Re: Islamic facists

14 Points of fascism

In his original article, "Fascism Anyone?", Laurence Britt (interview)
compared the regimes of Hitler, Mussolini, Franco, Suharto, and Pinochet and
identified 14 characteristics common to those fascist regimes. This page is
a collection of news articles dating from the start of the Bush presidency
divided into topics relating to each of the 14 points of fascism. Further
analysis of American Fascism done by the POAC can be read here.

1.) Powerful and Continuing Nationalism: Fascist regimes tend to make
constant use of patriotic mottos, slogans, symbols, songs, and other
paraphernalia. Flags are seen everywhere, as are flag symbols on clothing
and in public displays.

September 11 Freedom Walk

New Majority Leader: Iraq War "May Be The Greatest Gift That We Give" Our
Grandchildren

Headstones of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan are inscribed with the
Pentagons war-marketing slogans

White House and the RNC are going to make a habit of using uniformed
military personnel as props at Republican political rallies, despite the
fact that it is a plain violation of military regulations banning
politicization of the armed forces.

"You must glorify war in order to get the public to accept the fact that
your going to send their sons and daughters to die." The inside story of the
cozy relationship between big box office American war movies and the
Pentagon

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2.) Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights: Because of fear of enemies
and the need for security, the people in fascist regimes are persuaded that
human rights can be ignored in certain cases because of "need." The people
tend to look the other way or even approve of torture, summary executions,
assassinations, long incarcerations of prisoners, etc.
Bush threatens to veto $442b defense bill if Congress investigates detainee
abuses.
Guantanamo Judge: "I don't care about international law. I don't want to
hear the words 'international law' again. We are not concerned with
international law."
Rumsfeld to approve new guidelines that will formalize the administration's
policy of imprisoning without the protections of the Geneva Conventions and
enable the Pentagon to legally hold "ghost detainees,"
US 'preparing to detain terror suspects for life without trial'
U.S. oks evidence gained through torture
July 1, 2003: U.S. Suspends Military Aid to Nearly 50 Countries: because
they have supported the International Criminal Court and failed to exempt
Americans from possible prosecution.
US has at least 9000 prisoners in secret detention
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3.) Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause: The people
are rallied into a unifying patriotic frenzy over the need to eliminate a
perceived common threat or foe: racial, ethnic or religious minorities;
liberals; communists; socialists, terrorists, etc.

Congressman: Muslims 'enemy amongst us'
SB 24, Ohio law to muzzle "liberals"
World history textbook used by seventh-graders at Scottsdale's Mohave Middle
School was pulled from classrooms mid-semester amid growing right criticism
of the book's unbiased portrayal of Islam
Rallies planned against 'Islamofacism': Event to 'unify all Americans behind
common goal'

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4.) Supremacy of the Military: Even when there are widespread domestic
problems, the military is given a disproportionate amount of government
funding, and the domestic agenda is neglected. Soldiers and military service
are glamorized.
If you haven't seen the Oreo flash animation yet, see it here

Bush's Domestic Program Hit List

Bush slashes domestic programs, boosts defense. Arlen Spector calls it
"scandalous"

Funding for job training, rural health care, low-income schools and help
for people lacking health insurance would face big cuts under a bill passed
Friday by the House

Pentagon to spend 75 billion for three new brigades


Three cable channels now feed news, information and entertainment about the
armed services into millions of living rooms 24 hours a day, seven days a
week: The Military Channel, the Military History Channel and the Pentagon
Channel.
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5.) Rampant Sexism: The governments of fascist nations tend to be almost
exclusively male-dominated. Under fascist regimes, traditional gender roles
are made more rigid. Opposition to abortion is high, as is homophobia and
anti-gay legislation and national policy.
It's legal again, to fire gov't workers for being gay
Bush calls for Constitutional ban on same-sex marriages
Bush refuses to sign U.N proposal on women's "sexual" rights
W. David Hager chairman of the FDA's Reproductive Health Drugs Advisory
Committee does not prescribe contraceptives for single women, does not do
abortions, will not prescribe RU-486 and will not insert IUDs.
The State Department has awarded an explicitly anti-feminist U.S. group part
of a US$10 million grant to train Iraqi women in political participation and
democracy.
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6.) Controlled Mass Media: Sometimes the media is directly controlled by
the government, but in other cases, the media is indirectly controlled by
government regulation, or sympathetic media spokespeople and executives.
Censorship, especially in war time, is very common.
FBI Acknowledges: Journalists Phone Records are Fair Game
Report shows U.S. government has been engaged in illegal propaganda aimed at
its own citizens and the story gets only 41 mentions in the media
Free Press details recent governmental propaganda efforts, from
faux-correspondent Jeff Gannon to paid-off pundit Armstrong Williams, and
from the demise of FOIA to video news releases passed off as news. also...
See a Whitehouse fake news release here (opens realplayer)
US seizes webservers from independent media sites
Bush's war on information: US editors forbidden to publish certain foreign
writers

