Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

January 12, 2010

Hitler?s National Socialists devised a new term to describe the centralization of all political functions in the hands of the Fuhrer and his party: Gleichschaltung, a word often translated as ?synchronization,? an innocuous word to describe the process that created a murderous unitary government that controlled all aspects of German life.

By limiting the powers of the central government and protecting the powers of the states, the U.S. Constitution was designed to prevent the emergence of a monolithic central government of the sort Hitler and his comrades created.

On January 11, the Obama administration unveiled an executive order representing a dreadful milestone in the process of American Gleichschaltung ? the establishment of a ?Council of Governors? to aid in the ?synchronization and integration of State and Federal military activities? both domestically and abroad. This doesn?t mean that troops will soon flood our streets and death camps will sprout across the countryside. But that executive order makes it even likelier that such afflictions will descend on our country.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.