Re: The Fourteen Characteristics of Fascism
Neil Stevens <[email protected]>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+wrd7f7mnligQOmERAinRAJ9bLY/tXdtIlYHSN0BEMvan4feZDQCcCedd wtLmVrG0zSliu2czphkHx04= =Xqsq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Kde-cafe mailing list - [email protected] http://ofb.biz/lists/listinfo.cgi/kde-cafe DISCLAIMER: The views expressed on this mailinglist are the personal opinions of the author and do not represent OfB.biz: Open for Business, KDE or the author's employer.