posted 08-08-2003 01:25 AM            

By Isabel Hilton
The Guardian - UK
8-8-3

http://www.rense.com/general39/mastersofdeceit.htm

Another article on the Masters of Deceit:

How NeoCons Influence The Pentagon

By Jim Lobe
Asia Times
8-7-3

posted 08-09-2003 02:57 PM            

NEOCOSERVATISM, WHERE TROTSKY MEETS STALIN AND HITLER
by Srdja Trifkovic

http://www.chroniclesmagazine.org/News/Trifkovic/NewsST072303.html

"Why would some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best that he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a communist dictatorship ... That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country."

AND

AMERICA'S INVERTED TOTALITARIANISM

[Sheldon S. Wolin is emeritus professor of politics at Princeton University]

SHELDON S. WOLIN, NEWSDAY - No administration before George W. Bush's ever claimed such sweeping powers for an enterprise as vaguely defined as the "war against terrorism" and the "axis of evil." Nor has one begun to consume such an enormous amount of the nation's resources for a mission whose end would be difficult to recognize even if achieved.

Like previous forms of totalitarianism, the Bush administration boasts a reckless unilateralism that believes the United States can demand unquestioning support on terms it dictates; ignores treaties and violates international law at will; invades other countries without provocation; and incarcerates persons indefinitely without charging them with a crime or allowing access to counsel.

The drive toward total power can take different forms, as Mussolini's Italy, Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Soviet Union suggest.

The American system is evolving its own form: "inverted totalitarianism." This has no official doctrine of racism or extermination camps but, as described above, it displays similar contempt for restraints.

It also has an upside-down character. For instance, the Nazis focused upon mobilizing and unifying the society, maintaining a continuous state of war preparations and demanding enthusiastic participation from the populace. In contrast, inverted totalitarianism exploits political apathy and encourages divisiveness. The turnout for a Nazi plebiscite was typically 90 percent or higher; in a good election year in the United States, participation is about 50 percent.

Another example: The Nazis abolished the parliamentary system, instituted single-party rule and controlled all forms of public communication. It is possible, however, to reach a similar result without seeming to suppress. An elected legislature is retained but a system of corruption (lobbyists, campaign contributions, payoffs to powerful interests) short-circuits the connection between voters and their representatives. The system responds primarily to corporate interests; voters become cynical, resigned; and opposition seems futile.

While Nazi control of the media meant that only the "official story" was communicated, that result is approximated by encouraging concentrated ownership of the media and thereby narrowing the range of permissible opinions.

This can be augmented by having "homeland security" envelop the entire nation with a maze of restrictions and by instilling fear among the general population by periodic alerts raised against a background ofeconomic uncertainty, unemployment, downsizing and cutbacks in services.
http://www.tbrnews.org:/Archives/a568.htm

posted 08-09-2003 10:14 PM            

If you do you are "$#!++ing on America".

You wouldn't want to question Ashcroft and his creepy crew of POLICE-STATE vigilantes now would you?

The NEO-CONS (Bush, Cheney, Rice, et al) are most certainly TROTSKYITES...Machavellian(Evil is necessary) Trotskyites at that.