Corporatism breeds OPPRESSION

How do fascists subdue their populations? They sell-out or overthrow their democratic governments. Grover Norquist, a close cohort of the Bush-Rove axis, said he wants our government "the size where we can drown it in the bathtub". What's one of the biggest financial pools many organizations have? Retirement. In our country, much of that is in a public trust managed by the Social Security Administration. It has been, since the last major disaster caused by a de-regulated, reckless, irresponsible corporatist system: the Great Depression. Bush-Rove sees the opportunity to strike a major blow to our democratic system of government, in the shifting of funds from a "lock-box" that is under our care through congressional oversight, to Wall-street, where the sharks and thieves will do with it as they please: Maybe move it to the Caymans. Maybe further wire up the system and arm it for the day when they convince their puppets to repeal the first amendment.

The thing to keep in mind here is that our government, theoretically, is the system through which you and I protect ourselves, and each other. It is where the courts are, so we can settle disputes. It is where the makers and enforcers of laws are, to protect us and our property.

When our government becomes weaker than, corrupted by or prostituted to, private entities, those private entities become ruling gangs, and no crying about "rights" will make those gangs merciful; and when they commit social or environmental atrocities, who will be there to tell them to stop?

We told Hitler to stop, through our government. A fully-corporatized system, in all likelihood, would have sided with him, and America would have died sixty years ago.

Instead of in 2000.

How else do fascists subdue their populations? By removing their right to a fair and speedy trial. Over the years, out-of-court-settlements have circumnavigated true justice, and the "drug-war" has crippled the system to the point where sick people are chased down and locked up while violent thugs run free.

Now, to add to the attacks on our rights for a fair and speedy trial, a right we have struggled for since before the signing of the Magna Carta almost a millennium ago, the Bush/Rove axis is attacking victims-rights. They are putting limits on the amounts victims of injustice can receive. They are attacking those who would represent us in court. Civil-rights attorney Lynn Stewart is being used to set an example for those who would defend us. They are using their monopolized press to denigrate "activist judges" and "frivolous lawsuits", all in the name of "tort-reform" (ptah!!).

They are attacking every woman's right to choose how to manage her own health, and her future. That's roughly half of us in one shot!

How else do fascists subdue their populations? They censor the press. They band together in coalitions or monopolize the media market so that only the information they want spread gets out. They remove uncontrollable elements like Howard Stern under a form of censorship labeled "decency". They pressure their journalists to toe the party line under threat of losing their jobs. In a fair, accurate, un-monopolized media marketplace, this would provide emphasis. Homogenized today, it has become pervasive, mind-numbing propaganda.

When the guy in the delivery truck in the middle of the afternoon, or the network administrator on the graveyard-shift might start thinking something is wrong, every attempt is made by the organized megaphone of the Bush/Rove axis to dispel the notion by laughing off the term "Class-War". Listen carefully.

It IS class war.

Ever wonder why they're locking up poor people for not paying the right amount of taxes, but entire corporations are not paying any?

Ever wonder why the penalties for Crack-Cocaine possession average ten times what the penalties are for Powder-Cocaine? Ever think it might have something to do with what class-groups tend to favor which varieties of the drug?

Ever wonder who in God's green earth gave one man the right to decide what another man puts into his own body in privacy, anyway?

This is not new stuff. It's all been done before. The Romans recruited poor soldiers to oppress even poorer people, and to steal their land for the rich.

Goebbels inundated the population of Germany with Big Lies, convincing the un-educated working-class, the "lumpenproletariat", that the axis ideology had their interests at heart. Like a frog in a warming pot of water, that entire country did nothing to stop the madness until the better judgment of the world bombed them into submission. Read carefully.

Limbaugh and others like him are doing the exact same thing to us now. The last two "elections" and the current and upcoming wars are the result.

If someone you know, or perhaps even you, have any reservations about the danger that the former "Land of the Free, Home of the Brave" is in today, this message is easy to remember:

You are living a lie.
You are selling us out.

To those who willingly went to the polls and did what Clearchannel and Fox News told them to do:

You are living a lie.
You are selling us out.

To those who don't care:

You are living a lie.
You are selling us out.

Fascism is what happens when the oligarchy smells blood.

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