Looks like the government was responsible for 911. Sad but true. Maybe if we don't let them get away with it we can stop them from doing even more bad things. Just a thought.

911 was an inside job. Chemtrails are real. The NWO has plans that are not too cool.

Please wake the fuck up all ye in denial. The lifeboat is sinking and you are not bailing.

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You know, its kind of scary to think that everything you think of, everything you believe is up to the "history is doomed to repeat itself" cliché. However, when you think about, it there is something wrong with our president saying mission accomplished 3 years ago. This country is a paradox. It, simultaneously, is the greatest and worst country on this planet we call earth. Thank whatever higher power you believe in that I'm an optimist and can't wait for the next election. Shit...I forgot our votes don't count.

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Yes, yes, its all good - but this has been discussed at far greater length and in greater depth by Dave Niewert at Orcinus.

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This is an excellent article, all ten steps to fascism can easily be footnoted by historical sources. What Wolf mentioned off particular interest to me was “… our experiment in democracy could be closed down by a process of erosion.”

I believe it is being closed down already and in a very clever way most Americans fail to realize or if they know about it, deem it unimportant. Working in collusion with the stripping of our civil rights is what the Federal Reserve system is doing to our way of life. Federal Reserve may sound like a boring or irrelevant subject but it is at the very heart of the changes that are taking place in the U.S. now. See the information on this subject presented here.


Americans need to do more now than make hopeful comments and take action before it’s too late. There are two things Americans can do: Call a Constitutional Convention under article V (this to reorganize our political system) and demand that before we elect our politicians they must sign a statement they promise to vote to shut down the federal reserve system .

Robert Lightfoot

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Seriously, folks, putting my sarcasm aside, with laser-like precision Naomi Wolf pinned the tail on Bush’s butt. He is indeed a fascist.

At the same time, I wouldn’t call him a Nazi. That would be an insult to Hitler’s vastly superior intelligence. Had Dub-ya been running Germany before WWII, there wouldn’t have been a WWII. He would have screwed up that conflict on day one.

I am reminded, though, of his granddaddy, Prescott Bush. During the war, he was a board member of the Union Banking Corporation, a New York firm seized in 1942 by the federal government under the Enemies Act for conducting business with Germany. You can’t get more Nazi than that without wearing a swastika armband.

Hugh E. Scott, editor of King-George.biz -- the only website with hardcopy proof of White House corruption.

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"As difficult as this is to contemplate, it is clear, if you are willing to look, that each of these 10 steps has already been initiated in the United States by the Bush administration."

The steps, whether 10 or more is not at all settled, have far deeper sources than the Bush administration. There's a tendency these days to look at nearer and smaller "chunks of history" rather than longer looks - a sign of a kind of myopia than does more harm than good. It's our near addiction to the instant sound-byte, our short attention span, our consumerist bent. A more initiatory assault and 'blue-print' step was taken by Reagan in this country and Thatcher in Britain. Before that Nixon had a taste for this kind of power. The First and Second World Wars alerted the ruling classes already to the "threats from democracy" to their comfy life-styles (as well as lots of opportunities to make yet more money from circumstances). The French Revolution and, to a lesser extent the American, alarmed the elites of Britain (Edmund Burke, Church elites, Monarchs) and brought a sober, calm, and rich section of intellectuals, land 'owners', merchants, etc into an ideology of Reaction-they are still with us and among us. Never has democracy, and especially democratically living, been more important than in these times. I personally understand fascism as defined by Mussolini - a corporate state. At least at the federal level, it's been with us for a long, long while now. The idea of "government run as a business" is almost a taken-for-granted truism today! One ought to think long on that concept.

It is no longer a settled matter that this is a Democracy or even a Republic. Like it or not, the position of the USA is imperialist in its OUT-look; it's IN-look is conforming to this way of seeing; and this means military, police and various forms of social control and the infra-structure to maintain it. Some may object interminably on the use of the term 'fascism', but when one sees ducks walking, it makes no difference if to some they may be geese.

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...exactly what book these would-be totalitarians have been swotting up on. It's called "Without a shot being fired", by Jan Kozak. It's the story of how the communists took power in Czechoslovakia in February 1948, not by violent means (although the threat of use of violence was very much there), but by working within existing institutions. It's no surprise to me, that the so-called religious right in your country should try the same thing.

But what Gottwald and the communists then, and the religious right now haven't taken into consideration is that in the end, economic reality counts for more than revealed truth. And that's why the communists fell from power 41 years later - in the same fashion that they gained it.

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In addition to the evidence of growing centralized power and the accumulation of procedures to summarily detain opponents, the government, which includeds three branches in the USA, continues to centralize power in the form of federal education, public works, medical and health, agriculture, "civil rights", "homeland security", and environmental programs.

Domestic activity except for specifically menitioned activities like the Post Office, is left to the states and individuals under the Contitution. Yet Democrats and Republicans alike, in the interest of doling out pork to political supporters like the hospital industry, teachers, banks(receive billions in interest payments), energy corporations and university researchers pour billions of dollars in largesse from one source: Washington. We have become a nation that's delegated basic local functions to the feds.

If a malevolent ruler comes along, he/she can wield the federal goodies we'v become addicted to in front of our sweating faces and lure us into authoritarian obedience.

