DdC

Yea but just think how many champagna bottles are popping for those on the side collecting them bucks. Safety of the kids? How convenient.

"Fascism is a religious concept"
Benito Mussolini

It is difficult to get a man to understand something
when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
Upton Sinclair



"If people let government decide which foods they eat
and medicines they take,
their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state
as are the souls of those who live under tyranny."
- Thomas Jefferson



"At the end of every shift, one hears officers extolling the virtues of apprehending a 'hype,' 'junkie'or 'druggie.' Since these tools for financial benefit, career advancement, and peer status are no longer valued as people, officers need not trouble themselves with ethical questions."
- Gil Puder, Vancouver Police Officer, 1998



"To say that the [Bush-Cheney] secret presidency is undemocratic is an understatement.
I'm anything but skittish about government, but I must say this administration is truly scary
and, given the times we live in, frighteningly dangerous."
- former Nixon White House counsel JOHN DEAN

He said: "Some US journalist came up to me and said:
"...This is the most corrupt and racist American administration in over 80 years".
'How can you say this about President Bush?'
Well, I think what I said then was quite mild. I actually think that Bush is
the greatest threat to life on this planet that we've most probably ever seen.
The policies he is initiating will doom us to extinction."
- KEN LIVINGSTONE, the MAYOR of LONDON



"We are talking about despotism.
The USA PATRIOT Act is as despotic as anything Hitler came up with--
--even using much of the same language."
- GORE VIDAL



The Danger of American Fascism*By Henry A. Wallace
The New York Times Sunday 09 April 1944
From Democracy Reborn (New York, 1944), edited by Russell Lord, p. 259.
"The American fascists are most easily recognized
by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact."
"...They claim to be super-patriots,
but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution."
Continued... http://www.masters-of-war.net/friendlyfascism.html



"I hate seeing commercials like 'Don't do drugs!',
and 'Why do you think they call it dope?',
and then the next commercial is 'This Buds for you!'"
- Bill Hicks



"This is a deeply uncanny and very troubling development, it exists, and it wants to take us back. It wants to take us, I mean, way back. I mean sure, they want to go back before the 70’s and the 60’s to the 50’s, no doubt about that. They also want to go back before the New Deal to the 20’s, well they also want to go back before the Progressive Era to the Gilded Age. Well, not quite, they also want to go back before the Emancipation Proclamation to the days of slavery, not even, what they want to do is take us back to a moment prior to the Enlightenment; they want to take us back to a moment when faith registered more than reason.

They want to take us back to an imaginary age of absolute moral clarity, when good was good and evil was evil and everyone could see the difference. They want to take us back to an imaginary Manichean age when you’re either with us or against us, which means you either are us or we’ll exterminate you because we can only tolerate ourselves, we can only tolerate those who share our values.

If this movement were to be given a name, I think it would most appropriate to call it Christo-Fascism, and if anyone objects to my using the word fascism, because it seems so redolent of the Axis powers, and after all we valiantly defeated fascism once, well understand this about fascism, when it arrives it never shows up in the discarded costume of some other country, and when fascism comes here, its not going to be wearing a toothbrush mustache with a luger in his belt and go goose-stepping around the mall, because that’s Germany. And its precisely characteristic of fascism, that it seems absolutely, totally expressive of the homeland, it seems completely familiar, it’s when 150% America puts a flag on it’s lapel and a cross around it’s neck and a real folksy way a talkin’, but just because it’s red, white and blue, doesn’t mean it’s American."
A Patriot Act*artizen_121
Mark Crispin Miller