Faith-Based Fascism by Leilla Matsui

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Christ Inc.
Faith-Based Fascism
by Leilla Matsui and Stella La Chance

When a triumphal George W. Bush declared his intention to cash in on his “political capital” in the days after the election, he was merely reaffirming his commitment to hand over the reins of power to a higher authority than even Dick Cheney. The religious right, with its enormous political stake in the “End Times” outcome of America's latest Imperial misadventures in Iraq and Afghanistan, have seized upon Bush's continued pledge to transform the “Homeland” into a locked down religious theme park with the organizational zeal they had previously reserved for bilking gullible parishioners out of their social security checks.

Like Halliburton, Christ Inc. has become the latest recipient of taxpayer largesse, having won the contract to keep the media out of the news business, and to ensure that power speaks to truth, as opposed to the other way around. Purging the “news” of news is just the latest attempt by religious Brownshirts to stamp their poisonous insignia on every major institution that they don't control lock, stock and barrel....
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/June05/Matsui-Chance0610.htm

[DBoon]

1. Scary blog story about resurgent Spanish fascism

November 29, 1999, http://www.gettingit.com/article/388

Quote:

European fascism is on the rebound. Where far-right fringe groups once drew ridicule, they now have ballot-box viability. Last month, Jörg Haider's Freedom Party won 27 percent of the popular vote to become Austria's second political force. Christoph Blocher's Swiss People's Party followed with its own second-place showing. In France, Jean-Marie Le Pen's National Front fell to pieces, but a fragmented far-right continues to draw votes. Nearly 15 percent of Norwegians support Carl Hagen's far-right Progress Party. These parties all play on fears of immigration (often over 10 percent of the overall population) and a perceived threat to national identity. Haider -- the charismatic son of Nazis -- uses the term "überfremdung" ("swamping by foreigners"), a favorite of Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's propaganda chief.

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" is now a secular, sellout state with nothing but blasphemies and ridicule for the One True Religion," yells José Luis Corral, leader of the Spanish Catholic Movement. "It has trashed family unity -- the very foundation of society -- replacing it with divorce and domestic partnerships, free love and prostitution, threatening the very survival of our race."

"Where are the fruits of this trite democracy?" asks Guillermo de Pablos, a priest. "With Franco there was order. That's what we need in Spain: Order ... Respect for God -- it's been lost. With Franco: Tradition, Fatherland, Spain. With Franco, one leader was enough -- because he did it stupendously."

[damntexdem]

2. Ooh, how crude!

They'd probably get further if they rolled it all up into a single law and called it a Patriot Act.

[sam sarrha]

5. We are exporting this shit all over the world.. it an offencive system to

take over any free government.. we are doing the same thing as the Saudis did the the Whabbies..which has returned to chew off the asses of the royal family..

[indepat]

3. Religious Brownshirts: I like that and what an appropriate moniker for

these ignorant religious zealots blinded by the right.

[sam sarrha]

4. This goes Way deeper.. this the Cruxifiss, so to speak.. Must Read>Link..

http://www.insider-magazine.com/ChristianMafia

all about how a Jewish Fascist Nazi who actually helped design and build the early Nazi Party fled to the US when the Jewish purge started.. when he got here he started a Fascist organization called the Christian Fellowship.

yes folks.. these are the guys that sponsor the 'Prayer Breakfasts' that anyone who wants to have power in this government 'Has' to go to..Bush is always going to them.. it is an access distribution point for his power they are so deep into the government it is really scary....

[dbeach]

6. "Faith Based Fascism"

It does have that Orwellian bushevik ring to it...

"Why do they hate our freedoms?"
cuz fascists hate all freedoms...