Premeditated Theft of Election by the Moral ones_Twelve ways Bush is stealing the Ohio vote

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Twelve ways Bush is stealing the Ohio vote
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Premeditated Theft of Election by the Moral ones????
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Depleted Uranium the new Leprosy _ lifetime quarantine for vets?

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"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a
boot stamping on a human face -- for ever." -
George Orwell, 1984 http://www.holdthemaccountable2004.com/home.htm

"Military Men Are Just Dumb,
Stupid, Animals To Be Used
As Pawns In Foreign Policy"
Henry Kissinger

"The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic State itself. That, in its essence, is Fascism -- ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power."
-- Franklin Delano Roosevelt


Depleted Uranium the new Leprosy _ lifetime quarantine for vets?

Depleted Uranium kills forever Video
http://www.kucinich.us/dkdu.html

snip: http://www.dissidentvoice.org/July2004/Moret0721.htm
Nearly 700,000 American Gulf War Veterans returned to the US from a war that lasted just a few weeks. Today more than 240,000 of those soldiers are on permanent medical disability, and over 11,000 are dead. In a US Government study on post-Gulf War babies born to 251 veterans, 67 per cent of the babies were reported to have serious illnesses or serious birth defects. They were born without eyes, ears, had missing organs, fused fingers, thyroid or other malfunctions. Depleted uranium in the semen of the soldiers internally contaminated their wives. Severe birth defects have been reported in babies born to contaminated civilians in Iraq, Yugoslavia, and Afghanistan and the incidence and severity of defects is increasing over time. Women in Yugoslavia, Afghanistan and Iraq are afraid now to have babies, and when they do give birth, instead of asking if it is a girl or a boy, they ask "is it normal?"

snip: http://www.dissidentvoice.org/July2004/Moret0721.htm
"After the Americans destroyed our village and killed many of us, we also lost our houses and have nothing to eat. However, we would have endured these miseries and even accepted them, if the Americans had not sentenced us all to death. When I saw my deformed grandson, I realized that my hopes of the future have vanished for good, different from the hopelessness of the Russian barbarism, even though at that time I lost my older son Shafiqullah. This time, however, I know we are part of the invisible genocide brought on us by America, a silent death from which I know we will not escape."
(Jooma Khan of Laghman province, March 2003)



snip; www.rimbaud.freeserve.co.uk/dhap99.pdf

A POST-WAR DISASTER FOR
ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTH

A July, 1990 U.S. Army report predicted:
Â?Following combat, the condition of the battlefield,
and the long-term health risks to natives
and combat veterans may become issues in the
The United States established a precedent
during the Gulf War which permits an armed
force to use depleted uranium weapons without
warning civilian populations about contamination
of the land. The United States is continuing this
practice in the Kosovo war. Nations involved in
conflicts in which depleted uranium weapons are
used may find themselves faced with the Â?exces- nium ammunition.
siveÂ? costs of long-term health care for exposed
soldiers and civilians. The health and environmental
consequences of depleted uranium
weapons will likely receive less attention in nations
where the populations are unaware of its
use, or unable to voice their concerns and assert
their rights.


Depleted Uranium: The Trojan Horse of Nuclear War
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"The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic State itself. That, in its essence, is Fascism -- ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power."
-- Franklin Delano Roosevelt

DU kills forever
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SING THE VOTE
http://atomfilms.shockwave.com/contentPlay/shockwave.jsp?id=this_land&preplay=1&ratingBar=off

DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE in song is the first step to a fascism free planet
"THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND, THIS LAND IS MY LAND, THIS LAND IS MADE FOR YOU AND ME"

IMAGINE: WE are children of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; WE ALL have a right to be here

START SINGING THE PLANET'S ANTHEM AT ALL EVENTS TO SHOW HOW "WE" HAVE ALREADY VOTED.
This would get some air time if we did it at GOP campaign events even in congress this Summer and fall and beyond after all it is the anthem of the Age of Aquarius no. We suggested that "THIS LAND" be the Global Village Planetary anthem at Woodies celebration in San Francisco at the Geary Theater in 1967. It was seconded by three ambassadors and has become the second third fourth etc. anthems to many countries.

