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- inactive, on 10/29/2007, -21/+179Note #14 on the list...
Dr. Lawrence Britt, a political scientist, published research on fascism in which he examined the fascist regimes of Hitler, Mussolini, Franco, Suharto and several Latin American regimes. Britt found 14 defining characteristics common to each fascist State:
1. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism - Fascist regimes tend to make constant use of patriotic mottos, slogans, symbols, songs and other paraphernalia. Flags are seen everywhere as are flag symbols on clothing and in public displays.
2. Disdain for the recognition of Human Rights - Because of fear of enemies and the need for security, the people in fascist regimes are persuaded that human rights can be ignored in certain cases because of “need.” The people tend to look the other way or even approve of torture, summary executions, assassinations, long incarceration of prisoners, etc.
3. Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause - The people are rallied into a unifying patriotic frenzy over the need to eliminate a perceived common threat or foe: racial, ethnic or religious minorities; liberals; communists; socialists; terrorists, etc.
4. Supremacy of the Military - Even when there are widespread domestic problems, the military is given a disproportionate amount of government funding, and the domestic agenda is neglected. Soldiers and military are glamorized.
5. Rampant sexism - The government of fascist nations tend to be almost exclusively male-dominated. Under fascist regimes, traditional gender roles are made more rigid. Divorce, abortion and homosexuality are suppressed and the state is represented as the ultimate guardian of the family institution.
6. Controlled Mass Media - Sometimes the media is directly controlled by the government, but in other cases, the media is indirectly controlled by government regulation, or sympathetic media spokespeople and executives. Censorship, especially in war time, is very common.
7. Obsession with National security - Fear is used as a motivational tool by the government over the masses.
8. Religion and Government are intertwined - Government in fascist nations tend to use the most common religion in the nation as a tool to manipulate public opinion. Religious rhetoric and terminology is common from government leaders, even when the major tenets of the religion are diametrically opposed to the government’s policies or actions.
9. Corporate Power is Protected - The industrial and business aristocracy of a fascist nation are often the ones who put the government leaders into power, creating a mutually beneficial business/government relationship and power elite.
10. Labor Power is suppressed - Because the organizing power of labor is the only real threat to a fascist government, labor unions are either eliminated, or are severely restricted.
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 and letters is openly attacked.
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.
13. Rampant Cronyism and Corruption - Fascist regimes almost always are governed by groups of friends and associates who appoint each other to government positions and use governmental power and authority to protect their friends from accountability. It is not uncommon in fascist regimes for national resources and even treasures to be appropriated or even outright stolen by government leaders.
14. Fraudulent Elections - Sometimes elections in fascist nations are a complete sham. Other times elections are manipulated by smear campaigns against or even assassinations of opposition candidates, use of legislation to control voting numbers or political district boundaries, and manipulation of the media. Fascist nations also typically use their judiciaries to manipulate or control elections.
Benito Mussolini - who knew something about fascism - had a more straightforward definition: “Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power.”
Abraham Lincoln stated, “I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me, and causes me to tremble for the safety of our country. Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people, until wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the republic is destroyed.” - inactive, on 10/29/2007, -15/+79Wow, the Republican controlled elections in Ohio broke the law again? See BradBlog.com & BlackBoxVoting.org for more info.
- jenesys, on 10/10/2007, -9/+66Have American Idol tally the friggin' votes, probably more accurate and less biased.
- Cyberen, on 10/10/2007, -4/+59A hijacking of our democracy and they're destroying the paper trail.
Why this isn't bigger news, I don't know. - khail250, on 10/10/2007, -5/+48who cares... look what happened now, torture, false facts about iraq, cheney not executive branch, gonzalas... there are no such things as laws in this country
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -3/+44what has happened to America?
- PacketScan, on 10/10/2007, -15/+49Bush BOUGHT the election. The evidence was everywhere and we did nothing about it.
Except bitch now..
Screw it... let's impeech the guy. - deutscheBag, on 10/10/2007, -2/+35Check out the HBO documentary, "HACKING DEMOCRACY." Its been a while, but I believe it showed the OH "re-count," the FL discrepancies, how easy it is to hack a DIEBOLD voting machine, and ballots being thrown away.
http://www.hbo.com/docs/programs/hackingdemocracy/synopsis.html - Potatoeshank, on 10/10/2007, -0/+32This is why we shouldn't use Diebold electronic voting machines that leave no paper trail. We need a paper trail so that we can verify the accuracy of our voting records. It's easier to "accidentally destroy" voting records when their only verification is a computer file.
- Godlike, on 10/10/2007, -3/+31I live in the wonderous state of ohio. During the 2004 election, I walked out of the voting location to see ballot boxes driving away in a truck with a BUSH sticker on it.