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Pul-l-l-eaze children. There is no boogeyman. It's time that all this hand-wringing be stopped. American history is filled with everything being done now being done before. What has been missing for the past thirty years is a reform movement with goals defined that actually change the polical and social institutions in a way that facilitates change. Advocates of the status quo will not make the changes needed.
Democrats continue to man the proverbial barracades and prevent proportional representation and third party engagement. The machine needs to be countered by the antimachine. When there were progressives, abolitionists and others the issue was invariably raised regarding clear goals and objectives to democratize the system. Unfortunately, after Vietnam, someone left the door open. Instead of increasing Congress's role in declaring war, we had only the Church amendment. And as everyone knows church's are open once a week. Iraq is not even a first class misadventure as far as imperial exercises go. But it reflects the failure to design alternatives that might re-direct American foreugn policy. At its heart it is a reflection of the failure of American reformism.
Scaring the children is not anti-fascism! It just stops everyone from acting or defining the goals and objectives of political action and tries to rally people around the phoney Democratic "opposition" that hasn't had a new idea that it hasn't shot down for the last thirty years. Meanwhile, public infrastructure deteriorates, deficits climb, vast sections of American are marginalized in the political process, wage levels are forced down by increasing cheap labor supply and the duopoly does the hokey-pokey.
Political victories need to be won at the ballot box to win change. Advocacy groups and one issue groups continue to throw money into the process. It is time for a new party that is not based on the existing agenda. It is time for candidates that are capable of leading and not just following.

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Naomi has it right on all counts except calling us a democracy.
President George W. Bush is a tyrant but he alone did not establish the present situation. It took years of presidential administration's both Democrats and Republicans to get us to this point in the United States today where the populace is ignorant of its history and our Constitutional Republic.

The citizenry with in the various fifty states are responsible for the fascist state of affairs that we now call Homeland. Just a small effort in research into German history just prior to Hitler and during his days as the leader of Germany and you see exactly the same scenario being played out right here in the Republic of the United States. We are so ignorant , so dumbed down from a government education system that few know or care about how things are supposed to be.

The ignorant masses that stand so hard lined behind the Republican or Democratic Parties is prime example of fools or should I say sheep being led to the slaughter. Those who continue to vote for either of these two main parties are fools who cannot come to grips with reality. Those who continue to vote for the two main parties are not capable of genuine thought processing, common sense, or reality. They live in fantasy, believing that their vote will make a difference as the new candidate's did promise change.

I try to be a realist but also remain optomistic but the reality show that I see across the present political spectrum is telling me that the Republic is dead and soon the Homeland will be a total fascist state like Germany under Hitler and it won't matter which party is in power and like Germany the populace went along with it because of their ignorance and fear. It's nice to see that some are getting it but the reality is most still do not.

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The repulsive, yet superficial argument, suspiciously defending class nationalism of both Amerikan class Empire and Zionist, fascist thugs, the Likudists, Israeli nazi ideologues in the Executive cabinet reeks of double standards, class standards, hypocrisy. The argument to deny fascism, because it has not killed enough millions, like the Fascism of Nazi Germany, is hypocritical rot. Fascism, Corporate Fascism, class imperialism, class standards, class ideologies, is all about exclusionary principles, against universal values, and is willing to start a nuclear war with Iran. Israel is allowed to invade, murder, drop bombs, including nuclear buster bombs on Iran, because AIPAC, and the class whores who follow this fascism, zionism make use of the Holocaust, for their own purposes, as Finklestein points out. It is a disgrace for Westerners, in particular Jews, who were victims of Fascism, which killed millions, to then embrace this same class tyranny over Arabs. The slogan "never again" has been refurbished to say "ever again" in the service of Zionism and Amerikan class Empire.

Blaming the left for double standards, can be seen by most rational people, yet still there is also a complete lack of understanding of the corruption of both terminology, concepts, which label Marxism, the classical left, part of the Enlightenment and post Enlightenement, once it was betrayed by class liberals, with that of "Communism", when the correct political term is Stalinism. Bureaurcratic despotism, dictatorship, exists in all isolated national revolutions, subordinated by both global class relations, through economic blackmail, via corporate fascism, yet at the same time embraced by the victims, class opportunists, as a self inflicting falure, strategy, opposed to international universal strategies, for nationalist, limiting, exclusionary goals, "socialism in one country", that reproduces the same typical corruption of middle layers, whether by Class masters above, in a class society, or imposed externally, subordinated in the same way, by class imperialism, that enable class rule to dominate and corrupt all middle layers, whether they have class masters above or have thrown them out internally, only to be corrupted externally. Stalinism and Global Capitalism were both partners in this class subordination and corruption of democracy. It is the similiar corrupting, class role of Union officials, who participate in "business unionism" complicit, in enabling Class subordination, by accepting the norms of Class rule, while part of the class hiearchy, that offer huge salaries, for class hierarchies, including corrupt Mafia types. Such failed strategies, did not follow the principles of opposition to class rule, social change, instead opting for and as corrupt appeasing elites, that fit in the global class structure for their salaries. You cannot fight Corporate Fascism, with either appeasing reformist class liberals or Stalnist, class reformist national class strategies, as the History of Nazi Germany showed.

Trotsky showed in his Struggle against Fascism, how two working class parties, failed to stop fascism, because each was reformist, corrupt and criminal in their own form of subordinated class hierarchy, dividing the opposition, that could have stopped Hitler and middle class thugs. The failure of a universal strategy, universal ideology, today, is threatening us with the same results. Fascist, right wing parties and ideological class thugs will emerge over wimpy liberal and appeasing class nationalism strategies, as it did in Nazi Germany, the price of a failed left strategy. Today in France, it seems the wimpy, dreary liberal social democrats, appeasing class rule, have opened the door to demagogues, fascists, repeating the same failed strategies, having offered no real opposiition, hence opening the back door to a French fascism.

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Reactions are based on preceding actions. We are witnessing the fruits of the neglect of our own responsibilities in all quadrants of our national life, chief among them being our supra-obvious duty to exercise diligence in the area of protecting the crucibles of free society that is the basis of all true living. In our grasping of the cheap, petty, mundane and profane, we, collectively, have forsaken the opportunity to practice greatness, to be gods in our day, which, though as hard as the persistency required of us is to accept - it is what is required. The sun shines, but what manner of people does it shine on? Are we worthy? Perhaps, we get what we bargain for. It is required that we lead; but we are settling for being led. Easy. Comfortable. Unfit and unprepared. George Bush's personality is a synopsis of the insecurities we are willing to accept as a country. George Bush, Dick Cheney, et. al. go so low by allowing fear to rule their lives. What do they deserve? They all have done nothing but live dishonorable lives. Yet we are allowing them to rule ours. -Our lives of fear. By forsaking the greater things for the sake of the lesser ones, what do we expect to get? I'll tell you, as a country, we are getting what we are asking for. We are asking, at this time, for very little - and getting it.

