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Wednesday, February 22, 2006

Could this be the final piece of the Fascism puzzle?

I am currently re-reading "1984"
I first read it back in 9th grade civics class. It seemed way paranoid and out there when I first read it. It seems plausible today.
I believe that we must question our government at all times no matter which party is in control.
After all, we are a government for the people, by the people and of the people right? In this piece I will make a case for why I think the Bush administration is trying to implement a form of Fascism in place of our Democracy.
Before I go on I would like to list two important words with their definitions.

Fascism: 1. Political philosophy, movement or regime that exalts nation and race above the individual and that stands for a centralized and autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader; severe economical and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition.
2. a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control.

Autocrat: 1. a person ruling with unlimited authority. 2. one who has undisputed influence or power.

*definitions of Fascism and Autocrat taken from Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary

I'm not paranoid. I wouldn't consider myself a conspiracy theorist. I am very concerned about the possibility of losing our Democracy.

The Supreme Court of the United States chose to intervene in a State level election in 2000.
The Florida Supreme Court ruled that the re-count of the presidential vote in Florida must continue. Bush sued Gore and the U.S. Supreme Court ordered a stop immediately and awarded George W. Bush the presidency. I posit as others do that the Supreme Court of the United States therefore by their action gave Bush the presidency. Many of the newspapers in Florida continued polling and research and determined that Al Gore undisputedly won Florida and thus should have become the president. The makeup of the U.S. Supreme Court at that time in 2000 went like this, William Rehnquist was appointed by republican Richard Nixon; John Paul Stevens was appointed by republican Gerald Ford; Sandra Day O'Connor, antonym Scalea & Anthony Kennedy were appointed by republican Ronald Reagan; Clarence Thomas and David Souter were appointed by republican George H. W. Bush.
The five justices that gave Bush his presidency were Rehnquist, O'Connor, Kennedy , Thomas & Scalia all republican presidential appointees.
I call this the First part of the neoconFascism Trilogy.

Bush took office in January 2001 - September 11, 2001 We all know what happened. Prior to 911 the Bush administration ignored warning that "Osama bin laden intent on attacking within the United States....." They ignored this warning because they were intent on regime change in Iraq not only before 911 but even before they worn sworn in.
911 sealed Bush's future fate with a guaranteed victory in his second presidential election. No president has ever been voted out of office during the time of war.
We also know that W. Bush's first business involved one of Osama bin laden's brothers.
We also know that H.W. Bush was at a meeting of the Carlyle Group in New York City with another one of Osama bin laden's brothers the morning of the 911 attacks.
Coincidence?
35 members of Osama bin laden's family were allowed to fly out of the U.S. the day after the attacks while you and I and even H.W. Bush were not allowed to fly.
I will not posit that Bush nor his family nor anyone in his administration had anything to do with the 911 attacks but you are allowed to make your own decision about such.
I will posit that Bush and his administration ignored the serious threat. I say that they were
beneficiaries of this horrible tragedy.
I commend Bush and congress for immediately attacking Afghanistan. Afghanistan was where the terrorist were trained by Osama bin laden. The Taliban leadership aided and abetted Osama and the terrorists. They should have been destroyed in retaliation for attacking us on 911. However, Bush and Donald Rumsfeld, if we take it to the top of both departments, decided to quit looking for Osama bin laden, the man who attacked us and head elsewhere to "more attractive targets."
Only 3 countries recognized the Taliban as the legitimate government of Afghanistan; Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and The United Arab Emirates & we just sold 6 U.S. ports to the U.A.E.
Bush, Cheney & Rumsfeld saw 911 as the perfect opportunity to invade Iraq.
Genocide was, and is being committed in Darfur but they decided to cherry pick intelligence so they could trick the American people into a war with Iraq. They gave no bid contracts to their buddies.
We all know now how it went. The First lie was Weapons of Mass Destruction. The Second lie was links to the 911 terrorists. The Third lie Iraqi Freedom. 19 sacred Suni mosques were bombed today in Iraq by the Shiites. Civil war is what the situation appears to be in Iraq. We have helped through "spreading democracy" to install Islamic Fundamentalists into power in Iraq. The Shiite Islamic Fundamentalists have very close ties to Iran.
By lying about the war in Iraq the Bush administration was able to use fear to get a strong hold on the minds of most of the American people.
Karl Rove recently stated that the republicans won the election in 2002 and 2004 on National Security (Fear, Fear, Fear) and they will win the 2006 mid term elections on the same.
Karl Rove the mastermind of the political machine and a very smart man knows how effective fear was for Adolph Hitler.
Like minds think alike.

The people who no longer participate in the physical reality of the home of the free and the land of the brave, because they are afraid, only have us more liberal citizens to save them.

The terror alert level kept going up and down like a yo yo during the 2004 presidential election campaign. This was a blatant political attempt to control us by using fear. Soccer moms everywhere along with the idiots that watch the F News Network were mortified. They definitely were not participating in the home of the brave. They readily gave up article one and article four of our constitution.
I began to wonder if martial law was going to be declared by the Bush administration so that they could have unlimited authority.
If you don't completely support Bush and the republican controlled congress' every move no matter how terrible it turns out to be, then you are called a terrorist. No one can have an opinion or idea that was not released by the White House as a daily talking point. Each day Rush, Hannity, O'Reily ad nauseam get the talking points from the White House so that they are all pontificating about the same message. This propaganda spit out by the White House and spewed over the air waves daily keeps you in fear. The boogie man is gonna get you!

