party by 1931 he was working his way across europe towards the soviet union to be as close as possible to his communist idols but along the way he became disillusioned with the communists strict code of discipline and authoritarian structure he joined an anarchic syndicalist group that advocated propaganda of the deed not the word reaching poland he turned around and headed into germany reaching berlin in mid february 1933 two weeks before van der lubbe arrived in berlin adolf hitler had been appointed chancellor of the german reich by president von hindenburg the nazi party had grown enormously since its drubbing in the federal elections of 1928 in which it had won only 12 seats in a reichstag of 491 four years later in the july 1932 elections it won 230 seats accounting for 37 3 of the total vote the most of any of the numerous parties however without a positive plan for the country s future and with a german unemployment rate of more than 30 the nazis could not capitalize on their new found popularity the country descended into severe turmoil in september the reichstag voted no confidence in the government of franz von papen and called for new elections in november elections in which the nazis lost 34 seats nevertheless with joseph goebbels brilliant propaganda and shrewd political maneuvering hitler managed to convince von hindenburg to name him chancellor on 30 january the only plan the nazis had at that point was brownshirt terrorism having achieved power they had no idea what to do next they needed something to energize their movement and marinus van der lubbe the dedicated and committed anarchist newly arrived in berlin was about to provide it he believed it would take a spectacular event to rouse the unemployed to break free from their chains and take spontaneous mass action themselves he decided to burn down the reichstag on the 26th and 27th of february he spent every reichsmark he had on matches and firestarters on the evening of the 28th he hid in the reichstag until everyone had left for the day and at about 9 00 pm set fire to the building after lighting a number of fires throughout the building he was apprehended by police he had done a superb job the fire brigade did what it could but the place was a tinderbox and burned brilliantly all night his interrogation made it perfectly clear he had acted alone one of his questioners later said his eyes gleamed with fanaticism immediately after learning of the blaze hitler goebbels and hermann göring met in the party s offices with a clear view of the conflagration hitler was excited even ecstatic rudolf diels the non nazi head of the prussian political police who had witnessed van der lubbe s interrogation tried to tell hitler that this was a one person crime and a crazy person at that but hitler wouldn t listen he blamed the communists an influential political party he hated and the winner of 89 reichstag seats in the recent elections looking straight at diels and the two others hitler set in motion the full power that was to become the third reich saying there will be no more mercy now anyone who stands in our way will be butchered the german people won t have any understanding for leniency every communist functionary will be shot where he is found the communist deputies must be hanged this very night everybody in league with the communists is to be arrested a few hours later police squads dug out lists of communists prepared months even years previously for the coming ban on the party and set off in cars and vans to haul them out of bed there were thousands of them the german police however were ever so efficient at finding them meanwhile wilhelm frick minister of the interior saw an opportunity he proposed suspending several sections of the weimar constitution particularly those governing freedom of expression freedom of the press and freedom of assembly and association he also proposed to hitler allowing the police to detain people indefinitely without a court order at a meeting the following morning the cabinet unanimously approved the proposal hitler made plain his intention of destroying the communists and anyone else who dared defy his plans he included the jews specifically our struggle must not be made dependent on judicial considerations he said is that sounding familiar marinus van der lubbe was tried found guilty and executed the following january 2025 the incompetence and gleeful brutality of the trump administration have been on full display for nearly 100 days the american people are noticing and registering disapproval trump s job approval rating is 11 points underwater 44 approve 55 disapprove in a new fox news survey while 55 of registered voters approve of his handling of border security that is the only issue where his ratings are in positive territory he s at 15 on taxes 38 approve 53 disapprove 18 on the economy 38 to 56 25 on tariffs 33 to 58 and 26 on inflation 33 to 59 the administration is flailing every day seems like the ted mack amateur hour except those amateurs knew what they were doing back in the late 1960s and early 1970s before watergate richard nixon always seemed able to pull a surprise out of his presidential magic bag when he needed the country to look away from some current horrendoma he would show us the bluebird of happiness had gone to some new and better place donald trump doesn t seem to have a magic bag much less a magical bluebird right now 96 days in not much of trumpism is resonating around the country it doesn t help that trump changes his positions more often than weather changes in new england what s a punch drunk president to do and that is the question he needs his own reichstag fire a calamitous event that would galvanize the country around a strong leader who could demonstrate solid control he s looking but hasn t found it yet it could have been ukraine ukraine is burning but trump is nowhere to be found vladimir putin leads him around a circus ring by the nose trump s negotiators completely unprepared for the job seem like kindly mr chase who would give us third graders free candy on the way home from school hoping our parents would come into his store later which they never did have another babe ruth tommie he could have marshalled the skills on display at his rallies to mobilize the country for a noble cause sending russian troops back to russia his maga base would not have understood or appreciated that but the non maga two thirds of the rest of the country would have it would have ennobled him elevated him in history he didn t do that he couldn t instead he does his best to sell a brave country to a tyrant for a song in return he ll steal some vague mineral rights and crow that he ended a war nobel peace prize stuff meanwhile he looks elsewhere for his reichstag fire perhaps migrants but migrants aren t cooperating their numbers are down and much to the administration s disappointment they seem lawful we should all hope trump is not handed his very own reichstag fire here in the u s we should all hope he doesn t find a plausible excuse as hitler did to suspend the freedoms we hold dear the ones our ancestors fought and died for we should all hope posted in misc we need to be reminded of the respect we owe our veterans april 22nd 2025 by tom lynch across america we see groups and