Fun times. - veritas22, on 10/10/2007, -13/+38***** Bush
- usrlocalbin, on 10/10/2007, -5/+27You mean bring in the Freedom lovers, the Constitution supporters, and those who want peace right?
You ***** douche bag, go spread your neo-con propaganda somewhere else. Go to foxnews.com I'm sure you'll feel right at home. And make sure you put your head really deep in the sand so you don't see anything and continue living your oblivious, simple minded life. - sugarazor, on 10/10/2007, -2/+24No idea why you're getting dugg down when you're absolutely right. Ever been to a bank? They can count millions of dollars down to the penny, yet for some reason we can't properly tally Democracy.
- jer2eydevil88, on 10/10/2007, -1/+23I live in Ohio and I am not surprised one bit... we have some of the biggest morons working in the statehouse... I filed for a limited partnership three times because they kept rejecting it for different reasons. Finally I got a legal process started against them because nothing was wrong with my paperwork and guess what I finally got my paperwork from the state.
- xedd, on 10/10/2007, -1/+21"Yeah because lefties never engage in vote fraud. Whatever."
Good God. Do you understand the import of what you just wrote? Do you imply that it is okay?
Are you using your brain? Do you have one?
Do you care at all? About anything?
You know, expat001 asked "what has happened to America?" and now I think I know.
There are too many people in it like YOU! - phaed, on 10/10/2007, -3/+22Sounds like the country I live in. The US.
- Timetheos, on 10/10/2007, -3/+22You idiot. The Republican Secretary of State determined voting machine allocation.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -4/+21"Your ballots are becoming worthless" Inaccurate, they've been completely worthless ever since the Electoral College was invented. Abolish it, and institute campaign spending caps and the playing field will be leveled out, and just maybe democracy will start to regrow in the US.
- usrlocalbin, on 10/10/2007, -3/+16You're an idiot.
Stop with this party-line ***** already. - VeganG, on 10/10/2007, -2/+15Your disdain for the idea of a fair election upsets me.
- yodaj007, on 10/10/2007, -1/+13Destroying voting records doesn't raise alarm bells in your head? What could be more important to keep a record of for a long time within the context of a democratic society, wherein elections are a sacred component vital to the proper functioning of said democracy?
Even if this was an honest mistake, alarms should be going off all over the place. - sugarazor, on 10/10/2007, -0/+11So your bank, which is dealing with an unfathomable amount of money, made a mistake, caught it and corrected it? Thank you for proving my point. Let me know when your bank makes a mistake with your cash and then just erases your account - then they'd be on the level with what we're talking about here.
- Godlike, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12Where is the link to the trial where that programmer testifies that he was paid to rig the voting machines?
- JigoroKano, on 10/10/2007, -1/+11Post a reasonable argument first.
- TBagwell, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9only now?
- NinjaBoy, on 10/10/2007, -3/+12Freedom isn't free. It costs folks like you and me.
$1.05 - CurtHowland, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9"There are two infinites in the universe, the size of the universe and human stupidity. And I am not certain about the former."
---Albert Einstein - swrostmore, on 10/10/2007, -0/+9From the Rolling Stone article "Was the 2004 Election Stolen?" By RFK Jr: No state was more important in the 2004 election than Ohio. The state has been key to every Republican presidential victory since Abraham Lincoln's, and both parties overwhelmed the state with television ads, field organizers and volunteers in an effort to register new voters and energize old ones. Bush and Kerry traveled to Ohio a total of forty-nine times during the campaign -- more than to any other state.(42)
- trenchcoat, on 10/10/2007, -2/+10Tell the Secret Service guys I said hi.
- Sparkster185, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8Ohio was the state that basically decided the election. It was really close and whoever took Ohio took the Electoral College.
- CannedMango, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8You may be young, or just ignorant... but a written threat against someone else is taken just as seriously as a verbal threat and yes, you could go to jail for it. The law is still catching up with technology, but you shouldn't assume that because you write it anonymously (or semi-anonymously) on a message board that it won't be taken seriously.
Even a scumbag, traitorous, lying, murderer like Bush deserves the freedoms and liberties granted by the constitution he is trying so desperately to destroy. It is this belief that puts those of us who believe in true freedom above those who would sacrifice their own freedoms and the freedoms of others for their selfish reasons. - alliemarie, on 10/10/2007, -2/+10It doesn't make it right because both sides are doing it.
- lendrick, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9Don't you mean 25%? :)
- erekose, on 10/10/2007, -1/+9It left the building sometime ago.
