The Fascists are Coming, The Fascists are Coming

American Thinker ^ | January 10, 2007 | J.R. Dunn

[neverdem]

Here's another sample of J.R. Dunn.

[piasa]

ping

[TigersEye]

Who is it on American college campuses that violently shuts down any speech they don't agree with?

[soupcon]

Pie-throwers---can't live with 'em, can't live without 'em.

[familyop]

Communists and fascists aren't really very far apart in their philosophies.

[redgolum]

And yet, on FR I have seen more than a few buy the line that the "Dominionists" Christians are a grave threat.

[LiteKeeper]

read later

[WesternCulture]

"Communists and fascists aren't really very far apart in their philosophies."

You have to be thoroughly brainwashed NOT to realize that.

The similarities between the actual societal conditions you get when these sweet little doctrines are put to work ought to surprise no one. But true leftists even deny their very existence.

It would be easy for most people on this website to line up several resemblances between, for instance, North Korea of today and Nazi Germany.

Try such lines of arguing on a place like indymedia.org and you'll find the most intelligent objection to your description available probably being something like "There can be no such similarities, as Socialist and Communist leaders act in the true interest of common people, while fascists are opposed to the will and wellbeing of the people.".

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Communists and fascists aren't really very far apart in their philosophies.

The Road to Serfdom

(Link to the Readers' Digest Condensed Version in PDF!)

[TigersEye]

Pie-throwers---can't live with 'em, can't live without shoot 'em. (in public)

There. Fixed it for ya.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

The whole of this article is less than the sum of its parts. It has some great points, but right in the middle of it is this stinker:

the GOP may have Tailgunner Joe to live down . . .

. . . Fast-forwarding through the decade of the McCarthyite ordeal, we reach the early 1960s. You'd think that, having gotten back into office at last with JFK, America's liberals would have been eager, after years of quivering in terror before one unshaven Irishman, to show how clean their own hands were.

As Ann Coulter ably points out in Treason, the "McCarthy Red Scare"

1. was vastly more temperate than his critics, and

2. under, rather than over, stated the issue he was addressing.

If you think about it at all, the cries in the mainstream media of censorship actually refute themselves. At no time before, during, or after that era has censorship been openly promoted as an American ideal by Senator McCarthy; in fact he tried to rebut charges that he was engaged in it. And at no time before, during, or after that era were McCarthy's critics actually muzzled - as this article actually points out, they have always been vociferous. Cries of "McCarthyism" are nothing more than a smear of McCarthy - in the 1950s, and yet today.

[driftless2]

Naturally libs would be surprised to find out that the biggest fascist threat to Americans is from the left. But they have been successful in depicting conservative Christians as some sort of a threat. With what evidence? None. It's all in their fevered imaginations. It's like all the jailings and censorship of Bush's opponents that was supposed to have taken place in the past six years. of course none of Bush's critics and opponents have been threatened or jailed. But this does not stop nutty leftists like Hedges from imagining that they are under some sort of threat. That awful odor they are smelling is coming from their own nether regions.

[CutePuppy]

Fascism (Nazism) IS Socialism, just a different branch from Communism, hence both the "right" and "left" apply to socialists - the distinction of "right" vs "left" socialism started in Germany in 1920's when NSDAP formed after Hitler declined invitation to join Communist Party (KPD).

Primary difference is that Communists emphasize ownership of property and means of production, while Fascists maintain outright control of them without necessarily having the trouble of ownership - there was a conversation between Hitler and Goebbels, short version of which comes down pretty much to "Why own when you can control?"

More info:
http://nazi.org
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSDAP

[Thrownatbirth]

Why do the libs fear Christianity so much?

If I were godless, I imagine I would be beset with more than a few irrational fears. :-)

[SkyPilot]

"If the world hates you, remember that it hated me first."

John 15:18

[7thson]

What I would like some of these radio talk show hosts do, is read from The Rise and Fall of the Third Riech by William Shirer, descriptions of meetings and events, broken up and interrupted by the Communists and Nazis of Germany during that time. Then, fast forward to today and describe the latest protest by any left-wing group. The recent Cindy Sheehan protest, the protest of the Minuteman, etc. Start showing those who look and listen, but sitting on the fence, who the true enemy are.

[7thson]

I actually wish the Bush administration would arrest some of these people - specifically people from the NY Times who publish are secrets. As in depicting conservative Christians as some sort of threat, that is why the media - even FNC - continually give air time to the Pat Robertsons of the world. They continually want to portray Christianity as some sort of kook movement and those types are more than willing to oblige.

[7thson]

I view Communism, Facism, Socialism as coming from the left vice the right. The more left you go, the more you distrust the people and want government control. The more right you go, on the other hand, the more you put more trust in the people and not in the government. The far right - to me - would be anarchy - no rules or control.