10 Fast and Easy Steps from Freedom to Fascism

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September 22, 2007 at 12:02:17

10 Fast and Easy Steps from Freedom to Fascism

by F. Vyan Walton Page 5 of 5 page(s)

http://www.opednews.com

But we have to keep pushing, we have to keep fighting - as Naomi points out so clearly - we are headed directly down a incredibly dark and dangerous path. We can't say "It'll never happen here" - because even our own relatively recent history with McCarthyism proves this simply isn't true. I can happen, it has happened and now it's happening again. Back then it was just the ravings of one lone lunatic in the Senate, but today it's much worse. It's not just the President or the most extreme wingnuts in his party, it's the Democrats too - those who continue to cower and collapse when the pressure is applied, those who condemn MoveOn for simply saying the same type of thing that has been said about General Batiste, General Eaton and General Zinni when they dared to criticize the President's repeated failure after failure after failure. They are indeed "aiders and abettors" but not to al Qaeda, they have aided the rise of a New American Fascism. An America that is Patriotic as all get-out and rotten to the core.

Yes, it's happened before, it can happen to again - but only if we let it. Only if we're too busy with Brittany flashing her shaven poontang all over town or this nonsense of OJ stealing his own sh*t back to really Pay Attention, then stand and be counted as a personal defender of freedom. It's not just the job of the soldiers - it's our job as well and we have to take it back. Spread the word, spread the truth. It's won't be easy, it won't happen tomorrow, people won't listen, they won't believe, they won't respond - they'll ridicule us as being extremists and moonbats (heck, they already do) - it might take 20 or more years, but we have to do it and keep doing it.

The future of our Democracy really and truly is at stake.

Vyan

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Born and Bred in South Central LA. I spent 12 years working in the IT Dept. for federal contractor Northrop-Grumman on classified and high security projects such as the B2 Bomber. After Northrop I became an IT consultant with the state of California in Sacramento and worked on projects with the Dept of Consumer Affairs and CalTrans, as well as projects for Kaiser Permanente in Oakland. Now living in Los Angeles with my own independant web design company where I operate the Truth 2 Power Online Radio Station.

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Retire high school English teacher. Grandmother of eight grandchildren, six of them Muslim. Love to travel. Have been to Russia, Spain, Morocco, Crete and Santorini, Cosumel and Chichen Itza. Alas, not enough places. However, the ocean anywhere satisfies the soul.
ChristieRetire high school English teacher. Grandmother of eight grandchildren, six of them Muslim. Love to travel. Have been to Russia, Spain, Morocco, Crete and Santorini, Cosumel and Chichen Itza. Alas, not enough places. However, the ocean anywhere satisfies the soul.

If she is not a witch, she has nothing to fear.

If she's not a witch, she has nothing to fear," said the good folk of Salem. But wait, some good folks of Salem in 1692 reported false information about their next door neighbors so they could get them executed and then get their adjoining farm. LadyBug (commenter on another thread) says (paraphrased) she doesn’t care if they know what novels she reads but she would care if she were plotting to blow up a building in Kansas. Now that she has mentioned a plot to blow up something in Kansas, she can be quoted out of context, and someone wishing her ill can have this information put in her file. Remember, even if she manages to find out about the false information in her file, she can’t have it removed. This is one type of situation that those who say they have nothing to hide, so nothing to fear do not take into consideration. I hope Lady Bug thinks this over. We must retain --or regain-- our Constitution and our legal rights.

by Christie (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 145 comments) on Saturday, September 22, 2007 at 2:04:07 PM

Author, Exec. Dir. The Center For Balance. Websites: PanditPress.com, OligarchyUSA.com, PublicCentralBank.com, EditorFreedom.com,
FascismUSA.COM & more
Kent WeltonAuthor, Exec. Dir. The Center For Balance. Websites: PanditPress.com, OligarchyUSA.com, PublicCentralBank.com, EditorFreedom.com,
FascismUSA.COM & more

Add Britt's 14 characteristics of Fascism

Naomi's ten are augmented by Dr. Lawrence Britt's 14 characteristics of fascism.

see them at www.FascismUSA.com

Kent

by Kent Welton (49 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 37 comments) on Saturday, September 22, 2007 at 2:24:06 PM

A writer is a rogue goose. All other gees fly in a flock formation; every goose knows his place and time for honking. The rogue goose is undisciplined. He leaves the formation indiscriminately to have a look at it from aside. He roams back and forth, takes a peep at the leader, honks a little bit from behind, distracts everyone and writes on what he sees. Time passes and as he wants to return back to his place he discovers someone else there. Thus he either has to wait until they land for rest...

