When fascism visited America.

[Javaman]

If there is such a thing as a specter or ghost, I see it as fascism. This horrible apparition flits from nation to nation until if finds a suitable host country to infect.

Fascism in and of itself is bad enough but coupled with genocide takes it to the level of a horribly despicable crime against humanity. Starting from the early part of the 20th century(and more than likely earlier, I'm just looking at modern society)in Armenia by the turks, it moved and gestated through out the content. Russia with it's pogroms, Germany's final solution, various points in Central America, popping up in Africa, then Viet Nam, Pol Pots Cambodia, Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Sudan, Middle East. And now it's in Iraq. It's just keeps going and going. And it always starts the same way. Fear.

In order for a government to have a population filled with fear, the government must be fearful of its population.

In all the countries through out time, fear has been the basic tool of fascism. Scare enough people into thinking that their comfy little world is going to end and be replaced by, fill in the enemy of choice, and off they go.

And because of the fear tactics that have been leached into our society by the bush administration, our basic rights as guaranteed by the constitution have been conveniently been put in the drawer for some other time.

As Ben Franklin once said, "Those Who Sacrifice Liberty For Security Deserve Neither"

On the morning when Habeas Corpus was done away with, not only were 900 years of jurist prudence trampled upon, but 8 our of 10 basic rights given to us by the Bill of Rights, suddenly were no longer effective. It was then we began living under a fascist government.

Using fear as a tool to control the population is the face of fascism. Believing their propaganda and choosing to live in fear; is the life of a coward. Many of us chose not to live in fear but live by the words of FDR, "They only thing we have to fear is fear itself". Powerful words, yet sadly, ignored by a good portion of the population.

They still want us to live under their tool of fear until January.

The horrible images from Abu Garib plainly put forth the to the American public that this administration was not beyond the capability of stooping as low as possible to maintain control. We hear of various secret prisons in other countries and how these countries have no problem with torturing people to "extract" information.

Besides Guantanamo Bay, no evidence has so far surfaced that people are being tortured here. No evidence yet.

But given the fact that this government now feels it's perfectly fine to imprison someone without evidence, without charges and with out the aid of a lawyer and that the vice president calls water boarding nothing more than a few "dunks" in water, would we be the least surprised if we found out tomorrow that they were/are in fact torturing people here?

Then at which point do we say enough?

We didn't when we found out that the WMD story was a complete fabrication, we didn't when we saw the photos from Abu Garib, we didn't when they outed a CIA employee, we didn't when they stole the election, we didn't when the suspended Habeas Corpus, so when do we say enough?

We have, last Tuesday.

My point in all of this is: we have 6 weeks until the Democratic party takes over both houses. Do we sit idly by when they try and shove through their last bits of insanity? Or do we remain vigilant until January? It's nice to sit and warm yourself in the warm glow of victory, but we aren't their yet. They still are in control and a lot can happen between now and then.

Bush still has his "mandate" until January, don't let our good fortune turn out to be our worst nightmare because we let our guard down.

Peace always.