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Standing back far enough to be able to see the trees that comprise the forest...I'm beginning to doubt there will be another Presidential election in the US. I fully expect a home-made disaster of immense proportion - after which martial law will be declared.

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There seems to be a lull in concern about the unitary executive since the last election. People are starting to look at a hoped-for Democratic victory in 2008 as the dawn of a new day. We have seen already that a Democratic Congress has done precisely nothing to roll-back the loss of civil rights and other snowballing tendencies noted above as the 10 Easy Steps toward fascism.

Wolf makes the point in passing that all it would take is another significant terrorist incident in 'The Homeland' to reach the tipping point irrespective of which political party was in power at the moment. Americans are so unused to random political violence on our own shores that we would probably be totally unnerved by a second or third terrorist incident.

Why is our national poise so frangible? See how, for example, the activities of a single, impoverished, virtually mute, totally isolated, insane, foreign student seized and monoplized the frontpages of newspapers and viewing screens across the country for over two weeks and counting.

We should pause in admiration at civil society in places like Beirut, Lebanon and Belfast, Northern Ireland (to name just two) which have emerged intact after decades of hammering by daily incidents of terrorist bombing and lethal gunplay in their streets. Let us begin to wonder at the source of their resilience when mighty America, the continental hyperpower has proven itself to be so psychologically vulnerable to even the vaguest threats of terrorist violence. What has become of us?

As individuals, we are at higher risk of drowning in our bathtubs than we are of being assassinated by terrorists. A single incident on 9-11-01, still finds an entire continent of over 300 million quivering in terror six years after the fact. This makes sense only when we realize that our own government has dedicated itself full-time to terrorizing us with fabricated threats of imminent Islamic 'dirty bombs', 'smoking guns' and 'mushroom clouds' for the entire period - the most pathetic in our history.

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for the last 5.5 years? wow, is this ever late...

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is corporate control of government, and we're there already.
Government of the people
by the corporations
for the corporations
is not democracy.
It is Fascism.

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Americans are free, we always were and always will be. "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom" and our citizens are eternally vigilant.

We have two opposing parties. Every two years we have the opportunity to vote one, that the majority likes, in, and the other, out. Or we can vote some in and some out. That defines freedom! If officials commit crimes and misdemeanors we can impeach them, throw them out in disgrace! We the people are in complete control. We are free.

We have two parties vying for the opportunity to serve the people, on issues important to the people. They have competing plans to feed the hungry, house the homeless, educate our young, maintain the environment, but you know all that.

More importantly, we have a patriotic, public spirited group of business men who finance the political campaigns of, not one, but both parties. Neither party can go bankrupt if it loses public support. This assures us of a choice between the two opposing parties. Obviously, we have freedom guarnateed by our Constitution.

Don't pay any attention to that crackpot Goethe and his nonsense that the best way to keep people enslaved is to make them think that they are free. What a crock.
Bob Reichenbach,
Director, The Lincoln Initiative.

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For you Americans too busy, or lazy, to read the entire article - it is quite long - I've listed Wolf's excellent list of the 10 Steps to Fascism below. Think about them, and about how some or all have affected you or someone you know. Maybe print them out and carry them around with you; discuss them with people, send them to those of the 'rightie' persuasion who might be wavering. This is something easy to do, and very important!

1. Invoke a terrible internal or external enemy (fear)
2. Create a gulag
3. Develop a thug caste
4. Set up an internal surveillance system
5. Harass citizen’s groups
6. Engage in arbitrary detention and release
7. Target key individuals
8. Control the press
9. Dissent equals treason
10. Suspend the rule of law

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... the US is a fascist state already.

Just because they haven't started jailing the white people doesn't mean it isn't a fascist state... call me crazy.

Thank the gods for Naomi... you rock baby. :)

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In Bill Clintons famous words.... "I'ts the economy Stupid....!"

The landscape is a-changing.... The dollar making new lows. GDP 1.2%, and that's stretching the facts.... Home prices in decline, and this just looks like the tip of the iceberg.... Personal bankruptcies making new highs and moving higher.... Foreclosures at record levels, more to come.... Record currnet account deficits.... Record budget deficits... Zero savings rates... The whole problem for our facist friends is going to be that they are going to be a nickle short and they are not going to be credit worthy enough to borrow one. This "facist leadership", has seriously miscalculated the nature of this democracy and they will soon witness how a free and just society impliiments it's natural imune system against a cancerous tyranny.

Best regards,

Econolicious

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It's the calm before the perfect storm. We are now thinking the unthinkable. Another 911 will close down our open society without a shot being fired. What's the solution? The Democrats are a false flag op, the gatekeepers to prevent third party engagement and real reformism. The difference between Stalinism and Corporatism is one man rule vs. class rule. Government by terrorism must be replaced by government by lovism. Love casts out fear. The Red Brown and Blue Party offers The Lover Government, an idea whose time has come, a universal ideology and stategy.

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Unfortunately, most Americans will find this article not to be credible until it's too late. Ten years from now, when even moderately liberal people in the United States are being rounded-up and getting their alotted dose of poison gas in a Halliburton-constructed gas chamber at the hands of Republican thugs (all made perfectly legal by then under Patriot Act VII or The American Wholesome Families' Protection Act or whatever it will be called), they will finally learn that America truly has become a fascist state.... But by then, of course, it will be too late.

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Lip Reading Surveillance Cameras To "Stop Terror"

The British government is considering adding lip reading technology to some of the four million or so surveillance cameras in order identify terrorists and criminals by watching what everyone says.

