In a Fascist society you get sent to prison for saying things critical of the government while in our society you can say what you feel like.

Really???

Keeping dissent invisible – How the Secret Service and the White House keep protesters safely out of Bush's sight — and off TV.

Oct. 16, 2003 | PHILADELPHIA — When Bill Neel learned that President George W. Bush was making a Labor Day campaign visit to Pittsburgh last year to support local congressional candidates, the retired Pittsburgh steelworker decided that he would be on hand to protest the president's economic policies. Neel and his sister made a hand-lettered sign reading “The Bushes must love the poor — they've made so many of us,” and headed for a road where the motorcade would pass on the way from the airport to a Carpenters' Union training center.

“He pointed out a relatively remote baseball diamond that was enclosed in a chain-link fence,” Neel recalled in an interview with Salon. “I could see these people behind the fence, with their faces up against it, and their hands on the wire.” (The ACLU posted photos of the demonstrators and supporters at that event on its Web site.) “It looked more like a concentration camp than a free speech area to me, so I said, 'I'm not going in there. I thought the whole country was a free speech area.'” The detective asked Neel, 66, to go to the area six or eight times, and when he politely refused, he handcuffed and arrested the retired steelworker on a charge of disorderly conduct. When Neel's sister argued against his arrest, she was cuffed and hauled off as well. The two spent the president's visit in a firehouse that was serving as Secret Service and police headquarters for the event.

The constitutionality of police-imposed 'free-speech zones'

Protesters at the DNC were confined to a fenced-in area — a wire enclosure topped by razor wire outside Boston's FleetCenter, where the Convention was held. They charged that their First Amendment rights were violated by this confinement.

So much for free speech! Apparently you can say anything you damn well please as long as no one can hear you say it.

14 Points of Fascism
1. Powerful and continuing expressions of nationalism
2. Disdain for the importance of human rights
3. Identification of enemies/scapegoats as a unifying cause
4. The supremacy of the military/avid militarism
5. Rampant sexism
6. A controlled mass media
7. Obsession with national security
8. Religion and ruling elite tied together
9. Power of corporations protected
10. Power of labor suppressed or eliminated
11. Disdain and suppression of intellectuals and the arts
12. Obsession with crime and punishment
13. Rampant cronyism and corruption
14. Fraudulent elections

A damn near perfect description of the current Republican party, If it waddles like a duck and it quacks like a duck, it's probably a duck.

I did provide a link to the story I referenced and assumed that I didn't need to prove that there are nasty ads out there every 2 yrs.

Sure, there are nasty ads out there at every election. But is it really normal for there to be ads invoking Hitler?

Seriously: Would it kill you to support your arguments with evidence?

Pacatrue: It is true that Duke ran for office a few times in Louisiana and it's also true that the GOP leadership repudiated him every time. I am sure we can find some real fascists or socialists or pro terrorist people in the US but not in mainstream politics.

GeorgeSOrwell: I wasn't sure if your comment was directed at me or not, but I did provide a link to the story I referenced and assumed that I didn't need to prove that there are nasty ads out there every 2 yrs.

Don: Well you are the most interesting to respond too. I'm assuming from your comments on Bush and Reagan that you are pretty far to the left and so I can understand why you would see them as far right but that does not equate to fascism.

In a Fascist society you get sent to prison for saying things critical of the government while in our society you can say what you feel like.

So despite your feelings for the GOP, they are no more fascist that you are Marxist or pro terrorist.

Regardless, the ad Patrick originally mentioned sounds horrible.

Some links to supporting evidence would have improved this post exponentially.

A) I had limited time available in that I had to go to work.
B) There is no shortage of books on the subject matter.
Our Own Backyard: The United States In Central America, 1977-1992 (Paperback)
The Last Colonial Massacre: Latin America in the Cold War (Paperback)
The Massacre at El Mozote (Paperback)
Washington's War on Nicaragua (Paperback)
C) There is no shortage of websites on the subject matter.
Nicaragua v. United States
The Republic of Nicaragua v. The United States of America[1] was a case heard in 1986 by the International Court of Justice which ruled in favor of Nicaragua and against the United States. As part of its judgment, the World Court awarded reparations to Nicaragua. The World Court found that the United States had violated international law by supporting Contra guerrillas in their war against the Nicaraguan government and by mining Nicaragua's harbors. The Court ruled in Nicaragua's favor after the United States lost the argument that the ICJ lacked jurisdiction to hear the case, and refused to participate. It later blocked enforcement making attempts at obtaining compliance futile.

