Re: So, What IS a Fascist, anyway?

Jeff McCann wrote:

> "usual suspect" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > Rat & Swan wrote:
> >
> > > But, in fact, that is very much what he is, although he doesn't see
>
> it
>
> > > himself (as you say, "fascist" has become a dirty word).  He took
> > > power by legal means, but without winning an election.
> >
> > He won the election.
>
>
> But not without employing dirty tricks to influence the outcome.
>
> Jeff
> *****
> Miami-Dade vote recount demonstration was staged
>
> On November 22nd a violent demonstration

No, it was not violent.

> occurred in Miami in protest to
> a recount of the Miami-Dade ballots.  This demonstration was initially
> reported as a spontaneous outburst by local Miami citizens, due to
> Republican insistence that is was such, and shown on local and national
> television.  This demonstration lead to the ceasing of recounts of Miami
> ballots.
>
> It turns out that the demonstration was an organized Republican
> demonstration of party loyalists who were called to Miami (with all
> expenses paid) and organized to incite violence and disrupt the recounts
> in Miami, a heavily Democratic county.

Anti-global activists flocked to Seattle in 1999, and 
to Genoa in 2001.  Does the demonstrators were not all 
locals make their point, ipso facto, invalid?