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Listing Fascist Trends in the USA

Comment by Larry Ross, December 14, 2006

Chris Floyd has written one of the great papers of our age. In a few pages he expresses the steps in the decline of US Constitutional Law; the US rise of fascist-type legislation; and why we should not expect much improvement from the new 'democratically-controlled' Senate and Congress.

I'll add a few thoughts to Floyd's brilliant analysis.

1. Never in history has a dictatorship (de-facto or acknowledged) with unlimited world and space objectives and aspirations, had the power to destroy every nation on earth including its own if the Bush regime does not get its way. Its leaders have the will, the religious ideology and the psychopathic mental processes to implement the delusions and lies that they, and their every obedient media portray as 'truth'. Senate and Congress have legislated the new US nuclear doctrines and laws for the President to launch preemptive nuclear war. They will sell their new war on Iran as 'a limited surgical, nuclear operation on military targets'. This may actually kill millions. It may also release a series of quick, uncontrollable actions and reactions, leading to the release of many countries' arsenals of nuclear, biological and chemical devices - enough to kill all global life many times over. In the unlikely event it remains limited, rather than a total global war, the result will be a number of long-term uncontrollable disasters. 
     
2. There is only limited, ineffectual and relatively powerless opposition to this mindless, fascist-military juggernaut in the US.
   
3. Floyd listed how the US has become a de-facto fascist-military state as follows “indefinite detention, torture, military tribunals warrantless surveillance, extrajudicial killings, kidnapping and rendition of uncharged captives, secret prisons, arbitrary creating of novel legal categories such as "unlawful enemy combatant", even of Americans, under the Military Commissions Act, and the permanent loss of habeas corpus".
   
4. "The Military Commissions Act (MCA) transformed the fundamental nature of the American state...all liberties are now at the mercy  of the executive...the potential for further abuses under the new-style state is virtually without limit." Floyd wrote.
   
5. Bear in mind that this extraordinary transformation of American society, from freedom to fascism, was based on a litany of lies, a stolen election, and "a lawless invasion based on deceit". Hitler would envy this amazingly easy planned fascist success story.
   
6. The neoconservative US executive owes a debt of gratitude to US psy-ops experts and the mass media who repeated every Bush lie, suppressed truth and criticism and acted as cheerleaders for every war and the planned war on Iran .
   
7. Are other countries immune from the 'fascist disease'? Not likely. The mass media everywhere is owned and controlled by corporations and individuals close to the Bush Administration. They are very willing to influence what information they provide their readers and what they suppress. The Bush Administration has many tricks, including a litany of lies, covert operations, psy-ops and 'False Flag' operations, that the media will portray as 'truth'  in order to persuade people everywhere to believe the Bush Administration and copy its steps and fascist legislation.

 One antidote to this ongoing Fascist infection of Western Democracy is to research the facts, and educate other people everywhere - where possible all Members of The US Congress, The Senate, and Parliament in the UK , Australia and New Zealand and elsewhere.

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Presidential Tyranny Untamed by Election Defeat

By Chris Floyd - t r u t h o u t | UK Correspondent, December 12, 2006

 I. Genetic Modification

    Like the two entwining strands of the double helix, law and power form the genetic structure of government. Law is nothing but empty verbiage without power to back it up, enforce it, embody it. And power without law is nothing but a mad ape, baring its teeth, thumping its chest, raping and beating where it pleases, taking what it wants: a bestial thing, born in the muddy swamp of our lowest, blindest, rawest biochemical impulses. Disconnect these strands and things fall apart, as Yeats says; the center literally cannot hold, and the blood-dimmed tide is loosed upon the world.

    We have seen the proof of this in our time. When law - understood here as agreed-upon principles of justice and commonweal - is treated as a filthy rag or a "quaint" relic or a cynical sham by those in power, the result is an ever-growing suppuration of greed, lies, brutality and violence. Its starkest form is evident in Iraq, where a lawless invasion based on deceit has created a hell beyond imagining, and beyond control. At home, unfettered power has stripped Americans of their essential liberties and human rights, which are now no longer unalienable and inviolable but are instead the gift of the "unitary executive," to bestow - or withhold - as he sees fit.

    For those who hoped that November's elections might bring some essential alteration in our degraded estate, some repair of the broken strands, recent events have been dispiriting indeed. Two in particular stand out as exemplary of the ugly reality behind the bright rhetoric of "change" and "moderation" now twinkling in the Beltway air. Although apparently unrelated, they are in fact part of the same malignant process that has been devouring the structure - and substance - of the Republic for years.

    One strand of this revealing juxtaposition involves the release of a video showing the nightmarish treatment meted out to Jose Padilla - an American citizen seized on American soil and subjected to torture under indefinite detention without charges or trial, and who was subsequently revealed by the Bush administration itself to have engaged in no conspiracy or act of hostility toward the United States. Now his mind has been broken by years of brutal "interrogation methods," complete isolation and bizarre sensory-deprivation techniques, leaving him incapable of aiding his defense in his trial for the much-reduced - and, according to most legal experts, highly shaky - charges of trying to aid Islamist groups in Chechnya and elsewhere.

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