There’s a story on Facebook, beginning,
My friends often wonder why I roll my eyes whenever they send me Sound of Music references. They tell me - “it’s such a great movie! You’re famous!”
What they don’t get is that the true story is a far cry from the lighthearted musical, in which my father's family escapes the Nazis by hiding in a convent and then climbing over the mountain into Switzerland.
In reality, they put on their hiking clothes and caught the last train to Italy before the borders closed for a proposed “hiking holiday”. They were very, very lucky to have Italian passports - as my grandfather, Georg, was born in Zadar - then a part of Italy, making them Italian citizens.
They spent some time in the Netherlands before sailing on the American Farmer out of Southampton for the U.S., with a sponsor and a singing contract for a U.S. tour. They had very little money.
Real Nazis were not bumbling fools who could be outsmarted by some clever nuns. They were dangerous killers. My family was lucky to get out alive.
Read the post, you’ll find it on Facebook under the name of Francoise von Trapp, daughter of Captain von Trapp’s eldest son Rupert.
She points out that the concentration camp of Dachau was located within the Bavarian town of Dachau. Not out in the country. Not a secret. As Wikipedia notes,
As early as 1935, a jingle went around: "Lieber Herr Gott, mach mich stumm, dass ich nicht nach Dachau komm'" ("Dear Lord God, make me silent, That I may not come to Dachau"). — Wikipedia
Third Reich 2.0
It is the same now. Not in the details but the personalities and the tactics, updated for another age.
This time, it’s not whether you are Jewish or Communist or homosexual, it’s whether you are in some defined category - Muslim or transgender or black or whatever - AND a critic of that fucking moron.
Musk is hoovering up the data the government has on its citizens. And everybody else who has had dealings with the USA. How long before Google and Microsoft and Amazon and Apple and Facebook have their data stores join those of X?
With that sort of information, the Trump regime can identify and handle any dissenter. There will be no secrets. Anything from the past quarter of a century.
You once edited Wikipedia to swap out the picture of Donald Trump for a pile of faeces? You shared it with friends? You encouraged others?
You’re on file. You’ll be found out, your address selected for a visit, whoever lives there now will be brought in for interrogation - remember that Trump makes no mistakes and anyone saying he ever did must be lying - and they will be handled by one of his loyal minions to determine the exact level of loyalty to the President-Who-Can-Do-No-Wrong.
It could be for anything, really. Oklahoma has just proposed a bill “that will make it ILLEGAL to own, read, write any book (among other things) they see as porn. This includes all open door romance books. 10 years in jail and 100k fine.”
You ever wrote something criticising fundamentalist megachurch billionaires?
They have your IP address, they have your handle, they know who you are
And they will set AI bots to trawl through the insane amount of data they have to find you out.
Maybe they won’t need to haul you away. Just give your details to the local branch of the Trump Youth.
Whatever is going to happen if these goons get their way, it will be too late to stop it two years from now when you imagine you will get a free and fair vote. Don’t kid yourself that you’ll vote in a Democrat in 2028. If there is an election, it will be rigged.
Donald Trump is not going to be caught a second time.
Read Francoise von Trapp’s story and think about Dachau. That’s where you may be headed.
Britni
Instead of Dachau it will be called Guantanamo -- outside the reach of the courts. And it won't be contained to the U.S.
Oh dear. Adieu.