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18 Jun 2004 10:04:21 PM |
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creeping fascism |
Special Report
Creeping fascism
By S. Rowan Wolf, Ph.D.
Online Journal Contributing Writer
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June 18, 2004-It is just one lie after another, one cover-up
after another, one egregious tromping of our Constitution after another, and
yet almost half the population supports the Bush Regime. Unfortunately, that
half is also strongly represented in the legislative branch of our
government. This means that while the exposes, and atrocities, and lies
continue to dance across the headlines, legislation continues to be put
forward and passed that cements the travesty of the current regime's vision.
Andrew Greeley asks in his June 11, article Is U.S. like Germany
of the '30s?. He points to the humiliation of the German people and their
anger at their leaders as key to the rise to power of Hitler. He argues that
Hitler was a strong leader who appealed to the "dark side" of Germans.
Greeley's article does not do justice, in my opinion, to the
comparisons to be made. It also doesn't address the scope of the deception
being played out in front of our eyes.
There is a pervasive belief in the U.S. that what happened in
Nazi Germany could never happen here. The belief goes beyond the Holocaust,
to the transformation of a democracy into a fascist state; to the
transformation of protection of individual freedoms into a police state with
massive surveillance. Yet it is happening, and the people submit. Even as
voices rise, most still feel that much of the actions of the last three
years were necessary.
There are striking similarities between George W. Bush and
Adolph Hitler. They both belong to secret death societies - Hitler to the
Thule Society and Bush to the Skull and Bones. (Fact: Prescott Bush made a
fortune doing business with the Nazi Regime - links below) Both brought
their brotherhood and their vision to their leadership in their respective
nations (Bush currently has five "Bonesmen" in his administration). Both
were "messianic." Both saw their role as a calling to power to lead their
nations to global domination. Both thought no cost was too great in this
quest. Both acted on the belief that evil means were justified in the
pursuit of the greater vision. Both promoted a good/evil dichotomy to their
citizens. But these similarities aside, there are other similarities between
Hitler's Germany and Bush's United States.
At a basic level, Greeley is right in that upon the rise to
power of these two men, their respective nations were looking for a change.
In the US, the tilt for two decades has been towards a corporate government
model. (I remember during the early 1980s there was some talk of running Lee
Iacocca, CEO of Chrysler, for President of the United States). Certainly,
George Bush and his administration have reflected that desire. There was a
desire for "morality" after the spectacle of the Clinton sex scandals.
George sold himself well in this regard, as well.
However, the fascist transformation of the United States has
been long in the making (see Fascism USA, UTJ 5/22/04). We have been moving
towards this for over 20 years. GW is just taking us over the cliff, and he
is doing it by promoting and enforcing a perverted patriotism, and
promulgating a campaign of fear. This, too, is similar to Hitler's rise to
power. He didn't just spring full-blown on the German scene.
Now to the present and the undermining of a nation.
There has been an ongoing erosion of the line between various
branches of government. Under the auspices of the "war on drugs," there has
been an increasing blurring of the line between the military and the police.
This legal line is blurring to invisibility in the aftermath of 9/11. In the
6/21/04 Newsweek article Intelligence: The Pentagon?Spying in America? by
Michael Isikioff, we learn that the Senate Intelligence Committee has
eliminated the restriction that the Department of Defense no longer has to
comply with the Privacy Act (the CIA is also exempt from this restriction).
What is frightening here is that both the CIA and the military are only
tasked to operate outside the Untied States, that is, until the U.S.A.
P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act, and the merging of departments and agencies under the
Homeland Security Act, and the various intelligence reorganization policies.
Now both of the non-domestic tasked agencies can (and do) operate inside the
US.
An examination of recent legislation coming out of the Senate
Intelligence Committee is instructive. Both domestic intelligence
authorizations and Department of Defense authorizations are in the same
bills. Joint reports, programs, and transfer of personnel are common. There
are provisions in other legislation being proposed that should also raise
alarm.
S.1047 - Department of Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year
2004 (Engrossed as Agreed to or Passed by Senate). Section 1037 allows the
use of "unmanned aerial vehicles for support of Homeland Security missions.
That is the "predator drones being used in Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere.
The bill allows them to operate over population centers inside the US.
S.1050 - National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2004
(Placed on Calendar in Senate). Sections 3131 and 3132 authorize restarting
the nuclear weapon development program and underground testing of nuclear
weapons.
Public Law 108-177 - Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal
Year 2004 from S.1025 Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2004.
Exempts the Department of Defense from the constraints of the Freedom of
Information Act (Section 503, item 5 D).
All of the above is new legislation that erodes the boundaries
that protect the population from the overbearing power of our government.
They join a slew of other legislation: the U.S.A. P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act and all
of its siblings, the Homeland Security Act, numerous anti-privacy and
anti-rights infringements. All of these in the name of "security," and
argued as "necessary in the war on terrorism." Wasn't it Ben Franklin who
said something to the effect, "That he who gives up liberty for security
gets neither"?
But it is largely a hidden and misrepresented erosion of
democracy that faces us. It is an erosion that largely is not marketed with
the face of the dominant race in the United States, and when it is (such as
has happened recently) it is the face of the convert to Islam, or the
"environmental terrorist," or the political activist. Anti-patriots all,
according to the new rhetoric. These are the faces of the "terrorists" in
our midst; the unknown element able to hide in "our" neighborhoods and
strike us without warning. Interestingly not on the list (given the recent
Nichols trial) is that of the White Supremacist, or the armed militia
groups. So we add the "TIPS" program to the mix, for average citizens to
turn in their neighbors, people on the street, or people acting "strangely"
to the FBI for investigation.