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Mark SashineA writer is a rogue goose. All other gees fly in a flock formation; every goose knows his place and time for honking. The rogue goose is undisciplined. He leaves the formation indiscriminately to have a look at it from aside. He roams back and forth, takes a peep at the leader, honks a little bit from behind, distracts everyone and writes on what he sees. Time passes and as he wants to return back to his place he discovers someone else there. Thus he either has to wait until they land for rest...

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I certify

As a person whose parents survived the Stalin's Russia, whose relatives died in Nazi camps and who himself became a refugee and had to flee his own country I certify: All is true. Congratulations, suckers, you got your fascism. Eat your checkers.

Boy, I am sorry. It breaks my heart that this country to which I ran away from an incredible evil ( as I saw it) had embraced that very evil. I am so sorry.

by Mark Sashine (44 articles, 19 quicklinks, 228 diaries, 3267 comments) on Saturday, September 22, 2007 at 4:30:03 PM

My name it means nothing, my age it means less. My deeds of activism are mine to enjoy and share as I feel necesary, not as some clown in a small forum's administration thinks I must..This place gets worse each and every visit.
Member banned on June 3, 2008 for repeated abuse of editors.
ardee D.My name it means nothing, my age it means less. My deeds of activism are mine to enjoy and share as I feel necesary, not as some clown in a small forum's administration thinks I must..This place gets worse each and every visit.
Member banned on June 3, 2008 for repeated abuse of editors.

No,No,No a resounding no

Do not think for one single moment that this nation has embraced fascism. We are a people gone soft to be certain. We are smug in our pretenses of luxury and freedoms and mostly disinterested in the workings of government because this is the way we have been led to become.

My grandparents fled Russia and came here, two by rather circuitous routes. Other of my relatives died in Nazi death camps as well so we share abit of a heritage. On the other hand I was born here as were my parents and I have a bedrock belief in the decency and courage of the American people.

There will come a time, and soon, when the public will have had enough. That time may not come as soon as many here would prefer but come it will. The history of this nation is plainly seen to be a swing between the populist and the conservative and the pendulum is never still.

Most labor under the myth that our government works for us, more each day are coming to understand that it does not and will , once convinced, make things right. You will see........

by ardee D. (6 articles, 4 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 2388 comments) on Saturday, September 22, 2007 at 8:10:03 PM

I am a 46 years old,married and have a 16 year old daughter.My hobbies are bicyling, weight training and off road motorcycling.I have lived in a midwestern red state my entire 46 years.Now that I have reached middle age I have become interested in politics and its related fields of study.I dont often think of things being either liberal or conservative,I like to veiw political events in an objective manner and find the agenda or reason that a bill or policy is brought to bear.Simply put seeking ...

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Gary DensonI am a 46 years old,married and have a 16 year old daughter.My hobbies are bicyling, weight training and off road motorcycling.I have lived in a midwestern red state my entire 46 years.Now that I have reached middle age I have become interested in politics and its related fields of study.I dont often think of things being either liberal or conservative,I like to veiw political events in an objective manner and find the agenda or reason that a bill or policy is brought to bear.Simply put seeking ...

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Leaders of fascism

The leaders of fascism are the wealthy elite who control large multinational corporations. They have all ready taken control of our trade policies and have brainwashed many academics into accepting the dogma of free trade and globalization. Bush and other free trade believers think that big business is the center of our universe and should be in control of our lives and our government. Business should not be held accountable to laws or any regulations that might interfere with profits. If you look at Bushes family history you will understand why. The only thing government should provide is multimillion dollar bailouts to owners of corporations who made a bad business decision.

Special interests love fascism and are the ones who desperately want it in the United States, so they can milk our tax base for all its worth without any oversight or objection. The future Hitlers are our corporate CEOs and lobbyists. They want complete control of our federal government and have all ready accomplished much of this goal.

America is at a point in history much like it was in 1770, citizens are being taxed by a government who behaves much like the English did in those days, Taxation without representation is what its called. Its time the citizens of this country rebelled against our trade policies, unsecured borders and the hiring of illegals, and anti union laws and practices.

by Gary Denson (2 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 197 comments) on Saturday, September 22, 2007 at 4:49:25 PM

Kent State, Graduate work in philosophy of logic, of science, Ph.D. SIU neuroscientist, forensic neuropsychologist, PostDoc Medical College of Ohio, Preferred activities: Restoring British motorcycles, cars, Matchless, Austin Healey, Triumph, Jaguar, building an engine, programming a computer. Other stuff: SDS 1968, antiwar,911 truth advocate, anticorporatist, anti-classist, anti-neocon, pissed off. Best thing: Father. Blessed.
richardKent State, Graduate work in philosophy of logic, of science, Ph.D. SIU neuroscientist, forensic neuropsychologist, PostDoc Medical College of Ohio, Preferred activities: Restoring British motorcycles, cars, Matchless, Austin Healey, Triumph, Jaguar, building an engine, programming a computer. Other stuff: SDS 1968, antiwar,911 truth advocate, anticorporatist, anti-classist, anti-neocon, pissed off. Best thing: Father. Blessed.

