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Is America ‘Yearning for Fascism’?
Is America ‘Yearning for Fascism’?
By Chris Hedges | Truthdig
The language of violence always presages violence. I watched it in war after war from Latin America to the Balkans. The impoverishment of a working class and the snuffing out of hope and opportunity always produce angry mobs ready to kill and be killed. A bankrupt, liberal elite, which proves ineffectual against the rich and the criminal, always gets swept aside, in times of economic collapse, before thugs and demagogues emerge to play to the passions of the crowd. I have seen this drama. I know each act. I know how it ends. I have heard it in other tongues in other lands. I recognize the same stock characters, the buffoons, charlatans and fools, the same confused crowds and the same impotent and despised liberal class that deserves the hatred it engenders.
“We are ruled not by two parties but one party,” Cynthia McKinney, who ran for president on the Green Party ticket, told me. “It is the party of money and war. Our country has been hijacked. And we have to take the country away from those who have hijacked it. The only question now is whose revolution gets funded.”
The Democrats and their liberal apologists are so oblivious to the profound personal and economic despair sweeping through this country that they think offering unemployed people the right to keep their unemployed children on their nonexistent health care policies is a step forward. They think that passing a jobs bill that will give tax credits to corporations is a rational response to an unemployment rate that is, in real terms, close to 20 percent. They think that making ordinary Americans, one in eight of whom depends on food stamps to eat, fork over trillions in taxpayer dollars to pay for the crimes of Wall Street and war is acceptable. They think that the refusal to save the estimated 2.4 million people who will be forced out of their homes by foreclosure this year is justified by the bloodless language of fiscal austerity. The message is clear. Laws do not apply to the power elite. Our government does not work. And the longer we stand by and do nothing, the longer we refuse to embrace and recognize the legitimate rage of the working class, the faster we will see our anemic democracy die.
The unraveling of America mirrors the unraveling of Yugoslavia. The Balkan war was not caused by ancient ethnic hatreds. It was caused by the economic collapse of Yugoslavia. The petty criminals and goons who took power harnessed the anger and despair of the unemployed and the desperate. They singled out convenient scapegoats from ethnic Croats to Muslims to Albanians to Gypsies. They set in motion movements that unleashed a feeding frenzy leading to war and self-immolation. There is little difference between the ludicrous would-be poet Radovan Karadzic, who was a figure of ridicule in Sarajevo before the war, and the moronic Glenn Beck or Sarah Palin. There is little difference between the Oath Keepers and the Serbian militias. We can laugh at these people, but they are not the fools. We are. Read more.
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Hey kidz!!! Speaking of "Militias" and "False Fronts" . . . ;-)
Chris Hedges of Truthdig writes:
"There is little difference between the Oath Keepers and the Serbian militias. We can laugh at these people, but they are not the fools. We are."
Hmmm, this ol' fool sees a LOT of difference between the Seribian militias and the "Oath Keepers" . . .
. . . and "WE ARE CHANGE" for that matter . . .
. .. you know, "WE ARE CHANGE" that latest group of AMERICAN CITIZENS that the Zionist 5th Column "Southern Poverty Law Center" (SPLC) has decided it hates . . . so therefore, they have been labeled a "dangerous HATE GROUP" . . . ;-)
But what this ol' fool is "laughing" about today is this latest "Booga booga" about this Hutaree group in Michigan .. .
(clipped headline from MSNBC)
"Suspected militia members to appear in court
Prosecutors claim the group had plotted to kill police officers"
(full story)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36113919/ns/us_news-security/
You know, that "yet another scary terrorist group" that just happened to be acting with the HELP of the FBI . . .
(clipped headline and article from the Wall Street Journal)
"Militia Chief's Mistrust Festered, Friends Say - . . An undercover agent played a role in the investigation that led to Monday's indictments. Grand jury testimony by a law enforcement officer referred to an 'undercover FBI agent' who worked on the case. The FBI declined to comment, but infiltration is a common tactic for law-enforcement officials targeting domestic militia groups."
(full story)
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230473910457515404132244296...
Yeah, like nobody saw THAT one coming . . . ;-)
(clipped headline and article from INFOWARS)
"As Predicted, FBI Agent Discovered at Center of Alleged Hutaree Conspiracy - On Monday we asked you to count the hours before links to the feds emerged on this one – turns out it was 48."
(full story)
http://www.prisonplanet.com/as-predicted-fbi-agent-discovered-at-center-...
But you kidz want to see something even FUNNIER??? ;-)
Well, if you look REALLY closely at the Hutaree group's web site . . .that is in 24x7 rotation on the Zio-Media Propaganda Machine . .
www.hutaree.com
. . . down at the bottom, in the center is an "x" box where a JPEG image USED to be . . .
. . .emphasis on USED to be . . .
If you look at the properties of this failed link with a "Right Click", you will see that this supposed CHRISTIAN Militia USED to have the following on their HOME PAGE . . .
(begin clipped text from Hutaree website "Properties")
"star%20of%20david.jpg
Address (URL): http://www.hutaree.com/images/star%20of%20david.jpg "
(end clipped text)
Curious, no?
Even more curious is why the "Powers That Be" found it necessary to edit (scrub) this "Militia" home page BEFORE it was broadcast all over the place . . .
Yeah, . . .right . .. I'm sure the first thing in the "Violent Militia Manual" under the "Top Leadership Gets Captured By Enemy" section is "Step 1 - Update Web Page - Remove All Zionist Symbols" . . . ;-)
Who is laughing at whom, Mr. Chris Hedges? . . . ;-)
I think you should do a little more homework on who the REAL "Organized Hate Groups" are in this country before you go comparing groups like the "Oath Keepers" to Foreign Terrorist organizations . . .
. . . but that's just me, and we all know how "foolish" I am . . . ;-)
"I hate to say it but I told you so
Don't mind my preaching to you
I said, 'don't trust him',
baby, now you know
You don't learn everything
There is to know in school
Wouldn't believe me when I gave advice
I said that he was a tease
If you want help
You better ask me nice
So be sincere,
Convince me with a 'pretty please'
Laugh, Laugh, I thought I'd die
It seemed so funny to me"
- "Laugh Laugh" by The Beau Brummels
peace.
When the real social and moral center are called the "left" by corporate liberal thugs, they paralyze the social opposition, by allowing the fascists, racist, know nothing street thugs into the back door, who then proceed to the front door to bring in, as the WEimar regime of Germany, the phony socialists, class appeasing social democrats, like America's democratic betrayers, the tyrant, and Hitler himself/herself.