FOLKSAY(people say) ............ has become Our defacto Global Village Planetary anthem and in essence we voted for citizen empowerment as we sung it. Now let's get it officially on record by singing it everywhere as direct democracy.
        THE DAWNING OF THE AGE OF AQUARIUS is the reality at hand! The children of the universe, the right to be here generation _ the meek taking their prophetic inheritance out of probate is not a conspiracy.

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Fairness and the Fascist Factor_the great deception

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"Fascism should more appropriately be called CORPORATISM because it is a merger of state and corporate power." -- Benito Mussolini (from Encyclopedia Italiana, Giovanni Gentile, editor). http://raenergy.igc.org/republicanfascistparty.html

Fairness and the Fascist Factor
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Politics are the control and regulation of the life support system. Is it fair to allow a psychological operation to manipulate the public to give up the control of the life support system? The dissolution of the fairness doctrine during the Reaganhood era is the clue _ the rule that stated the media had to give all the sides to the story rather than all fascism all the time as we have now.

The statistics of media influence on the politics of life support are revealing the makings of a criminal conspiracy to overthrow the government of the US as the same group has in a hundred others. When we simply take a look at the polling and compare it to the sources of the media, we see how the corporatist media is pushing all corporatism all the time. This corporatism is in a plan called the PNAC. http://groups-beta.google.com/groups?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLD,GGLD:2004-15,GGLD:en&q=PNAC+the+Mein+Kampf+of+the+Fourth+reich
The warfare is a corporatist's dream when we see the profit motive. The control of the media allows the conspiracy to thrive. Enron swindling of California, the overthrow of the California government to conceal the swindle, the theft of the last three elections, tort reform, Social Security and Pension theft doesn't take a rocket scientist to connect the dots. 

snip: http://wilsontxt.hwwilson.com/pdfhtml/03891/158yr/gs9.htm
When people were asked where they get most of their news, 19 percent said newspapers and 80 per cent said radio and TV. The primary source of radio and TV news was: two or more networks, 30 percent; Fox, 18 percent; CNN, 16 percent; NBC, 14 percent, ABC, 11 percent; CBS, 9 percent; PBS-NPR, 3 percent. The degree of misperception varied according to the source of news. To quote the UM study: "Those who receive most of their news from Fox News are more likely than average to have misperceptions. Those who receive most of their news from NPR and PBS are less likely to have misperceptions."
   In fact, Fox News watchers were three times more likely to hold all three misperceptions than those watching the next most watched network. In the NPR-PBS audience, an overwhelming majority had none of the three misperceptions. If one looks at each of the categories, the differences are dramatic. Sixty-seven percent of Fox viewers had a wrong perception about links between Iraq and al-Qaeda (16 percent for the PBS-NPR audience). On the existence of weapons of mass destruction, 33 percent of Fox viewers had the wrong perception (11 percent for PBS-NPR). On world opinion, 35 percent of Fox viewers had misperceptions (5 percent of PBS-NPR viewers). In all three cases, the misperception percentages decreased when moving from Fox to CBS to NBC to CNN to ABC, to print media, to PBS-NPR.

The making of the great deception the whole test http://wilsontxt.hwwilson.com/pdfhtml/03891/158yr/gs9.htm

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GOP Social Security Theft The British Social Security Folly

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GOP Social Security Theft The British Social Security Folly

The British Social Security Folly
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GOP in locked step in defense of theft att. journalists
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Global Dimming Albedo 0.39 The forbidden fruit WE can't ignore

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Global Dimming Albedo 0.39 The forbidden fruit WE can't ignore
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Not One Damn Dime Day Call to Action

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Not One Damn Dime Day Call to Action

