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30 November 2010
By Robert Bows
"Of course we will have fascism in America but we will
call it democracy!"--Huey Long
"Fascism is not defined by the number of its victims,
but by the way it kills them." --Jean-Paul Sartre
"Fascism ought to more properly be called corporatism
since it is the merger of state and corporate power."
-- Benito Mussolini
Preliminary analysis of exit polls (for senatorial and
gubernatorial races) reported immediately after voting
ended compared with the announced vote results show a
statistically significant shift in favor of Republican
candidates, the odds of which are about a million to
one.[1]
This electronic theft is nothing new, but in the
aftermath of this year's Supreme Court (5 to 4)
decision giving the green light to unlimited campaign
contributions, the blatancy is impressive. The
strategy is simple: leverage the bottomless slush fund
of corporate dollars and flood the nation's airwaves
and mailboxes to twist enough minds to tighten the
electoral races, so that those who control the
software to the electronic voting machines can create
the illusion of right-wing electoral success.
It's time to consider what can be done to drop the
curtain on this charade and the policies that result
from this illegitimate elevation of corporate shills
to executive, legislative, and judicial office.
There are as many varieties of fascism as there are
examples, beginning with Germany (Hitler) and Italy
(Mussolini) during the period leading up to and
including WWII, followed by Cuba (Batista), Spain
(Franco), Paraguay (Stroessner),
Nicaragua (Somoza), and Chile
(Pinochet), et al.
The brand of fascism currently practiced in the United
States by European and North American financiers and
bankers—who control a major portion of the world's
money supply, as well as the dominant military and
intelligence apparatuses—has commonalities with many
of its predecessors as well as a few important
differences.
Commonalities include: control over the state by
unelected persons ("the hidden government," as Teddy
Roosevelt called them) or persons whose election is
predetermined (through control of the currency, media,
and voting process); use of intelligence and security
forces to suppress opposition; abrogation of
constitutional guarantees and international legal
conventions; the justification of torture; and false
flag events used to justify imperialism, to name a
few. As so eloquently expressed by
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson, the chief
prosecutor of the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials
following World War II, we must hold such behavior
accountable:
If certain acts and violations of treaties are crimes,
they are crimes whether the United States does them or
whether Germany does them. We are not prepared to lay
down a rule of criminal conduct against others which
we would not be willing to have invoked against us.
We are now prepared to invoke these rules of criminal
conduct and align the crimes of U.S. fascism with the
indictments at Nuremberg:
But it is the differences between the American brand
of fascism and previous iterations—particularly the
illusion of choice and dissent (what social theorist
Herbert Marcuse called "repressive desublimation")—that
confuse many people into believing that the U.S. is
simply a republic with democratic processes gone awry.
This has led a
range of critics to describe the situation as
"inverted totalitarianism," "participatory fascism,"
"corporatism," or just "monopoly capitalism."
While each of these descriptions applies to a degree,
the partial truths to which they call attention
unnecessarily obscure the simple nature of the beast.
Perhaps it is the erroneous notion that fascism equals
Nazism (actually, the term originally referred to
Mussolini's regime) that compels otherwise analytical
people to deny what is going on here ("good Germans,"
all). But lack of intellectual rigor is no excuse to
mislabel the ruthless abuses to which the world is
being subjected. As Orwell so eloquently taught us,
the price of removing, destroying, or distorting words
and their meanings is that we lose our ability to know
what freedom is.
Consider how one of our own presidents
defined fascism:
The first truth is that the liberty of a democracy is
not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private
power to a point where it becomes stronger than their
democratic state itself. That, in its essence, is
fascism — ownership of government by an individual, by
a group, or by any other controlling private power. "
—
Franklin D. Roosevelt [2]
Gone are the abstract notions of the state as an
embodiment of some ethnic or racial or historical
ideal (our rulers are multicultural, at least at the
level of government employees and the executive,
legislative, and judicial branches; the upper echelons
of our intelligence services are another story);
instead, the state is simply a catalyst for corporate
policy. Today's corporate state makes no attempt to
legitimize itself even theoretically, as the Italian
syndicalists did, by pretending that collective
bargaining takes place between management and labor.
Premeditated expansion and contraction of the currency
is used to steal assets (the fruits of our labor) at
fire sale prices. In the U.S., earnings per share for
the stockholders and the maintenance of power by the
financial elites are the main objectives implemented
by illegal means through the so-called "legal" state.
