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[Liberty Belle]

FASCISM IN AMERICA
WARNINGS FROM CONSERVATIVES & AN INTELLIGENCE INSIDER

First, an article from American Conservative Magazine:

HUNGER FOR DICTATORSHIP:
WAR TO EXPORT DEMOCRACY MAY WRECK OUR OWN

by Scott McConnell

The American Conservative (2/14/2005) -- Students of history inevitably think in terms of periods: the New Deal, McCarthyism, “the Sixties” (1964-1973), the NEP, the purge trials—all have their dates. Weimar, whose cultural excesses made effective propaganda for the Nazis, now seems like the antechamber to Nazism, though surely no Weimar figures perceived their time that way as they were living it. We may pretend to know what lies ahead, feigning certainty to score polemical points, but we never do.
Nonetheless, there are foreshadowings well worth noting. The last weeks of 2004 saw several explicit warnings from the antiwar Right about the coming of an American fascism. Paul Craig Roberts in these pages wrote of the “brownshirting” of American conservatism—a word that might not have surprised had it come from Michael Moore or Michael Lerner. But from a Hoover Institution senior fellow, former assistant secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration, and one-time Wall Street Journal editor, it was striking.

Several weeks later, Justin Raimondo, editor of the popular Antiwar.com website, wrote a column headlined, “Today’s Conservatives are Fascists.” Pointing to the justification of torture by conservative legal theorists, widespread support for a militaristic foreign policy, and a retrospective backing of Japanese internment during World War II, Raimondo raised the prospect of “fascism with a democratic face.” His fellow libertarian, Mises Institute president Lew Rockwell, wrote a year-end piece called “The Reality of Red State Fascism,” which claimed that “the most significant socio-political shift in our time has gone almost completely unremarked, and even unnoticed. It is the dramatic shift of the red-state bourgeoisie from leave-us-alone libertarianism, manifested in the Congressional elections of 1994, to almost totalitarian statist nationalism. Whereas the conservative middle class once cheered the circumscribing of the federal government, it now celebrates power and adores the central state, particularly its military wing.” …



The invasion of Iraq has put the possibility of the end to American democracy on the table and has empowered groups on the Right that would acquiesce to and in some cases welcome the suppression of core American freedoms. That would be the titanic irony of course, the mother of them all—that a war initiated under the pretense of spreading democracy would lead to its destruction in one of its very birthplaces. But as historians know, history is full of ironies.
Full article at: http://www.amconmag.com/2005_02_14/article.html


SECOND, AN INTELLIGENCE INSIDER'S WARNING:

Below is another warning on Christian Fascists in America, written by investigative journalist Wayne Madsen. Lest you think Madsen is just a kooky conspiracy theorist, please read his bio, which I found posted at Harvard University’s website (see below). A former U.S. Naval officer and National Security Agency computer security program expert, Madsen works with Congress on proposed legislation and has authored many publications on security issues, including one on data protection for The Hague. In addition, Madsen has served as an analyst for ABC and Fox News.

EXPOSÉ: THE “CHRISTIAN” MAFIA

WHERE THOSE WHO NOW RUN THE U.S. GOVERNMENT CAME FROM
—AND WHERE THEY ARE TAKING US

By Wayne Madsen

PART I

After several months of in-depth research and, at first, seemingly unrelated conversations with former high-level intelligence officials, lawyers, politicians, religious figures, other investigative journalists, and researchers, I can now report on a criminal conspiracy so vast and monstrous it defies imagination. Using “Christian” groups as tax-exempt and cleverly camouflaged covers, wealthy right-wing businessmen and “clergy” have now assumed firm control over the biggest prize of all – the government of the United States of America. First, some housekeeping is in order. My use of the term “Christian” is merely to clearly identify the criminal conspirators who have chosen to misuse their self-avowed devotion to Jesus Christ to advance a very un-Christian agenda. The term “Christian Mafia” is what several Washington politicians have termed the major conspirators and it is not intended to debase Christians or infer that they are criminals . I will also use the term Nazi – not for shock value – but to properly tag the political affiliations of the early founders of the so-called “Christian” power cult called the Fellowship. The most important element of this story is that a destructive religious movement has now achieved almost total control over the machinery of government of the United States – its executive, its legislature, several state governments, and soon, the federal judiciary, including the U.S. Supreme Court.

The United States has experienced religious and cult hucksters throughout its history, from Cotton Mather and his Salem witch burners to Billy Sunday, Father Charles Coughlin, Charles Manson, Jim Jones, David Koresh, Marshall Applewhite, and others. But none have ever achieved the kind of power now possessed by a powerful and secretive group of conservative politicians and wealthy businessmen in the United States and abroad who are known among their adherents and friends as The Fellowship or The Family. The Fellowship and its predecessor organizations have used Jesus in the same way that McDonald’s uses golden arches and Coca Cola uses its stylized script lettering. Jesus is a logo and a slogan for the Fellowship. Jesus is used to justify the Fellowship’s access to the highest levels of government and business in the same way Santa Claus entices children into department stores and malls during the Christmas shopping season….

http://www.insider-magazine.com/ChristianMafia.htm

Wayne Madsen: Bio (posted at Harvard University)
Wayne Madsen is a Senior Fellow of the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC), non-partisan privacy public advocacy group in Washington, DC. He works with members of Congress, congressional committee staff, industry, and other public advocacy groups on proposed legislation of common interest. He has authored the following EPIC publications: Cryptography and Liberty 1999 and 2000 and Critical Infrastructure Protection and the Endangerment of Civil Liberties. Mr. Madsen has some twenty years experience in computer security and data privacy. As a U.S. Naval Officer he managed one of the first computer security programs for the U.S. Navy. He subsequently served in a variety of computer security positions for the National Security Agency, the Naval Data Automation Command, RCA Corporation, and Computer Sciences Corporation. Currently a freelance journalist, he has written for The Village Voice, The Progressive, The American Reporter (an on-line publication) and the Intelligence Newsletter. He served as an on-air East African analyst for ABC News in the aftermath of the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania and Fox News Channel on the situation with the detained U.S. signals intelligence aircraft in China. Mr. Madsen is the author of The Handbook of Personal Data Protection (London: Macmillan, 1992), Genocide and Covert Activities in Africa 1993-1999 (Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen, 1999), and Co-author of the Global Encyclopedia of Data Protection Regulation (The Hague: Kluwer Law International, 2001). Mr. Madsen is also the author of a motion picture screenplay treatment about the nuclear submarine USS Scorpion...

Full story at:
http://www.international.harvard.edu/cfia/panelist_bio.php?id=94