Comments on: Slouching Toward Fascism?

By: fred

fred — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 19:40:02 +0000

not to be extremley blunt, rude, or off-color with bad jokes… but technically ted kennedy’s car did not kill anyone. the water did.

BUT the poit remains valid.

By: Marshall Miles

Marshall Miles — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 00:53:09 +0000

Only because your a bad shot!!!

By: Paul Bartomioli

Paul Bartomioli — Sun, 29 Apr 2007 13:57:50 +0000

Never Mind the Dog.

Beware of Owner.

The 2nd Amendment is the protection of all the rest.

And, Ted Kennedy’s car has still killed more people than my guns, or Dick Cheney’s shotgun.

By: fred

fred — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 19:50:48 +0000

i just found this.. didn’t read the whole thing… but it’s titles “14 ways of looking at a blackshirt”.

as long as we are speaking about fascism.

http://www.themodernword.com/eco/eco_blackshirt.html

By: Tim Abbott

Tim Abbott — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 18:21:38 +0000

The proper metaphor for a fascist takeover is not a coup. It is the voluntary surrender of power from the people to the strongman. It is not an overt military usurpation, but rather the willing and successive compromise of individual liberties and freedoms to an authoritarian government in the name of law, order, security, and national unity. See Italy under Mussolini for the right wing-collectivist fascist prototype.

You will find very few self-identified fascists today, as the term has become a perjorative hurled by the left and the right.

By: Terry

Terry — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 00:47:12 +0000

JP, Thanks for the informed clarification. I guess a man’s home is still his castle in Fallujah.

Doug, Only a cerebral stonemason could manage to use the word Visigoths in a comment.

Marshall, I expect to see you on Paul’s porch when Wolfowitz’s tanks come rolling into FV.

P.S. Terrence, Alec Baldwin with a gun is scarier than Dick Cheney roaming the range in South Texas.

By: Marshall Miles

Marshall Miles — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 22:51:43 +0000

Doug….

Here is one moderate/liberal who would take a stand….

There are more of us out here than you think

By: JP

JP — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 22:17:01 +0000

Terry,

Having just spent a year in Iraq with the infantry, the policy in Iraq is that each household may have one AK-47 or similar “assault rifle” for each head of family. It is often common for brothers and their families to live together, so we often found, say, four families in one house. In such a situation, we only confiscated weapons beyond the four permitted. Machineguns, RPGs, mortars, pistols, grenades, etc., were confiscated automatically.

The policy was not one of complete disarmament. Each family was entrusted with the weapon (fully automatic, mind you) and ammunition to protect life and property.

Yarch,

By: Doug Richardson

Doug Richardson — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 20:45:16 +0000

I wish that I could agree with your stepfather. The concept is a good one and, in another time and place perhaps, The People would “rise up” and drive the Visigoths back from whence they came–at gunpoint.

Not today. There are no Liberals of my acquaintance who have the cojones to aim a gun at anyone (do they even own them?) and the majority of Conservatives are the ones who let the choke-chain off the wardogs in the first place.

Time and again history has proven that all totalitarian regimes devoured their opposition bite by single bite; an undeclared war here, a Patriot Act there–all met with a shrug of the shoulders rather than a cry of outrage–is what puts us in a gulag of our own devise. “Animal Farm” is their textbook.

Now if they drove a tank through Cornwall,well maybe you’d have a few people throwing rocks. But Cheney driving it? Nah…he’d have one of our sons at the wheel.

By: Marshall Miles

Marshall Miles — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 20:33:46 +0000

The resignation of Richard Nixon, ws one of the most stern tests to the strength of America. We passed with flying colors, and I can write with confidence, that conservatives and liberal alike would band together to stop any form of takeover. Her comments are BALONEY SAUCE (BS)!

The Bush administration is to confused and adrift to even try…hell, most of our troops are overseas!!