RPUSA – dangerous bewilderments

Pasting in an email spam from the so-called RPUSA, that made me think Mussolini the minute I started reading it. Lots of anticapitalist rhetoric, including citation of Latin American socialist leaders. Violent antisemitism. Links to violent gun-nut websites.

When I was doing covert-ish stuff in the military, one of the tradecraft stand-by’s was that when you concoct a cover, it should be at least 90% true. That’s how you can smuggle in the bullshit with a pre-established verisimilitude.

Reiterating here, with evidence now, that fascism is a middle-class phenomenon; and again this points to the importance of reaching out to a signficant sector of the middle-class with alternative analyses early and often. If a significant fraction of this dangerous class is not inoculated, when the big crash hits, they look for an authoritarian father-figure and they reach for guns.

They also look for enemies. These knuckleheads are resurrecting Tim McVeigh and the World Jewish Consiracy. But the really convenient scapegoats in the US are Latin American immigrants; and the handwriting is already on the wall in Arizona.

This crap needs to be exposed the minute it rears its head, even if it is tedious and difficult to explain what is wheat and what is chaff in missives like the one below. In fact, I hope people will distribute this particular “newsletter,” with critique. Facebook maybe, where it will generate lots of controversy, even flame wars; but where the conversations can be had that pull the demons smuggled into this lefty-ish language and expose them to sunlight.

Final note is a quote from Robert Connell, author of Masculinities:

In gender terms, fascism was a naked reassertion of male supremacy… To accomplish this, fascism promoted new images of hegemonic masculinity, glorifying irrationality (the ‘triumph of the will’, thinking with ‘the blood’) and the unrestrained violence of the frontline soldier.

Watch for the violent boy-talk in this one, starting with Sic Semper Tyrannis, the words John Wilkes Booth hollered while he shot Abraham Lincoln.

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NEW RPUSA > REBUILDING THE MIDDLE-CLASS!
Action Group Newsletter to Reform Party USA ~ Vol.8, No.9 [226th Edition]

25 APRIL 2010 ~ PROVIDED TO RPUSA STATE PARTY ORGANIZATIONS & ALLIES
SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS! ? ‘SPIRITUS MONTIUM’ ? JUSTITIA
OMNIBUS!
“Reporting what others think…but won’t say
publicly!”
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NEW RPUSA SAYS IT’S TIME TO REBUILD THE MIDDLECLASS!

No nation on earth or in history has long survived once its middleclass
was impoverished or destroyed – and the same is true of the USA now
whether it’s contrived, recognized, admitted, or not! The primary
destroyer of the middleclass is taxation and interest/usury/Debt – for
both taxes & usury take money out of society causing currency shortages,
recession & depression – all artificial manipulations controlled by
private-bankers at their whim & will – just as they did with area “bank
panics” in the 1800s – same manipulations, different day! As despicable
as it may seem, private-bankers historically have ruined more folks than
numbers can count – as can be seen daily from the toxic slime oozing out
of Wall Street and for industrial, home, and now investment foreclosures!
Why do we tolerate Israeli-foreign-bankers in charge of OUR national
currency & credit? In the last decade alone, let alone since the
“Reagan-regime”, the middleclass has not been destroyed by taxation – but
by the Bondage of INTEREST / USURY! The Debt on everything, every
manmade item we see around us, is now almost 20-times its real value
thanks to compound interest/usury – and the illegal wars/occupations
forced upon us have already cost every man, woman & child in America
close to $10K EACH – and still counting – all to the benefit of the
International Banking Cartels!

For those that can still remember, or can ask a parent or grandparent,
just six-decades ago during the “Eisenhower-Era” there was NO
Interest/Usury on the purchase of any home in America – the price of each
home was just the Cost of Materials + the Cost of Labor – NO thirty-year
mortgages, NO compound interest/usury, NO long term debt – just a 2% flat
“service charge” on the balance of the total cost of the home to fund the
housing administration staffed by Civil Servants! Private usurious
bankers were unknown & unheard of at the time! The current
“Predatory-Capitalist” system under which we all currently suffer did not
take root until the Military-Industrial Complex (MIC) took hold under the
“Johnson-regime” & LBJs escalation of the Viet Nam War!

