Subject: Re: [drugwar] ICH- Fascism challenging everything we stand for
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 14:26:42 -0400
To:        <drugwar@mindvox.com>
From:     Bob Armstrong <bob@cosy.com>

With you except quibble with point 5.65 :

On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 09:50:23 +0200, She Who Remembers wrote:

>=A0NEWS YOU WON'T FIND ON CNN
>=A0http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4113.htm
>
>=A0Fascism Anyone?
>=A0Fascism=92s principles are wafting in the air today,=
 surreptitiously masquerading as something else, challenging=
 everything we stand for.
>
>=A0By Laurence W. Britt

>=A0=A0=A05. Rampant sexism. Beyond the simple fact that the political=
 elite and the national culture were male-dominated, these=
 regimes inevitably viewed women as second-class citizens. They=
 were adamantly anti-abortion and also homophobic. <

 Hitler's gang were notorious sexual deviants . Quite a few were=
 homosexual .
 Kurt Krueger , MD , in "I was Hitler's Doctor" , 1941 , claims=
 Hitler himself
 was totally impotent . 


>=A0=A0=A08. Religion and ruling elite tied together. Propaganda kept=
 up the illusion that the ruling elites were defenders of the=
 faith ... <

 While Hitler aligned himself with the Catholicism of his youth ,=
 he was well
 known to be atheist . A German who worked for my father got=
 disgusted with
 Hitler's hypocrisy when he was about 13 when Hitler took part in=
 a wedding
 he was at .
 
>=A0=A0=A09. Power of corporations protected. Although the personal=
 life of ordinary citizens was under strict control, the ability=
 of large corporations to operate in relative freedom was not=
 compromised. The ruling elite saw the corporate structure as a=
 way to not only ensure military production (in developed=
 states), but also as an additional means of social control.=
 Members of the economic elite were often pampered by the=
 political elite to ensure a continued mutuality of interests,=
 especially in the repression of =93have-not=94 citizens. <

 This is virtually the definition of Fascism . Current local=
 examples are the
 Empire State Development Corporation's theft of a block of 41st=
 St for the 
 New York Times , and the proposed billion dollar subsidy of the=
 New York
 Stock Exchange to build it new headquarters . Met , particularly=
 , one bright
 guy who has since become an active voice on the Manhattan LP=
 news group when
 the Libertarians ( mostly suits ) and the Greens ( doing street=
 theatre ) both
 showed up to protest this travesty .
 Out candidate for Governor a few years ago , Chris Garvey ,=
 campaigned on the
 "separation of sports and state" in regard to stadium subsidies=
 .

>=A0=A0=A013. Rampant cronyism and corruption. Those in business=
 circles and close to the power elite often used their position=
 to enrich themselves. This corruption worked both ways; the=
 power elite would receive financial gifts and property from the=
 economic elite, who in turn would gain the benefit of government=
 favoritism. <

 Democrats , including the Clintons , are big on this . It's the=
 total motivation
 for what Hillary did to the poor working schmucks in Travelgate=
 .

> =3D=3D=3D
>=A0"Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most=
 to be
>=A0dreaded because it comprises and develops the germ of every=
 other. War
>=A0is the parent of armies; from these proceed debts and taxes.=
 And armies,
>=A0and debts, and taxes are the known instruments for bringing the=
 many
>=A0under the domination of the few. In war, too, the discretionary=
 power of
>=A0the Executive is extended. Its influence in dealing out=
 offices, honors,
>=A0and emoluments is multiplied; and all the means of seducing the=
 minds,
>=A0are added to those of subduing the force of the people. The=
 same
>=A0malignant aspect in republicanism may be traced in the=
 inequality of
>=A0fortunes, and the opportunities of fraud, growing out of a=
 state of
>=A0war...and in the degeneracy of manners and morals, engendered=
 by both.
>=A0No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual=
 warfare."
>=A0-- James Madison, April 20, 1795
>=A0=3D=3D=3D

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 May I add :

=3D=3D=3D
 War is the Life Blood of the State .
 -- Harry Browne , Libertarian Presidential Candidate , 1996 ,=
 2000 .
=3D=3D=3D
 With my enemies I make friends ; with my friends I make business=
 .
 -- Yassir Arafat , mid 1980s 
=3D=3D=3D

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=A0Bob Armstrong -- http://CoSy.com --=A02003/07/16 12:58:58 PM