[Peace-discuss] What we're up against

[C. G. Estabrook]

    I don't think there are yet real fascists in the administration, but
there is certainly now a constituency for them -- hungry to bomb
foreigners and smash those Americans who might object. And when there are
constituencies, leaders may not be far behind.
	--Scott McConnell
	Hunger for Dictatorship
	The American Conservative
	February 14, 2005

    In short, what we have alive in the US is an updated and Americanized
fascism [that] adores the head of state as a godlike figure who knows
better than anyone else what the country and world's needs, and has a
special connection to the Creator that permits him to discern the best
means to bring it about.
	--Lew Rockwell
	The Reality of Red-State Fascism
	Lewrockwell.com
	December 31, 2004

    I remember when conservatives favored restraint in foreign policy and
wished to limit government power in order to protect civil liberties.
Today's young conservatives are Jacobins determined to use government
power to impose their will at home and abroad . . . From whence came the
brownshirt movement that slavishly adheres to the neocons' agenda?
	--Paul Craig Roberts
	The Brownshirting of America
	October 2004

    From the first days after 9/11, the Bush administration created a
mythology that would spur reverence for both the president and the
government. Bush wrapped himself in a flag drenched with the blood of
Americans who died due to the failure of the federal government he
commanded, and sadly the people bought it -- and still continue to buy it.
	--James Bovard
	Lie and You Thrive
	September 17, 2004

    It was the blindness of the conservative Right to the dangers which
had been so evident, arising from their determination to eliminate
democracy and destroy socialism and the consequent government stalemate
they had allowed to develop, that delivered the power of a nation-state
containing all the pent up aggression of a wounded giant into the hands of
the dangerous leader of a political gangser mob.
	--Ian Kershaw
	Hilter: 1889-1936 Hubris
	1998

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