- "Of course we will have fascism in America but
we will call it democracy!"--Huey Long
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- "Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims,
but by the way it kills them." --Jean-Paul Sartre
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- "Fascism ought to more properly be called corporatism
since it is the merger of state and corporate power." -- Benito Mussolini
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- The masters of the electronic voting machines have spoken
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- Preliminary analysis of exit polls (for senatorial and
gubernatorial races) reported immediately after voting ended compared with
the announced vote results show a statistically significant shift in favor
of Republican candidates, the odds of which are about a million to one.[1]
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- This electronic theft is nothing new, but in the aftermath
of this year's Supreme Court (5 to 4) decision giving the green light to
unlimited campaign contributions, the blatancy is impressive. The strategy
is simple: leverage the bottomless slush fund of corporate dollars and
flood the nation's airwaves and mailboxes to twist enough minds to tighten
the electoral races, so that those who control the software to the electronic
voting machines can create the illusion of right-wing electoral success.
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- It's time to consider what can be done to drop the curtain
on this charade and the policies that result from this illegitimate elevation
of corporate shills to executive, legislative, and judicial office.
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- The American brand of fascism
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- There are as many varieties of fascism as there are examples,
beginning with Germany (Hitler) and Italy (Mussolini) during the period
leading up to and including WWII, followed by Cuba (Batista), Spain (Franco),
Paraguay (Stroessner), Nicaragua (Somoza), and Chile (Pinochet),
et al.
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- The brand of fascism currently practiced in the United
States by European and North American financiers and bankers-who control
a major portion of the world's money supply, as well as the dominant military
and intelligence apparatuses-has commonalities with many of its predecessors
as well as a few important differences.
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- Commonalities include: control over the state by unelected
persons ("the hidden government," as Teddy Roosevelt called them)
or persons whose election is predetermined (through control of the currency,
media, and voting process); use of intelligence and security forces to
suppress opposition; abrogation of constitutional guarantees and international
legal conventions; the justification of torture; and false flag events
used to justify imperialism, to name a few.
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- As so eloquently expressed by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert
Jackson, the chief prosecutor of the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials following
World War II, we must hold such behavior accountable:
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- If certain acts and violations of treaties are crimes,
they are crimes whether the United States does them or whether Germany does
them. We are not prepared to lay down a rule of criminal conduct against
others which we would not be willing to have invoked against us.
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- We are now prepared to invoke these rules of criminal
conduct and align the crimes of U.S. fascism with the indictments
at Nuremberg:
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- 1. Participation in a common plan or conspiracy for the
accomplishment of a crime against peace (9-11, WMDs, etc.)
- 2. Planning, initiating and waging wars of aggression
and other crimes against peace (Iraq,Afghanistan, etc.)
- 3. War crimes (Abu Ghraib, recent WikiLeaks, and attacks
on civilians)
- 4. Crimes against humanity (massive Iraqi and Afghani
civilian deaths and torture, plus ongoing state-sanctioned terrorism: 9-11,
Gulf, 2008 economic contraction and refusal to replenish the money supply;
sabotage of property and contract law [mortgage crisis])
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- But it is the differences between the American brand
of fascism and previous iterations-particularly the illusion of choice
and dissent (what social theorist Herbert Marcuse called "repressive
desublimation")-that confuse many people into believing that the U.S. is
simply a republic with democratic processes gone awry. This has led a range
of critics to describe the situation as "inverted totalitarianism,"
"participatory fascism," "corporatism," or just "monopoly
capitalism."
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- While each of these descriptions applies to a degree,
the partial truths to which they call attention unnecessarily obscure the
simple nature of the beast. Perhaps it is the erroneous notion that fascism
equals Nazism (actually, the term originally referred to Mussolini's regime)
that compels otherwise analytical people to deny what is going on here
("good Germans," all). But lack of intellectual rigor is no excuse
to mislabel the ruthless abuses to which the world is being subjected.
As Orwell so eloquently taught us, the price of removing, destroying, or
distorting words and their meanings is that we lose our ability to know
what freedom is.
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- Consider how one of our own presidents defined fascism:
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- The first truth is that 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 by any other controlling private power. " - Franklin
D. Roosevelt [2]
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- Gone are the abstract notions of the state as an embodiment
of some ethnic or racial or historical ideal (our rulers are multicultural,
at least at the level of government employees and the executive, legislative,
and judicial branches; the upper echelons of our intelligence services
are another story); instead, the state is simply a catalyst for corporate
policy. Today's corporate state makes no attempt to legitimize
itself even theoretically, as the Italian syndicalists did, by pretending
that collective bargaining takes place between management and labor. Premeditated
expansion and contraction of the currency is used to steal assets (the
fruits of our labor) at fire sale prices. In theU.S., earnings per share
for the stockholders and the maintenance of power by the financial elites
are the main objectives implemented by illegal means through the so-called
"legal" state.