During "Not One Damn Dime Day" please don't spend money, and don't use your credit card. Not one damn dime for gasoline. Not one damn dime for necessities or for impulse purchases. Nor toll/cab/bus or train ride money exchanges. Not one damn dime for anything for 24 hours.

http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=11789

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Looking 15 years out

A terrific compilation of non-governmental views regarding
the future, published by the National Intelligence Council (the other
NIC) can be readily had at:

http://www.futurebrief.com/project2020.pdf




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The Archetype of Fairness

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Bushs Grand PNAC Plan: Incite Civil War in Iraq

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PNAC the Mein Kamph of the Fourth Reich and people talk of the morality of the GOP
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ZNet - Jan 15, 2005
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=15&ItemID=7030

Bushs Grand Plan: Incite Civil War

by Mike Whitney

The Bush Administration is intentionally steering Iraq towards
civil war. The elections are merely the catalyst for igniting, what
could be, a massive social upheaval. This explains the bizarre
insistence on voting when security is nearly nonexistent and where a
mere 7% of the people can even identify the candidates. (This figure
gleaned from Allawis Baghdad newspaper, Al-Sabah) Rumsfeld is using
the elections as a springboard for aggravating tensions between
Sunnis and Shiites and for diverting attention away from the troops.
Its a foolhardy move that only magnifies the desperation of the
present situation. The Pentagon brass expected a cakewalk and,
instead, theyve found themselves mired in a guerilla war.

Everyone from Brent Scowcroft to Tom Friedman has speculated on
the likelihood of civil war. Their comments are more reflective of
the hopes of American elites than they are of realities on the
ground. Sure, Friedman would like to see Muslims killing Muslims,
but it wont happen. Tom hasnt guessed right on the war yet, and
thats not about to change. The same could be said for Rumsfeld. For
a Sec-Def who regards information as power, Rumsfeld seems
woefully blinkered by the true nature of the fighting. He seems
incapable of grasping even the most basic elements of the conflict
or the psychology that fuels it. Whatever happened to the military
mantra, Know your enemy?

When you destroy a mans home and kill and disgrace his
friends, hell fight back. And, when you rob a man of everything he
has, including his dignity, you leave him with one, solitary
passion rage. This rage is now animating the resistance in ways
that no one had previously anticipated. The worlds lone superpower
is roped to the ground like Gulliver and the Pentagon high-command
is getting increasingly agitated.

Civil war can be messy. Inciting religious and sectarian
hatreds tends to disrupt the smooth execution of business; like the
purging of potential enemies and the extracting of vital resources.
Never the less, Rumsfeld is nearly out of options; divide and
conquer may be all thats left. If we glance at the last 3 imperial
projects; Kosovo, Haiti and Afghanistan, the very same strategy was
applied. All three nations have been effectively carved up,
delivered to US multi-national corporations, and reduced to
warlordism or anarchy. Their outcome sets the precedent for similar
results in Iraq. Will Iraq be Balkenized along ethnic and religious
lines?

Thats what the Generals are hoping, and their plan is already
in full swing. The Marines deployed Shiite National Guards during
the siege of Falluja with the obvious intention of exacerbating
tensions between the two factions. The Kurdish Peshmerga was
utilized in Mosul for the very same purpose. Also, there have been a
number of suspicious bombings (particularly the attacks on Sunni
clerics in Najaf and Kerbala) that are not at all consistent with
the insurgent pattern, but suggest a clandestine (CIA?) operation to
incite hostilities. Add to this the projected election results,
which will tilt heavily towards the Shiites, and theres a real
potential for internecine violence. Its easy to see how Pentagon
planners might think that these provocations could auger a massive
internal struggle. It wont happen, though.

Whatever we may think of the Iraqis at this point, one thing is
certain; they know who their enemy is. The element of surprise or
deception has evaporated like the plumes of smoke dispersing over
Falluja. They know who we are, and they know they want us out.
Deteriorating Security

Rumsfeld finally seems to be grasping the seriousness of the
predicament. The security situation has deteriorated so dramatically
that even his support among elites is eroding. Last week foreign
policy Gurus, Brent Scowcroft and Zbigniew Brzezinski, fired off a
salvo of criticism directed at the mishandling of the occupation.
The normally circumspect Brzezinski was particularly savage,
slamming the war as a sign of moral decay; a euphemism that will
undoubtedly send shock waves through Americas boardrooms and
think-tanks.

