Fascism, American-Style

[Judi Lynn]

Weekend Edition Oct 31-Nov 02, 2014

One-Step from the Third Reich?

Fascism, American-Style

by JOHN STANTON

“Unbeknownst to most Americans the United States is presently under thirty presidential declared states of emergency. They confer vast powers on the Executive Branch including the ability to financially incapacitate any person or organization in the United States, seize control of the nation’s communications infrastructure, mobilize military forces, expand the permissible size of the military without congressional authorization, and extend tours of duty without consent from service personnel. Declared states of emergency may also activate Presidential Emergency Action Documents and other continuity-of-government procedures which confer powers on the President, such as the unilateral suspension of habeas corpus—that appear fundamentally opposed to the American constitutional order. Although the National Emergencies Act, by its plain language, requires the Congress to vote every six months on whether a declared national emergency should continue, Congress has done only once in the nearly forty year history of the Act.”

— Patrick Thronson, Michigan Journal of Law (2013, Vol 46).

A bit of irony, perhaps, that on November 4, 2014—as Americans go to the polls to cast their ballots for a slate of politicians at the local, state and federal levels—the august citizens of the United States will also celebrate the birth of the National Security Agency (NSA).

On November 4, 1952 the NSA was created by a Presidential Executive Order signed by then president Harry Truman. Earlier that year, in January 1952, Truman’s state of the union address focused on the Korean War, the global Soviet-Communist threat, the “Iran oil situation”, and the need to increase the production of US military equipment for use by American forces, and for transfer to Western European Allies. Truman called on Americans to seek guidance in the God of Peace even as a brutal shadow war was being waged by the United States to eliminate popularly elected “leftist” governments.

In 1953 Dwight D. Eisenhower was elected to the American presidency and with him came John Foster and Allan Dulles, two political appointees who would, it turns out, seek the counsel and expertise of “former” Nazi executioners, scientists and intelligence operatives. J Edgar Hoover, then director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), was already on the case using whatever resources were at his disposal—including Nazis–to hunt down unionists, communists, dissenters and radicals wherever they might be. According to the UK’s Guardian newspaper, Truman had this to say about Hoover and his FBI, “We want no Gestapo or secret police. FBI is tending in that direction. They are dabbling in sex-life scandals and plain blackmail… Edgar Hoover would give his right eye to take over, and all congressmen and senators are afraid of him.”

More:
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/10/31/fascism-american-style/

[blkmusclmachine]

1. 1952 was also the first year of the Presidents Prayer Breakfast, founded by a group covertly seeking

to subvert democratically elected government and impose an extreme hard rightwing theocracy on the Nation.

60 years, and one 9/11 event later, and the Christian Dominionists seem to be on the cusp of attaining their long-sought after dream of an American Theocracy. Bad, bad, bad news for all of us.


The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power, by Jeff Sharlet, 2008 HarperCollins

The book investigates the political power of "The Family," a secretive association of rightwing Christian evangelicals. ISBN 0060559799

[KoKo]

2. It's "Sleeping America".....only wakes up every 2 years for Elections...and that's

if they have any ounce of conscience left in their souls.

Otherwise MSM INFO-ENTERTAINMENT and other "Community Activities" in "Re-run" tend to bog them down to have qualms over not being part of the "In Crowd" in the Community.

Nothing wrong with that......EXCEPT....what is NOT Focused on? :shrug;

Why can't we watch REAL NEWS along with our INFO-Entertainment?

Well...Overworked and Dealing with Life does take lots of time......And, there's that way that MSM tends to "USE US" so we become weak.

[Enthusiast]

3. 911 = The Reichstag Fire.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichstag_fire

That is why they allowed 911. It was a tool to achieve their goals. And it worked.