Fascist America, in 10 easy steps

Right now, only a handful of patriots are trying to hold back the tide of tyranny for the rest of us - staff at the Center for Constitutional Rights, who faced death threats for representing the detainees yet persisted all the way to the Supreme Court; activists at the American Civil Liberties Union; and prominent conservatives trying to roll back the corrosive new laws, under the banner of a new group called the American Freedom Agenda. This small, disparate collection of people needs everybody's help, including that of Europeans and others internationally who are willing to put pressure on the administration because they can see what a US unrestrained by real democracy at home can mean for the rest of the world.

We need to look at history and face the "what ifs". For if we keep going down this road, the "end of America" could come for each of us in a different way, at a different moment; each of us might have a different moment when we feel forced to look back and think: that is how it was before - and this is the way it is now.

"The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands ... is the definition of tyranny," wrote James Madison. We still have the choice to stop going down this road; we can stand our ground and fight for our nation, and take up the banner the founders asked us to carry.

More A2K socialist agenda.... pffffffffffttttttttttttttttttt.

It's difficult for me to be objective about these ten steps of dictatorship, Walter, because a clever propagandist could deftly work them into any presidency. The one thing that makes me feel that democracy is still alive and well and living in America, is that the general populace appears to be recognizing George W. Bush as being a very ineffective president in spite of his despotic ways.

Letty wrote:

It's difficult for me to be objective about these ten steps of dictatorship, Walter, because a clever propagandist could deftly work them into any presidency. The one thing that makes me feel that democracy is still alive and well and living in America, is that the general populace appears to be recognizing George W. Bush as being a very ineffective president in spite of his despotic ways.

It ain't an either/or question, Letty. One needs to think in a clear and honest way about what changes would have to take place for a democracy like Canada or Switzerland or the US to move in the direction of a fascist mode of 'governance'. Citizen monitoring, for example. Hyper-patriotism, for example. Restrictions or derogation or punishment for those speaking against government officials or policies, for example. The dismantling of habeus corpus traditions and values, for example.

Sounds quite a bit like England.

A great Tom Wolfe quote for those Euroweenies that have the vapors about the US, "... the dark night of fascism is always descending on the US, but always seems to land in Europe".

A great Tom Wolfe quote for those Euroweenies that have the vapors about the US, "... the dark night of fascism is always descending on the US, but always seems to land in Europe".

HokieBird wrote:

A great Tom Wolfe quote for those Euroweenies that have the vapors about the US, "... the dark night of fascism is always descending on the US, but always seems to land in Europe".

Good and accurate quote.