Electronic Design is reporting that the Home Office is interested in a project being pursued at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England:

Computer-based lip-reading technology would help video surveillance systems spot people planning a crime or terror attack by literally watching suspects’ lips for clues. Once it finds someone speaking certain key words or sentences, the system would automatically send an alert message to a central console. Police or security agents could then be dispatched to the scene to question the individual.
Of course as with all these Big Brother surveillance moves it cannot be selectively applied and everyone will be subjected to it.

The automatic devices bring to mind the heart-chilling scene in "2001: A Space Odyssey" when HAL tells Dave that, despite all the precautions taken, he knows Dave was planning to disconnect him because he can read lips.

Imagine a place where you cannot step out of your front door and have a conversation with someone without it being monitored. Imagine a place where if you say something considered by the authorities to be suspicious a team of agents is dispatched to your location to detain and question you. Does that sound like a free country?

Big Brother gadgets that the government wants to or already has added to surveillance cameras in the UK. Here is a re-cap:

Talking / Shouting cameras - In an incredibly Orwellian move, loudspeakers are being fitted to surveillance cameras throughout major cities, allowing CCTV operators to bark commands at people who drop litter, act in an aggressive manner or loiter. Some of these cameras will even use the voices of children who will be recruited from schools to take part in the scheme and will be shown round CCTV operating rooms on school trips, learning how wonderful the big brother state is and how forcing people to behave in a certain way in public is the essence of a free society.

X-Ray firing cameras - Documents leaked from the Home Office have revealed that the government is looking into using X-ray technology cameras by concealing them in lamp posts to "trap terror suspects". The cameras allow operators to see through people's clothes and look for suspicious items.

Eavesdropping cameras - London police and councils are considering monitoring our conversations in the street using high-powered microphones attached to CCTV cameras that can pick up "aggressive tones" on the basis of 12 factors, including decibel level, pitch and the speed at which words are spoken.

Face scanning cameras - linked into a national database software will allow cameras to scan hundreds of faces a second in crowds of people.

Behaviour monitoring cameras - These devices are programmed to sound an alarm when they spot suspicious behaviour, such as waiting somewhere for a prolonged period of time or just walking in a suspicious way. These have already been deployed in airports and train stations.

Are we seriously supposed to believe that these devices are going to stop terrorism?

Watching everyone all of the time and treating the entire population as suspects is not going to weed out terrorists and criminals. Nor is it an effective way of defending our freedoms against those who we are told wish to attack us because we are free.

If the government were to implement every piece of technology they are seriously considering to add to existing surveillance cameras, we would literally be living in a society worse than that of Orwell's Airstrip One.

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From the article:
"It is not that global Islamist terrorism is not a severe danger; of course it is. . . what we as American citizens believe is that we are potentially threatened with the end of civilization as we know it."

Oh, we ARE threatened with the end of civilization as we know it; not from terrorism, but from the environmental chaos and resulting mass dislocations we that will be of our own doing.

The greedy, materialistic, power- and money-mad mind set that has got us into our environmental mess is the same one that lusts after authoritarian control. It is no accident that fascism melds together corporate and political power; at their base, the two are one in the same.

While the perveyors of this jaunticed world view continue to manipulate populations with overvilified enemies and overstated threats, valuable time is lost in coming to terms with what threatens the ENTIRE human race. We exist only because of a very fragile balance of environmental factors; if that balance collapses while we pay attention only to the pursuit of money and power, the result will make the "global terrorist threat" look like a Sunday picnic –– if there are any Sundays left for us by then.

P.S.: The Reichstag fire has been acknowledged by history to actually have been a false-flag operation by Hitler's minions; what does anyone think history will eventually say about the 9/11 tragedy, when the truth about that operation is finally revealed?

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USA. The EU, essentially, has become a police state for quite some time.
In most EU countries:
1) you must register with the local authorities your address and prove legal resident status (or have proper permits.) You must inform them if you move addresses.

2) when you stay in hotels you must surrender your passport which goes into a file.

3) CCTV (security cameras) are very prevalent, especially so in the UK. Not just in private companies but on city streets, city centers, airports, train/bus stations, highways, etc.

4) most EU countries don't use the jury system and you are tried by unelected judges (or panels of judges.)

5) in many countries they can seize your passports, prevent travel to other countries, and put you on 'watchlists' WITHOUT being convicted of any crime but only being SUSPECTED of being a football "hooligan".

6) the taxation is onerous on the middleclass (it is always the desire of the elites to destroy the middleclasses) and yet, due to laws about income, the rich can move their funds offshore and avoid taxation legally (unlike the US Europeans only tax you if you earn income in the country in which you reside, they don't tax income derived elsewhere- usually.)

7) there have been many scandals, like the US, in which European corporations are involved with 'cooking the books', using company funds for private use, gaining government contracts by illegal means, etc.

8) a treaty which started innocuosly as a steel/coal agreement between France/German turned into the EC which turned in to the EU which has resulted in unelected bureacrats making the laws for all of Europe in Brussels and Strasbourg. This similiar to how Bush desires that NAFTA, CAFTA, etc becomes the SPP, which will then become the union between the American countries of Mexico, Canada, and the US and the loss of control/sovergnity for those people.

When will people realise that the goal is the same. The banking elite wish to destroy the middleclass, aggrandise power, eliminate democracy, and rule the world.

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have also ventured into this issue. Some strong points being made here, and not much I can disagree with.

The government, on both sides of the political aisle, is growing strong and stronger - while our local communities are being reduced to little more than pieces of the fascist puzzle.

In regards to Chris Hedges' book - American Fascists, some interesting analysis on it here:

http://www.populistamerica.com/fascism_rising

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France's left and centre joined in a de facto electoral alliance yesterday to try to paint the centre-right presidential candidate, Nicolas Sarkozy, as a dangerous and anti-democratic bully.

Both the Socialist candidate Ségolène Royal and the defeated - but still pivotal - centrist candidate, François Bayrou, accused M. Sarkozy of using friends in the media to block their efforts to narrow their differences publicly in an unprecedented TV meeting between the first round winner and loser.

Mme Royal said the twice-cancelled debate had been frozen out by the "media-financial system to which Nicolas Sarkozy is linked".

