Reply #8: My email to the Baltimore Sun White House correspondent

[Cleita]

Julie Hirschfeld Davis's answer to a woman who read some of the fourteen signs of facism over the telephone. She was asked if the country was becoming fascist to which she replied that there were degrees, but no, we don't commit human rights violations, and other things that were brought up so no we aren't facist.

Dear Ms. Davis:

I was really disappointed in your answer on C-SPAN’S Washington Journal to the patriotic woman who read some of the fourteen signs of facism on the air because she is obviously concerned like myself in what direction this country is going in.

For one thing human rights are constantly being violated by this administration, first in Iraq, concerning the tortures at Abu Ghraib prison, second with our own military who is being sent to fight a war without the proper equipment and third with the gross negligence shown to the victims of Hurricane Katrina and the survivors who aren’t receiving the assistance they should from the amount of money that has been spent and funneled mostly to Halliburton and other large donor corporations of the Republican Party. I worry that no one else’s human rights are being considered by you other than those of non-Black Americans.

Spying on citizens without approval of the court is a gross violation of privacy and reminicent of Soviet Russia. Your characterization of facism being in degrees is somewhat like being a little bit pregnant. Where did that rationalization come from? You yourself admitted that you aren’t getting much information out of the White House and you are there everyday. How typical of a facist government to operate in secret and in the dark, like cockroaches.

Now there is this big push at our borders to invent a class of stateless people, with no rights. How much further behind will the concentration camps be?

If the media doesn’t start recognizing it’s duty to keep the American public informed, and instead insists on feeding the American public propaganda from the White House, we will end up with a fuehrer and no rights in the end. Remember Hitler’s Third Reich didn’t arrive on the scene full blown. It took years for the Nazis to come to the place they were in at the end of World War II. I see our country headed down that same road. We aren’t completely turned into fascists yets, but the ideology is in place and it will be only a matter of time to close the circle.

You could become a real journalist by writing stories about the two stolen elections and the selection of Arnold Schwarzenegger as Governor of California so that he could push out Kevin Shelley, the Secretary of State with his own choice, a man who is trying to bring back the E-voting machines that Shelley was trying to get rid of or at least made honest. The pattern of these neo-conservatives is to compromise elections. There is loads of information, provable and accurate information out in the internet if you google, read with an open mind, and make your own decision about.

I think the journalist who finally cracks this whole thing open will get a Pulitzer Prize not to mention that it is the patriotic thing to do.