From Eisenhower to Reagan, Americans lived under a system of “checks &
balances” whereby corporations were regulated to serve the mutual benefit
of all concerned – but the MIC changed all of that when the Viet Nam war
was escalated and the war-profiteers on Wall Street gained immense
political & financial powers under the “Reagan-regime”, tripling the
“national debt” in only 8 years! Now we see those very same
transnational-corporations using the MIC to advance their confiscations
all around the world wherever natural resources can be found and
exploited. But both the Viet Nam fiasco and the current Mid-East
occupations have destroyed TWO GENERATIONS of American Youth – back to
back – with massive war dead & wounded & vast destruction, and all for
nothing to show at the local level – but immense profits for Wall Street!

There has been little to no fighting between organized armies or opposing
military units – the occupation armies are just engaged in “smash & grab”
home invasions done by USA & Allied military units – in the dead of night
– while people try and sleep – where home after home in the occupied
zones are trashed by foreign troops taking money & valuables under the
pretense of “denying assets to terrorists”, ad nauseam! These are not
“wars” anyone can be proud of being a part – these are nothing more than
violent attacks upon weaker populations who were already just one step
ahead of the Stone Age – these are military actions just like the
Israelis have perpetuated against the Palestinians for the past
six-decades! Yet the psychological impact upon all participants is
already beginning to surface as massive desertions, suicides, homicides
against family & friends, and moral decay within our society follows the
exact scenario warned against by Moses in Leviticus 26 & Deuteronomy 28
several thousands-of-years ago! America once founded on Biblical
principles is now under Judgment – and it’s coming home to roost!

The only hope to Rebuild a Solid Middleclass once again is the following:
(1) End the foreign occupations immediately & bring the troops home; (2)
Retrain the troops for a domestic work force in manufacturing &
production & education; (3) Seize the assets & ill-gotten gains of the
private-banking-cartels & transnational corporations and Restore the
interest/usury-free U.S. Treasury Banking system; (4) Remove all debts &
mortgages from all homeowners immediately; (5) Issue currency into
circulation based upon the actual fair-market value of what is produced,
and needs to be produced in America, and not upon instruments of “credit
or debt”; (6) Establish Public Works Projects to rebuild the national
infrastructure incorporating all aspects of “Green Technologies”; (7)
Nationalize all Natural Resources & National Resources via Public
Utilities & Public Corporations administered by professional Civil
Servants; (8) Implement a Universal Health Care program for every
Citizen; (9) End “pauperism” for the disabled and senior citizens; and
(10) Make Education available for everyone regardless of their immediate
income!

By forbidding domestic transnational (multinational) corporations from
moving their manufacturing to foreign countries, chasing after
“cheaper-labor”, that has destroyed so many domestic jobs – and then
forbid them from importing what they now make overseas back into this
country – will force these transnational-corporations to rebuild a
domestic work force or face revocation of their corporate-charters,
seizure of their assets, individual prosecution, and the turning over of
the corporate assets to new management loyal to the American workforce!
A reestablished U.S. Treasury Banking system can SPEND the money
necessary to rebuild this nation WIITHOUT DEBT by having something to
show for it in the form of commodities and product and a new
infrastructure, etc. There is nothing standing in our way but the
Courage & Know-How to just DO IT!

Currently in Bolivia, for example, the government of President Evo
Morales has established a 60% – 40% split, whereby the people of Bolivia
receive 60% of all profits, and 40% to the transnational-corporations
wishing to do business in Bolivia in regards to the mining of natural
resources – and its been discovered that Bolivia has the largest deposits
of lithium ever found so far – a mineral that is absolutely essential for
long-life batteries & electronics! The same 60/40 program should be
adopted by every nation since the Natural Resources of any given nation
belongs to the Sovereign People of that nation – and should be shared
equally as done by the State of Alaska via its “Social Credit” program of
providing a check each year to every man, woman & child born in Alaska
for the depletion of their State’s Natural Resources!

