52 wanker the philatelist . . . “Fascism, simply put, IS: The economic System in which Industry is Held Privately, but controlled Publically (by government). Most often this control is through Taxation and Regulation, but can also be through the Criminal Code.”
Not even close. Try this one: “a governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism.”
Add in the most secretive and covert assumption of power in presidential history and you have the last eight years. Why don’t you ask Dick Cheney where those 12 million e-mails went during the Valerie Place affair? Still waiting on those to surface. But you don’t care about that. You’d rather indulge your fantasies about birth certificates and flag pins and the shortage of +P rounds.
You people here, and I use the term as derisively as can be taken) are some seriously confused and mixed-up people. At best I can chalk it up to ignorance. At worst, it’s the ever-blackening eye given to otherwise nice people by a power-mad cabal of neo-conservative hacks trying to avenge getting laughed in the shower after high school gyn class.
Really, it’s time to stop getting lead around the a nose hook put there by the likes of Ashcroft, Rumsfeld, Gonzalez, Cheney, Rice and Bush. I can’t think of a less competent or trustworthy bunch of knuckleheads in my adult lifetime.