James Dobbins of the conservative Rand Corporation was equally
ferocious, stating bluntly that The beginning of wisdom is to
realize that the United States cant win. Cant win?

Dobbins probably should have added, Cant win, but wont
leave, as the appropriate adjunct to his first observation.
American elites may disparage the conduct of the occupation, but
theyve tied the nations future to its success and wont give up
easily.

Rumsfeld Shifts Gears

There are signs that the recalcitrant Rumsfeld is beginning to
get the message. Last week he dispatched retired General Gary Luck
to Iraq to produce a detailed breakdown of force strength and
vulnerabilities. When Luck returns he will appear before Congress
and make an energetic appeal for more troops and stiffer resolve. He
can be expected to draw a dismal picture of a failed state that
threatens to destabilize the entire region unless America makes a
greater commitment. Both the Congress and the media will play a role
in calling on the American people for steadfastness in the face of a
very long and bloody occupation. Many believe that Lucks assessment
will determine whether Bush will approach Congress to reinstate the
draft.

Enlisting the skills of General Luck is an indication that
Rumsfeld is giving ground to his critics; that he is no longer
elevating his judgment above all others. His bungling of every
aspect of the war has limited his ability to act unilaterally. He
will either have to demonstrate some level of cooperation or step
down. The wars two main debacles so far can be directly pinned on
Rumsfeld. First, he went in too light (without sufficient manpower
to secure the peace) and second, he dismissed the 400,000 strong
Iraqi military, the majority of whom now comprise the resistance.
The final outcome in Iraq will certainly rest heavily on those two
foolish choices. Leveling Falluja

The siege of a Falluja was a crossroads for the American
occupation. The right-wing punditocracy insisted that the resistance
in Falluja be crushed by any means possible; preferably overwhelming
force. The Baghdad enclave of 250,000 was decimated by the
relentless pounding of US aerial bombardment and a full-fledged
ground assault that left over 700 civilians dead; 70% of whom were
women and children.

In the first attack on Falluja Lt. Col. B. P. McCoy noted that,
We dont want to rubblize the city. That will give the enemy more
places to hide. McCoys injunction was ignored during the second
(Nov 8) siege. The city has been both rubblized and rendered
uninhabitable. (according to the Red Crescent)

The Bush administration applied the nuclear option to
Falluja; leveling the city to send a message that future resistance
would be dealt with accordingly. The message was faithfully rejected.

If anything, Falluja has only strengthened the resolve of the
anti-American forces and increased recruitment for the resistance.
The violence has spread and intensified throughout the Sunni
Triangle, with the number of attacks skyrocketing to 75 per day.
Falluja has removed any doubt from the minds of young Iraqi men that
a nonviolent settlement is possible. The flattening of a city of
250,000 confirms, in stark terms, that the war will be decided by
force of arms. Falluja has removed whatever gray area there may
have been before.

The numbers of insurgents are steadily on the rise since the
siege. The strength of the current rebellion was estimated last week
by Iraqs Intelligence Chief, General Mohammed Shahwani. Shahwani
told a Saudi newspaper that the US was facing 40,000 hard-core
fighters and a support group of as many as 150,000 to 200,000.

Predictably, the story was buried in the western press, but the
implications are clear. The Pentagon has been intentionally
misleading the American people about the size and strength of the
insurgency. (previous estimates were between 5,000 to 20,000) These
new figures, which are now supported by many independent defense
analysts, point to an insurgency which is numerically larger than
the occupation and fully prepared to fight a long and gory guerilla
war. This brings us back to James Dobbins observation The beginning
of wisdom is to realize that the United States cant win.