M. Bayrou said he had no proof but an "absolute certainty" M. Sarkozy had intervened to make sure the televised encounter with Mme Royal could not happen. "In my press conference on Wednesday, I spoke of M. Sarkozy's taste for intimidation and menace," M. Bayrou said. "That's exactly where we are now."

http://news.independent.co.uk/eu rope/article2491776.ece

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In a very short time- blogs will end abruptly and written opinion- including what have commented on will be used against us all as treason.

We will be interned at camps meant to "re-educate" us. This is all in play as we speak...err write.

The power elite and Bushy have not worked this hard to give it up anytime soon.

Where in the hell is an unprotected motorcade when we need it most!

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Hold your nose folks, we're goin' under!

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My second Rudy comment was titled: "NEWS FLASH: Muslim suicide car bomb today kills 55 in the Holy Iraq city of Karbala."

How can we win a war against people willing to die for their cause when our "leader" was so afraid of flying jets in the National Guard that he quit 30 months early and went AWOL?

Hugh E. Scott, Vietnam veteran and the editor of King-George.biz -- the only website with hardcopy proof of White House corruption.

PS: Even Hitler served honorably during wartime!

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For a while now, every time I see or hear bush, cheney or rove, (non-caps denote disrespect) I find myself feeling simultanteously angry and revolted. This kind of reaction to politicians is new to me, and I don't like it - it goes against how I feel and conduct myself otherwise. It's kind of like having the worst arrogant, aggressive, bigoted, oblivious dimwit-who-just-won't-shut-up for a neighbour.

Even though I know they're merely sick sociopaths, I still have this craving to just haul off and slap them across the face, hard, in return for their being so totally thoughtless and dangerous - and repulsive. And I'm not even American.

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For a similar chain of events, dust off the old novel by Sinclair Lewis called It Can't Happen Here.

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In her otherwise astute observations about the emergence of fascism around the world, Wolf omits a key ingredient in a fascist take-over: the disarming of the civilian population.

From Estonia to Germany, Czechoslovakia, Russia, and Thailand, fascist takeovers have always preyed on a disarmed civilian population. As much as creeping fascism is evident in the Cheney/Bush regime, the one paradoxical protective factor we enjoy in this country is our affection for, and massive civilian ownership of firearms, particularly "defensive" firearms.

Admittedly Wolf's "thug class" draws its members from the ranks of "gun nuts," but there are proportionally, hundreds, if not thousands of patriotic firearms owners willing to defend the Constitution for every aberant thug eating lobster and guarding pumping stations in Iraq.

The fact that the recent tragedy at Virginia Tech failed to materialize a new gun control fervor, in a Congress controlled by Democrats, speaks the the burgeoning realization that, faced with the real threat of fascism coming from the Cheney/Bush cabal, Americans comprehend that an armed populace, problematic though it may be, undeniably functions to protect all of our other freedoms.

As a note of personal disclosure, although I am a member of the NRA, I am also a lifelong Democrat and -- at this point -- a Barak Obama supporter. I simply recognize that reality is more complex than can be captured in sound bites.

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Clutching at straws, maybe there's another element that could come into play. Essentially the Chinese and Japanese (primarily the former) are holding all the cards and could pull the plug on the American economy at any time. Inconceivable surely that the Chinese would allow America to degenerate into a full-blown Faschist dictatorship.
But, however the cards are dealt, it certainly looks increasingly as though the Great American Dream is about to fall apart. As a European I just hope it all happens within your own borders, involves only your own citizens and doesn't trigger the next World War. Confident I am not.

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Remember this date and connect it with the stolen elections, the 9-11 incident, the Patriot Act, the war in Iraq ( Vietnam ) and all of the criminals who got away with assasinated our President and his brother in 1963 and opened up a new opportunity for Fascism to flourish as long as no none was held accountable for commiting high treason! All of history has a beginning!

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Quiz: Is this Goebbels or Rove?

"I need not waste words about what this war means to us. Our enemies have left no doubt of that. We are defending our existence. It is good for us to know that. It does not make us weak, but hard. A defeat would destroy us all."

"A nation must fight courageously and intelligently for its existence. But that is not enough. When events intensify and march with giant steps to their culmination, racing toward the crisis, the main thing is that the leadership and people keep their nerve, stubbornly and persistently overcoming dangers and difficulties, letting nothing distract them from the continuation of the course that they once saw as correct..."

"What should I say at the end of this almost concluded stormy year to thank the whole nation for its devotion, hard work, loyalty and sacrifice, for its bravery, its contribution of wealth and blood?"

That was Joseph Goebbels in his 1943 speech to the German people. Karl Rove took the words right out of his mouth... from one insane lunatic to another.

To quote Goebbels:
"Naturally, the common people don't want war, but after all it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag people along.

Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. This is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and for exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country."

and also:
"The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly - it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over” (this is very widely true, and is the basis of the PR industry 'talking points' on issues ranging from pharmaceuticals to fossil-fueled global warming to the Iraq war - right across the board).

Goebbel's speeches read exactly like Karl Rove's:

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Now, what do we do about it? Do we wave flags like good Germans, or do we split so our tax dollars no longer go to fund their facist imperialist wars (my choice because I don't want to live in Meximerica any more than I want to live in Nazi Amerika), or do we revolt, or do we wait for the rest of the world to remove our government and our military AND US ALONG WITH IT?

Your call, and your decision. I've been packed for months and counting the days.

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“It is not that global Islamist terrorism is not a severe danger; of course it is. I am arguing rather that the language used to convey the nature of the threat…”

N. Wolf’s beginning argument is bankrupt and hence – what comes after it – seriously flawed. The “global Islamist terrorism” Wolf mentions is clearly “Al-Qaeda” created by CIA , implemented by ISI and financed by the U.S. and House of Saud. When evil genius Osama bin Laden (otherwise known as CIA asset “Tim Osman” ) was a known CIA patsy as late as the summer of 2000 at Dubai and allowed to escape after a proven and criminal 911 cover-up there can be little doubt. Ditto for false Al-Qaeda cells and phony “Al-Qaeda” so-called “jihadists”.

