[michou]

Thanks for the link. <br /> I visited this site before but had not seen this run down on American fascism.

[Marcarc]

Those points put Canada pretty close as well. Germany was very anti-religion, as was Musseloni, so I don't think that one really applies anyway.

[KevinGagnon]

Marcarc,<br /> <br /> I guess the major differences is that the U.S can do much more with their fascism regime. They have the power to spread their ideologies all over the world. Or at least they probably think that.<br /> <br /> Kevin

[KevinGagnon]

<p>Robert Byrd: Behind the Times<br /> <br /> <p>You may have heard the rumblings from the right about Senator Robert Byrd's not-that-helpful historical analogy vis-a-vis the Senate Republicans' threat to disallow filibusters and, uhm, Hitler. Byrd, who is old and scary, said that "Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side. Instead, he turned the law inside out and made illegality legal." <br /> <br /> <p>You can tell he's old because he still thinks "Hitler" accusations are "cool" or "with it." They are so last year. Last administration, even! <br /> <br /> <p>For example (from the Congressional Record):<br /> <br /> <p>"Now, forgive me, but that is right out of Nazi Germany. I don't understand...why all of a sudden we are passing laws that sound as if they are right out of Nazi Germany."<br /> -Sen. Gramm, R-TX, September 5, 2002 (speaking in opposition to a Democratic tax plan)<br /> <br /> <p>"That, Mr. Speaker, is a modern-day equivalent of the Nazi prison guard saying 'I was just following orders.' It was all legal in Nazi Germany at the time."<br /> -Rep. King, R-IA, September 8, 2004 (speaking in opposition to a legal ruling on abortion)<br /> <br /> <p>There's more after the jump.<br /> <br /> <p>The cool new slur is to call people gay! Or is it to call them a gay hooker? Say they hate freedom? Oh, oh: Gay hookers who hate freedom! And Nazis, of course, never had any problem with them. . .<br /> <br /> <p>"We certainly have all seen the rejections of Nazi Germany's abuses of science. As a society and a nation, there ought to be some limit on what we can allow or should allow."<br /> -Sen. Sessions R-AL, October 11, 2004 (speaking in opposition to stem cell research)<br /> <br /> <p>"He also said that imposition of the Kyoto Protocol 'would deal a powerful blow on the whole humanity similar to the one humanity experienced when Nazism and communism flourished.' And that was the chief economic advisor to Russian President Putin. The world has certainly turned on its head that we Americans must look to Russians for speaking out strongly against irrational authoritarian ideologies."<br /> -Sen. Inhofe, R-OK, October 11, 2004 (speaking in opposition to the Kyoto Protocol)<br /> <br /> <p>Thanks to the operative who did the research on these.<br /> <br /> <p><a href="http://http://www.wonkette.com/politics/culture-war/robert-byrd-behind-the-times-034955.php"><b>Source:</b></a><br /> <br /> [QUOTE]You can tell he's old because he still thinks "Hitler" accusations are "cool" or "with it." They are so last year. Last administration, even![/QUOTE]<br /> <br /> <p>I don't get it. Is this right wing suggesting Hilter was once cool? :-s<br /> <br /> <p>Kevin

[Marcarc]

What difference does that make? If you're living under fascism, you're going to waste your time arguing against your neighbour's fascism because they're trying to make other people fascist? If you find an article that suggests you are living under a fascist government, one would think the first response would be 'what do we do about it?' The US is not our country, we have zero power or influence there, what purpose does it serve to look at the plank in your neighbour's eye when you've got one in your own? Why would anybody outside or inside your own borders ever listen to such hypocrites?

[KevinGagnon]

You have a point. I must focus more on local, provincial and federal politics in Canada. Its easy to get caught up in U.S politics, because the right wing ideologies are the same there as what we are finding here in Canada.<br /> <br /> Kevin

[Guest]

What do you think I have been fighting all along?????<br /> <br /> Difference is here we can stop it by shining the light of day on these activities<br /> <br /> Dennis Baker