Fascism Files
Topic: Fascism Files
The Indy Voice has created an entirely new category called "Fascism Files." Since we won't (unfortunately) be running out of good material to fit in this category I figured why not create a whole new category.

To start us off just take a look,

Bush critics stifled from representing U.S. overseas

According to Laurence W. Britt in an article published in Free Inquiry magazine entitled "Fascism Anyone?" he concludes that there are 14 characteristics of fascists or proto-fascist states after studying the regimes in Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Franco's Spain, Salazar's Portugal, Papadopoulos's Greece, Pinochet's Chile, and Suharto's Indonesia.

This action by the Bush administration most closely resembles characteristic #11,

Disdain and suppression of intellectuals and the arts.

Intellectuals and the inherent freedom of ideas and expression associated with them were anathema to these regimes. Intellectual and academic freedom were considered subversive to national security and the patriotic ideal. Universities were tightly controlled; politically unreliable faculty harassed or eliminated. Unorthodox ideas or expressions of dissent were strongly attacked, silenced, or crushed. To these regimes, art and literature should serve the national interest or they had no right to exist.

It also closely resembles characteristic #6,

A controlled mass media

Under some of the regimes, the mass media were under strict direct control and could be relied upon never to stray from the party line. Other regimes exercised more subtle power to ensure media orthodoxy. Methods included the control of licensing and access to resources, economic pressure, appeals to patriotism, and implied threats. The leaders of the mass media were often politically compatible with the power elite. The result was usually success in keeping the general public unaware of the regimes' excesses.

Never forget that this is your country not theirs!

Salute Il Duce!


P.S. The Indy Voice has had his suspicions verified about the origins of the fascist poem found below. "Bob" the apparent creator of RHL School has publicly admitted that he created the non-agnostic acrostic or more descriptively the vomit inducing poem.

I respect his right to create such a piece but I think the appropriate question is why?

Hey Bobby, if you're truly a conservative and therefore disdainful of government, why don't you seem to have any level of doubt about the head of the executive branch of the government?

Have you saluted Il Duce today?