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Thread #100395 Message #2012673
Posted By: alanabit
31-Mar-07 - 12:36 PM
Thread Name: BS: Another Fascist War in Europe?
Subject: RE: BS: Another Fascist War in Europe?
Obviously you know the US better than I do Frank. Tyranny and injustice comes in many forms. From what I know of your country, I believe it is less endemically racist than many other countries. What frightens me about the US, is more the power of the unelected industrial moguls, who exert a huge amount of real power. While I do not underestimate the potential for abuse of power, I can't see anything close to Nazism taking hold there. Russia looks very different at the moment. It is quite respectable to be overtly racist there. The authorities effectively enable racist attacks and have appeased the thugs with racist laws. That is very similar to the Nürnbergesetze of the Third Reich. Neo Nazis openly boast in front of television cameras of their plans to beat and persecute ethnic minorities. Investigative journalists are executed on the streets and inconvenient opposition politicians can find themselves in danger of imprisonment, if not of their lives. That may not fit everyone's definition of fascism, but it comes uncomfortably close to mine.