Skeptic
14th May 2004, 22:26
Yesterday I posted a long article on the topic Fascism and the movie 'The Passion of Christ' by Mel Gibson, and in the article was a list of factors that make a country Fascist, which I thought was very interesting. Certainly, like Hitler's Germany was, the USA is the center of hate and reaction on the planet. How close is the USA to being an 'openly terroristic' form of government? We have secret prisons now, much of the 'rule of law' has been suspended by the Patriot Act, the President can lock up forever whomever he pleases; Elections are fraudulent in the extreme and most of the power has been shifted to the execuative branch of government, so the USA could be on the cusp of being a non parlamentary state. The economic corruption is so outrageous that 4 trillion dollars have been secretly stolen by the ruling class from U.S. tax coffers since 1997. U.S. Governmental forces are blowing up buildings domenstically and Internationally from Oklahoma, to Manhattan, Washington, Bali, and Madrid. The world groans under the boots of the U.S. military oppression with it's aggressive and immoral war on the world. The spector of Christian Fascism permiates culture. TV wallows in Fascistic beauty standards, magazines are reporting that women are running to get unnecessary plastic surgery. The United Snakes has more people in prison per capita than any other country in the world and our prisons as absolute torture hell holes with guards abusing and even killing inmates with almost complete impunity. The police patrol many sections of cities like an occupying army, doing whatever they please, similar to the Gestapo.
Also how much longer will people feel safe posting their radical beliefs on the Internet?
Here are the factors that are listed in the article:
> Recently a political scientist, Dr. Lawrence Britt, wrote an article
> naming fourteen characteristics of fascism. He based his study on an
> examination of the regimes of Hitler, Mussolini, Franco, Suharto and
> Pinochet. (For the record, we need to remind ourselves that four of
> these men were Roman Catholics never excommunicated by their church--all
> except Suharto.) A summary of Britt's points follow.
>
>
> 1. Powerful and continuing nationalism employing constant use of
> patriotic slogans, symbols, songs, flags.
> 2. Disdain for the recognition of human rights because security needs
> outweigh human rights which can be ignored.
> 3. Using enemies as scapegoats for a unifying cause.
> 4. Supremacy of the military.
> 5. Rampant sexism including more rigid gender roles and anti-gay
> legislation.
> 6. Controlled mass media.
> 7. Obsession with national security driven by a politics of fear.
> 8. Religion and Government are intertwined especially in rhetoric
> employed by its leaders.
> 9. Corporate power is protected--industrial and business aristocracies
> put government leaders into power and keep them there creating a
> mutually beneficial business/government relationship and power elite.
> 10. Labor power, which represents one of the few threats to fascism, is
> suppressed.
> 11. Disdain for intellectuals and the arts and hostility to higher
> education along with censorship of arts or refusal to support the arts.
> 12. Obsession with crime and punishment.
> 13. Rampant cronyism and corruption.
> 14. Fraudulent Elections.
Tell me what you think. --Skeptic
Also how much longer will people feel safe posting their radical beliefs on the Internet?
Here are the factors that are listed in the article:
> Recently a political scientist, Dr. Lawrence Britt, wrote an article
> naming fourteen characteristics of fascism. He based his study on an
> examination of the regimes of Hitler, Mussolini, Franco, Suharto and
> Pinochet. (For the record, we need to remind ourselves that four of
> these men were Roman Catholics never excommunicated by their church--all
> except Suharto.) A summary of Britt's points follow.
>
>
> 1. Powerful and continuing nationalism employing constant use of
> patriotic slogans, symbols, songs, flags.
> 2. Disdain for the recognition of human rights because security needs
> outweigh human rights which can be ignored.
> 3. Using enemies as scapegoats for a unifying cause.
> 4. Supremacy of the military.
> 5. Rampant sexism including more rigid gender roles and anti-gay
> legislation.
> 6. Controlled mass media.
> 7. Obsession with national security driven by a politics of fear.
> 8. Religion and Government are intertwined especially in rhetoric
> employed by its leaders.
> 9. Corporate power is protected--industrial and business aristocracies
> put government leaders into power and keep them there creating a
> mutually beneficial business/government relationship and power elite.
> 10. Labor power, which represents one of the few threats to fascism, is
> suppressed.
> 11. Disdain for intellectuals and the arts and hostility to higher
> education along with censorship of arts or refusal to support the arts.
> 12. Obsession with crime and punishment.
> 13. Rampant cronyism and corruption.
> 14. Fraudulent Elections.
Tell me what you think. --Skeptic