ARE THE FEDS PREPARING A DOMESTIC TERROR ATTACK?
After reading the below Blog by Paul Joseph Watson, < www.Prison
Planet.com >, dated 2010.04.19, ask yourself whether America really is a
“Zionist Occupied Government” (ZOG) or not? See < http://www.infowars.com/government-preparing-to-stage-domestic-terror-att
ack/ >!
“Bill Clinton, the Southern Poverty Law Center and almost the entire
corporate media are not letting a good opportunity go to waste today – by
dancing on the graves of 168 victims and exploiting the 15th anniversary
of the false flag Oklahoma City Bombing to demonize their political
enemies, the Internet, and anyone who dares to express dissent against
the federal government.
The propaganda putsch coincides with FBI head Robert Mueller stating that
right-wing extremist groups and anti-government militias now represent as
big a terror threat as Al-Qaeda, as the whole apparatus of the war on
terror is shifted to target Americans increasingly angry at the egregious
corruption in government and the global economy as their standard of
living plummets and their pension funds are under threat of seizure.
It also dovetails President Obama’s hyping last week of the threat posed
by individuals acquiring nuclear weapons, a claim top nuclear experts
like Henry Sokolski have derided as overstated and not based on any new
intelligence.
Obama’s warning arrives shortly after FEMA was forced to scale back a
simulated nuclear bomb attack by “terrorists” in Las Vegas that was set
to involve 10,000 emergency responders, U.S. troops and officials in role
playing exercises.
Former President Bill Clinton told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer on Friday that he
is worried rising anger at the federal government could lead to another
OKC bombing, implying that people who use the Internet to express dissent
will be to blame for the violence.
Clinton’s exploitation of the Oklahoma City bombing anniversary is being
parroted across the establishment media as if it’s just a year or two
since the attack on the Alfred P. Murrah building. Clearly, such intense
coverage of an incident that took place fifteen years ago is being done
to keep the heat on the millions of Americans who distrust the federal
government in the continuing effort to portray them as domestic
terrorists.
A key facet of this PR campaign is to reinforce the official story behind
the Oklahoma City Bombing, that the attack was carried out by right-wing
anti-government extremists and a similar tragedy could strike again
unless the Internet is censored and Constitutionalists, tea party
members, libertarians and anyone who expresses dissent are harassed and
have their free speech revoked.
The top story on the SPLC’s website today also invokes the OKC bombing as
a lesson through which to refocus attention on “right-wing extremists”.
“April 19 marks the 15th anniversary of the bombing of a federal building
in Oklahoma City – the worst single act of domestic terrorism in our
nation’s history and a grim reminder of the fruits of right-wing
radicalism. The anniversary comes as the antigovernment militia movement
is experiencing a resurgence,” states the SPLC website.
There can be little doubt that the American people are being manipulated
to accept the inevitability that right-wing militias and lone wolf
extremists are preparing another attack, and that the culprit for the
violence will be talk radio, the Internet, and the widespread dissent now
being displayed against the federal government.
Don’t be surprised if the feds activate their networks of paid
provocateurs and stooges to stage yet another false flag attack that will
be used to silence the free speech of the government’s most prominent
critics.
As part of this propaganda effort, MSNBC will today air “The McVeigh
Tapes: Confessions of an American Terrorist,” where viewers will hear for
the first time Timothy McVeigh admitting that he carried out the attack.
What they won’t hear is McVeigh admitting, as he explained in a letter to
his sister prior to the attack, that he was working at the behest of the
federal government when he detonated the bomb that tore apart the Alfred
P. Murrah building.
“In a Oct. 20 letter, McVeigh wrote his sister that he and nine other
soldiers had been taken to a private intelligence briefing at Fort Bragg,