ONE MORE TIME: The U.S. via CIA has overthrown at least 20 democracies worldwide since WW2 in favor of Fascist regimes that have killed millions for corporate monopoly greed. And that’s just democracies. Corporate cartel mobsters have stopped at nothing.

Ex: Dictator Saddam was installed by CIA and Brit agents to butcher up to a million of his own for Big Oil and Iraq Petroleum Co. He was only nixed when officially suckered to take Kuwait and betrayed for Gulf War I.

Amerika Corp has officially been ruled by a parasite Fascist state since robber barons hijacked the economy via the “Federal Reserve” Corp (not federal, no reserves) cartel for a Freedom to Fascism sting that has been in place for almost a hundred years. Rigging of western media including “leftwing MSM” and “education” were the 2 final system controls.

Regimes of Hitler, Mussolini, Franco, Suharto, and Pinochet were all financed by U.S. and British cartel banking establishments. By the way, steps and lists for American brand fascism have been put together before and a bit more effectively:

1] Powerful and Continuing Nationalism

2] Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights

3] Identification of “enemies”/scapegoats as a Unifying Cause

4] Supremacy of the Military

5] Rampant Sexism

6] Controlled Mass Media

7] Obsession with National Security

8] Religion and Government are Intertwined

9] Corporate Power is Protected

10] Labor Power is Suppressed

11] Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts

12] Obsession with Crime and Punishment

13] Rampant Cronyism and Corruption

14] Fraudulent Elections

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What will 12 be like? Shudder.

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Plain and simple, the AshkeNAZI oligarchs/plutocrats that run the United States are slowly imposing fascism in order to protect 'their' profits.

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Yes, I am tired. Tired of watching my country being taken over by fascists. Tired of getting poorer and poorer (just lost my job of 18 years last July [budget cuts], became homeless 3 months later due to no new job and identity theft). Tired of watching/hearing about Republicons gone wild. Tired of seeing people die due to no money/health insurance. Tired of the ignorance of the average American.
My white ancestors fought in the Revolutionary war. My red ancestors....well, they fought. Fought for what WE need to fight for....our lives! Our FREEDOM!
After my last war, I swore, in words that should be familiar to everyone, "I will fight no more, forever." I was wrong. I am now ready to fight again. I am ready to die for freedom. How about you?

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BTW
NOTHING ELSE MATTERS! Without freedom everything we care about is gone, sooner or later.
Another famous quote here, "I'm mad as Hell and I'm not gonna take it anymore!"
Stand up, take action in any way you can. Don't just roll over and take it up the a** anymore. After all, Bush ain't gonna send you flowers in the morning.

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As this excellant article makes disturbingly clear, one of the penaltys for treason is execution. I am not, in any way, in favor of the death penatly - however when George W. Bush is eventually tried for treason (as I believe will happen) this nasty little fact should be borne in mind.

Something to think about.

Tom Degan
Goshen, NY
"The Rant" by Tom Degan

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Yet, conservative editorialists, closet Imperialists, wrote: "This is a Republic, not a Democracy."

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Incidentally, 'totalitarian' is a better word than 'fascist', since it encompasses the full spectrum of Orwellian states, from crude tin-pot dictators to absolute monarchs to corporate fascists such as Hitler and Mussolini to the communist dictatorships of Stalin and Mao. 'Anti-democratic' would also work. Bush, Cheney and Co. fit the totalitarian profile.

The role of the media in the rise of totalitarian states is well-described in this review from PRWatch:

There is, however, a striking paradox in the relationship between the two. Uncle Sigmund's "talking cure" was designed to unearth his patients' unconscious drives and hidden motives, in the belief that bringing them into conscious discourse would help people lead healthier lives.

Bernays, by contrast, used psychological techniques to mask the motives of his clients, as part of a deliberate strategy aimed at keeping the public unconscious of the forces that were working to mold their minds.

Characteristically (and again paradoxically), Bernays was remarkably candid about his manipulative intent. "If we understand the mechanisms and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without their knowing it," he argued in Propaganda, one of his first books. In a later book, he coined the term "engineering of consent" to describe his technique for controlling the masses.

"The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society," Bernays argued. "Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country. . . . In almost every act of our daily lives, whether in the sphere of politics or business, in our social conduct or our ethical thinking, we are dominated by the relatively small number of persons . . . who understand the mental processes and social patterns of the masses. It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind."

This definition of "democratic society" is itself a contradiction in terms--a theoretical attempt to reconcile rule by the few with the democratic system which threatened (and still threatens) the privileges and powers of the governing elite. On occasion, Bernays himself recoiled from the anti-democratic implications of his theory.

During Bernays' lifetime and since, propaganda has usually had dirty connotations, loaded and identified with the evils of Nazi PR genius Joseph Goebbels, or the oafish efforts of the Soviet Communists. In his memoirs, Bernays wrote that he was "shocked" to discover that Goebbels kept copies of Bernays' writings in his own personal library, and that his theories were therefore helping to "engineer" the rise of the Third Reich.

Bernays liked to cultivate an image as a supporter of feminism and other liberating ideas, but his work on behalf of the United Fruit Company had consequences just as evil and terrifying as if he'd worked directly for the Nazis. The Father of Spin sheds new and important light on the extent to which the Bernays' propaganda campaign for the United Fruit Company (today's United Brands) led directly to the CIA's overthrow of the elected government of Guatemala....

Eddie Bernays is widely known as the "Father of PR" and was the nephew of Sigmund Freud.

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Good article, if a bit overwritten. That said, our government is run by/for corporations. A handful of (corporate) Fatcats own the media, meaning we already lack access to divergent opinions (though the internet decentralizes this monopoly, to some degree, access to the internet is limited by economic opportunities and value). The President has declared himself above and beyond all, his message straight from God. Oh, and why are we in Iraq again and about to hit Iran (ala Hitler in the west, then turning to Russia and opening a two-front war)?

