What do they say
about a "duck"?
As far as I'm concerned, today they can call it
whatever they want , but it's still fascism and
it's alive and doing quite well in this country.
They just haven't made a public announcement
yet. Who is "they"? Because
"They" have circumvented every facet
of government, corporations, public and private
agencies and our lives "they" can be
anyone, everyone or no one.
When the "baby" is dead and decaying, it
is time to throw it out with the bath water.
Below is taken from
The World Book Encyclopedia, 1947 edition. A
worth while post from another egroup.
Any one that has this edition can verify it:
The chief characteristics of Fascism are
as follows:
*THE CULTIVATION OF
IGNORANCE*
Fascism, like
all forms of government, rests firmly on the
sincere consent
of a large part of the population... To maintain
this consent, the Fascist
leadership must cut off the people from any
information which might cause
them to doubt the complete rightness of the
fixed Fascist principles... All
forms of communication are carefully censored,
so that the public will
receive only those facts that the dictators want
known... Travel to other
countries must be controlled, and freedom of
speech and assembly must be
rigorously suppressed...
*SUPPRESSION OF
LABOR AND INDUSTRY*
Fascism in
Italy and Germany at first won the support of
the wealthy classes
both landed and industrial... These people saw
in Fascism a protection
against the demands of farmers and other
workers... Both regimes at first
upheld the rights of private property... They
subjected the working classes
to a rigorous discipline... As soon as they were
firmly established, the
dictators began to limit profit, impose capital
levies, and regulate
business in great detail...
*THE POLICE STATE*
Fascism
depends upon the police to crush all opposition
or dissent. Secret
police spy on the whole population, and any
casual remark against the regime
leads to swift and severe punishment...
Opposition parties are dissolved.
Intellectual, athletic and recreational
organizations are usually brought
under the control of the Fascist authority...
The ruthlessness of the police
gradually becomes less noticeable... This is
because within a year or so
after a Fascist government takes power, vigorous
opponents of the regime
have either left the country, been killed or
jailed...
(Both Fascist and
Communist leaders make use of the police
state... Every
absolute government has used the police state to
some degree... It was
highly developed among the ancient Assyrians...)
*EXTREME
NATIONALISM*
Fascism is
highly nationalistic... It tries to identify its
principles with
the country, so that disagreement will look like
treason... Some other
country, or some group within the country, is
chosen to serve as the "enemy"
and made to appear as the cause of all evils or
misfortunes... For example,
the Nazis in Germany represented their movement
first as a crusade against
the Jews, then as a fight against Communism and
later as a struggle against
the "attacks" from whatever
neighboring country they wished to subdue or
occupy... Extreme nationalism often becomes a
kind of racial fanaticism...
Sometimes it combines racial and religious
bigotry...
*MILITARISM*
Fascism
maintains among the people a permanently warlike
frame of mind...
Every citizen feels that he is mobilized against
enemies of the regime from
within, and against possible foreign foes... The
dictator usually comes to
power during a period of economic crisis or
depression... He relieves the
depression partly by employing many people in
the making of armaments... To
justify this procedure, he must convince the
people that the country is
threatened, and must point toward some of the
enemies against whom the
armaments may be needed...
...................sound
familiar?.................