Judy Ortiz

05/31/2013

 

 

One of the most significant paragraphs that I read in It Can’t Happen Here was the conversation between Frank and Doremus in the pages 16 and 17.  “Wait till Buzz takes charge of us. Areal Fascist dictatorship ‘Nonsense! Nosense!’ snorted Tasbrough. “That couldn’t happen here in America, not possibly! We’re a country of freemen” (Lewis 17, 18).  This passage was significant for me because it was the prediction of the future in Doremus’ life. Jessup Doremus was an editor and proprietor of the Daily Informer. He expressed his disagreement about the fascism government throughout his publications. Sadly, when Buzz took the power, Doremus’ predictions came true “It happened in America”. The dictator took the power and created his own army to against the democracy. Doremus and the entire country were victims of a fascist’s dictator.  As many others Doremus was victim of the enormous control that Buzz had over the country. Buzz used the most common tactic that uses all dictators VIOLENCE.  Doremus was arrested by Buzz’s army and he was tortured and outrage just because he had an opposite view about Buzz. Violence was the most powerful weapons that are used to silence the voiceS of the oppressed men.

The smart and dominant Buzz created an army with the ideology of the any person who against his

principles deserved to be tortured and death. Buzz as many men in the history took the weak-mind

men and gave them the weapons to intimidate the strong-mind men. Doremus’ case was one of

thousands of cases that HAPPENED AND COULD CONTINUE HAPPENING