Senate Bill 5 ... First they came for the trade unionists

[babsbunny]

http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/3/2011/1876

Bob Fitrakis

March 6, 2011

Senator Sherrod Brown apologized after giving a speech on the Senate floor March 4 where he stated the obvious, that Adolf Hitler, Josef Stalin and Egyptian President Mubarak all crushed independent labor unions. No need to apologize, Senator Brown. The Republicans never do, as they endorse the policies of union busters. The only thing, Senator, you should be mildly chagrined about, is failing to point out Ohio Governor John Kasich and Wisconsin Governor Walker's similarities to Mussolini's fascism.

As Kasich takes money from the new corporate robber barons – the Koch brothers and Rupert Murdoch – let's quote Mussolini directly: "Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power." Kasich has just won his battle to privatize economic development in Ohio. Again the more accurate word would be "corporatize."

[liberal N proud]

1. K&R

[Drale]

2. I heard someone say yesterday

that if the republicans really where nazi's, they would have rounded up the left already. I responded how do you know thats not in their long term plan? We have to be very careful with people who are following a certain historical pattern, and the republicans are following the historical Nazi pattern.

[TahitiNut]

4. We're only allowed to call someone "Nazi's" ...

... when our freedom to do so is gone.

:shrug:

Is it gone yet? Some would have it so.

[Drale]

7. So we can only defend ourselves after we are all in camps?

[TahitiNut]

8. You got it. It's unfair to warn anyone.

:shrug:

[upi402]

9. So True. Media traitors announce all the time

Now I better take off this tinfoil hat and become a good German.
:puke:

[Newest Reality]

3. We are, effectively,

a country under occupation by, (multinational) corporations. They have not had to overtly resort to massive violence to wage this relentless battle, (there there is plenty of abuse inherent in the system) so it gives the appearance of a purely economic transition with political overtones. That is only a superficial aspect of the takeover.

[HowHasItComeToThis]

5. STOP THE APOLOGIZING...... IT IS TRUE

[Shandris]

6. As regards Fascism, I believe Vladimir Lenin said it best:

“Fascism is capitalism in decay."