Progressive Daily Beacon: American Fascism - Time to Speak Out

[arendt]

http://www.progressivedailybeacon.com/more.php?page=opinion&id=1712

NOTE: the bolding of text is mine.

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The Bush administration and today's extremist-wing of the Republican Party are Nazi-like in many respects and it is absurd for any reasonable person to pretend otherwise. Sorry, but save your feigned rebuttals for someone preferring to have his or her fears soothed by nonsensical rationalizations.

To know what is happening, all one need do is watch a segment of FOX News. Afterwards it won't take long to realize that the administration and extremist-wing of the Republican Party have a full-blown Goebbels-like propaganda network working overtime to make truths, lies and lies, truths. It is no longer a matter of putting forth political ideas -- hence the all-out rebellion by true Conservative Republicans -- FOX News and the extremist Republican Radio Network are pitching ideology. Indeed, there are few differences between the administration, today's extremist-wing of the Republican Party and Hitler's Nazis. One important difference is that neither Bush nor the GOP has gotten around to stoking the ovens. That isn't to say, however, that it can't or won't happen.

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A FOX News telecast has become, in form and function, Orwell's "Two Minutes of Hate."

Go ahead if you must - if it makes you sleep better at night, continue pretending there is some grand difference between the Bush administration, today's extremist-wing of the Republican Party and Hitler's Nazis. Do whatever makes you feel better. Call us crazy, like many had when we warned of lies being told during the lead-up to war in Iraq and the disaster that was sure to ensue. Attack those who claim the obvious semblance between the rise of Hitler's Nazi Party and what is happening here in America today ... ignore the reality biting at your heels and lay your pretty head down to sleep.

People might rightly wonder, where are these rampant symptoms of the coming fascism? Obviously the symptoms of the fascist plague are everywhere ... they imprison American citizens without trial or charge; they enter homes without warrant or warning; they listen to phone conversations without cause or warrant; they read postal mail without reason or court authorization; they make war based on lies; they steal from the working people and give the tax revenues to their crony business pals; and the President had even tried replacing all the District Attorney's that were investigating either his administration or the Republican Party's corruption. Finally, they've begun handing over all aspects of surveillance and intelligence to the military ... all intelligence, both foreign and domestic.

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1. What arendt said K & R

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