Re: So, What IS a Fascist, anyway?

Jonathan Ball 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.

It was to leftists who are more used to seeing Republicans roll over 
than employing the tactics of the Left. I thought the reactions of the 
Left were amusing following their own shenanigans -- many of their 
protests, after all, involve arrests and hospitalizations.

> > 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?

The Left employs such rent-a-mobs and thinks it's a sign of democracy. 
They showed up here (from all over the freaking nation!) in Austin 
throughout our Democrat Senators' stonewalling vacation in Albuquerque, 
and again when they returned to and had to deal with the issue. All 
those cars with plates from Vermont and Massachusetts (and stickers for 
Kucinich, Sharpton, and Dean -- it was funny) parked near the Capitol. 
The mob tried to shout down action on the floor, only further delaying 
the inevitable. We now have districts which accurately reflect our 
state's voting trends and preferences. Why should we continue to use a 
court's gerrymandering which gave Texas more Democrats in Congress when 
the state has NO state-wide elected Democrats and hasn't voted Democrat 
in a national election in nearly 20 years? The Left aren't for 
democracy; it scares the hell out of them.