OK, time to post again the 14 defining characteristics of fascism.

[Nye Bevan]

23. "First of all, there is no 'Dr. Lawrence Britt'."

The author of the 14-point fascism inventory, Laurence Britt, is a former corporate executive who wrote and published a dystopian novel about right-wing extremism, titled June 2004, during the height of the Lewinsky scandal. That is, to the best of my knowledge, his only published volume.

In the real June 2004, he achieved some level of fame with an op-ed published in the humanist magazine Free Inquiry. This op-ed was forwarded around from inbox to inbox, and readers eventually began putting a "Dr." in front of his name and referring to him as a political scientist who had compiled the fascism inventory independently of the Bush administration. He had not done so, and had never claimed to do so. The article was, and had always been intended to be, an argument against the Bush administration.

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Or we could look at item 5, "Rampant sexism," and point out that it has not been very long that women could serve in the military, that we had never had a female governor (much less a viable female presidential candidate), that we had never had a female attorney general or female secretary of state, that birth control was illegal in many states, and on and on. We could look at item 8, "Religion and the ruling elite tied together," and point out that until four decades ago, the Lord's Prayer and Bible classes were part of our public school system. We could look at item 13, "Rampant cronyism and corruption," and remember the Savings and Loan scandal, Iran-Contra, and Watergate.


http://civilliberty.about.com/b/2007/09/10/one-nation-underrated.htm