Fascism Unmasked

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Fascism Unmasked
by Stephen Fleischman | Jul 10 2007


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Mussolini defined Fascism as Corporatism. When corporations take over government by whatever means, by buying up politicians or getting their hands on the wheels of power, they are merging corporate power and government--that's Fascism. All the other depredations of democracy follow.

It's a dictatorship; it's a loss of freedom; it's condoning torture: it's controlling mass media; it's fraudulent elections. It can be all of those things.

Sound familiar? Where did Habeas Corpus go? Who's violating the Geneva Conventions? Who's surveilling American citizens without warrants? What is Guantanamo Bay? A concentration camp? Harboring enemy combatants at the moment, but being prepared for naughty, dissident American citizens one day, maybe?

In a democracy, officials of government who do these kinds of things are committing high crimes and misdemeanors. Impeachment is the constitutional weapon used to defend the Republic and remove those found guilty in the court of Congress. Our President and our Vice-President are both impeachable, according to these rules. So, what's happening?

Well, some people are saying, Bush and Cheney's terms end in 2009. Is it worth all the discombobulation if they're going to be out in a year and a half? You're damned right it is! People have to be accountable for their crimes!

Yet, our Democratic Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, says "impeachment is off the table". Democratic members of the Senate and the House fuss and fume about the Iraq War while holding the purse in their hands. They have the power and the constitutional right to cut off funding for the war. But what do they do? They give Bush the money he wants to go on killing Americans and Iraqis. What is the war about? Corporate profits.

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that both parties are controlled by the corporate fascists. leaving people that aren't part of the cabal out of luck unless they want to run as independents.

bhn