re-post re-post NAZISM Know the Signs SCAPEGOATING - Blaming social problems on a cultural, racial, or behavioral group. PREJUDICE - Selling the public on the idea that all members of the targeted group are "bad" people. LIES - "Facts," which cannot be verified, and pseudo-scientific studies are used as propaganda against the targeted group. History is rewritten. NO PUBLIC DEBATE - "These people have no right to have their viewpoint aired." and "Anyone who disagrees or questions us must be one of them." DEHUMANIZATION - Characterizing all members of the target group as subhuman and typically capable of monstrous deeds and crimes. PROTECT OUR CHILDREN - "They corrupt, seduce and destroy our children." CIVIL LIBERTIES SACRIFICED - "We must give up some of our freedom, liberty and rights in order to combat this menace to society." LEGAL DISCRIMINATION - Laws criminalize members of the targeted group who may be denied jobs, the right to own property, or may be restricted to were they go. INFORMERS - Citizens are urged to "turn in" their neighbors, friends, co-workers and even family members. SECRET POLICE - Non-uniformed police squads set up to wage war on the targeted group utilizing deception, infiltration, espionage and entrapment. CONFISCATION OF PROPERTY - Property and assets of members of the targeted group are seized. Property may be divided between the informer and the state. REMOVAL FROM SOCIETY - Prisons, "hospitals," "rehabilitation camps," executions, genocide ( "kill them all" ). RECOGNIZE THE "WAR ON DRUGS" FOR WHAT IT IS. Suitable for display in Patriotic workplaces, homes and public ways. "LIFE LIBERTY AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS."