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July 19, 2006
Fascism Anyone?
Fourteen Points of Fascism...Some obvious examples
1) Powerful and Continuing Nationalism:
a)New Majority Leader: Iraq War “May Be The Greatest Gift That We Give” Our Grandchildren
b)Headstones of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan are inscribed with the Pentagons war-marketing slogans
2) Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights:
a)Bush threatens to veto $442b defense bill if Congress investigates detainee abuses.
b)Guantanamo Judge: “I don’t care about international law. I don’t want to hear the words ‘international law’ again. We are not concerned with international law.”
c)Pentagon Resists Ban on 'Degrading Treatment'
3) Identify Enemies/Scapegoats as a unifying cause:
a) Congressman: Muslims 'enemy amongst us'
b)Ohio law to muzzle "liberals"
4) Supremacy of the Military: No domestic agenda funded and reduced to increase military spending..
a) Funding for job training, rural health care, low-income schools and help for people lacking health insurance would face big cuts under a bill passed Friday by the House
5)Rampant Sexism: lots of old white men..
a)It's legal again, to fire gov't workers for being gay
b)Bush calls for Constitutional ban on same-sex marriages
6)Controlled Mass Media...censorship is common
a)Phone records of journalist is fair game for FBI
b) Report shows U.S. government has been engaged in illegal propaganda aimed at its own citizens and the story gets only 41 mentions in the media
c)web servers of independent media siezed
7) Obsession with National Security..be afraid very afraid..
a)Bush Aides ADMIT 'stoking fear' for political gain:
b)Rove: GOP to Use Terror As Campaign Issue in 2006
8)Religion and Government Intertwined....
9)Corporate Power is Protected..
10)Labor is Suppressed...
11)Disdain for Intelectuals and the Arts...
12) Obsession with Crime and Punishment....
13) Rampant Cronyism and Corruption...
14)Fraudulent Elections...
| By jjtechno | 08:27 PM
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