A very thought provoking article.. Make sure to read the 14 points and the examples of each point...
http://www.oldamericancentury.org/14pts.htm
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A very thought provoking article.. Make sure to read the 14 points and the examples of each point...
http://www.oldamericancentury.org/14pts.htm
All I can say to this...
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O Canada!
Our home and native land!
True patriot love in all thy sons command.
With glowing hearts we see thee rise,
The True North strong and free!
From far and wide,
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
God keep our land glorious and free!
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
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There is one difference: people are free to criticise Bush, but you'd struggle if he really was a fascist. Most of that article's just biased rubbish, but, hey, if you've got an agenda, what's the problem?
Nullific, did you see the Simpsons where they sang O Canada at the end? The one where the town is overtaken by the fascist Springfield government?
Aaah, the US where a cartoon is wiser than all the ppl that voted for G.W.
Boohoo, whingeing left-wingers make me sick. I presume you are American? You just admitted the majority of Americans are dim-wits. I can't see that being true somehow...Maybe Bush just disgusts your politically correct sensibilities to the point of disgust; whatever it is, it's pretty humourous how many people run him down. Maybe it's because he's a 'fool' who's done a damn sight better in life than they have.Quote:
Originally Posted by maryjanemama
Oh shit its the spawn of Torog.
Hold up don't Americans have the right to whine? Free speech or something. I mean, what you're basically doing is whining about liberals being whiners so doesn't that make you a...hypocrite?
WRONG!Quote:
Originally Posted by mr chinnery
http://www.amconmag.com/12_15_03/feature.html
http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.pht...ee_speech_zone
http://www.veteransforpeace.org/Free...nes_052504.htm
http://web.takebackthemedia.com/geek...40901133155938
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i...16&s=hightower
Sorry I'm going to edit this very quickly, what I say below is already in Ghost's link. Wow...exactly the point I was making.Quote:
Originally Posted by mr chinnery
These things take time...fascism creeps up on you. First, the Bible slowly seeps into where it doesn't belong and then, suddenly, no one can think for themselves without being labeled an unpatriotic sinner. It's begun. Did you know hecklers and protestors were not allowed anywhere near Bush's compaign speeches? Bush security escorted anyone away who they thought may make the President look bad during his speeches. Seems like a fitting way to start off.
yeah, dictatorships aren't built overnight, and martial law doesn't happen overnight. it's the frog in the pot, you turn up the heat in slow incremental steps...and it should be pretty obvious which direction the country's been going, especially in the last 15 years.
new york city for the RNC was a good example of martial law. when police round up hundreds of people in orange nets and take them to a makeshift concentration camp in a condemned bus depot with grease and chemicals on the floor, and you have no charges, judge or jury and are detained until the emperor leaves, that's not freedom.
and when you aren't allowed to take pictures and the cops grab your camera and rip the film out, that's not freedom.
cities around the country can have thousands and thousands of cameras watching us...but what do they have to hide?
Hey Nullific, don't forget:Quote:
Originally Posted by Nullific
[align=center]O Canada!
Terre de nos aieux,
Ton front est ceint
De fleurons glorieux.
Car ton bras sait porter l'épée,
Il sait porter la croix.
Ton histoire est une épopée
Des plus brillants exploits!
God keep our land glorious and free!
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.
O Canada, we stand on guard for thee.[/align]
(That'll piss off Americans even more.... :D)
I knew the national anthems were useful in some way before the hockey games... :cool:
Bush being undemocratic is not the same as Bush being a fascist.Quote:
Originally Posted by maryjanemama
'Fascism developed as the third major competing ideology of the first half of the 20th century. It was not simply an assertion of dictatorial or military rule, nor was it a socially conservative perspective, although many conservatives preferred it to either communism or democratic liberalism. Fascist movements that emerged after World War I took a number of different forms, but they shared an ideological perspective that subordinated the individual to the state, opposed class struggle, and affirmed nationalist identities and a corporate state. Structures were elitist rather than egalitarian, and there was an emphasis on the role of the great leader. The first major Fascist leader to come to power was MUSSOLINI in Italy, who became prime minister in 1922 and seized full power by 1926. Other states came under the control of dictators in the interwar period, including Poland (1926), Lithuania (1926), Portugal (1932), and Estonia (1934). The most important Fascist-style regime was established in Germany during the 1930s by the NAZI MOVEMENT led by HITLER. Fascist-style governments also came to power in Greece in 1936 under General Johannes Metaxas, and in Spain with the victory in 1939 of the Falange led by Francisco Franco in the Spanish Civil War. In Argentina, a group of military officers impressed by Nazi achievements seized power in 1943, and their dominant leader, Juan Perón, established a Fascist-style dictatorship in 1945. In JAPAN a distinctive statist authoritarian regime developed in the interwar era, and it established ties with the major European Fascist states in the late 1930s. Fascist-style movements also developed in a number of countries: the Iron Guard, founded in Romania in 1927; the ??Black Shirts? of Oswald Moseley in Great Britain (formed in 1932); Young Egypt (the ??Green Shirts?), formed in Egypt in 1933. Elsewhere, including in the U.S., many people became convinced that some form of authoritarian fascism was necessary in the face of the Communist challenge and the difficulties of the Depression'. (The Encyclopedia of World History. 2001.)