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Thread #67969   Message #1140244
Posted By: Strick
18-Mar-04 - 03:04 PM
Thread Name: BS: GB and the Rise of Christian Fascism..
Subject: RE: BS: GB and the Rise of Christian Fascism..
"Mussolini adopted the fasces as both the symbol and the basis for the word "Fascism." The fasces is a bundle of sticks tied around an axe. As Mussolini described it, the sticks represent the corporations and the axe represents the power of government. The two act as one.
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism, since it is the merger of state and corporate power"
                                                                                                                         —Benito Mussolini"

So you see the Democratic Party descending into Fascism, too, since the corporations call the shots regardless of who's in power? Clinton, Gore and Kerry didn't taking outrageous political contributions from corporations (including the ones Kerry openly criticizes) and Clinton didn't fail to act against the corporate fraud that took place in the late 90s? You're against the whole American political system since in this matter, there's not a hair's difference between them?

And, above all, you have no compunction about calling something on the order of 50-60% of Americans Fascists on what amounts to little more than some vague analogies and your opinion? What you describe are not just fundamentalists, but Catholics and most of the mainline Protestants as well.

You see no difference between recent events in the US and what happened after Hitler came to power over roughly the same span of time:

1933
Jan. 30 Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany by President Paul von Hindenburg
Feb. 27 German Reichstag burns down; communists blamed, arrested.
Mar. 23 Enabling Act passed by Reichstag; Hitler assumes dictatorial power
July 14 Nazi party declared official party of Germany; all other parties banned
Oct. 14 Germany quits League of Nations

1934
June 30 Hitler orders murder of SA Chief Ernst Roehm in "Night of the Long Knives"
Aug. 19 Hitler combines the offices of president and chancellor; assumes the title of Führer

1935
Mar. 16 Military conscription introduced in Germany in violation of Versailles treaty
Sept. 15 Nuremberg race laws promulgated

Even if the article were free of factual errors and blatant misrepresentations, I find it hard to believe you really believe that Bush has declared dictatorial powers, outlawed the Democrats, Greens and Libertarians and passed laws disenfranchising part of the population and revoking their citizenship. Favoring civil unions over gay marriage is in no way the same thing as the Nuremberg race laws, no matter how you try to stretch it.