We are left with fresh paint and nice decorations, but somehow the home is empty. - lendrick, on 10/10/2007, -0/+8It's *never* okay when *anyone* cheats. Why is "democrats did it too!" an excuse for this? It has to stop. Across the board. Democrats, Republicans, whatever. I don't think you'll see anyone here asserting that it was remotely okay when Democrats committed election fraud. Anyone who does it ought to go to jail, regardless of the party they're affiliated with. Election fraud is happening *right now*. Why are you excusing it??
- swrostmore, on 10/10/2007, -2/+9This is an illustration of a need for reading comprehension:
" a U.S. District Court order issued last September that the 2004 ballots be preserved while the court hears a civil rights lawsuit alleging voter suppression of African-American voters in Columbus." - obliviousfool, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7It wasn't just Ohio. Obviously Florida was the important state in 2000, but that's beside the point. It's not like they are just picking one state each time! See this paper, page 2. http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/exit-poll-discrepancy-1110.pdf Or this paper
http://www.electionarchive.org/ucvAnalysis/US/Exit_Polls_2004_Edison-Mitofsky.pdf pages 28 and 29. New Hampshire had a 4.9 point "red shift" in 2004. Pennsylvania had a "red shift' of somewhere between 3.4 and 6.5 points! Oddly, this was not enough to hand either New Hampshire or Pennsylvania to Bush. We still talk about Ohio because the red shift there was able to overcome Kerry's winning margin. Karl Rove has since talked about the "swing states" for '08. These states included Colorado, Florida, Arkansas, and Minnesota ...you know, places where US attorneys were replaced. An important point is you can't game the election everywhere. You have to pick the battleground states from that moment in time. You have to figure out which ones will have the smallest projected margins. Ohio is a good target, but I'll doubt they'll pick on that target again. You know, won't get fooled again and all that. - ghank, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7wall of text crits you for 10k damage.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Geekee fully understood that...he's just being obtuse.
- Andronicus1717, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7You are basically saying that our votes have always been worthless, since the Electoral College was set forth in the original Constitution.
- tyme, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7"People parroting impeachment are some of the stupidest Americans we have in this country. They offer no basis for their arguement [sic]."
No basis? Really? You know, a quick google search and look:
http://www.impeachbush.tv/args/impeachbush.html
Apparently, you are dumber than the Americans who are "parroting impeachment", since you aren't even able to use google effectively. - cesig, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7It probably wasn't rejected because they were morons, but because they were cronies.
- swrostmore, on 10/10/2007, -3/+10What does your post have to do with Ohio's 2004 Election Records being mysteriously "destroyed?" Nothing?
- swrostmore, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6 a U.S. District Court order issued last September that the 2004 ballots be preserved while the court hears a civil rights lawsuit alleging voter suppression of African-American voters in Columbus.
- phloydde, on 10/10/2007, -2/+8why is it whenever a republican leader is caught doing something wrong, it's because of a leftist liberal communist witchhunt and when a democrat does something wrong it's because they have lost their belief in america and family?
I'm sick of leftist being called communist and the such. Me? I'd vote for left or right, as long as they stood for what I stand for.
They main reason I hate this administration is because of the corruption and sheer lack of audacity in their "interpretation" of the law. They should be impeached - should have been impeached years ago. And you can bet if this was a democratic white house right now, you'd have every republican senator foaming at the mouth, calling, screaming, yelling for impeachment. Yet now, when the shoe is on the other foot, the Democrats are playing "petty politics" or "politicing the war".
I hate this country's politics, where the truth doesn't matter, just the spin. - loconet, on 10/10/2007, -7/+13http://ca.php.net/stripslashes
- Combat, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Oh, there are laws alright... Just none that control the government, only the slaves er... "citizens".
- cesig, on 10/10/2007, -0/+6Either because the media thinks people are too stupid or apathetic to understand, or because the media is sympathetic to or afraid of the government.
This happened in Florida, too, if you recall. And Greg Pallast even has 500 e-mails from Karl Rove (that Rove intended to be "lost" along with all those others) discussing, among other things, caging lists, which are illegal, and no mention of that is ever made. Ever hear about THAT on the local news?
Of course not.
This nation is *****. - TheSolomon, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Because Bush couldn't have pulled off such a scam on his own. The people behind voter suppression and fraud efforts like these live on to work for a future candidate. Finding the truth behind issues like these will hopefully prevent them from happening in the future, and maybe, if we're lucky, bring the perpetrators to justice.
- xedd, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Because Ohio was too close to call. It was one of the states that could have gone either way, so it was a critical state to win. In many other states, the outcome was very clear even before the election was over. Plus, Ohio has a large population so its electoral votes made it a critical win too.
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