FEAR is the Second part of the neoconFascism trilogy.
With just the right amount of FEAR they could declare martial law and never allow elections again!

This leads me into what I am afraid will be the final stage of their implementation of neoconFascism.

Part Three of the neoconFascism trilogy was announced yesterday. George W. Bush, republican, sold 6 U.S. ports to what I call a terrorist nation the United Arab Emirates. The U.A.E. laundered money for the 911 hijackers. The U.A.E. failed to cooperate with the U.S. government when the FBI tried to follow the money trail of Osama bin laden and the hijackers. Two of the 911 hijackers, murderers of innocent Americans were from the U.A.E.
The Port of Dubai is known to have been the port that Dr. Kahn shipped nuclear proliferations through illegally to Pakistan, India and Iran.

Birds of a feather stick together.

Why would we sell our ports to any foreign government?
Why would we sell our ports to a terrorist nation?
Bob Dole was hired today as a lobbyist to help sell the deal to the American people. The republicans are great with the lobbyist huh?
911 can never be repeated!
We can not allow that to happen.
Our National Security is in jeopardy if we sell our ports to terrorist nations.

but......

What if a year or so down the road after the U.A.E. has taken complete ownership and control of the 6 major U.S. ports one little dot gets overlooked? Since the terrorists are smarter than apparently Bush thinks they are (like they wouldn't have known we were listening to them.....Please) who is to say that some fundamentalist jihadist doesn't end up being employed by one of the ports owned by the U.A.E. right here on our east coast? It is possible that weapons of mass destruction could get into the United States through one of these 6 ports and then be used on us.
We can not allow this to happen.
We can not sell our ports to terrorist nations.

but.....if we were attacked again before George W. Bush and the republican controlled congress leaves office or control, then he/they could declare martial law and we would never have elections again. It could happen. This would give them absolute Power. And that would be the completion of the neoconFascism trilogy.

Supporting cast for the neoconFascism trilogy:

The media. For the most part media will not allow themselves because of ties to corporate America to actually be "free."
Rubber Stamp republican controlled congress
Apathetic citizens of America
Fox News Network, fear, hate and intolerance
Far Right Extreme Wing of The Christian Right

Honorable Mention:
U.S. Supreme Court

If anyone disagrees with them within the military (Gen. Shinseki) they get "retired."
If anyone disagrees with them that is in any other branch of government they get fired or outed. (CIA covert op Valerie Plame because of her husband Joe Wilson's dispute over the tubes, Richard Clarke etc.)
If we citizens disagree with them we are labeled terrorists, traitors and said to be siding with the enemy or "them."

We are proud to be American! I know I am. But I'm proud to be American because of the people, not the government and its actions. Bumper stickers are everywhere. Wow what a market.....Support our troops.....Amen to that!!
Nationalism is at an all time high it seems.

Exalts Nation and Race above individual.......Exalts nation is covered in previous paragraph.....Katrina (Race)....it's like Jimmy Carter said at the honorable Cloretta Scott King's funeral, "you only have to look at the color of the faces on the rooftops....."
Both of these are elements of Fascism.

Severe Economical and Social regimentation.....the gap between the rich and the poor is larger than it has ever been. A recent 20 year study found that middle and lower class incomes only rose by 19% within that 20 year period while the upper class incomes rose by 69% within that same 20 year period. Funding for Medicare, Education, Veterans, Needy Children etc. has been cut. Bush in a campaign speech back in 2000 said ".....the haves and the have mores....some call you elite, I call you my base."
This pretty much sums it up. That is why he continues to cater to the wealthiest Americans through his high end benefit tax cuts.
Both of these are elements of Fascism.

Dictatorial control andAutocrat: Person with unlimited authority.
Bush is spying on American citizens without using the FISA Courts. The republican controlled congress is allowing it to happen.
Bush is acting with Unlimited Authority.
The checks and balances set up in our constitution are obsolete.
He lied us into the war in Iraq. The 45 day investigation rule when a foreign entity attempts to buy things like American Ports was completely ignored.
Bush is acting with Unlimited Authority.
This is a part of Fascism. I call it neoconFascism because there are more than just Fascist, Autocratic elements to this movement. There are as Randi Rhodes calls it "Corporatocracy" and Oligarchy.
Oligarchy is government by the few....hmmm.....Bush, Cheney, Frist, Hastert, Thomas, Scalea, Kennedy, Roberts, Alito, Karl Rove, Bush Sr., Abrahmoff, Delay......to mention a few......you get the idea. It is because of the many things listed herein and many more that I have failed to mention that I believe our Democracy is in jeopardy.
I believe that if we are not careful as American citizens we will no longer be free.
We can not allow the neoconFascism trilogy to get us.
We must fight back to save our Democracy.