COTD: State Within A State

clipped from pajamasmedia.com However it is highly appropriate to see the Iranian theocracy through the prism of western totalitarism, e.g. Nazism. The historical parallels between Ahmadinejad’s IRGC and Hitler’s (or rather Heinrich Himmler’s) SS are very striking. The SS was also a “state within a state” and represented a separate branch of the German military that was directly loyal to the Nazi Party. Hitler and his crew originally used the SS as their own private army as a counter to Ernst Roehm’s SA (Sturm Abteilung). The SA was naturally Ernst Roehm’s own private army. During the “Night of the Long Knives”, the SA and SS slugged it out with the SS becoming victorious thus propelling Hitler into undisputed power. There has been some indications that the IRGC is loyal directly to Ahmadinejad and NOT to the mullahs. In some ways this recent Iranian election can be seen as a historical parallel to the Nazi party’s election to the Reichstag on 31 July 1932.

And someone was getting too close to Americorps so he had to be removed.