where they were told they could be required to participate in
government-sanctioned assassinations and government-sponsored drug
trafficking,” reported the New York Times on July 1 1998.
In reality, as anyone who has done five minutes research into the OKC
bombing will understand, the official story crumbles on the merest hint
of casual examination.
While the media, the SPLC, the ADL and similar organizations are happy to
play the Timothy McVeigh card over and over again, they are less
enthusiastic to mention the fact that McVeigh planned his deadly assault
on the Alfred P. Murrah building under the intimate direction of a
high-level FBI official, according to McVeigh’s co-conspirator Terry
Nichols, a claim voluminously backed up by a plethora of evidence that
has been presented in court on several occasions.
The SPLC fear-mongering machine has long claimed the patriot movement is
associated with white supremacists and militias and may engage in
violence. In fact, there is plenty of evidence that the SPLC itself has
“enabled” the miniscule and completely irrelevant white supremacist
movement in order to magnify the ludicrous threat they claim these fringe
groups pose.
In 2004, a declassified FBI memo obtained by an Oklahoma newspaper
revealed that the SPLC had operatives inside the Identity settlement in
Elohim City, Oklahoma. “References to an informant working for the SPLC
at Elohim City on the eve of the Oklahoma City bombing raises serious
questions as to what the SPLC might know about McVeigh’s activities
during the final hours before the fuse was lit in Oklahoma City – but
which the SPLC has failed to disclose publicly,” the Daily Gazette
reported.
Fifteen years after the Oklahoma City Bombing, the establishment is using
the same tactics in an effort to make history repeat itself, by obsessing
about the supposed extremist threat, which is clearly part of an attempt
to prod and provocateur any potential nutcases out there into convincing
themselves to become the next Timothy McVeigh, if not merely a prelude to
the government itself using patsies to carry out an attack as they did
with McVeigh.
The salacious media storm surrounding “Jihad Jane” and the Hutaree
militia is completely unjustified from an objective perspective and
indeed, had these stories occurred when Bush was in office they wouldn’t
have received one tenth of the attention.
No matter whether such terror plots are genuine or contrived, they only
get press coverage when they complement the targeting of whichever group
the establishment is trying to demonize at that particular time.
Consider the case of Joel Henry Hinrichs III, a young white man who
killed himself on October 1 2005 when he detonated a suicide bomb on the
University of Oklahoma (OU) main campus just 200 yards west of Oklahoma
Memorial Stadium, where 84,501 spectators were attending a football game.
This happened a few months after the 7/7 London bombings, which were
blamed on radicalized Muslim terrorists. Merely because the media at that
time was obsessed with demonizing Muslims as terrorists, the story
received next to no attention. Imagine if a white American were to blow
himself up in Oklahoma in 2010, do you think the media would be
interested? The establishment only plays up terror plots when they feed
into the agenda they are pursuing, which is a pretty big clue as to who
is behind provocateuring such incidents in the first place.
While hyping the deadly threat posed by violent right-wing extremists,
the government itself is paying people to pose as right-wing extremists
and make violent threats.
Remember, it was the feds, paid for with your tax dollars, who directed
phony right-wing radio host Hal Turner to make death threats against
federal judges in Illinois and lawmakers in Connecticut.
The supposed white supremacist worked for the agency from 2002 until
2007. “His job was basically to publish information which would cause
other parties to act in a manner which would lead to their arrest,”
Michael Orozco told the Associated
Press.http://www.infowars.com/government-preparing-to-stage-domestic-terr
or-attack/
LEST WE FORGET: “THE RULE BY FEAR INSTEAD OF BY LAW”!
This article appeared on page B – 7 of the San Francisco Chronicle – Read
more:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/02/04/ED5OUPQJ7.DTL

