Re: So, What IS a Fascist, anyway?

Rat & Swan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>Jonathan Ball wrote:
>> You just don't like Bush, Freddie.  

I don't like _any_ baby killing monster, whether they're named George Bush,
Stalin, Pol Pot, Napoleon, General Custer, or what ever.  Bush personally
has ordered the murder of hundreds of thousands of innocent people through
his use of depleted uranium.  "...don't like.." is a gross understatement
to describe those who oppose genocidal fascists.

>> Fair enough - I don't much like him, either, probably for somewhat 
>> the same reasons - but you aren't getting anywhere calling him a 
>> "fascist".

>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).  

Bush meets _all_ of the typical requirements for a fascist, though:

    fascism n. 1. Often Fascism.a. A system of government 
    marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, 
    stringent socioeconomic controls, suppression of the 
    opposition through terror and censorship, and typically 
    a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism. b. A 
    political philosophy or movement based on or advocating 
    such a system of government. 2. Oppressive, dictatorial 
    control.

Everything enumerated in this on-line dictionary's definition of the
contemporary word usage describes Bush's actions over the past three years.
All that's not enumerated is the killer's religious conviction that he's
got his god's sanction to murder people who worship the wrong gods.

>He took power by legal means, but without winning an election.  

In a State that's controlled by his brother, though a law body that
consists of people his family installed.  In any other country it would
be recognized as a bloodless coup and had it happened in Russia, the
people of the United States would smile, nod knowingly, and note aloud
that nothing has changed in Russia.

>He solidified his power by legal means, but in ways which subvert the 
>constitution and popular civil liberties.  

The enactment of his fascist "Patriot Act" which nullifies the Constitution
of the United States and shred the Bill of Rights.  The fascists proclaimed
themselves immune from the Rule of Law with one stroke of the pen.

>Bush's regime has most of the classic traits of fascism.
>Don't forget that fascism had popular support in all the countries
>where it came to power.

His actions closely mirror the advent of the Brown Shirts and the rise
of Nazi Germany.  The first good look at what this monster stood for was
when the fascist looked at the GWBush.COM web site and sent fascist goons
over to threaten the web site's owners.  Then the dictator demanded that
"there ought to be limits on freedom" after the web site's owner couldn't
be silence with anything short of a bullet in the head.

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Yes, George W. Bush is an unelected baby killing fascist dictator.
"In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the
sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law & order."
- Idi Dada Amin