Given the amount of cutbacks in social spending, one has to wonder if a neo-fascist nation wasn't an idea hatched a few decades ago? After all, a _______(fill in the blank) population is an easy to control population.

Anyway, good to see people are awake in these postings, even if it's too late.

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"But Democrats themselves gave their tribute abundantly, witness Clinton and his 1996 Antiterrorism Act (which fathered the PATRIOT Act), his NAFTA, FCC regulations and media consolidation, etc."

Yes!!! And Hillery will keep the process going. Why does anyone think that Ms. Clinton (our already corporate chosen democratic candidiate for 2008) has so much frigging money in her coffers already? Look at who one of her chief financiers happens to be. Rupert Murdoch. Look...the sumbitches want to make sure THEIR candidate stays in power! It doesn't matter if that particular candidate calls themself a "republican" or "democrat", all that matters is that the person sitting in the White House continues the policies that benefit the ELITE!!!

How many people out there (Joe Sixpack et ux) have heard of Ron Paul? You ask almost anyone off the street who Ron Paul is, they will probably tell you (or rather ask) The Canadian Emperor???...or some such shit. Ron Paul is exactly what the corporate "state" does NOT want. A person that detests the Federal Reserve, the Drug War, the Patriot Act, The Military Commissions Act, etc. Therefore, he and anyone like him will be buried. They will be kept silent by the media. That is why it is up to US, the people who bother to try to keep up with what is and isn't really for our benefit vs the "government's" (aka the elite) benefit. Folks....we can talk to each other on Alternet or any other discussion board till we are blue in the face and it won't do any good! We need to be talking to our neighbors and friends, the ones who spend endless hours gabbing about American Idol or what it is that Brad and Angelina are doing...the mainstream media is loaded with distractors!!! They are the ones who keep idjiots like Bu$h in office. They BELIEVE everything that the corporate media tells them...then, they go out and vote accordingly. THEY are the folks we need to be talking to and educating. The folks we call the sheeple. Come on!!! Try (yeah, yeah...I know, they don't wanna talk about it) to tell them what these underdogs mean for them!!! That my friends is the only way we or anyone else can actually make a difference.

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A classic symbol of high journalist standards.

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I love visiting this site because the content is so consistently insane and laughable! this screed by Ms. Wolf is just more of the same. Leftists are forever confusing feeling deeply with thinking deeply, and so we get treated to somber polemics such as this "10 Steps to Fascism" which have the level of sophistication of the average college freshman who has taken his or her first polisci course: overblown emotionalism that is devoid of substance - aka "all heat and no light". Last thing: this particular (silly) "10 Steps" list is oooold, having first been circulated around the internet approximately 3 or 4 years ago. Congratulations, Ms. Wolf: your piece is paranoid, delusional, and quite possibly plagiarism as well - bravo!

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As has been written, none of this is really new. There have been many articles over the past five years listing what the writers believe to be the preconditions for the creation of a Fascist state. There is a Danish woman in Santa Fe, a weaver, who lived through World War 2 as a child. On her shop wall is a scroll listing the 10 Steps and it reads very like Ms. Wolf's article.
Ms. Wolf should have acquainted herself with Godwin's Law and its companion, the 'reductio ad Hitlerum' before writing the piece.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_Law
Another writer, Chris Hitchens perhaps, said that while we Americans are forever worrying about our drift to Fascism, the Europeans don't drift, they plunge headling into from time to time.

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See the sites below for evidence indicating the thug class is here and who they are: http://www.freedomfchs.com/unwarranted_surveillance.pdf
http://www.freedomfchs.com/
http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~altemey/

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I live in Colorado Springs and it is insane living here because there are four military installations here plus NORAD and USAFA. This city was used in "Fast Food Nation" as a case study because it has more chain restaurants and stores in relation to how many independent places there are. Focus on the Family has its headquarters here, as do a large number of other evangelical organizations (none of which pay tax since they fall under the guise of 'religion'). THIS is the state of America out here in the Wild West, with the exception of Denver. Why? Colorado is about the LAST place that terrorists would attack, yet we certainly need to keep adding more military to this town and let it run the show and keep all the local politicians in the pocket of Washington-rats!

But this article relates directly to the state of things in Colorado Springs. There are several groups here that regularly stage protests when the DC-Jetset comes to town; they show up at local events and pass out flyers, etc. And guess what? Somehow, someone in Denver, (sorry, can't remember--) found out that the Colorado Springs Police had FILES on all of the members of these local anti-war organizations! Needless to say, it has become a huge issue out here about our fascist police!

It amazes me how brainwashed the majority of citizens are in this town. It's like they go eat at Olive Garden and think it's real Italian food and how wonderful! And that ALL people who are Muslim or from the Middle East MUST be terrorists. Why, these people are so scared that they actually say things like "Well, I'd let the police search my car. I don't have anything to hide." They are so ignorant and scared, that they don't even realize that they willingly give up their constitutional rights. They are so blind that they don't realize that our government HIRED the psychos that are now called Al-Quada (sp?) and other terrorists to fight the communist RUSSIANS when they invaded Afghanistan in the 80s. Where in the heck do these same people think that these poor people way over in the deserts of Afghanistan, Iran, and Iraq got all those weapons and training in the first place? These are the same people who are convinced that their evangelical prosthelitizing is OK and that their own persoal extremist views are just fine and dandy, but that those darn members of Islam are all out to kill us. What a bunch of LAME-Os!!! They are so stupid, and the government wants it that way! Keep 'em dumb and they'll be easier to control.

A+ on the article. There's a great book simply called "9-11" by Noam Chomsky that explains a lot in very few words. I highly recommend it. "Manufacturing Consent" is another good one by him, too.