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7.) Obsession with National Security: Fear is used as a motivational tool
by the government over the masses
Bush Aides ADMIT 'stoking fear' for political gain: Bush adviser said the
president hopes to change the dynamics of the race. The strategy is aimed at
stoking public fears about terrorism, raising new concerns about Kerry's
ability to protect Americans and reinforcing Bush's image as the steady
anti-terrorism candidate, aides said.
The Bush administration periodically put the USA on high alert for terrorist
attacks even though then-Homeland Security chief Tom Ridge argued there was
only flimsy evidence to justify raising the threat level.

Keith Olbermann: "The Nexus of Politics and Terror."
Cheney warns that if Kerry is elected, the USA will suffer a "devastating
attack"
GOP convention in a nutshell (quicktime)

Rove: GOP to Use Terror As Campaign Issue in 2006
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8.) Religion and Government are Intertwined: Governments in fascist nations
tend to use the most common religion in the nation as a tool to manipulate
public opinion. Religious rhetoric and terminology is common from government
leaders, even when the major tenets of the religion are diametrically
opposed to the government's policies or actions.
Jerry Falwell cleared of charges that he broke federal election law by
urging followers to vote for Bush
NC congressman proposes law making it ok to preach politics from the pulpit
Texas Governor Mobilizes Evangelicals
Family research council: Justice Sunday
Thou shalt be like Bush: What makes this recently established, right-wing
Christian college unique are the increasingly close - critics say alarmingly
close - links it has with the Bush administration and the Republican
establishment.
Park Service Continues to Push Creationist Theory at Grand Canyon and other
nat'l parks
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9.) Corporate Power is Protected: The industrial and business aristocracy
of a fascist nation often are the ones who put the government leaders into
power, creating a mutually beneficial business/government relationship and
power elite.
The K Street Project is a project by the Republican party to pressure
Washington lobbying firms to hire Republicans in top positions, and to
reward loyal GOP lobbyists with access to influential officials. It was
launched in 1995, by Republican strategist Grover Norquist and House
majority leader Tom DeLay.
American Conservative Magazine: One U.S. contractor received $2 million in a
duffel bag... and a U.S. official was given $7 million in cash in the waning
days of the CPA and told to spend it "before the Iraqis take over."
There are 6 Congressional Committees investigating the Oil-for-Food (UN)
scandal, yet not a single Republican Committee Chairman will call a hearing
to investigate the whereabouts of 9 billion dollars missing in Iraq
Bush money network rooted in Florida, Texas: Since Mr. Bush took office in
2001, the federal government has awarded more than $3 billion in contracts
to the President's elite 2004 Texas fund-raisers, their businesses, and
lobbying clients
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10.) Labor Power is Suppressed: Because the organizing power of labor is
the only real threat to a fascist government, labor unions are either
eliminated entirely, or are severely suppressed.
Labor Department warns unions against using their money politically
President Bush Attacks Organized Labor: Bush attacked organized labor
Saturday, issuing orders effectively reducing how much money unions can
spend for political activities and opening up government contracts to
non-union bidding.
March 2001: President Bush signed his name to four executive orders on
organized labor last month, including one that cuts the money unions will
have for political campaign spending.
Congress and the Department of Labor are trying to change the rules on
overtime pay, eliminating the 40 hour work week, taking eligibility for
overtime pay away from millions of workers, and replacing time and a half
pay with comp days.
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11.) Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts: Fascist nations tend to
promote and tolerate open hostility to higher education, and academia. It is
not uncommon for professors and other academics to be censored or even
arrested. Free expression in the arts is openly attacked, and governments
often refuse to fund the arts.
Bush's new economic plan cuts funding for arts, education
Artists from all over the world are being refused entry to the US on
security grounds.
A group of more than 60 top U.S. scientists, including 20 Nobel laureates
and several science advisers to past Republican presidents, on Wednesday
accused the Bush administration of manipulating and censoring science for
political purposes
Freedom of Repression: New ruling will allow censorship of campus
publications
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12.) Obsession with Crime and Punishment: Under fascist regimes, the police
are given almost limitless power to enforce laws. The people are often
willing to overlook police abuses and even forego civil liberties in the
name of patriotism. There is often a national police force with virtually
unlimited power in fascist nations
American Gestapo is here: "There is hereby created and established a
permanent police force, to be known as the 'United States Secret Service
Uniformed Division.'"
America: secret jails, secret courts, secret arrests, and now secret laws
Snitch-or-Go-to-Jail bill will make pretty much anything short of reporting
on everyone you see for doing just about anything a jailable offense. With
minimum sentences, up to and including life without parole.
The problem with Gonzales is that he has been deeply involved in
developing some of the most sweeping claims of near-dictatorial presidential
power in our nation's history, allowing him to imprison and even (at least
in theory) torture anyone in the world, at any time
Police officers don't have to give a reason at the time they arrest someone,
the U.S. Supreme Court said in a ruling that shields officers from
false-arrest lawsuits.
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13.) Rampant Cronyism and Corruption: Fascist regimes almost always are
governed by groups of friends and associates who appoint each other to
government positions and use governmental power and authority to protect
their friends from accountability. It is not uncommon in fascist regimes for
national resources and even treasures to be appropriated or even outright
stolen by government leaders.
Bush Cronyism: Foxes Guarding the henhouse
Making Sense of the Abramoff Scandal
If Bush's pick is confirmed, that will mean the five top appointees at
Justice have zero prosecutorial experience among them.
Iran-Contra Felons Get Good Jobs from Bush
Big Iraq Reconstruction Contracts Went To Big Donors
Bush Wars -- Crooks Get Contracts : The main companies that were awarded
billions of dollars worth of contracts in Iraq have paid more than $300
million in fines since 2000, to resolve allegations of fraud, bid rigging,
delivery of faulty military equipment, and environmental damage.
US Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA) lost track of $9 billion
"Contracting in the aftermath of the hurricanes has been marked by waste,
corruption and cronyism"
More...

