Re: The Fourteen Characteristics of Fascism

Neil Stevens <[email protected]>
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On Wednesday May 14, 2003 01:27, Timothy R. Butler wrote:
> > 1. Powerful an continuing expressions of nationalism
>
>   We've always been a patriotic people. What's new?
>
> > 2. Disdain for the importance of human rights
>
>   Yeah... but not by my side of the aisle. Dems are the one pushing for
> things like euthenasia. Other than that, I'd say both sides are pretty
> good... the U.S. has very few human rights problems.

Didn't you know that European socialism is a human right?  The US have high 
enough taxes or spending to count as a decent human rights guardian.

> > 3. Identification of enemies/scapegoats as a unifying cause
>
>   Isn't this normal? We've been identifying enemies for at least 170 or
> so years. And certainly, Iraq was not a unifying cause.

Didn't you know that terrorists didn't really kill anyone in this country?  
That it was all a plot by the Bush administration?  Osama is really a 
pacifist human rights crusader in Saudi Arabia that we're picking on.

> > 11. Disdain and suppression of intellectuals and the arts
>
>   Hmm... I'm looking... but I don't see anything.

*Clearly* when the masses actually express their own opinions, instead of 
bowing to their self-appointed elders (as Europeans must to the Commission 
bureaucrats), it's fascism.

- -- 
Neil Stevens - [email protected]
"The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the
sheep thanks the shepherd as a liberator, while the wolf denounces him
for the same act as the destroyer of liberty." -- Abraham Lincoln
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