Letter to Steve41oo from Tony Blair. Truth on Iraq war.

The most interesting thing about Lawrence Britt's list of 14 characteristics of Facism is that they have been posted on just about all left-leaning BLOGS on the Internet wherever the subject came up; however these 14 characteristics only marginally fit with any other definition of facism from verifiable sources. None of this identifies Britt in any way other than one site said he was a 'poltical scientist'.

So far, after a short search, I have been able to find absolutely nothing on Lawrence Britt, his background, his occupation, or whatever organization(s) with which he is affiliated. Unless somebody comes up with something to verify his credentials or even that he exists, I'm suspecting somebody made him up.

I love these taxonomies on just about anything.produced with such profligacy by academic pinheads. All it amounts to is relationships among words chosen by the author.

I'll give you some more characteristics of Facist states: people eat, work, sleep, lie a bit when it suits them, cheat if they can on their taxes, bicker about small things, and a thousand more attributes. Evidently we are all Fascists.

Quote:

Britt: I don't think it happened because we're the beacon of freedom and opportunity, which is what we heard from the president. It happened because America has been extremely aggressive in the last 50 or 60 years on the world stage and has caused a lot of suffering that most Americans have absolutely no clue about.

We've interfered in the internal affairs of 51 countries --- Lebanon, Syria, Cuba, El Salvador, Columbia, Bolivia, Angola, and many more --- since the end of World War II, putting agents on the ground, interfering with elections, things that, if done to us, would be absolutely outrageous.

Twenty-six countries we've attacked, bombed, invaded, without being asked in. Seventeen we've overthrown governments and in just about every case the result was very bad for the people involved. In virtually every case, the government installed was autocratic. We say we're trying to promote democracy, but that isn't happening. Of the seven fascist countries in the article, we set up three of them: Greece, Chile, and Indonesia.

One would have to be utterly blind and deaf to have been ignorant of the obvious and oft-stated intent of the U.S. administration to bring about regime change in Iraq. That was from the beginning the clearly stated goal of our policy. The WMD and other arguments were emphasized only in an ill-advised attempt to persuade our "friends" and ""allies" on the Security Council to go along with what was an obviously necessary action.

Is this a new defence? Did you just think it up, George? The "We were forced into lying to give cover for our own rapacious plans" defence. It clearly points to the US's own definition of terrorism. How can the world expect peace when the lead player won't follow the rules. [refer to Mr Britt's comments above.]

This evidently was seen as a political necessity in Britain for PM Blair. We would have been wiser to just make Britain decide on its own - with us or against us. It will ultimately come to that anyway, and recent trends in the EU don't make that a particularly attractive long range prospect - at least for those who can observe and think for themselves..

What unmitigated claptrap, George! "those who can observe and think for themselves" = "those who can spin with the best of them".

It was equally a "political necessity" to dupe both the people and Congress in the USA. What was the actual phrase, it escapes me now, oh yeah, "... the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy".
If it was such an easy sell at home, why did it need a constant parade of lies bolstered by the same parade of lies time after time after time.

Just using google, I found this:

Fascism in America?

But I agree, Foxfyre: that article can be made up or a hoax as well ... as anything on the web.

Walter, by what criteria do you conclude that "I can't search for books online" after I posted that I had located one and cited where I had located it? Why didn't you post links to the ones you found?

I am sure there are many published people (like myself for instance) who have no notable credentials or vitae published on the internet. But then your father and I are not cited as authorities on Fascism either are we?