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Glenn Davis: Who Are The Real Fascists?
By BuzzFlash
Created 09/01/2006 - 12:40pm
A BUZZFLASH READER CONTRIBUTION
by Glenn Davis


There has been a lot of talk recently by certain government officials about 
the threat that "Islamic fascism" poses to the world.

The underlying strategy behind this dubious rhetoric, is to make a 
comparison between this supposed "Islamic fascism," and the European fascism 
of the 1930s that preceded World War II.

By doing this, they hope to scare the American public into believing that 
unless they embrace a foreign-policy of preemptive warfare, a Nazi-like 
power grab by "Islamic fascists" will be forthcoming, wreaking great 
destruction throughout the world.

But a closer look at recent world events, and an examination of what fascism 
actually is, reveals that it is the United States that poses the real threat 
to democracy and world peace, having recently morphed into a fascist state 
itself.

Fascism, in a nutshell, is a particular form of authoritarian government in 
which big-industry merges with the state.

Benito Mussolini, the fascist Italian dictator whose name is synonymous with 
the term, went so far as to say that: "Fascism should more appropriately be 
called Corporatism, because it is a merger of State and corporate power."

With the quid pro quo relationship that exists between our American 
government and big-business, who could argue with a straight face that this 
is not precisely what we have in America today?

Just consider, for one example, the relationship between Vice President Dick 
Cheney and Halliburton. As a government official in the early 90s, Cheney 
helped arrange lucrative contracts for Halliburton and its subsidiaries by 
having them perform services for troops, such as cleaning and cooking, that 
used to be performed by enlisted men and women themselves. He was 
subsequently made CEO of Halliburton, putting his net worth into the tens of 
millions of dollars. When Cheney came back into power as Vice President, he 
pushed hard for the invasion of Iraq, and Halliburton has profited immensely 
as a result of its military-industrial contracts there.

That is a fine example of fascism at work.

Combine with this the recently expanded, unconstitutional governmental 
powers implemented domestically at the expense of individual rights. For 
example, the secretive warrant-less wiretapping program, or the arrest, and 
indefinite detention of people in denial of their constitutionally 
guaranteed due process rights. As well, there are vigorous attempts to 
permanently establish the president as a leader that can operate outside of 
the law.

Add to this America's aggressive, militaristic foreign policy, designed to 
achieve what many of our current leaders have described as "benevolent 
global hegemony" (world domination), and it then becomes clear that the 
United States has become a fascist, authoritarian state, hell-bent on 
empire. It is this recent change in our government, and not inadequate 
intelligence, that explains America's invasion of Iraq under false 
pretenses.

And, as to Islamic extremists and their hatred of America, a U.S. State 
Department report revealed the true cause of their anti-American sentiment: 
U.S. foreign policy.

There is indeed a global ideological movement taking place among Muslim 
peoples today. But it is not the result of any fascist ideologies. Rather, 
it is a resistance movement that is a direct reaction to the fascist-driven 
imperialism of the 21st century United States, now racing to seize control 
of Middle Eastern gas and oil by force, and attempting to reshape the region 
to its (and Israel's) liking.

So don't fall for the ruse that is "the threat of Islamic fascism."

In truth, it is the fascism of the current United States government that 
must be stopped by the American people. If not, it will bankrupt the country 
expanding the death and destruction it has created in Iraq to other parts of 
the world, and destroy what's left of the constitution at home.

"Fascism - A system of government that exercises a dictatorship of the 
extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business 
leadership, together with belligerent nationalism."

--American Heritage Dictionary, 1983

Glenn Davis

A BUZZFLASH READER CONTRIBUTION

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