You will know them for their hypocrisy is legion.

When you were all stood there commemorating the sacrifice of those who gave their todays for our tomorrows what were you thinking. "It's a bit chilly". "Can't they hurry up a bit". "Suckers". "They wouldn't catch me doing anything on principle let alone dying". We know you definitely weren't thinking "I am grateful for their sacrifice and will follow their example" as that would be many things but certainly hypocrisy.

What was World War II all about. Our leaders wanted to maintain the empire. Ordinary Britons thought they were fighting for freedom and against the totalitarianism of the fascist left wing ideology of National Socialism. For the stupid the reason National Socialism is left wing is in the name. So what do you think the war dead would say if they had come back to life and seen that the Nazi culture is flourishing and is de rigueur across the West.

The faux moral outrage is almost palpable. How can the West be compared to Nazi Germany for they were evil? Well let's see if there are any similarities.

Hitler's Germany was a totalitarian state where democracy was scrapped, central planning was enforced and dissenters weren't welcome. The last bit was a bit of an understatement. Starting with the street thugs that went on to become the brown shirts the Nazi's extended their control with the SS and Gestapo. Show trials and torture common place as was executions.

Let's start with modern day democracy that much vaunted characteristic of a "free" country that is peddled across the Middle East. In theory the US and UK have two main parties each. In both countries their respective parties have become indistinguishable and totally unaccountable to the electorate. Whichever party is voted in the results are the same. Debts up, immigration up, statistical lies up. 

The European Union is anti-democracy. Tsipras in Greece won both an election and a referendum on an anti-austerity stance and then promptly signed up to continuing the Troika's austerity regime. How? Ukraine's democratically elected President was ousted in favour of a US puppet and that country has descended into civil war. Catalonia has voted to separate from Spain and Rajoy threatens to use everything including the military to stop them.  And don't mention referendums on transfer of sovereignty, immigration, multiculturalism. Definitely verboten.

How does the West deal with central planning. Well they love it. From the Fed to the ECB to the BOE and all the rest the central banks manipulate the financial markets, print fiat money and enrich a minority. Western countries are totally addicted to debt used to finance endless spending on the transformation of those countries in spite of the views of their electorate. There is no Western country that is reducing its influence on its populace.

What about dissenters? In the US whistleblowers are hounded and prosecuted. Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden are three. Carmen Segarra and David P. Weber are two more. Tony Blair infamous for the Iraq War to save the West from non-existent WMD will also be remembered for his Government's hounding and subsequent death of Dr. David Kelly. Colleges and universities across the West are no longer beacons of free speech and original thought but bastions of prescribed ideas, illiberal actions and "safe spaces". 

Freedom of speech is effectively prohibited by "hate" legislation. In the UK the definition of a hate crime is "A crime that the victim or any other person perceives to be motivated by hostility or prejudice towards any aspect of a person's identity". So we are now in the area of thought crimes and the subjectivity of that is also legion. Please remember that whilst the UK police were creating the hate crime legislation they were also ignoring the million suspected victims of immigrant rape gangs. The irony of that is awesome. The police not protecting children as they were creating a law to protect the perpetrators of child abuse from being protected or confronted. So Goebbels.

If hate legislation doesn't work then there is always threats or actual violence by left wing organisations. Anywhere anyone protests immigration and its resultant problems then they are shouted down with racism, xenophobia or the daddy of them all "Islamophobia". In the UK there is Antifa who turnout to oppose any group that protests mass rape and paedophilia by immigrants, which indirectly means that Antifa members may have questions to answer about their view of gang rape and paedophilia. Anyone seen the police? The UK also has Unite Against Fascism funded by the Unite union who receives funds from the UK government. So we have state sanctioned thugs in the UK denying free speech and freedom of association. Across Europe anyone protesting mass immigration or climate change or any of the other acceptable orthodoxy will be persecuted through the courts or the media or with violence.

We are three for three so far. What about propaganda. Hitler had Joseph Goebbels who is infamous for “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”

The West lives and breathes that quote from Goebbels. In the US all main media is controlled by only six organisations. In the UK BBC and Sky News have long since ceased to be organisations populated by journalists reporting unbiased news and are merely purveyors of state spin.

Let's move on. All fascist states need either a made up national trait or a real or imaginary enemy. Or both. Someone to blame for when things go wrong or to justify the states actions to protect the citizenry. Hitler had his master race theory and blamed the Jews. The US have their "exceptionalism" and blame the Russians / Chinese. The rest of the West go along with the US with blaming the Russians and Chinese. None of the West blame Islam for anything as most Muslims are mostly soft and cuddly and furry just like Gremlins. Apart from the Muslims who take the Quran literally who aren't Muslims but Islamists and the West does blame them. Apart from if they aren't really bad Islamists like Al-Qaeda then they are sort of OK. Confused? You should be.

So now the enemies of the West are the Russians, Chinese and Islamists. Mainly the Islamists. Following 9/11 the US has used "Islamists" to create the Department of Homeland Security, pass the Patriot and other Acts and collect data on everyone not just the "enemy". In the UK the government has GCHQ spying on everyone. Any Islamist attack is used to justify more protection. We have smart phones, tablets and laptops that track our location, can be switched on remotely to use the camera or record what is said. ISP's, search engines and social media that provide our data to national security services when they are not selling the information themselves. There are 250 million security cameras installed globally. That's one for every 29 people on the planet. We have smart TV's that record and transmit the data. So George. Heinrich Himmler would be beside himself with joy at this level of state surveillance of its populace.

What about relationships with other countries. Hitler is blamed for starting World War II and for invading most European and North African countries in the process causing up to 80 million deaths. How about the West? Well they invaded Afghanistan - 30,000, invaded Iraq - 1.5m, did another regime change in Libya - 30,000, Ukraine - 50,000 and Syria 250,000 with more still to die.

Overall, yes the West has taken the methods of the Nazi's and made them more subtle but ultimately far more effective. The freedoms that millions died for are being eroded across the West.

Yes politicians we know what you were thinking on Remembrance Day - Suckers!