" one of the grand coup d'etats of all time"

http://www.buzzflash.com/interviews/05/06/int05024.html


George E. Lowe: Can "It" Happen Here? Isn't "It" Already? A Fascist Christian America

A BUZZFLASH INTERVIEW

They're planning ... to create a nation where you can change the Constitution with simple majorities, where you can pass laws with simple majorities, where you can pack the courts and thereby create a Christian nation through a simple majority vote. ... The whole thing is one of the grand coup d'etats of all time. That's what we're seeing.

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George E. Lowe: The answer is I lived among them. When the Reagan Administration came in, I was Secretary of Education Bell's speech writer. I looked around and who did I see? Gary Bauer as an Assistant Secretary. Bob Billings, one of the founders of the Moral Majority –-- another Assistant Secretary. Civil rights was handed over to Alan Keyes and Clarence Thomas. They dumped a lot of strange people into the department that had Hal Lindsey's book, The Late, Great Planet Earth, and the Good Shepherd's Yellow Pages. They had little cards that they would post up in the halls saying, "Listen to Jim Bakker and Tammy Faye." They were revolutionaries. And here I am, an American historian, worried about this, because I was fighting the military fascists in the sixties. Here we get Christian fascists, and I just couldn't comprehend it.

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George E. Lowe: The genius behind this is Pat Buchanan. He put together the great coalition, along with Paul Weyrich, and that other genius, Richard Viguerie, and they put together a coalition of Orthodox Jews, conservative Catholics and fundamentalists, conservative Evangelicals and Pentecostals. And that's the coalition that is now in power.

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america is dead

fight or flight syndrome.

Which? Fight? Flee? Which?

Ooh, I'm stressed.

Republican rule is always great for industrial music, to paraphrase a magazine editor.

This is exactly what is happening.

if the Democrats simply walk out of Congress when the theocrats end the filibuster.

We know they'll do it at the first opportunity.

The question is whether or not those old maids in pants representing our party will have the balls to stand up for our country.

Obviously not followed, of course

democratic men in suits are something else

let them ruin my country.

It's really odd actually.

This, coming from a man named Tracy. After the 150,000th time of hearing "Tee, Hee. That's a girl's name." ...and NEVER from another male, it kind of gets to you.

Why is it an insult to ask a woman her age or mention that she's fat?

your experience.

The theocrats have already ended the filibuster.

Checks and balances is dead.

Sue

We're sunk, aren't we

It just seems like the Dems just gave it away!

by conceding -

next time someone tells me conspiracies are just crazy, they are getting an earful.

n/t

Just how many times do these phony 'Constitutionalists' cite that line. Now at first opportunity, they have destroyed any such notion and argue the opposite without so much as a blink.

Damn them -and the false 'opposition' to hell.

But they don't know who John Locke is.

and not the enlightenment, magna carta, and Greek models no doubt.

Fucking idiots.

fascinating interview