#ixzz0PWsEse8X

“Since 9/11, and seemingly without the notice of most Americans, the
federal government has assumed the authority to institute martial law,
arrest a wide swath of dissidents (citizen and noncitizen alike), and
detain people without legal or constitutional recourse in the event of
“an emergency influx of immigrants in the U.S., or to support the rapid
development of new programs.”

Beginning in 1999, the government has entered into a series of single-bid
contracts with Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR) to
build detention camps at undisclosed locations within the United States.
The government has also contracted with several companies to build
thousands of railcars, some reportedly equipped with shackles, ostensibly
to transport detainees.

According to diplomat and author Peter Dale Scott, the KBR contract is
part of a Homeland Security plan titled ENDGAME, which sets as its goal
the removal of “all removable aliens” and “potential terrorists.”

Fraud-busters such as Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Los Angeles, have complained
about these contracts, saying that more taxpayer dollars should not go to
taxpayer-gouging Halliburton. But the real question is: What kind of
“new programs” require the construction and refurbishment of detention
facilities in nearly every state of the union with the capacity to house
perhaps millions of people?

Sect. 1042 of the 2007 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), “Use of
the Armed Forces in Major Public Emergencies,” gives the executive the
power to invoke martial law. For the first time in more than a century,
the president is now authorized to use the military in response to “a
natural disaster, a disease outbreak, a terrorist attack or any other
condition in which the President determines that domestic violence has
occurred to the extent that state officials cannot maintain public
order.”

The Military Commissions Act of 2006, rammed through Congress just before
the 2006 midterm elections, allows for the indefinite imprisonment of
anyone who donates money to a charity that turns up on a list of
“terrorist” organizations, or who speaks out against the government’s
policies. The law calls for secret trials for citizens and noncitizens
alike.

Also in 2007, the White House quietly issued National Security
Presidential Directive 51 (NSPD-51), to ensure “continuity of government”
in the event of what the document vaguely calls a “catastrophic
emergency.” Should the president determine that such an emergency has
occurred, he and he alone is empowered to do whatever he deems necessary
to ensure “continuity of government.” This could include everything from
canceling elections to suspending the Constitution to launching a nuclear
attack. Congress has yet to hold a single hearing on NSPD-51.

U.S. Rep. Jane Harman, D-Venice (Los Angeles County) has come up with a
new way to expand the domestic “war on terror.” Her Violent
Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007 (HR1955),
which passed the House by the lopsided vote of 404-6, would set up a
commission to
“examine and report upon the facts and causes” of so-called violent
radicalism and extremist ideology, then make legislative recommendations
on combating it.

According to commentary in the Baltimore Sun, Rep. Harman and her
colleagues from both sides of the aisle believe the country faces a
native brand of terrorism, and needs a commission with sweeping
investigative power to combat it.

A clue as to where Harman’s commission might be aiming is the Animal
Enterprise Terrorism Act, a law that labels those who “engage in sit-ins,
civil disobedience, trespass, or any other crime in the name of animal
rights” as terrorists. Other groups in the crosshairs could be
anti-abortion protesters, anti-tax agitators, immigration activists,
environmentalists, peace demonstrators, Second Amendment rights
supporters … the list goes on and on. According to author Naomi Wolf,
the National Counterterrorism Center holds the names of roughly 775,000
“terror suspects” with the number increasing by 20,000 per month.

What could the government be contemplating that leads it to make
contingency plans to detain without recourse millions of its own
citizens?

The Constitution does not allow the executive to have unchecked power
under any circumstances. The people must not allow the president to use
the war on terrorism to rule by fear instead of by law.”

The above article first appeared on Monday, 04 February 2008, page B-7,
of the San Francisco Chronicle, written by Lewis Seiler, the president of
Voice of the Environment, Inc. & Dan Hamburg, a former congressman, and
executive director, entitled: “Rule by Fear or Rule by Law?” For a
commentary, see < http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qf9lzFqZc0 > & < http://www.sfgate.com/cgi- >. Consider the difference the past few years
have made! See < http://targetfreedom.typepad.com/targetfreedom/2010/04/police-state-4.htm
l >!

