Special Report: Creeping fascism

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Special Report

 

Creeping fascism

 

By S. Rowan Wolf, Ph.D.

Online Journal Contributing Writer

 

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June 18, 2004—It is just one lie after another, one

cover-up after another, one egregious tromping of our

Constitution after another, and yet almost half the

population supports the Bush Regime. Unfortunately,

that half is also strongly represented in the

legislative branch of our government. This means that

while the exposes, and atrocities, and lies continue

to dance across the headlines, legislation continues

to be put forward and passed that cements the travesty

of the current regime's vision.

 

Andrew Greeley asks in his June 11, article Is U.S.

like Germany of the '30s?. He points to the

humiliation of the German people and their anger at

their leaders as key to the rise to power of Hitler.

He argues that Hitler was a strong leader who appealed

to the " dark side " of Germans.

 

Greeley's article does not do justice, in my opinion,

to the comparisons to be made. It also doesn't address

the scope of the deception being played out in front

of our eyes.

 

There is a pervasive belief in the U.S. that what

happened in Nazi Germany could never happen here. The

belief goes beyond the Holocaust, to the

transformation of a democracy into a fascist state; to

the transformation of protection of individual

freedoms into a police state with massive

surveillance. Yet it is happening, and the people

submit. Even as voices rise, most still feel that much

of the actions of the last three years were necessary.

 

There are striking similarities between George W. Bush

and Adolph Hitler. They both belong to secret death

societies - Hitler to the Thule Society and Bush to

the Skull and Bones. (Fact: Prescott Bush made a

fortune doing business with the Nazi Regime - links

below) Both brought their brotherhood and their vision

to their leadership in their respective nations (Bush

currently has five " Bonesmen " in his administration).

Both were " messianic. " Both saw their role as a

calling to power to lead their nations to global

domination. Both thought no cost was too great in this

quest. Both acted on the belief that evil means were

justified in the pursuit of the greater vision. Both

promoted a good/evil dichotomy to their citizens. But

these similarities aside, there are other similarities

between Hitler's Germany and Bush's United States.

 

At a basic level, Greeley is right in that upon the

rise to power of these two men, their respective

nations were looking for a change. In the US, the tilt

for two decades has been towards a corporate

government model. (I remember during the early 1980s

there was some talk of running Lee Iacocca, CEO of

Chrysler, for President of the United States).

Certainly, George Bush and his administration have

reflected that desire. There was a desire for

" morality " after the spectacle of the Clinton sex

scandals. George sold himself well in this regard, as

well.

 

However, the fascist transformation of the United

States has been long in the making (see Fascism USA,

UTJ 5/22/04). We have been moving towards this for

over 20 years. GW is just taking us over the cliff,

and he is doing it by promoting and enforcing a

perverted patriotism, and promulgating a campaign of

fear. This, too, is similar to Hitler's rise to power.

He didn't just spring full-blown on the German scene.

 

Now to the present and the undermining of a nation.

 

There has been an ongoing erosion of the line between

various branches of government. Under the auspices of

the " war on drugs, " there has been an increasing

blurring of the line between the military and the

police. This legal line is blurring to invisibility in

the aftermath of 9/11. In the 6/21/04 Newsweek article

Intelligence: The Pentagon & #65431;Spying in America?

by Michael Isikioff, we learn that the Senate

Intelligence Committee has eliminated the restriction

that the Department of Defense no longer has to comply

with the Privacy Act (the CIA is also exempt from this

restriction). What is frightening here is that both

the CIA and the military are only tasked to operate

outside the Untied States, that is, until the U.S.A.

P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act, and the merging of departments and

agencies under the Homeland Security Act, and the

various intelligence reorganization policies. Now both

of the non-domestic tasked agencies can (and do)

operate inside the US.

 

An examination of recent legislation coming out of the

Senate Intelligence Committee is instructive. Both

domestic intelligence authorizations and Department of

Defense authorizations are in the same bills. Joint

reports, programs, and transfer of personnel are

common. There are provisions in other legislation

being proposed that should also raise alarm.

 

S.1047 - Department of Defense Authorization Act for

Fiscal Year 2004 (Engrossed as Agreed to or Passed by

Senate). Section 1037 allows the use of " unmanned

aerial vehicles for support of Homeland Security

missions. That is the " predator drones being used in

Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere. The bill allows them

to operate over population centers inside the US.