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- Everything, including the ecology and sustainability
of the planet and its inhabitants, is sacrificed to the Almighty Dollar
and for profit therein. Oddly, those aligned in this lockstep greedy march
often see themselves as religious, or even spiritual! Perhaps they do not
understand that Judeo-Christian tradition does not support the idolatry
of money (currency) or commodities, such as gold or silver.
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- It's easy to miss this point, given the disinformation
spread by so-called religious leaders; regardless, you may recall that
Moses had to break and restore the Israelites' covenant with G-d because
of some tribal members who, in his absence, manufactured and worshipped
the Golden Calf; and Jesus reiterated this principle when he said, "You
cannot worship God and mammon." The lack of self-awareness over such
misplaced obeisance (regardless of the religion to which they may or may
not subscribe) renders our materialistic brethren oblivious to the immoral
nature of their own behavior.
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- What to do?
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- Irrespective of the origins of their debilitation, these
fascists, who place money and corporate interests above people, must be
held accountable for their crimes, however daunting the task may be of
facingup to a monolithic and morally blind cartel that controls most of
the currency and guns on our planet. Even the most corrupt and devolved
regimes come to an end. But the hour is late; so, how to hasten a new organizational
paradigm?
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- Such was the question for Carol Brouillet, when
she invited a dozen or so fellow activists to a retreat following
the "Deep Politics Conference" in Santa Cruz, California,
in May 2010. Brouillet explains:
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- "I hoped that the retreat would give us more time
to think deeply about the roots of the problems that humanity faces today,
and generate insights on how we could individually and collectively empower
ourselves to assist in the conscious evolution necessary for us to survive,
grow, mature, and thrive, in alignment with our spirits, which yearn for
truth, beauty, peace, justice, health, not only for ourselves, but for
all people and all life forms."
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- As one might expect, the debate was heated, but the group
was comprised of enough veteran organizers, some going back to the Free
Speech Movement and the Vietnam War in the '60's, that a solution was hammered
out. As it happened, they chose to model their appeal on the Declaration
of Independence:
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- We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men
are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain
unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the
pursuit of Happiness. - That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted
among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed,
- That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these
ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute
new Government
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- The Details of Accountability
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- Even though most of those assembled recognize that the
current regime (the money cartel or so-called New World Order) has totally
abrogated the Declaration of Independence (and the Constitutionand the
Bill of Rights) and that the social contract has been broken, the
group decided in hopes of eventual accountability-- such as took
place with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa
to compile a list of grievances, as the signers of the Declaration did
over 234 years ago. The group also offers solutions aimed at building alternative
forms of organization that will be the framework for a sustainable and
just world, to supplant the current system when it collapses from the weight
of its intrinsic contradictions and lies (which, as Jefferson put
it, run contrary to "the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God").
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- The result is the Declaration of Accountability,
in which the group declares, much like the document upon which it is modeled, "the
causes which impel them to the separation." In addition to the grievances
listed in the Declaration, the Problems and Proposed Solution section includes
"Financial Accountability," "Electoral Accountability," Media
Accountability," "Corporate Accountability," "Legal
Accountability and the Rule of Law," "9-11 Accountability,"
"Gulf Accountability," etc.).
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- Like those who have survived the continuing holocausts
and war crimes around the globe, the group hopes to keep alive the collective
memory of the ongoing crimes against humanity until such time that the
perpetrators are brought to justice. According to Brouillet:
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- "I believe by signing the Declaration of Accountability,
we are asserting people power over the abusive tyranny of corporations,
illegitimate institutions, the deceptions and lies that for too long have
paralyzed and confused people, and we consciously enable and empower ourselves
to challenge the Era of Impunity and launch a new era of responsibility,
in which we reclaim our future and manifest our dreams and hopes for a
better world."
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- The group formally launched its website this October,
with a list of prominent individual and organizational signers. As the
author of the Declaration of Independence wrote:
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- "All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people
of good conscience to remain silent." -Thomas Jefferson.
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- Be a witness for accountability.
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- About the author: Robert Bows is a television
producer/writer/director, playwright, theatre reviewer, political economist,
instructional designer, yogi, metaphysician, and pseudonymous author ofwww.SolomonsProof.com and Solomon's
Proof: A Psycho-Spiritual Journey to World Consciousness. He participated
in the "Deep Politics Conference" referenced in the article and
is one of the drafters of theDeclaration of Accountability, as well as
one of the editors documenting ongoing abuses.
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- [1] Josh Mitteldorf, "The Scoop on Election
Theft 2010," OpEdNews.com, 11/3/10,http://www.opednews.com/articles/The-Scoop-on-E
lection-Thef-by-Josh-Mitteldorf-101103-827.html.
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- [2] Franklin D. Roosevelt, "Appendix A: Message
from the President of the United States Transmitting Recommendations Relative
to the Strengthening and Enforcement of Anti-trust Laws," The
American Economic Review, Vol. 32, No. 2, Part 2, Supplement, Papers Relating
to the Temporary National Economic Committee (Jun., 1942), pp. 119-128,
and "Anti-Monopoly," Time magazine, May 9, 1938.
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