Fascism in "America the free"? It’s here; get used to it!

Excerpted from "Reclaiming The Issues: Islamic Or Republican Fascism?"
by Thom Hartmann

The John Birch Society’s website editor recently opined of the Bush Administration's warrantless wiretap program: "This is to say that from the administration's perspective, the president is, in effect, our living constitution. This is, in a specific and unmistakable sense, fascist."

Vice President Wallace's answer to a question regarding fascism in America was published in The New York Times on April 9, 1944, at the height of the war against the Axis powers of Germany and Japan:

"The really dangerous American fascists," Wallace wrote, "are not those who are hooked up directly or indirectly with the Axis. The FBI has its finger on those. The dangerous American fascist is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power."

Read the whole article by Thom Hartmann here:
http://www.commondreams.org/cgi-bin/print.cgi?file=/views06/0828-23.htm

Read Will Grigg’s critique of Bush as our "living constitution" here:
http://www.thenewamerican.com/artman/publish/article_2943.shtml

Wake up, people!