14. Fraudulent Elections: Sometimes elections in fascist nations are a
complete sham. Other times elections are manipulated by smear campaigns
against or even assassination of opposition candidates, use of legislation
to control voting numbers or political district boundaries, and manipulation
of the media. Fascist nations also typically use their judiciaries to
manipulate or control elections.
Rolling Stone does some investigative and rather exhaustive digging into
public documents and says we're almost guaranteed the 2004 election results
were massively rigged
Powerful Government Accounting Office report confirms key 2004 stolen
election findings
Conyers hearing in which Clinton Curtis testifies that he was hired to
create hackable voting machines (.wmv)
The Republican Party has quietly paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to
provide private defense lawyers for a former Bush campaign official charged
with conspiring to keep Democrats from voting in New Hampshire.
The Conyers Report (.pdf)
No explanation for the machines in Mahoning County that recorded Kerry votes
for Bush, the improper purging in Cuyahoga County, the lock down in Warren
County, the 99% voter turnout in Miami County, the machine tampering in
Hocking County
Less access than Kazakhstan. Fewer fail-safes than Venezuela. Not as simple
Republic of Georgia. The 2004 Elections according to international
observers.
This picture is what stopped the ballot recounts in Florida shortly after
it seemed that legitimate President Gore had a lead. The "citizens" started
what was later called "the preppy riot". Screaming, yelling, pounding on the
walls, these "outraged citizens" intimidated the polling officials to halt
the court mandated recount. A closer look reveals who they really were.
They were bussed and flown in at Republican lawmakers expense. Some even
flew in on Tom Delay's private plane.



"Runnnerr" <Runnnerr@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Kevin Schneider wrote:
"the q is silent" <james.c.wagner@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Joe wrote:

The proper term is Islamo-fascism. It's not about individual people
who
practice Islam. It's about a perverted brand of Islam, practiced by
millions in the Islamic world, that encourages fascist-like behavior
and social values.

I'm not allowed to bring a book - A BOOK - on my eight-hour
transatlantic flight next week. We sure have a funny way of opposing
fascist-like values.

Many of the policies of this adminiistration could themselves be honestly
called 'fascist.'

Could you please be more specific about which policies of the
administration are facistic and how those policies have directly
affected you?



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