Saturday, March 17, 2007

NIght of the Long Knives

Sometime in the darkest part of the Dark Ages, perhaps a century since the departure of Roman legions, Saxon warlords invited their former Briton masters to parlay for peace at Stonehenge. The Saxons were a violent people who extolled the manly virtues of warfare. Killing your foe in battle was a very good thing for a Saxon. Britons showed up for the meeting and the two sides began talking into the night. When they were fully distracted by the negotiations, the Saxons fell upon the unsuspecting Celts and killed them with their long Saxon knives. Hitler, no slouch in the lore of Germanic peoples, repeated a similar ruthless purge of his political rivals in the Sturmabteilung (SA). The stormtroopers' leadership was executed over the weekend of June 30-July1, 1934. and the purge is known as the "Night of the Long Knives". According to official Nazi records, 82 were executed.

The current Washington regime conducted it own version of a political purge with the firing of eight unenthusiastic US District Attorneys. Information now coming to the surface indicates that the original intent was to replace all 93 federal prosecutors at the beginning of the regime's second term in power. Such a mass firing is unprecedented. A provision of the Patriot Act was to be invoked replacing prosecutors with more loyal 'Bushies'. Amidst the political fallout, the White House is attempting to make the innocuous Harriet Myers the fall guy for the plan, but the purge has the vicious modus operandi of Carl 'the Brain' Rove. The regime has also displayed it's absolute requirement of loyalty to the Charlatan in the Plame Affair. The ex-operative testified clearly before the House Government Oversight Committee that the regime recklessly blew her cover in retaliation for her husband Ambassador Joe Wilson's public debunking of the Niger connection. The White House has become a personality cult reminiscent of the last century.