America Is Rapidly Becoming More Like Nazi Germany

My opponent seems to like to make lengthy arguments that really don't support the topic. I urge the audience to look past this charade. The fact of the matter is that America bears no striking resemblance to Nazi Germany at all. When we talk about Nazi Germany several key traits stick out: 1. Nazism 2. Lebensraum (Living Space) 3. Hitler Youth 4. Totalitarian Regime If these traits were redacted or modified, we would no longer be talking about Nazi Germany. My opponent says that America is not identical to Nazi Germany, only similar. I am telling you that without these 4 traits, it's hard to even define what Nazi Germany was and therefore there is not resemblance whatsoever when analyzed closely. 1. Nazism was the belief that the Aryan people were the ultimate race and that undesirables (Jews, Slavs, Roma, Homosexuals, Communist, and disabled people) should be eliminated. I see how my opponent might mistake the power granted to the government under the NDAA for those that the Nazi's used, however there is a major difference. The NDAA is merely solidifying a power that the courts already determined that the government possessed. It is used to insure that another 9/11 doesn't happen because we protected someone like Anwar Al Awlaki who preached that Muslims should kill Americans (something that is not protected by freedom of speech). This power has only been used once to the best of my knowledge (against Awlaki). It is beyond a stretch to say that this has turned us into anything resembling Nazi Germany. Second we have the practice of Lebensraum. This is essentially an extreme example of of imperialism. At one point, America was considered an imperialistic nation. That time has long since passed. America no longer invades other countries in order to try to annex them (as was the case with the Philippians in the Spanish-American War. Hitler invaded other countries for the sole purpose of growing the German empire and in all cases he was the aggressor. In Iraq, Saddam refused to comply with orders from the UN to allow WMD inspectors into the country. In Afghanistan, the Taliban government was giving shelter to bin Laden, the man who saw it in himself to take 2819 American lives on a bright September morning. In both of these wars America was not the instigator and only acted to defend it's citizens from death at the hands of people who would do this country harm. Next there was the Hitler Youth, Hitler's efforts to make the next generation blindly follow him. One thing that could be said in general about Nazi Germany was that there was overwhelming unity for their cause, whether that was due to fear or loyalty is irrelevant since either way their is no unity of any kind for or against the leadership in America today. Finally, we have the fact that Nazi Germany was a totalitarian dictatorship while the US is a republic. In Nazi Germany, you suddenly disappeared if you had unkind things to say about Hitler and The Nazi government. In America we still have MSNBC to call out Bush on the fact that Iraq never had WMDs and we have Fox News to call Obama out on Solyndra's failure. My opponent seems content to try to prove a imaginary comparison exists between Nazi Germany and the US. His original argument was that the US was rapidly becoming like Nazi Germany. When I pointed out that the policies in the US and Nazi Germany are not at all the same he proceeded to change his argument to say that the spirit of these policies are like those in Nazi Germany. I am now telling you the motives for implementing these supposedly like-spirited polices are not even the same. I look forward to seeing what his new argument will be. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and my opponent has failed to present anything that can support this absurd claim. America is still a free country and these laws are merely tools to protect those freedom. Like anything else, those tools can be used for good or evil but the fact of the matter is that there is no indefinitely lasting figure that controls all military operations like Hitler did. Without that perversion of the law that allows a person or group of people to rule a country indefinitely with an iron fist, America will never be like Nazi Germany. Before my opponent continues to argue his fruitless point I ask him only one question: What makes you think that if America is so rapidly descending into tyranny like the one that existed in Nazi Germany, that you wouldn't be taken out of your house in the middle of the night and shot in the back of the skull by some secret government agent since assuming you are correct, you are calling attention to something that is not in their best interest to become common knowledge?