IMPACT OF COCHABAMBA CONFERENCE ON THE WORLD!
Because of the failure of the Copenhagen Conference dealing with issues
of Global Warming, initiated by the United Nations, but deliberately
sabotaged by the USA, Brits & French (so-called “industrialized
nations”), an agreement was never met that would extend or advance the
Kyoto Protocol to reduce atmospheric carbon emissions! Instead the most
prolific emitters of “dirty air” agreed among themselves to allow an
additional 3-5% increase in Global Heat – but that directly affects polar
ice-melting that is “sinking” many island nations as sea levels rise –
and stands in direct violation of the UN Declaration on the Rights of
Indigenous Peoples!

In short, the handful of “industrialized nations” wish to stick to
“business as usual” at the expense of everyone else that stands in their
way of “production & profits” and their main focus is on how to control
the “effects” of Global Warming – rather than the “Causes” of Global
Warming. As part of their scheme, there is the invention of a fictitious
“Carbon Tax”, like a private-bank-derivative, and use it as a
“poker-chip” in their vast gamble of Global Warming. The
“Carbon-Tax-Chips” would be traded among themselves & others – with
equity – so that for every part-per-million of current & future carbon
emissions, a tree would be purchased or traded within some international
preserve somewhere on earth! The fact that the Germans have controlled
all carbon emissions for the past 25 years – as have others within the
European Union (EU) – doesn’t seem to phase the industrial-polluters, as
transnational-corporations, chartered for the most part here in America –
hence the American opposition to Clean Air Acts or the focusing on the
“Causes” of Global Warming.

As a direct and proximate result of the Copenhagen failure, Bolivia, via
its President Evo Morales, sponsored a week-long summit in the town of
Tiquipaya, just outside Cochabamba, known “La Cumbre,” whereby seventeen
working groups met to discuss various climate-related issues, from
climate debt to the dangers of carbon trading. At the conclusion, summit
organizers released an “Agreement of the Peoples” based on the working
group meetings. Over 30,000 persons attended all or part of this event
from all parts of the world – the exception being representatives of the
“industrialized nations” – and this final Agreement will be enacted in
the countries that participated, as well as being formally introduced to
the United Nations. The basic issues rest upon
transnational-corporations exploitation of the Natural Resources of
countries other than their own, for the most part former Colonial
empires, and leaving the environment is a debased & devastated manner
detrimental to all forms of life! Second is the contribution of this
devastation to the effects of Global Warming; and thirdly, the lack of
any just compensation for the devastation left behind!

Prime examples of these claims is Bhopal India, and the Union Carbide
disaster that killed & injured upwards to in excess of 100,000 persons –
never yet compensated by Union Carbide! The Exxon-Valdez disaster in
Alaska and now after 22 years, not a single dime paid in compensation,
howbeit a Federal Court Ordered $5 Billion in compensation – meanwhile
Exxon continues to make in excess of Billions-of-dollars EACH QUARTER of
EACH YEAR! Closer to home is the recent death of 29 miners in West
Virginia all because Massey Coal Co. would rather pay $1.85 Million in
fines for 1600+ violations of Health & Safety rules than maintain a
working ventilation system for its mine workers! If anyone wonders what
the future will hold once “Corporate Fascism” finally takes hold of all
aspects here in America – these few examples should suffice for the whole
– we as a people are going BACKWARDS IN TIME as to unsafe working
conditions, low wages, and callous indifference to the welfare of working
people!

Yet that subject was not lost, for at the closing of the Cochabamba
Conference in Bolivia, in a speech delivered byVenezuelan President Hugo
Chávez, he warned that “capitalism” could lead to the destruction of the
planet. Here is an excerpt, “We will not submit to the hegemony of the
imperial Yankees. You can even write it down. If the hegemony of
capitalism continues on this planet, human life will one day come to an
end. For those of you who believe that’s an exaggeration, one must
remember this: the planet lived for millions of years without the human
species.” And it might be added that “predatory-capitalism” has been in
existance since the days of Ancient Babylon – and that interest/usury has
been the ruinination of all civilizations from Babylon, Greece, Rome and
now facing America – especially when only 1% now owns in excess of 90%
over everyone else! Bill Gates for example owns more wealth than
one-third, that’s 133 Million people, here in the USA alone! Keep your
powder dry, back-pack ready, & scope clean!
See < http://www.democracynow.org/2010/4/23/bolivian_president_evo_morales_to_p
resident >!

