When I say "fascist isn't accurate", I'm not saying it's excessive, because these guys aren't really all that bad; I'm just saying that they are coming from a different direction.

But it's true enough that all the different movements and regimes that commonly get called fascist had a lot of differences, and not that much in common, other than a nationalist stance, a disregard for legal niceties, an appetite for power, and a willingness to be extremely violent in holding on to and extending it. So maybe it's not such an inaccurate word at that.

I note that the papers here are saying that efforts by the UK Government to get British citizens held in Guantanamo Bay sent back here for trial have run into the sand - the sticking point being that the US authorities believe (probably rightly) that in a British court there would be no realistic chance of them being found guilty. So instead they are facing a possible death sentence in a US Military Tribunal.

Now that is very reminiscent indeed of the way justice works in fascist regimes.