Just How Fascist Is the US?

Big Three at the Potsdam Conference in Germany: Prime Minister Winston Churchill, President Harry S. Truman and Generalissimo Josef Stalin, seated in garden. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Jack D. Douglas penned an interesting article listing 10 core factors of fascism. You might call them “markers”.

Just How Fascist Is the US?:
http://lewrockwell.com/douglas/douglas77.1.html

The first three:

1. A hardcore, totalitarian party masquerading as the people’s party, but secretly working totally with the rich and powerful corporations, uniting them under the party. [Fascism, unlike
communism and other forms of socialism and so on, is above all
a corporatist form of totalitarianism.]

2. Stroking mass vanity with big lies – “Germany over all,” “America is the greatest nation in the world.” And mass greed and lust for power with utopian promises of free money and endless prosperity and great conquests over nature and nations

3. Infiltration secretly by the party of all major institutions at the top by secret take-overs, threats, bribes, co-option, etc.

I did have something to add to his number 10:

10. Foreigners, racial or religious or party groups or others used as “evil and secret witches” to stoke terror and blood lust for wars, used as threats and as conquests to fuel vanity and hubris. [Germany and the US. Used the “communists” as
witches to inspire terror and hate and blood lust in their
early rise to power, then used religious-race groups, foreign
enemies, drug fiends destroying the nation, etc.]

Just a comment about #10. You mentioned the anti-communist bugaboo in their propaganda set. But today, the bugaboo has been transformed magically, through Groupthink, into a threat by capitalism, aka “corporations”, to pollute the air again, cook the earth into cinders, rob everything you have by selling you stuff. That way corporations are subsumed into the corporate-government-media complex and bullied into staying on the plantation.

The other big “threat” they use to scare the apathetic and indifferent public into obedience is Christianity. The state rules over religions. They want to make the world safe for the elimination of religions, because religious individuals are among the strongest resisters to blind total obedience. Whatever else you think of religious faith.

But note the subtle difference in the treatment of the three major monotheistic faiths. It seems like official policy out of D.C. treats Christians as the threat but Jews and Muslims are given a pass. Oh yes, and suppression of Christian faith. This was major policy in both Hitler’s Germany and in Stalin’s Russia, was to pick fights they could win of the state over Christianity. Teutonic paganism trumped up in Germany, atheism in Russia (with subtle mixes in their media of pro-communist spirituality, manifest in some of their movies that I watched during the Cold War era).

Note that the example of China’s “stepwise” introduction of limited capitalistic structures shows us that there is really no difference at all in essence between government-enforced “socialism” and “communism”, as we know them today. Both are all about enforcing as much control and conformity as possible on the populace, whether the nominal title of ownership says “the state” or not.

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Tyrants always crack down on guns first

Gouverneur Morris, Constitution Center (Photo credit: geekygirlnyc)

 

Before tyrants “become” tyrants, they are simply politicians. The price of liberty is eternal vigilance. One of the biggest reasons for respecting the right of individuals to the means to defend themselves is for protection against attacks by their government. One of the reasons founders like Patrick Henry and Gouverneur Morris forced the Second Amendment (with the other liberties explicitly respected) as a condition for ratification, was because the British had come attacking.

 

They attacked to protect the enforcement of the stamp act (and the self-written warrants to enforce them) and the tyranny of colonial rule.

 

The first step in the tyranny recipe is almost always gun control, adding ever more until finally it becomes gun confiscation. The propagandists do their job, many even believe in it, telling people they’re not interested in confiscation, just control and licensing.

 

There is never enough, because the more difficult it is for the people who obey the laws to get them, the more vulnerable they are, like in Newtown, Connecticut.

 

With the accumulation of records, then, what has happened after licensing they only have to look up the records and they know where to go to get them from freedom-loving citizens who might object to being arrested for speaking to their neighbors, or anything else they deem a “threat to national security”.

 

Germany’s Interior Minister bragged after Germany’s gun confiscation about how safe the streets were now. After licensing and registration controls, Turkey’s government knew which Armenians had weapons to confiscate, a couple of years before the massacre.

 

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• Connecticut’s Strict Gun Control Laws Did Not Stop the School Shootings in Newtown (thelonestarwatchdog.com)

 

This assistant principal in Pearl High School in Pearl, Miss, stopped a shooter using his own

Official seal of Newtown, Connecticut (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Of course all the official government-media complex propaganda organs immediately went ballistic about guns with the shooting in Newtown, Connecticut. But there have been several incidents where school shootings were stopped by an armed civilian, but there would have been more if not for the stupid law that says schools should be zones where the right of self-defense is not respected.

http://rkba.org/users/myrick.txt

..But this assistant principal Myrick had to run to his car outside the school-area “gun-free” zone to get the gun he used to hold the shooter for the police.

