W and Dostoevsky- Terrific Anti-War Article!

[BamaLefty]

THIS IS A MUST READ FOR ALL WHO ARE ANTI-WAR!


For all the talk of "freedom" and "liberty" – Bush used the former 27 times, and the latter on 15 occasions – this president and his fanatic followers have been the very worst enemies of civil liberties on the home front. Bush has launched the most serious assault on the rights guaranteed by the Constitution since President John Adams imposed the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798. And if Bush is bad, his followers are far worse.


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What Lew Rockwell perceptively characterizes as "red-state fascism" is on the march, singing songs to "freedom" –and planting the seeds of authoritarianism in America. The ideas that drive Bush and today's Republicans exhibit all the classic features of fascist ideology, with a few homegrown innovations thrown into the mix: The cult of the Leader, the militarization and marriage of political and economic power, extensive surveillance of the citizenry, a strong tendency to criminalize public debate – as in brother Blankley's case – and, most important of all, a warlike foreign policy married to a messianic sense of mission, often rooted in religious ideas.




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Alas, the disease of second-term presidents – hubris – had infected this president and his advisers throughout the first four years. The fever shows no signs of subsiding: if anything, it is getting worse. George W. Bush is a man possessed – and God help us all if we fail to restrain him.


LINK: http://antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=4515

[myrna minx]

1. Thanks for this great article.

I have bookmarked it!

[BamaLefty]

2. I Imagine Others

will enjoy reading it.

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