Fascism watch
"All effective propaganda
must be limited to a very few points and must harp on these in
slogans until the last member of the public understands what you
want him to understand."
Adolf Hitler
What is Fascism ?
"fascism - A system of
government that exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right,
typically through the merging of state and business leadership,
together with belligerent nationalism."
American Heritage Dictionary,
1983
Books
"I am not a dictator.
I have only simplified democracy."
Adolf Hitler
"We will overthrow Parliament
in a legal way through legal means. Democracy will be overthrown
with the tools of democracy."
Adolf Hitler
" Fascism should more
appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of
State and corporate power."
Benito Mussolini
Blowback - Christopher Simpson
America's recruitment of Nazis, and its disastrous effect on our
domestic and foreign policy
" The liberty of a democracy
is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power
to the point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state
itself. That in its essence is fascism - ownership of government
by an individual, by a group or any controlling private power.
"
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- on the threat to democracy by corporate power
"The tycoons were linked
by an ideology: the ideology of Business as Usual. Bound by identical
reactionary ideas, the members sought a common future in fascist
domination regardless of which world leader might further that
ambition."
Charles Higham, Trading with the
Enemy
"A number of financial
and industrial figures of World War II and several members of
the government served the cause of money before the cause of patriotism.
While aiding the United States' war effort, they also aided Nazi
Germany's."
Charles Higham, Trading with the
Enemy
"Several of the greatest
American corporate leaders were in league with Nazi corporations
before and after Pearl Harbor, including I.G. Farben, the colossal
Nazi industrial trust that created Auschwitz. "
Charles Higham, Trading with the
Enemy
"To oppose the policies
of a government does not mean you are against the country or the
people that the government supposedly represents. Such opposition
should be called what it really is: democracy, or democratic dissent,
or having a critical perspective about what your leaders are doing.
Either we have the right to democratic dissent and criticism of
these policies or we all lie down and let the leader, the Fuhrer,
do what is best, while we follow uncritically, and obey whatever
he commands. That's just what the Germans did with Hitler, and
look where it got them."
Michael Parenti, author
fascism - a political philosophy,
movement, or regime that exalts nation and often race above the
individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government
headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation,
and forcible suppression of opposition
Merriam Webster dictionary
"We stand for the maintenance
of private property... We shall protect free enterprise as the
most expedient, or rather the sole possible economic order."
Adolph Hitler
"You don't need a totalitarian
dictatorship like Hitler's to get by with murder ... you can do
it in a democracy as long as the Congress and the people Congress
is supposed to represent don't give a damn?"
William Shirer
"Through clever and
constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see
paradise as hell, and also the other way around to consider the
most wretched sort of life as paradise. "
Adolp HItler
"It would be easy for
us, if we do not learn to understand the world and appreciate
the rights, privileges and duties of all other countries and peoples,
to represent in our power the same danger to the world that Fascism
did."
Ernest Hemingway
"If fascism ever came
to the United States, it would be wrapped in an American flag."
Huey Long
" People need to watch
what they say, watch what they do. "
Ari Fleischer, former Bush White
House Press Secretary, 2001
'The great masses of the people
will more easily fall victims of a big lie than a small one."
Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf
The New McCarthyism
"Fascism is on the march
today in America. Millionaires are marching to the tune. It will
come in this country unless a strong defense is set up by all
liberal and progressive forces... A clique of U.S. industrialists
is hell-bent to bring a fascist state to supplant our democratic
government, and is working closely with the fascist regime in
Germany and Italy. Aboard ship a prominent executive of one of
America's largest financial corporations told me point blank that
if the progressive trend of the Roosevelt administration continued,
he would be ready to take definite action to bring fascism to
America."
former U.S. ambassador to Germany
William Dodd in 1938
Articles
COINTELPRO
"No other democratic country
in the world denies as many people - in absolute or proportional
terms - the right to vote because of felony convictions."
Human Rights Watch - "World
Report 1999, United States"
"More than I00 countries
have now abolished the death penalty in law or practice ... Against
the global trend towards abolition, however, the U.S.A. has relentlessly
increased its rate of executions and the number of crimes punishable
by death."
Amnesty International "United
States of America- Rights for All," October 1998
" The USA has been quick
to voice its condemnation of human rights violations in some other
countries and to stress, by contrast, the wealth of civil and
political rights which it guarantees within its borders . . .
however, it has failed to deliver these rights to many of its
people and there are signs that, unless urgent steps are taken,
these rights will be further eroded . "
Amnesty International
Democracy
and Society
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