What if he had been able to keep his firearm in his desk at school?

Many of the 61 school shootings they’re spouting about in Propaganda Media could have been stopped cold if more teachers had been able to bring their weapons on to campus.

Some gun control believers are even using arguments that show they do not even check there own facts. One blogger asked whether his reader “had ever heard of a mass killing being stopped by the use of guns even once”.

 

Why do the disinformation operatives think that the worst incidents happen in places like schools? Criminals have no problem getting guns! Heck, even if you’re the most ruthless drug-smuggling cartel on earth, you might even get the United States Justice Department to sell you some!

Guns are used much more often to stop crimes than to commit them, and they level the playing field for those who are smaller or weaker, or more often targets, like women.

IT takes just plain people sharing the stories to tell it, since the media covers this up.

http://www.thehighroad.org/archive/index.php/t-270374.html

It just makes sense though. Why do cops have guns? Because they face the criminals. So why shouldn’t decent citizens have them.

Besides, who will protect us if the government turns bad? It’s happened, after all, throughout history. Germany the Jews, Turkey the Armenians. the Bolsheviks, the Maoists…

And this blogger put together a list of occasions where potential mass murders were stopped cold by a civilian with a firearm: http://www.volokh.com/2012/12/14/do-civilians-armed-with-guns-ever-capture-kill-or-otherwise-stop-mass-shooters/

There are many he did not list, though. In Israel, early on, guns were banned to the population, but at some point, being a nation that has an interest in stopping crimes of this nature, passed a law that legalized concealed carry.

Shortly afterward, a group of PLO militia stormed a shopping mall and started shooting everybody in sight. One elderly granny pulled her concealed weapon out and started shooting back, and the attackers panicked in confusion. One of the wounded attackers told a paramedic, “We didn’t expect anybody to shoot back!”

Another incident was in a mixed-race church in South Africa during the times of apartheid. You have to ask why a radical anti-apartheid group would attack a mixed race church, no doubt expecting no one would shoot back. The answer is that they don’t generally really care about what they say, they are commanded by leaders who only think about how to attain power over the populace, using ideology as a cloak. That church had a member who possessed his weapon, an off-duty policeman, and he stopped them.

 

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“180” – An award-winning documentary!

This short movie (30 minutes) will blow your mind. The first few seconds start with a big bang. Big. There are a bunch of college kids who did not know who Adolf Hitler was.

http://www.180movie.com/

Watch this movie, it’s worth it.

http://www.trutherator.wordpress.com

___ And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

P.S. For those Jews who claim to be so indignant about comparisons between the German holocaust and the American holocaust there are a couple of things to remember:

#1. The Jews do not own the Holocaust. Much less, a small powerful handful that claims to speak for the rest of them. On the one hand, the producer of this video himself is of Jewish background, so was the founder of one of the most effective Christian missionary movements of all time.

#2. The outrage is saying a person is not a human being like Hitler did to not only the Jews, please, but abortion was legal in the lead-up to the Nazi takeover, and he also slaughtered as many non-Jews as he did Jews, according to all the estimates I’ve heard all my life of 6 million Jews and 6 million non-Jews. Gypsies, handicapped, dark-skinned people, and yes, Hitler was eliminating Christians too, tens of thousands of them, at least.

#3. There is an undercurrent of ingratitude in some quarters, too, with respect to Christianity. The most Protestant-influenced nation in recent centuries  is the United States, and as Dennis Prager, well-known Jewish writer and speaker and talk show host points out, there has never been any such pogroms as there were in some episodes of European history.

And tens of millions of Christian soldiers from the United States and England and France and the Resistance and inside Germany itself gave their lives fighting the Nazis and to end the Holocaust.

Let us (and them) never forget that either, okay?

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IT CAN’T HAPPEN HERE

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0301001h.html

This book was apparently meant as a warning against a rightist takeover in the USA like the one in Germany happening at the time, in 1935, but it turns out that the same warnings apply to the danger of leftist tyranny.

Just like the National Socialists (note caps) were “no danger to democracy” to some gullible anti-conspiracy ideologues at the time, today’s apologists for the growing massive police power over our persons and property today claim it is no danger….