(Newswire.net — June 14, 2015) — As the House of Representatives approved the US president’s unilateral power to negotiate major trade pacts without disclosing its content, the opponents are once again compared with the Nazi. This time, by Rep. David Schweikert (R-AZ), Washington Post reported.
Schweikert equalized unions opposed to a controversial trade deal TPP with Hitler’s head of propaganda, Joseph Goebbels.
Before a vote on granting President Barack Obama ‘fast-track’ authority to handle sweeping trade agreements like the TPP, Schweikert, an Arizona Republican first elected to the House in 2010, compared unions asking to be consulted on signing trade deals with Gebel’s policy.
“Some of the crazy things I’m seeing put out in the media by Big Labor—the willingness to make up stories, to make up facts—Goebbels would be very proud of them,” he said, according to The Washington Post.
“Be careful that we’re not getting conned by made-up stories,” Schweikert added.
Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) first compared Democrats with Nazis in 2011 when asked about a Pew poll showing Americans blame Republicans more than they blame Democrats for the gridlock:
“If Joseph Goebbels was around, he’d be very proud of the Democrat Party because they have an incredible propaganda machine. I think that you have, and let’s be honest, you know, some of the people in the media are complicit in this, in enabling them to get that type of message out.”
On the Senate floor in February of this year, Sen. Dan Coats (R-Ind.) compared Russians with the Nazi over Ukraine.
“Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s propaganda chief, invented the “big lie” theory that Putin is using to great effect. Hitler famously said that many people tell small lies, but few have the guts to tell really big ones, and when they do, and the lies are repeated over and over, they become a new truth. Tragically, I believe we are at that stage in the Ukraine crisis,” Sen. Coats said.
Apparently, anyone’s different opinion is same as WWII Nazi propaganda according to Republicans. Unions in US, share the same labeling. Among many others, they oppose the TPP deal for its leak of transparency, currency manipulation, Internet privacy and local control.