>freedom rider Election 2004: The Vote Theft Begins
>by Margaret Kimberly
>http://www.blackcommentator.com/111/111_fr_vote_theft.html
>
>Political scientist Lawrence Britt identified fourteen
>characteristics common to fascist regimes around the world. The
>United States has the dubious distinction of exhibiting all of them.
>The promotion of nationalism, disdain for human rights, scapegoating
>of "enemies," military supremacy, sexist public policy, media
>control by the powerful, obsessions with national security, use of
>religion to manipulate public opinion, protection of corporate
>power, suppression of labor power, disdain for intellectuals,
>obsession with crime, and rampant cronyism have all come to full
>fruition in the last four years.
As opposed to the glorious 1950s, when McCarthy was wilding across the political landscape and the permanent war economy was launched? The 1910s and 1920s, with Palmer Raids and union busting? Really now.
Doug