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REGOGNITION FOR THE ABRAHAM LINCOLN BRIGADE VETERANS by Andrew Stergiou
Every one has seen the “Republican” Political action committee ads posing supposed veterans when those are not all veterans. With all the lip service paid by reactionary establishment leadership to freedom and democracy as they wave the American flag time and time again like trained monkeys, it is time to draw a line in the sand to expose their lies and deceit. In regard to veterans first conned into the service by recruiting officers, then sent to war to be used as cannon fodder and then neglected in health care when they return they do not really give a damn, nor do they care about freedom and democracy for they follow a long established policy of deceit from which they derive their linage:

Between 1936-39 preceding World War II, while the conservative leadership of the so called free bourgeois democratic world (including President Roosevelt Prime Minister Chamberlain) appeased Hitler, Mussolini, Franco, and the reactionary Roman Catholic Church hierarchy there was a group of Americans that gave up they youth, and lives to fight fascism called the Abraham Lincoln Brigade *1 they did not sit comfortably at home.

The Abraham Lincoln Brigade volunteers were part of the International Brigades a greater effort comprising tens of thousands of anti-fascist volunteer combatants that went to Spain to defend the democratically elected government of Spain against Franco fascists in league with the German Nazis and fascist Italian troops in support of American interests. While the Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy bombed Spanish cities in support of Spanish fascism, the great liberals foundations of the Industrial world sat by and did nothing or collaborated with the fascists.

Members of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade came from many walks of life and different political progressive political backgrounds left without the approval and consent of their government returned to be label premature anti-fascists and communist when they weren’t.

Whereas the Flying Tigers received the approval and recognition of the US government and Roosevelt five years after the start of the Spanish conflict, the veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade never received such recognition, nor were they accorded pensions, benefits, or allowed into the US military when World War II started.

Whereas European members of the resistance were accorded honors by their respective governments all Abraham Lincoln Brigade veterans should be given, or posthumously receive all honors and benefits as American (US) veterans of World War II would of received.

*1 Abraham Lincoln Brigade - In the Spanish Civil War, a brigade consisted of four to six battalions. [1] American volunteers mostly joined the two battalions (the Lincoln Battalion and the Washington Battalion) within XV International Brigade. The XV International Brigade was made up of six battalions of volunteers from nations around the globe, topped up with Spanish conscripts. [2] As time went on, the name Abraham Lincoln Brigade became used loosely, in the United States, as shorthand to describe any unit with an American component.

Volunteers from the United States also served with the Canadian Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion; the Regiment de Tren (transport); and the John Brown Anti-Aircraft Battery. North Americans also ran a very well-organized and well-equipped field hospital (funded and staffed by the American Medical Bureau to Save Spanish Democracy).
List of Abraham Lincoln Brigade Volunteers New York University Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives http://nyu.edu/library/bobst/research/tam/alba_names.html

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Bu$h was an ari$tocrat before he was elected and he, his families and buddies will be richer ari$tocrat$ when he leaves office and much like John Hinckly, he will not have to answer for his crimes in the USA. I hope he repents one day and learns to understand the Sermon on the Mount. Gee, it was less than 10 years ago when we impeached a president for lying about a personal matter that had nothing to do with our federal government. Bush & Co. have lied so much that the only way we could impeach him is for telling the truth!

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Within this fora are thoughful, meaningful contributions. For instance, Reagan's mean-spiritedness (Controller's Strike-AIDS). Physicial infrastructure within cities, within communities, have been ignored in favor of elite management infrastructure of American society; experiences resonate within many, many fora. Included in Reagan's mean-spiritedness are many issues, yes, the damming approach to working mothers, especially from women who profited from their labor; younger Americans are unaware of scorn that was exhibited. Contributions within this forum illustrate the overview of experiences American citizens have endured.

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College tuition is up. What's new? Mothers who worked to provide children college tuitions were dammed yesterday. Tomorrow? College tuition is up.

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I sent this to the Democratic Party through their website:

To Whom it may concern:

I voted for the Democrats in the last election in an attempt to counter the negative policies of the current administration.

I am angry, and many people who I know are angry as well.

The Democrats are not proving committed to stopping the war in Iraq, though you are paying lip service to it. You are not even speaking about impeachment (with the exception of Dennis Kucinich). You are also not speaking of overturning the Patriot act, or even of revising it so that it does not destroy 200 years of civil liberties. You are not holding the administration accountable in any meaningful way for destroying habeus corpus, or for torture, or for accessing our private information in illegal ways.

You are not doing your jobs. And, the American people have no choice but to view you as either cowards, or as complicit in these terrible policies.

I cannot imagine how anyone can willingly allow these things to go unchallenged. Somehow I am already convinced that you will are going to either allow yourselves to lose the 2008 election and give our nation over to these idiots permanently, or you are part of what they are doing.

Perhaps none of you care, but I thought that you should hear our building rage about the situation we all can see for precisely what it is.

Know this: If you do not begin to do something meaningful about these things, we will not re-elect you, and we will not look to you for a president.

If there is any hope, it is the Democratic Party; do not let us down.

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You left-wing nutjobs need to take a deep breath and get a grip...

EITHER... President Bush is a complete wacko illiterate moron...

OR

he's a brilliant, scheming power-mad dictator who has masterfully used the GWOT to manipulate the entire world and gain personal power...

You CAN'T have it BOTH ways!!

I think some of you are wearing your tinfoil hats a bit too tightly ... There is NO RIGHT WING CONSPIRACY to deprive you of your life, liberty and pursuit of happiness...

The most important element of taking over ANY government or country is to dominate the INFORMATION that the public receives. Putting aside the fact that it is virtually impossible to do in today's modern world, it is obvious to ANYONE with more than half of a brain that GW and the political right in America do NOT control the media or flow of info. We are inundated daily with the shortcomings of the administration in ALL of its many parts. President Bush can't even go to the bathroom without it making the news and someone criticizing him for it....

But all that said, I guess many of you would prefer to live under extremist Islamic law, where you are EXECUTED for not towing the party line...or get blown up by psychotic religious nuts who want to live some carnal afterlife of pleasure...

Get your priorities straight and figure out who the real enemy is..

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