Indeed.

Fallujas failure means that the prospect of destroying the
rest of Iraqs cities is more remote. Rather, success will depend on
increasing the number of US troops and developing a long term
strategy for incrementally establishing security. The only other
option is to deflect attention from the occupation forces by
inciting widespread instability. A civil war may serve the short
term interests of the administration, but it could also provoke
region-wide turmoil. Its a risk that no sane person would consider.
The determination to carry out the Jan 30 elections further proves
that the administration has not veered from the reckless and
delusional strategies that have thrust the mission to the brink of
disaster.

Months ago, Baghdad correspondent, Andrew Cockburn warned that
the United States was in danger of losing the war in Iraq. Since
then the security situation has steadily worsened and vast swaths of
the country have come under rebel control. Every promotional device
the administration has used (the forming of the Coalition
Provisional Authority; the transfer of sovereignty and, now, the
elections) has backfired; bringing on larger attacks and stiffer
resistance. Rumsfelds high-tech warfare has degenerated into
death squads and torture chambers; a pitiable return to medieval
combat. The civilian leadership, drunk with hubris and greed, never
noticed the wave of insurgency looming in the distance. Now, theyre
facing daily trauma and death without a clear plan for success. The
Iraq mission is like a 21st century Striker-vehicle buried up to its
axels and lolling in the dessert sand. As the Jan 30 deadline
approaches, theres little sign that things will improve.

    

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"Fighting for the Work of the Lord"

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January 12, 2005
Counter Punch
http://www.counterpunch.org/leupp01132005.html

"Fighting for the Work of the Lord"

Everybody's Talkin' About Christian Fascism

By

GARY LEUPP

Commentators right and left are talking about fascism in the U.S. of A.
Libertarian conservative Lew Rockwell, in a recent article entitled "The
Reality of Red-State Fascism," declares, "what we have alive in the US is an
updated and Americanized fascism."

Fellow libertarian Justin Raimondo, in a piece called "Today's Conservatives
are Fascists," calls the neocons shaping U.S. foreign policy "fascists, pure
and simple." United Methodist minister Rev. William E. Alberts accuses some
of Bush's followers of upholding a "super religion displaying tendencies
similar to Hitler's super race with its fascist ideology of superiority."

Meanwhile the Revolutionary Communist Party circulates in the tens of
thousands a statement declaring that "Bush and his people" are "Christian
Fascists---dangerous fanatics who aim to make the U.S. a religious
dictatorship and to force this upon the world." This is quite a wide
spectrum of anti-fascist opinion.

I think it's good the f-word is out there, and the issue on the table.
Fascism needs to be discussed. I thought so in October 2002, when I wrote an
essay posted on CounterPunch, "Talking to Your Kids About Fascism." It was a
presented as a quiet talk one might have with preteens, delivered with the
simple clarity and sobriety one might assume when talking with one's young
about drug use or sex or any serious issue. My point at the time was
fascism's not just a phenomenon unique to 1930s and 40s and defeated in 1945
but something that can recrudesce. One should be alert for warning signs.

That was over two years ago, before the criminal invasion of Iraq, based on
lies, and the cynical exploitation of racist-based fear. It was before
British officers complained that their U.S. counterparts in Iraq were
treating the Iraqis like Untermensch (subhumans, a term the Nazis applied to
various non-Aryan groups). It was before the Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo
torture revelations, and the reorganization of the "intelligence community"
to better disseminate disinformation in the service of ongoing war. It was
before the Bush campaign to amend the constitution, for the first time to
specifically prevent the expansion of liberties. It was before persons in
and around the administration defended Japanese-American wartime
concentration camps with an eye towards new camps for other groups in the
future. The fascist tide has surged in the interim, as I thought, back in
2002, was very likely.

