Years ago, U. S. Senator Rick Durbin (D-IL, now Assistant Majority Leader) tearfully cooed to the Taliban via calling USA troops "Nazis"; Newt (and, come to think, Lyndon LaRouche) is running around calling Obama a Nazi; el Presidente de Mexico's political operatives are calling Arizona a bunch of "Nazis"; on and on and on and on it goes, as if we're to be beaten into thinking ANYBODY who doesn't do whatever a non-USA leader wants is a Nazi taking over their throne, ANYBODY (even immigrants who "get wise" once here!) who doesn't want megaton after megaton of humanity dumped into the USA without constructive purpose is a Nazi throwing "new Jews" into ovens.

Ho-hum, such is the rather limited vocabulary of the world's leaders, and of their bailed-out or otherwise leashed media and spin meisters; or maybe to their insistances only THEIR opinions matter, that is how THEY would define what Churchill called "Nahzees".

Speaking up for the lilliputians most USA leaders and flashpoints of evolution find themselves having to suffer, here is what most of us...regardless of race, origins, religion, blah...seem to define Nazism as from the way Nahzees dealt with anybody in their realm: The Gestapo had the authority to investigate cases of treason, espionage, sabotage and criminal attacks on the Nazi Party and Germany. The basic Gestapo law passed by the government in 1936 gave the Gestapo carte blanche to operate without judicial oversight. The Gestapo was specifically exempted from responsibility to administrative courts, where citizens normally could sue the state to conform to laws. As early as 1935, however, a Prussian administrative court had ruled that the Gestapo's actions were not subject to judicial review. The SS officer Werner Best, onetime head of legal affairs in the Gestapo^[7], summed up this policy by saying, "As long as the police carries out the will of the leadership, it is acting legally."^[4] A further law passed later in the year gave the Gestapo responsibility for setting up and administering concentration camps. (Here foregoing definition and citations from Wikipedia, at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gestapo).

Now, if you had a country where leaders enacted 57% or more of new crimes requiring no culpable mental state or ability to HAVE intent for convictions, or enacted super-police powers and such on their own residents, or decided just what they want to pay attention to matters, you get the idea...well, obviously, such people WOULD be acting precisely, exactly, and effectively as did the Nahzees via their Gestapo (which under Shah Reza Pahlavi was Savak, in East Germany Stazi, in Soviet Russia KGB, and so on in so many countries).

The one thing all these "great re-builders" had in common was the setting up of strangling aparatus, followed by enabling legislations, complicity of Courts, then sadisitic warehousing and final solutions for pests (Nahzees had concentration camps for Jews, Gypsies, gays, inferior Germans, Poles, you name it; Stalin had gulags for uzbeks, dissidents with sluggish schizophrenia...so forth).

Maybe everyone, Left, Right, and Center, who spins for power and cash finds hot name recognition in the term "Nazi" from a cootie-calling or psychology-wielding expediency, but for anyone to know what truly made Nahzees THE Nazis, one needs to know how their Reich conducted its own society...not just what it did at the edges of the world.