How many can you spot in your country? Its been tiptoeing into the USA for several years now. They're moving very slowly. Can't spook the herd, you know. http://www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH/fasci14chars.html x
Oh Gee, nice to see someone COPIED my list (almost verbatim!) http://www.hippy.com/php/article-226.html Hallmarks of a Fascist Regime By Skip Stone Posted on Hippy.com 12/8/2002 One leader who has nearly absolute control of government, despite pretense otherwise. There is no effective opposition to his policies. All opposition held in check through various overt and covert means (although they go thru the motions of being an opposition). Limited public debate about policies. Control over media. Media only reports what government allows it to report. Covert Censorship. Rigged Elections Constant appeals to Patriotism with lots of flag waving. Flags and/or images of the Leader appear everywhere. Those who don't follow along are singled out and ridiculed. Vocal Opponents end up dead under mysterious circumstances (Like Martin Luther King, Bobby Kennedy, Paul Wellstone for example) Leader passes laws giving himself even more powers Controls the masses through Fear Mongering Scapegoating. Certain class of people blamed for the problems the leader faces, justifying new laws and military actions. Must have an ongoing war to keep people's minds off how fucked their own government is. No real policy to improve the lives of the average person. Leader surrounded only by trusted friends and business people who profit handsomely. Most actions favor insiders, friends and Corporate entities at the expense of the people. Laws that monitor and control business practices are removed. Constantly preaching morality to the masses (to cover their own immoral actions) Government involved in numerous illegal activities, all kept secret through various means. Violates, disrespects or refuses to agree to World Conventions on Human Rights, international norms of conduct, and other laws. All manner of excuses offered. Spy agencies given broad new powers and funding. Government increases covert activities against its own citizens. Citizens are urged to spy on citizens. Many civil liberties restricted or suspended. An incredible amount of blood is spilled, with no obvious benefit except to those in power. Does ANY of this sound familiar where you live? Then YOU'RE LIVING under Fascism! Some well known fascists: Hitler, Mussolini, Franco, Marcos, Saddam Hussein, Noriega, Suharto, Sukarno, Pinochet, Milosovich, Bush Please note at one time or another most of these people were either trained or supported by the US government and had numerous business dealings with US corporations.
I just wrote both the webmasters of that website and the originating website to complain about this obvious case of plagiarism. This guy Lawrence Britt probably never bothered to read any of those books he claims as sources, when all he had to do was copy my list and sex it up a bit with a few more words. What BULLSHIT! He probably got PAID for that article too...
Interesting. I've been passing this around on the net for the past 4 years, right after it was published. x
Yeah, I wrote that up, off the top of my head, in a couple of hours, without having to READ any of the sources he pretends to have read. I wrote it cause I couldn't find anything like it on the Net (a list of the features of fascism), and America was heading futher down the road to fascism after 9/11. So I purposely selected those items that I felt represented the US path to fascism. My control was the other historical fascist states and leaders. I compared each to the US situation and realized so many things were similar. I could easily believe someone could write something similar, but to come off with exactly the same attitude as mine? Esp. being so cynical, which everyone knows defines me. And then to present it as a list (his and mine are still the only lists of fascist attributes that I know of), and then to list the same fascist leaders and the same exact points (I think he may have added one that I didn't have). Well I'll report back if I hear any response from the webmasters. I have to say that IS an amazing coincidence that you should post that, that I should see it, and be the one who wrote it in the first place! Although I've caught my work being plagiarized before, but never to the extent of publishing it! That is the very definition of a copyright violation, esp. if he made money from it!
And people thought I was crazy for making such accusations. We must chant down fascist America through peaceful revolution.
Writer Naomi Wolf wrote a book about how free societies are taken down by fascists, and here's a video of her discussing it: http://youtube.com/watch?v=RjALf12PAWc
Funny thing. Yesterday I was on the Huffington Post, and someone posted the plagiarized list up... I'd forgotten about this thread and went looking all over google for my original (which came from hippy.com) - which doesn't show up very well. Instead I found many other websites had copied the plagiarized version. Some kept the attribution to me, others had it removed or had copied it b4 the disclaimer was added... But it was nice to see my take on fascism still floating around the net, and getting quoted in the HP... even if it wasn't my own version... It's all about the meme...