Everything, including the ecology and sustainability
of the planet and its inhabitants, is sacrificed to
the Almighty Dollar and for profit therein. Oddly,
those aligned in this lockstep greedy march often see
themselves as religious, or even spiritual! Perhaps
they do not understand that Judeo-Christian tradition
does not support the idolatry of money (currency) or
commodities, such as gold or silver.
It's easy to miss this point, given the disinformation
spread by so-called religious leaders; regardless, you
may recall that Moses had to break and restore the
Israelites' covenant with G-d because of some tribal
members who, in his absence, manufactured and
worshipped the Golden Calf; and Jesus reiterated this
principle when he said, "You cannot worship God and
mammon." The lack of self-awareness over such
misplaced obeisance (regardless of the religion to
which they may or may not subscribe) renders our
materialistic brethren oblivious to the immoral nature
of their own behavior.
Irrespective of the origins of their debilitation,
these fascists, who place money and corporate
interests above people, must be held accountable for
their crimes, however daunting the task may be of
facing
up to a monolithic and morally blind cartel that
controls most of the currency and guns on our planet.
Even the most corrupt and devolved regimes come to an
end. But the hour is late; so, how to hasten a new
organizational paradigm?
Such was the question for Carol Brouillet, when she
invited a dozen or so fellow activists to a retreat
following the "Deep Politics Conference" in Santa
Cruz, California, in May 2010. Brouillet explains:
"I hoped that the retreat would give us more time to
think deeply about the roots of the problems that
humanity faces today, and generate insights on how we
could individually and collectively empower ourselves
to assist in the conscious evolution necessary for us
to survive, grow, mature, and thrive, in alignment
with our spirits, which yearn for truth, beauty,
peace, justice, health, not only for ourselves, but
for all people and all life forms."
As one might expect, the debate was heated, but the
group was comprised of enough veteran organizers, some
going back to the Free Speech Movement and the Vietnam
War in the ‘60's, that a solution was hammered out. As
it happened, they chose to model their appeal on the
Declaration of Independence:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men
are created equal, that they are endowed by their
Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among
these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
— That to secure these rights, Governments are
instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from
the consent of the governed, — That whenever any
Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends,
it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish
it, and to institute new Government …
Even though most of those assembled recognize that the
current regime (the money cartel or so-called New
World Order) has totally abrogated the Declaration of
Independence (and the Constitution and
the Bill of Rights) and that the social contract has
been broken,
the group decided – in hopes of
eventual accountability-- such as took place with the
Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa –
to compile a list of grievances, as the signers of the
Declaration did over 234 years ago. The group also
offers solutions aimed at building alternative forms
of organization that will be the framework for a
sustainable and just world, to supplant the current
system when it collapses from the weight of its
intrinsic contradictions and lies (which, as
Jefferson put it, run contrary to "the
Laws of Nature and of Nature's God").
The result is the Declaration of Accountability, in
which the group declares, much like the document upon
which it is modeled, "the causes which impel them to
the separation." In addition to the grievances listed
in the Declaration, the Problems and Proposed Solution
section includes "Financial Accountability,"
"Electoral Accountability," Media Accountability,"
"Corporate Accountability," "Legal Accountability and
the Rule of Law," "9-11 Accountability," "Gulf
Accountability," etc.).
Like those who have survived the continuing holocausts
and war crimes around the globe, the group hopes to
keep alive the collective memory of the ongoing crimes
against humanity until such time that the perpetrators
are brought to justice. According to Brouillet:
"I believe by signing the Declaration of
Accountability, we are asserting people power over the
abusive tyranny of corporations, illegitimate
institutions, the deceptions and lies that for too
long have paralyzed and confused people, and we
consciously enable and empower ourselves to challenge
the Era of Impunity and launch a new era of
responsibility, in which we reclaim our future and
manifest our dreams and hopes for a better world."
The group formally launched its website this October,
with a list of prominent individual and organizational
signers. As
the author of the Declaration of Independence wrote:
"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of
good conscience to remain silent."
—Thomas Jefferson.
Be a witness for accountability.
About the author:
Robert Bows is a television producer/writer/director,
playwright, theatre reviewer, political economist,
instructional designer, yogi, metaphysician, and
pseudonymous author of
www.SolomonsProof.com and Solomon's Proof: A
Psycho-Spiritual Journey to World Consciousness. He
participated in the "Deep Politics Conference"
referenced in the article and is one of the drafters
of the Declaration of Accountability, as well as one
of the editors documenting ongoing abuses. Comments 💬 التعليقات |