Angry in the Great White North

From Al Jazeera (the online magazine from Dubai, not the TV network from Qatar):

As Hitler was rising to power in 1930s, someone did him the favor of burning the Reichstag, the German Parliament. A lot of analysts said that the Nazis burnt it down themselves.

But Hitler's followers turned that fire into a horrific wave of “terror”, suspending civil rights and civil liberties. They fattened their war machine and rode the fascist tide into a full-blown dictatorship.

Then Al Jazeera goes into full "analysis" mode:

Let’s look at the similarities between the two regimes.

Like Hitler, Bush came to power with a minority of votes. He used the September 11 tragedy in much the way the Nazis jumped on the Reichstag fire, ignoring the damaged caused to his country and nation.

Four years have passed since September 11 attacks but the American President has failed to capture or try the perpetrators, instead, he preferred to use the tragedy to move forward with an extreme rightist agenda, crushing civil liberties, shutting up all opposition, fattening a war machine, and attacking sovereign countries without good reason or evidence of involvement in 9/11 attacks, killing thousands of civilians, and creating a staunch animosity against his nation.

Fittingly, just as the nation was mourning those who died in one of the most twisted acts of terrorism imaginable, Bush's brother Jeb made another mockery of the electoral process. In Florida, where the 2000 election was most blatantly stolen, faulty voting machines were again foisted on districts filled with primarily with blacks and Jews. While the nation's eyes were elsewhere, major---perhaps fatal---chaos was injected into the Democratic primary meant to choose Jeb's fall opponent. As the unusable ballots, dysfunctional voting machines and manipulated poll hours again shredded the democratic process, one could hear Republicans smirking from Tallahassee to DC.

Such craziness in the Middle East, right? "Bush = Hitler" and conspiracies and so on. Only from the feverish imagination of a Bin Laden wannabe.

But then why would they care about blacks and Jews being disenfranchised?

The reason is that this Al Jazeera piece is reprinted from the American website Common Dreams. It was written by Harvey Wasserman. The full article actually focuses mostly on Bush policy with regards to environmentalism and marijuana, but Al Jazeera cut most of that out. They just left the first 30% dealing with the Reichstag parallel.

Al Jazeera mentions that this article is reprinted from Common Dreams, but never provides a link, a title, or the author's name. I had to google it to find the original article.

Why would that be? Because they don't want their readers to be distracted by environmental issues and marijuana?

Or because they don't want their readers to know that such a fine piece was written by a "Harvey Wasserman", and that sounds pretty Jewish to me.

I can't believe the CRTC gave Al Jazeera a broadcast license in Canada before Fox News. (wrong al Jazeera)