A Fascist Movement

I'm not suggesting that the state has become fascist. We remain a bourgeois
democracy, in which you are free to vote for the corporate-sponsored
Republican or Democrat of your choice. You can still maneuver around as best
you can in a marketplace controlled by ever fewer people. You can access a
broad range of websites, protest in the streets (under carefully controlled
conditions), and say what we think in emails and phone calls (although the
authorities can legally monitor them as they please). You can still write
and maybe have published letters to the editor criticizing the regime. The
country itself remains pre-fascist.

Nor is there, a mass-based fascist party yet. The Republicans may morph into
such, but there remain the occasional Ron Pauls. (I have to note, though,
that the Texas Republican Congressman himself opines that "a total police
stateis fast approaching.") What we have is a fascist movement, even if its
storm troops themselves do not, by and large, conceive of it as such. Many
of them simply think they're God's Army, having nothing in common with
Hitler's Brownshirts, whom they learned in school were bad people defeated
by fine Americans. They will be insulted if told they resemble the Nazi
supporters of the 1930s, but in many respects they do.

Fascism feeds on fear. Hitler's Reichmarshall Hermann Goering declared that
"people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. This is easy.
All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and attack the
pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It
works the same in every country." Question for discussion, ladies and
gentlemen: How does this apply here? Are the myriad threats the movement has
used to frighten all who will listen (weapons of mass destruction, mushroom
clouds over New York, Muslims in general, liberal college professors,
homosexuals) working to get people to do the bidding of leaders in this
country?

Fascism also feeds on ignorance. "Good Germans" were truly persuaded that
Jews, Slavs and Bolsheviks threatened them in 1939. Fascism is inherently
anti-intellectual, deploying emotions (national pride, resentment at
"outsiders," feelings of injury, millenarian hope) and targeting prominently
among internal enemies those who challenge its self-validating myths. A key
factor in the American variety is a frontal assault on whole fields of
science, especially those challenging the Biblical depiction of the earth as
merely 6000 years old.

A top Bush aide actually told the New York Times' Ron Suskind that
administration officials disparagingly dismiss what they call "the
reality-based community"---specifically, people who "believe that solutions
emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality" as irrelevant.
"That's not the way the world really works anymore," he declared. "We're an
empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're
studying that reality---judiciously, as you will---we'll act again, creating
other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will
sort out. We're history's actors. . . and you, all of you, will be left to
just study what we do."

In other words, truth is for wimps; forget about it. We are the champions,
the powerful, we make it up as we go along and if you want a piece of it,
embrace the delusion. We will punish the French for rationally rejecting the
attack on Iraq, and for that matter for inflicting the Enlightenment (with
its emphasis on unmanly, unheroic rational empiricism) a few centuries back.
We will punish the CIA for obnoxiously promoting reality-based intelligence
over the requested, required disinformation before the Iraq attack. This is
the sort of fascistic thought not only trumpeted by right wing talk radio,
but from countless pulpits, cable news, and the White House---proudly
irrational, fear mongering, sneering, creating its own reality with the
calculated support of large sections of corporate America.

Gott Mit Uns

"Christian fascism," the Maoists call it, emphasizing its social agenda
which presently includes reversing Roe vs. Wade, banning gay marriage,
promoting school prayer, challenging science, and generally attacking the
strict separation of church and state. The libertarians in contrast focus on
the agenda of the neocons, who as it happens are primarily secular Jews
highly supportive of Israel's Likud Party and influential in shaping foreign
policy after 9-11, particularly as it pertains to what they've been calling
"the Greater Middle East." Clearly the term "Christian fascist" doesn't
describe these people, who may have mixed feelings about a movement
currently useful to their foreign policy agenda but which could turn on them
and make life uncomfortable for many people who reject fundamentalist
Christianity. If fascists, they are of a different if kindred variety.
Everyone applying the f-word agrees that the fascists have no regard for
civil liberties and have used 9-11 to vitiate the Bill of Rights.