Likewise the Germans (or rather those selected as loyal Germans)
had their fears quieted by the Hitler propaganda machine. They blindly and
unwittingly gave up their democracy to fascism because those "rules and
punishments" applied to someone else-the Jew, the Gypsy, the immoral, the
homosexual, the anti-Reich resister-not to them. Those extreme government
actions were for "their" protection and for a greater Germany. It is more
than hauntingly familiar. It is playing out day by day in front of our eyes.
So why does this tactic of framing the leader as a father and
protector of the "real" national values work? It works because it plays upon
the racism and ethnocentrism embedded in the culture. This is particularly
true in the US which styled itself for so long as the true white
democracy-reserving rights of citizenship and social participation for
"whites." This creates (still) a sense of entitlement and protection. The
tactics of fear work within this rubric of entitlement and protection
because whites are being protected from "them." Included in them are those
"traitors" who challenge the system and who challenge the entitlements (the
perpetual enemy within). The dreams of grandeur work because the
embeddedness of entitlement, purity, morality and "rightness" embedded in
the nationalism it creates leads naturally to a belief in national
entitlement and right within the world. The world is rightly "ours" and all
that is in it is "ours."
It worked in Germany. It has, and is, working in the United
States. We see similar processes at work in the policies of Israel, and in
the anti-immigrant movements and far-right shifts in parts of Europe. The US
is not unique in any of this. What is unique is that we have the military
power to take by force externally, and the perceived justification and
technology of controlling by force internally.
Those of us who are alarmed are told "Don't worry. If you have
nothing to hide, then the protections of law are not needed." If "they" are
a threat, then "take them out." How inconvenient that "our" oil (or other
desired resource) is under someone else's land.
Can it happen here? It is happening here.
Resources:
Secret Society Links
Three World WarsThe Real Adolf Hitler
IAE THE SKULL AND BONES SOCIETY
Cephas Ministry/Library THE THULE SOCIETY & NWO
Kris Millegan, Parascope, The Order of Skull and Bones
Steven Bonta, The New American, The Power Elite & George W.
7/17/2000
The Bushes and the Nazis
The Third Reich.
Wasserman and Fitrakis, Rense.com, Sen Byrd, Media Begin To
Cover Bush-Hitler Connection
Article showing Skull and Bones members, E. R. Harriman, and
Prescott S. Bush(The President's Grandfather.) tied to Hitler's funding and
Banking. The Bush-Nazi Connection The Zanesville Signal, Zanesville, Oh.,
Thursday, July 31, 1941
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| User: "Bulls-eye" |
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| Title: Re: creeping fascism |
19 Jun 2004 04:19:39 PM |
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Islam. Quran:
[19:40][It is We Who will inherit the earth, and all beings thereon: to Us
will they all be returned]
[2:89][The curse of Allah is on the unbelievers]
[3:28][Let not the believers take the unbelievers for friends]
[3:85][And whoever desires a religion other than Islam, it shall not be
accepted from him]
[3:118][Do not take for intimate friends from among others than your own
people]
[5.51][Do not take the Jews and the Christians for friends; they are friends
of each other]
[9:14][Fight against the Jews and Christians! Allah shall punish Them, at
your hands]
[9.29][Fight those who do not believe in Allah]
[9:73][Strive against the disbelievers and the hypocrites! Be harsh with
them]
[9.123][Fight those of the unbelievers who are near to you and let them find
in you hardness]
[33.64][Allah has cursed the unbelievers and has prepared for them a burning
fire]
[41:27][We will certainly give the Unbelievers a taste of a severe Penalty]
[47.35][Be not slack so as to cry for peace and you have the upper hand]
[58:5][Those who resist Allah and His Messenger will be crumbled to dust, as
were those before them]
[66: 9][O Prophet! Strive against the disbelievers and the hypocrites, and
be stern with them]
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| User: "vonroach" |
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| Title: Re: creeping fascism |
19 Jun 2004 06:15:44 PM |
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On Sat, 19 Jun 2004 17:19:39 -0400, "Bull's-eye" <BB17@ajax81073.com>
wrote:
Drivel alleged whisper in the ear of a phony Wahabi `prophet' to
support his religious con job on dumb arabs of other tribes. A
religion for a jackass loser that has never brought the world anything
but belligerent desert scum.
Islam. Quran:
[19:40][It is We Who will inherit the earth, and all beings thereon: to Us
will they all be returned]
[2:89][The curse of Allah is on the unbelievers]
[3:28][Let not the believers take the unbelievers for friends]
[3:85][And whoever desires a religion other than Islam, it shall not be
accepted from him]
[3:118][Do not take for intimate friends from among others than your own
people]
[5.51][Do not take the Jews and the Christians for friends; they are friends
of each other]
[9:14][Fight against the Jews and Christians! Allah shall punish Them, at
your hands]
[9.29][Fight those who do not believe in Allah]
[9:73][Strive against the disbelievers and the hypocrites! Be harsh with
them]
[9.123][Fight those of the unbelievers who are near to you and let them find
in you hardness]
[33.64][Allah has cursed the unbelievers and has prepared for them a burning
fire]
[41:27][We will certainly give the Unbelievers a taste of a severe Penalty]
[47.35][Be not slack so as to cry for peace and you have the upper hand]
[58:5][Those who resist Allah and His Messenger will be crumbled to dust, as
were those before them]
[66: 9][O Prophet! Strive against the disbelievers and the hypocrites, and
be stern with them]
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