organizations most of them small and local that do what they can to demonstrate the respect we owe veterans for example here in massachusetts in braintree the home of john adams the atlantic symphony orchestra is dedicating the final performance of its season this coming saturday night to the 15 8 million veterans still with us although their numbers have been declining in recent years falling 25 since 2010 the devotion to country of these men and women has never wavered i intend to be in that audience here s why very shortly after 1967 had become 1968 and after i had done everything i could to avoid anything to do with vietnam two friends arrived back in america they had been killed in action now like more than 50 000 others they would forever be remembered as shrouded in military olive green i felt a sense of shame and with the impetuosity of youth visited an army recruitment office in haverhill massachusetts and enlisted in the army s officer candidate school when i told my father what i had done that evening at dinner he was horrified the first thing he said was tom have you lost your mind maybe but i understood why he asked that question with such disgust in mid 1943 he had been drafted for world war ii in january 1944 as a member of the 3rd division he had been in the first wave of the battle of anzio the allies operation shingle launched amphibiously on the western edge of central italy as my father and about thirty other soldiers dropped into the lst that would carry them to shore for the invasion his lieutenant handed him a box and told him to carry it carefully to shore asked what was in it that was so valuable the lieutenant replied nitroglycerin bombs when they exited the lst and hit the water the first thing my father got rid of pushing it as far as he could back out to sea but ever so gently were those bombs sometimes war has its humorous surreal moments he was among those who scaled the cliffs of anzio then after being held down by fierce german resistance for three months the americans broke through and in may captured and liberated rome anzio cost the lives of 5 538 americans with another 18 000 wounded the dead are buried in the sicily rome american cemetery just east of the town of anzio like normandy and arlington national cemetery it consists of neatly lined up white crosses with the names of the dead the 3rd division then headed up and into france on their way to germany my father never made it to germany after every one of his squadmates had been killed or seriously wounded he had his own meeting with a german bullet he was shot through the shoulder by a round that ended up an eighth of an inch from his spine he was left to die in a corridor of an army mash hospital in france he fooled everyone he did not die but he did spend eight months rehabbing in an army hospital back in the u s the bullet that got him remained next to his spine the rest of his life he never would raise his right arm above his shoulder again however this high school all american football player did learn to throw a football sidearm to his sons with real snap to it he like so many others had become a living veteran i spent nearly two years in vietnam but i do not think a single moment of that experience could rival the horror of what my father and all the other members of the greatest generation went through on their way to saving humanity from the depravity and outright evil of the third reich to give the last full measure so that others may live in peace is often not appreciated by those who have never experienced the horror of war i suppose that s understandable however as that is the highest gift one person can give another we need frequent reminding we need to realize that warfare is to be avoided at all costs and never venerated let alone glorified my father and the other 16 4 million americans who fought to send hitler to the fifth circle of hell as well as those who followed them through peace and battle deserve the utmost respect from every american regardless of ideology or political views saturday night s concert in braintree will have the utmost meaning for me posted in misc on harvard s titanic high stakes battle with donald trump april 18th 2025 by tom lynch donald trump insanely pulls the country even deeper into the rabbit hole during the 2024 presidential campaign donald trump s two most significant and repeated promises to the american people were that he would cure the country s economic problems and end the war in ukraine immediately upon taking office actually he said he would end the war on day one earlier this week 87 days into trump 2 0 a russian missile attack on the central ukrainian city of kryvyi rih killed at least 18 people and left dozens wounded ukrainian officials said nine of the dead were children said president volodymyr zelensky who grew up in kryvyi rih and that friends probably explains the location of the attack regarding president trump s promise to end the war on day one no one can deny that after nearly three months his stunningly persuasive diplomatic skills as well as his close personal bromance with ex kgb killer vladimir putin have moved russia to meaningful negotiations toward a just peace with only nine more kids murdered with respect to his pledge to end the country s economic woes the ones it didn t have on wednesday of this week the dow s p and nasdaq all continued their slide down negative alley after fed chairman jerome powell delivered a speech to the economic club of chicago in which he noted a potentially grim situation developing from trump s helter skelter tariffs in which prices are pushed higher at the same time growth and a likely weakening in the labor market leave both inflation and employment further away from the fed s desired levels powell called trump s tariff plans fundamental changes that don t provide businesses and economists with any clear parallels to study what they do provide is uncertainty the one thing business leaders hate most and in a profoundly ironic note powell intimated that the u s began the year with the biden administration handing off to donald trump nearly full employment with inflation expected to continue falling to the fed s target of 2 what was donald trump s reaction to powell s speech three things first america s self appointed world s greatest economist said the chairman of the fed didn t know what he was talking about second he said powell s termination couldn t come soon enough the wall street journal reported that trump has spoken with kevin warsh a former fed governor about potentially ousting powell before his term ends next year and possibly selecting warsh as his replacement according to people familiar with the matter warsh s advice let powell be the third thing our president did was what he always does when faced with potential catastrophe he changed the subject by launching a few hand grenades at enemies he s worked hard to create federal judges and elite universities and one university in particular one that has called his bluff harvard trump is not the first wannabe dictator to try to emasculate universities and their academic freedom he could take lessons from adolf hitler within four months of assuming power hitler had successfully gone after every 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