"Wake up and smell the fascism"

[iconoclastic cat]

Wow. I'm just floored by this. So much Bushco fascism, so little time.

http://www.oldamericancentury.org/14pts.htm

[AX10]

1. Thanks. A quick summary: "signs of fascism"

-Overt Nationalism injected into everday life
-Political debate filled with jingoism as opposed to dealing the the real problems that face the nation
-collusion between the State and Corporate Powers
-Willingness to blindly submit to authority of any kind
-Censored Media

...please feel free to add to the list

[iconoclastic cat]

3. Sorry, I should've posted one. What gets me are the hyperlinks!

I'm still going through them. Sweet freaking Shiva! When is Bush going to order us all to wear our underwear on the outside?

[AX10]

2. 11 and 12 are very disturbing

11.) Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts
Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to higher education, and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other academics to be censored or even arrested. Free expression in the arts is openly attacked, and governments often refuse to fund the arts.
Bush's new economic plan cuts funding for arts, education
Artists from all over the world are being refused entry to the US on security grounds.
Jeb Bush calls author of bill banning professors from being too liberal as a "freedom fighter"
A group of more than 60 top U.S. scientists, including 20 Nobel laureates and several science advisers to past Republican presidents, on Wednesday accused the Bush administration of manipulating and censoring science for political purposes
Freedom of Repression: New ruling will allow censorship of campus publications

12.) Obsession with Crime and Punishment
Under fascist regimes, the police are given almost limitless power to enforce laws. The people are often willing to overlook police abuses and even forego civil liberties in the name of patriotism. There is often a national police force with virtually unlimited power in fascist nations
Snitch-or-Go-to-Jail bill will make pretty much anything short of reporting on everyone you see for doing just about anything a jailable offense. With minimum sentences, up to and including life without parole.
Report: Thousands wrongly convicted each year: Thousands of suspects unable to afford lawyers are wrongly convicted each year because they are pressured to accept guilty pleas or have incompetent attorneys, the American Bar Association says in a report.
The problem with Gonzales is that he has been deeply involved in developing some of the most sweeping claims of near-dictatorial presidential power in our nation's history, allowing him to imprison and even (at least in theory) torture anyone in the world, at any time
Police officers don't have to give a reason at the time they arrest someone, the U.S. Supreme Court said in a ruling that shields officers from false-arrest lawsuits.

[James T. Kirk]

4. It's almost as bad as it was in America during World War 2!