Dr. Best, Himmler’s right hand man in the Gestapo, once said, “As long as the police carries out the will of the leadership, it is acting legally.” That mindset allowed for 400 political murders in the Weimar Republic between 1923 and 1932. The ghost of our late prime minister confronts us with political murder at the heart of our national dream. He forces on us the appalling questions: Of what is our constitution made? What is our citizenship, and more, our lives, worth? What is the future of a democracy where leaders can be assassinated under conspicuously suspicious circumstances while the machinery of legal action scarcely trembles? How many politically disguised murders will occur before they are exposed for what they are? On repression, Huey Long once said, “It will come in the name of your security – they call it ‘National Security,’ it will come with the mass media