The question in my mind is this: Given that this fascist tide is so related
to a post 9-11 foreign policy so shaped by non-Christians, can we indeed
call the movement "Christian fascist"? If one does so, one acknowledges the
obvious: that Bush's social base is largely a Christian fundamentalist one,
committed to what it perversely terms a "family values" agenda. But
Christian fundamentalists, who have been agitating for years for prayer in
the schools, textbook censorship, public display of the 10 Commandments,
etc., haven't from the grass roots been demanding U.S. military action to
achieve regime change in the Middle East. The movement to achieve that
central aspect of the fascist program comes from the elite, with the neocons
in and out of government playing key roles. Their plans for the Middle East
do happen to dovetail with the fundamentalists' "End Times" hopes and
expectations for that region, such that even the collapse of the original
justifications for the Iraq War doesn't daunt the latter in their support
for what they see as God's plan. The neocons in power, in concert with their
fundamentalist colleagues (Bush and Cheney among them) have played the
Christian fascists at the grass roots like a harp.

Does calling the fascist trend in general "Christian fascist" send the wrong
message to those Christians who reject it and find it irreconcilable with
what they consider Christianity? Surely such believers are the majority
among the 75-80% of the American people who identify themselves as
Christians. Is it unfair to staunch Catholics, who follow their church's
teachings on issues such as abortion and homosexuality and might, say, vote
to ban gay marriage but who passionately oppose the war? Might we, noting
the non-Christian input into this fascist trend refer to it merely as
"religious fascism"? Or just "American fascism"?

Yes, you have at the summit Bush and Cheney, registered Methodists who may
or not sincerely believe in the theology of John Wesley, which is not all
that dissimilar to that of his contemporary Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, but
derive support from the religious right, especially the less educated among
them. But then you have the above-quoted Methodist minister Rev. William E.
Alberts too. The problem is not any specific religion but the specific
necessity of crisis-ridden capitalism to transform the world, exploiting
religion whenever it's useful to do so. Hitler embarked on his
world-transforming mission depicting himself as devout God-fearing man; in
Mein Kampf he refers repeatedly to "the Lord," "the Almighty," and Jesus as
"the great founder of a new doctrine." "I am fighting for the work of the
Lord," he declared, and a whole lot of German Christians, Protestants and
Catholics, believed him. Soldiers for the Wehrmacht wore belt buckles with
the slogan Gott mit uns (God is with us).

Christian Anti-Fascism

On the other hand, some Christians rejected the exploitation of their faith.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the German Lutheran cleric who died in a concentration
camp at age 39 in 1945, was the antithesis of the Christian fascist. In his
book Ethics, he charged that fellow Christians failed to directly attack the
specificity of evil in his time. Bonhoeffer was executed for his involvement
in a heroic attempt to assassinate Hitler. He was, in the then-respectable
view of the fascists, a terrorist. Martin Niemoeller, another Protestant
pastor, was interned in a prison camp for eight years, freed in 1945. He had
sermonized against aspects of the regime. After his liberation he suggested
he and other Protestants hadn't done enough. Although the quotation is
disputed Niemoeller is said to have stated, "First they came for the
Communists, but I was not a Communist so I did not speak out. Then they came
for the Socialists and the Trade Unionists, but I was neither, so I did not
speak out. Then they came for the Jews, but I was not a Jew so I did not
speak out. And when they came for me, there was no one left to speak out for
me."

It is really for such Christians of today to reject and refute the unholy
association between their faith and the "work of the Lord" that Bush claims
he is achieving, and to speak out against fascist trends occurring here and
now in the name of a man who counseled his followers, "Love your enemies,
bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you." Surely there is
here the basis of a Christian anti-fascist movement.

Gary Leupp is Professor of History at Tufts University, and Adjunct
Professor of Comparative Religion. He is the author of Servants, Shophands
and Laborers in in the Cities of Tokugawa Japan; Male Colors: The
Construction of Homosexuality in Tokugawa Japan; and Interracial Intimacy in
Japan: Western Men and Japanese Women, 1543-1900. He is also a contributor
to CounterPunch's merciless chronicle of the wars on Iraq, Afghanistan and
Yugoslavia, Imperial Crusades.



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