President Obama admitted that we've committed torture
I think that's amazing
he said we did a lot of things is it was talking about the media at about 9/11 we
did think some things that were wrong
we did a lot of things or right but we tortured some folks
we did some things that were contrary to our values
I understand why it happened a lot of those folks are working hard under
enormous pressure on our real patriots but having said all that
we did some things that are wrong and that is what this report reflects he's
talking about this
a CIA report on its own torture so Saxby Chambliss
the Republican from Georgia goes on CBS's yeah I we hear
we tortured people and we got information that took down Bin Laden
turns out that's not what the report says
according to other senators who read it
but the republicans are so invested in George W Bush Dick Cheney not going down
in history
as being president's that we're just as bad as John Adams or worse
I there so invested
in this that they that they're trying to make
down up in up down and it's just and Dianne Feinstein and mark Udall
are pushing to declassify this thing
James clapper says worried acting a budget they've they've got all these
things lined out
so we'll see where this goes
but we have we have fundamentally changed
this country has fundamentally changed see if you can pull up
has and homeland um the for that clip
this we never referred to the United States
as a homeland homeland is a phrase that back in the nineteen twenties
was heavily used a GSS
your is heavily used by the
by the Zionist movement i jus sayin
we need a homeland right because the jewish tass brother scattered all over
the world they said you know we want our own country
and they got after world war two
Israel specifically but but
in the twenties Hitler writing about you know is right about the Jews mine comp
and he said his homeland thing this is an idea in chiapas concept
blued on aired blood and
earth and
that there
was this German earth German soil and German blood
and the people who didn't have German blood should not be in Germany
and he wanted to create Germany
as a homeland for germans all over the world and he was basically
borrowing this as he thought this is how people can come together got the clip
call so we will stop stop and yes I want to introduce
this is so in 1937 in the in the Munich
you know this is Hitler his moment of triumph
right we only have thirty seconds okay ought to do it after the breakout
out I'll do it in five minutes and share this with you in fact all
I'll leave also but here's my concern is that
not that we're becoming Nazi Germany I'm not suggesting that at all
what i'm saying is that we are using
authoritarian language and
and an authoritarian mind is set
that is all post-9/11 that all came out to the mind and heart and guts
a dick cheney and George W Bush John Yoo and Jay by be and kinda Lisa rice
and Alberto Gonzalez and these and and and Don Rumsfeld
tickled people who hold a set of values that I think our
inconsistent with the values of most american Sai de año
old a forgery and hear the present a united
amount apologize for that pledged and then
you know we which takes us back to the tornado isn't all about
here will continue and for the people
this is the Thom Hartmann program
the okay so here is here is why
a when after 9/11 George W Bush Dick Cheney and
and and the Don Rumsfeld all these guys they rolled out
this new hoover Department
and they used a word
that most Americans who were conscious and politically active before 2001 had
never heard
or had only heard in the context
above the Jewish homeland Israel and that was homeland
whenever refer to america's a homeland germans never referred to germany as the
homeland before 1937
and in this speech in 1937
pay Albert here's her house
is introducing is introducing
so what okay he's introducing Hitler
to speak trainees you stand at the podium podium
and is is donkey are appearing
thanks to our fuhrer years Deutschland
your Deutschland I'm forgive my bad translation here
my German is all sign zeal
at like him hi matsu Saints ok they're basically what he's saying is
that thanks to our fuhrer
Germany is now
a a hi ma a homeland hi much the same
and then he says and not just for the germans here
but for the germans all over the world hi martz's sane for
are led by chin in der belt for all of the germans
in the world hi much to say I that day homeland it
will be for all the germans in the world so
and out this is when the word homeland was introduced in Germany in 1937
here is is has seen I'm
you up you'll get March on
9 feel action got I am NOT
tonight
I am opted-in feel
Island starch in doubt
here
here and have a concern speaks
and it was rude office forgive me
getting the name wrong so you know I lived in Germany for your back in the
eighties and I
I read the rise and fall of the Third Reich and I I
mmm spent a fair amount of time researching a book on the history of the
Nazis in the
religion in the nazis that a friend of mine and I were writing together
that never sunlight a day but a we came up with some amazing
research I is is basically a and it called
called the nazis within the nazis particularly the SS
their cultists you know david koresh gonna cultists
his death called and this idea of Homeland ahh I'm out it so
you know and and from that point forward the nazis stopped referring to dear
bottle and
the fatherland or even
you know de mujer la and the motherland and
to give those you actually speak German forgive me for mangling
your language but you know they they they stopped referring to the country as
the fatherland or
or occasionally my lawn instead it was referred to as
the homeland and that's why
when george bush announced that he was creating a new agency called the
Department of Homeland Security
it just gave me a chill and
now we have in industry basically I mean they're
Homeland Security has has gotten so big and so intrusive through
many butts agencies the NSA the FBI when I that you have reporters say no
we can't do our jobs as reporters well if you don't have an active and vibrant
press
you can't have a functioning government in a democracy because the press is what
hold the government accountable
and if reporters can't talk to people
whistleblowers inside government are we ever gonna find out
if you know Wong is going on and
just there the so you know I'm
this is not I'm not with you know the the
the turner diaries people are not calling for a civil war I magnin are now
back on its
however when
when people like sheriff mack: ok live in bundy when they talk about you know
we're losing our liberties the constitution's being torn up
we may disagree about the indicators a bath you know what it is that
that is proof of that but I would say
from the you know that I can agree with the I can agree with Scotty know he is
with a tea partier
that our Constitution is under assault
now we may have different reasons she she may see it as
Obamacare that's causing that I would see it as you know the refusal by
Republicans to allow
the president to close guantanamo or
you know whatever I mean come up a long list
but it concerns me
concerns me tremendously