 

S.1050 - National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal

Year 2004 (Placed on Calendar in Senate). Sections

3131 and 3132 authorize restarting the nuclear weapon

development program and underground testing of nuclear

weapons.

 

Public Law 108-177 - Intelligence Authorization Act

for Fiscal Year 2004 from S.1025 Intelligence

Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2004. Exempts the

Department of Defense from the constraints of the

Freedom of Information Act (Section 503, item 5 D).

 

All of the above is new legislation that erodes the

boundaries that protect the population from the

overbearing power of our government. They join a slew

of other legislation: the U.S.A. P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act

and all of its siblings, the Homeland Security Act,

numerous anti-privacy and anti-rights infringements.

All of these in the name of " security, " and argued as

" necessary in the war on terrorism. " Wasn't it Ben

Franklin who said something to the effect, " That he

who gives up liberty for security gets neither " ?

 

But it is largely a hidden and misrepresented erosion

of democracy that faces us. It is an erosion that

largely is not marketed with the face of the dominant

race in the United States, and when it is (such as has

happened recently) it is the face of the convert to

Islam, or the " environmental terrorist, " or the

political activist. Anti-patriots all, according to

the new rhetoric. These are the faces of the

" terrorists " in our midst; the unknown element able to

hide in " our " neighborhoods and strike us without

warning. Interestingly not on the list (given the

recent Nichols trial) is that of the White

Supremacist, or the armed militia groups. So we add

the " TIPS " program to the mix, for average citizens to

turn in their neighbors, people on the street, or

people acting " strangely " to the FBI for

investigation.

 

Likewise the Germans (or rather those selected as

loyal Germans) had their fears quieted by the Hitler

propaganda machine. They blindly and unwittingly gave

up their democracy to fascism because those " rules and

punishments " applied to someone else—the Jew, the

Gypsy, the immoral, the homosexual, the anti-Reich

resister—not to them. Those extreme government actions

were for " their " protection and for a greater Germany.

It is more than hauntingly familiar. It is playing out

day by day in front of our eyes.

 

So why does this tactic of framing the leader as a

father and protector of the " real " national values

work? It works because it plays upon the racism and

ethnocentrism embedded in the culture. This is

particularly true in the US which styled itself for so

long as the true white democracy—reserving rights of

citizenship and social participation for " whites. "

This creates (still) a sense of entitlement and

protection. The tactics of fear work within this

rubric of entitlement and protection because whites

are being protected from " them. " Included in them are

those " traitors " who challenge the system and who

challenge the entitlements (the perpetual enemy

within). The dreams of grandeur work because the

embeddedness of entitlement, purity, morality and

" rightness " embedded in the nationalism it creates

leads naturally to a belief in national entitlement

and right within the world. The world is rightly

" ours " and all that is in it is " ours. "

 

It worked in Germany. It has, and is, working in the

United States. We see similar processes at work in the

policies of Israel, and in the anti-immigrant

movements and far-right shifts in parts of Europe. The

US is not unique in any of this. What is unique is

that we have the military power to take by force

externally, and the perceived justification and

technology of controlling by force internally.

 

Those of us who are alarmed are told " Don't worry. If

you have nothing to hide, then the protections of law

are not needed. " If " they " are a threat, then " take

them out. " How inconvenient that " our " oil (or other

desired resource) is under someone else's land.

 

Can it happen here? It is happening here.

 

Resources:

 

Secret Society Links

 

Three World WarsThe Real Adolf Hitler

 

IAE THE SKULL AND BONES SOCIETY

 

Cephas Ministry/Library THE THULE SOCIETY & NWO

 

Kris Millegan, Parascope, The Order of Skull and Bones

 

Steven Bonta, The New American, The Power Elite &

George W. 7/17/2000

 

The Bushes and the Nazis

 

The Third Reich.

 

Wasserman and Fitrakis, Rense.com, Sen Byrd, Media

Begin To Cover Bush-Hitler Connection

 

Article showing Skull and Bones members, E. R.

Harriman, and Prescott S. Bush(The President's

Grandfather.) tied to Hitler's funding and Banking.

The Bush-Nazi Connection The Zanesville Signal,

Zanesville, Oh., Thursday, July 31, 1941