The court had 16 final decisions which it voted upon. In Statement 9, the court stated that the US encouraged human rights violations by the Contras by the manual entitled Operaciones sicologicas en guerra de guerrillas. However, this did not make such acts attributable to the U

A Contra Rampage–With Blessings from the United States
THE IRAN-CONTRA AFFAIR

But I don't expect any Republicans to read them in that facts are to them what garlic is to vampires.

Shouldn’t we can start with the posthumous war crimes trial of LBJ.

Right after that of Harry S Truman for all the atrocities commited in Korea by Americans & Their allies.

Why stop with Genghis Khan? I nominate Ceasar.

“They (the Romans) make a desert, and they call it peace”
Publius Cornelius Tacitus

when you “fund” these groups- you're not giving them arms to march around on parade grounds with ,and yet often they miss out on the permutations in the long run (Selling WMD's to Saddam in the 80s vs. Iran,Al Qaeda, Ortega, Noriega coming back to bite the hand that feeds for example) . Neocon PNAC naivete, or intentional permanent destabilization?

How many people did Hitler kill with his own personal hands, does not stop the World from holding him responsible for millions of death, and it will not stop the World from holding Bush responsible for the hundreds of thousands who died in Iraq.

Marlowe,
You have to admit he got you there…

I tell ya . . . when Ronald Reagan stole Green Lantern's Power Ring and went on his personal mission of death to Central America, the US went to hell.

Hey, jackass, Reagan only funded ( by selling weapons to Iran and using the profits of said sales, Iran/Contra ring a bell?) and trained the Contras who then turned around and killed hundreds of thousands of Nicaraguans.

In El Salvador 80,000 people were killed by right-wing death squads funded & trained by Uncle Sam. Amazingly enough the US Ambassador at the time, Otto Reich, never noticed the stack of bodies pilling through the country-side.

The amount of shit that disappears down the Memory Hole is amazing.

Then Bushitler inherited that ring, and went amok himself. More hundreds of thousands of dead . . . killed personally by Bush . . . the blood on his hands.

How many people did Hitler kill with his own personal hands, does not stop the World from holding him responsible for millions of death, and it will not stop the World from holding Bush responsible for the hundreds of thousands who died in Iraq.

In 2009 there will be a new Nuremberg Trial, presided over by the Dark Knight, to prosecute the GOP and all of its members for its crimes against humanity.

Fat chance, another war will disappear down the Memory Hole and twenty years from now some other jackass will be commenting on blogs that we could have won the war if those Democrats had not stopped us from Nuking Baghdad, Fallujah and a few other hotbeds of resistance.

Sooner or later we will nuke some city someplace in the world in some other pointless war because they have something we want ( If we keep electing Republicans it will be sooner rather than later).

“Indeed,
I tremble for my country
when I reflect that God is just.”

Thomas Jefferson

Hahahaha…Patrick's post has a “case in point” there.

I tell ya . . . when Ronald Reagan stole Green Lantern's Power Ring and went on his personal mission of death to Central America, the US went to hell.
He killed hundreds of thousands . . . personally . . . with that ring.
Where were Superman, Wonder Woman and the rest of the Justice League of America? I tell ya. . . .

Then Bushitler inherited that ring, and went amok himself. More hundreds of thousands of dead . . . killed personally by Bush . . . the blood on his hands.
(The story that most of those dead were killed by AQ and Sunni insurgents blowing up markets and mosques, terrifying the population into fleeing the country and decapitating people for videos on the Internet. . . . is a VICIOUS LIE. . . concocted by the fascist GOP to coverup Bush's genocidal reign of terror).

However, there is hope. As you all know, Batman has successfully disposed of the Joker in “The Dark Knight”.

Now the Dark Knight is free to end Bush's Reign of Error by taking back the Green Lantern power ring.

In 2009 there will be a new Nuremberg Trial, presided over by the Dark Knight, to prosecute the GOP and all of its members for its crimes against humanity.

(Oops, forgot that the War Crimes Trials are not to be mentioned until after the election . . . where is that “Edit” button, dammit?).

I hate to break it to these people but there is no truth to any of these ads. I don’t care how conservative a candidate is, nobody in American politics is anywhere close to Hilter or the Klan or any member of a true Fascist movement. I have not been a fan of many of the policies of the Bush Administration or the rightward lurch of the GOP but they are nowhere close to those criminals of the past.

How many hundreds of thousands did Reagan Kill in Central America?

How many hundreds of thousands has Bush killed? How many millions has he made homeless? How many hundreds of thousands has he wounded and crippled for life?

The modern GOP is a fascist movement.