On the one hand, I don't think the holocaust reference is over the top. There are a lot of ties between the Bush Dynasty and Nazi Germany; the Nazi SS started out as a private securities corporation with hefty government contracts, much like our own Wackenhut and American Corrections Corporation; DARE has been frequently and broadly compared to Hitler Jugund (Hitler Youth); if you take a speech or essay from some of the more hawkish drug warriors and switch a few words around--like drugs for Jewery, drug user for Jew, etc.--most people would be hard pressed to tell it apart from an authentic bit of Nazi propaganda. Human experiments? WTF do you think was going on in there???
But the most compelling and significant thing that DFAF has in common with the Third Reich is how both movements crept upon the people, becoming an integral and accepted part of the culture. You think our drug warriors don't celebrate the death of a "druggie"?
""They saw me, drenched in Clay's blood, and they ask me, 'Is he all right.' and I just shook my head. The cops are smoking and joking, high-fiving each other. Wow, I think, they took down a farm of unarmed hippies."
http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v02/n1876/a12.html?1874Now, on the other hand, a lot of people are not anywhere near ready to see the similarities between what's happening in this country and what happened in Germany. You will get serious backlash because of that.
As far as DFAF's finances go, I know that Calvina was quoted as saying that they got 30% of their funding from the Federal government a year or two ago. Wes has documented the SBA grant they got last year for $300k. That was in the newspaper. If you want to know all about their funding, send a formal certified letter of request for their tax returns and cite the Freedom of Information Act. While you're waiting for a response, check out Florida CAN's pages on FOI requests at
http://www.jug-or-not.com/can/freedom_of_info.htm