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Senator Byrd is correct to equate Bush with Hitler

By Harvey Wasserman
Online Journal Guest Writer

March 9, 2005 (Free Press)—The U.S. Senate's senior constitutional scholar has correctly equated Bush with Hitler, and the usual attack dogs are howling. But they are wrong, and Americans must now face the harsh realities of an increasingly fascist and totalitarian GOP.

Octogenarian Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia made the equation in the context of Bush's attack on Senate procedures which might slow or halt his on-going attempt to pack the courts with extreme right-wing fanatics. Byrd said Bush's moves to destroy time-honored Senate rules parallel Hitler's ramming fascist legislation through his gutted Reichstag. "Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality," said Byrd. "He recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side. Instead, he turned the law inside out and made illegality legal."

Anti-Defamation League Director Abraham Foxman has played the holocaust card for the Republicans, saying, "It is hideous, outrageous and offensive for Senator Byrd to suggest that the Republican Party's tactics could in any way resemble those of Adolph Hitler and the Nazi Party."

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Uncommon Sense
When fascism comes . . .

By Michael Hasty
Online Journal Columnist

November 20, 2004—Senator Robert Byrd may not be a saint, but he is most definitely a prophet. When he said before the election that George W. Bush was "bent on a ruthless pursuit of power" that threatens to "destroy the Constitution," he was unquestionably speaking prophetically—Bush has stolen another presidential term.

For the benefit of media-programmed readers who, upon reading this, are immediately thinking "conspiracy theory," consider this fact: the idea that Bush "won" is just as much of an unproven "theory" as the idea he stole the election. Why? Because America, unlike other so-called "democracies," does not allow the public to observe exactly how the Republican-affiliated private companies that actually count democracy's most sacred treasure—the vote—count the votes. The vote accounting process is private corporate property—off limits to the public.

As Josef Stalin said, "It's not who votes that counts. It's who counts the votes."

This is the very essence of fascism.

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