What world are you living in?

Sorry, I appreciate your hope but it is not well-founded. I have no faith in a good portion of the American people. They are quite ensorcelled.... or actually, mindlessly in support of fascism. Like the person referred to above. Lost in their well-orchestrated fear of the terrorism boogyman and their consensus trance. ...

Unless each of us DOES something. NOBODY else is gonna do it for us.

Our first 911 truth meeting in this bible belt town meets next week.... And it ain't just about 9/11 truth.

by richard (0 articles, 3 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 664 comments) on Saturday, September 22, 2007 at 8:41:16 PM

Why work then?

If you have such an embittered opinion of the Americanpeople, why work so hard to change things? Methinks thou doth protesteth overmuch......C'mon, 'fess up, you loooove us....

by ardee D. (6 articles, 4 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 2388 comments) on Monday, September 24, 2007 at 6:09:25 PM

Voluntaryily retired local California county elected official.
Shirley BianchiVoluntaryily retired local California county elected official.

From freedom to Fascism

This is an excellent article. The only exception I would make is that the citizenry has not answered with a 'yawn', but rather with a despair that is nearly as bad. When I talk with friends, that is what I hear. At first, I thought that it would be good to mobilize the Democratic Party, but it is hard to do that when the media will not make a point that it is not the Democrats in Congress -- it is the Republicans who refuse to cooperate.

Although I will admit, I was certainly angry over the Senate's response to the MoveOn ad. When is the Senate going to censure Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, etc., for going so far as to suggest that one should shoot a Democrat? That is certainly much worse than making fun of someone's name.

Shirley Bianchi

by Shirley Bianchi (8 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 82 comments) on Saturday, September 22, 2007 at 6:45:52 PM

It is

- at the national level - with both Republicans and Democrats complicit - including those that were simply blackmailed by Rove and the CIA, etc.

Why do you think FISA was to be avoided at all costs?

No. Denial ain't gonna help anybody now. Only action.

by richard (0 articles, 3 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 664 comments) on Saturday, September 22, 2007 at 9:02:32 PM

'The people are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.' Thomas Jefferson 1787
Munich'The people are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.' Thomas Jefferson 1787

Fascism is indeed here

So what shall "we the sheeple" do? Hmmm! Protesting doesn't seem to be working, so what's next? Perhaps we can blog our way out?

But look on the bright side, we'll still have our "Freedom Fries."

by Munich (0 articles, 47 quicklinks, 12 diaries, 676 comments) on Saturday, September 22, 2007 at 11:15:47 PM

Winston is an ex-Social Worker, burnt out by too much indifference regading our weak and weary who had too little interest in politics until the illegal Iraq War started.
winstonWinston is an ex-Social Worker, burnt out by too much indifference regading our weak and weary who had too little interest in politics until the illegal Iraq War started.

I was accused of supporting "leftist fools".

On Digg site, I posted an article I did for OpEdNews and was accused, by a person of supporting "leftist fools". I replied in an calm manner "I can't know how old you are, but my article dealt with historical facts. Nixon-without any announcement of his plans, tried to turn the US of A into a Fascist state. Naomi Wolf's book, "The End of America: A Letter of Warning To A Young Patriot" shows the 10 steps and face it-W has accomplished all of them. I do know I'm no "leftist fool". I'm old enough to expect that the person I'm communicating with wants a dialogue, not name-calling. If you want to speak facts we can continue this debate. Otherwise let me say one last truth. I'm old enough that I know 43 is a hundred times more evil than "Tricky Dick"! As Cheney said "Be careful, be very careful, what you say". That is a threat he made against Congress. They threaten Congress, then the citizens should be wary."

by winston (106 articles, 17 quicklinks, 3 diaries, 30 comments) on Sunday, September 23, 2007 at 8:21:56 AM

Cartoonish caricatures

It is an inaccuracy, in my opinion, to protray Bush as some "evil force". Not only does that give him far too much cachet but it avoids the reality of the man. That reality makes him far easier to oppose and gives heart to those who do so.

Bush is a ne'er-do-well son of a powerful man, a person who has failed at everything he has attempted, who has been rescued time and again from his failures by his father, and one who has tried mightily to step from beneath his father's shadow his entire life. It is sad but accurate I fear to see that this entire war is an attempt to do just that.

by ardee D. (6 articles, 4 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 2388 comments) on Sunday, September 23, 2007 at 10:50:45 AM