Meanwhile Keep The Faith! Keep to the Codes: O.R.I.O.N. / RAHOWA / 14/88
/ 33/6! Die Endlösung! & Valhalla ??? < http://www.americanresistancetv.com/ > ??? And Pray that Our Creator
sends us another Prince like the Cossak Bogdan Chmielnicki in 1648 for
our time!

This is the goal and the agenda of the Revolutionary New RPUSA:

ONE PARTY! ONE PROGRAM! ONE PURPOSE! ~
THE COMMON GOOD BEFORE SELF OR ANY SPECIAL INTEREST & BREAKING THE
BONDAGE OF DEBT & TAXES!

APPLICABLE QUOTES:

“The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating
any charge known to the law, and particularly to deny him the judgment of
his peers, is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all
totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist.”
– Winston Churchill, 21 November 1943 [Should we now replace “Nazi or
Communist” with “British or American”?]

“The developed countries should respect the Kyoto Protocol, and that
means put it into practice, the 50 percent reduction in greenhouse gas
emissions; and that the global temperature increase should be a maximum
one-degree Centigrade; that a climate justice tribunal should be
established, based in Cochabamba—and I say thank you very much to the
social movements who approved this proposal that it be based here; that
there should continue to be a debate or there still is a debate on having
a world referendum on climate change; that the economic resources spent
on defense and wars should be for life and for nature.” – President Evo
Morales, Cochabamba, Bolivia

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28 Comments

  1. Stan:

    Here’s an old Truthdig piece on the middle-class roots of nascent American fascism.

    It’s been worrying me for a minute now.

    I threw this over to facebook as a link, where there is a kind of Democratic Party anti-teabagger frenzy that gives the current administration a pass. But ideology alone does not fascism make. The most formative material condition for reactionary movements is a large supply of violent-minded war veterans with real experience at tearing things up and hurting/killing people. Obama’s war is a far more signficant contributor, in my view, to the future of American reaction than the confusing and sometimes contradictory ideologies of the gunmen at teabag rallies. In reality, of course, the concrete experiences and the ideas are not separable packages.

    I’ve noticed, with all its faults, that Costa Rican culture is far less aggressive in the day-to-day lives of its people. Even the cops are very laid-back and non-confrontational. I have an hypothesis that this is a reflection of a country with no military… no incubator, that is, for the hyper-violent-male character of other places.

  2. Auntie Imperial:

    “And Pray that Our Creator sends us another Prince like the Cossak Bogdan Chmielnicki in 1648 for our time!”

    ???

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohdan_Khmelnytsky#Khmelnytsky_in_Jewish_history

    Pogroms.

    Which leads to another topic… April 23 2010 Travus T. Hipp Morning News & Commentary: ‘Immigration Reform’ Or Pogrom? A Hipp History Of Mexican Migration To California (Here)

  3. Steve:

    Like a plasmid sharing drug resistant dna with a bacteria, the RPUSA was mixing nutcase right with nutcase left back when Buchanan and Lenora Fulani shared a ticket (for a short time) in 2000. I don’t remember all the strange bedfellows of that tale, but it appears that Lenora’s New Alliance Party had taken over large parts of the RPUSA using a new mix of mind control cultism and classic Leninist organizational warfare methodology, only to be pushed out and stabbed in the back by Buchanan at the end of it. Hitler & Stalin, it seems, this time as farce.

    We have all been looking the other way on this crap in the anti-war movement, from the truthers, for quite a while now, so blaming this on “fascists” or the far right is a little silly. This is a new breed of bad politics, whatever parallels it has with fascism, and trying to understand it in terms of 50 year old history will only confuse leftists even more.

    I spent some time beating my head into the brick wall of leftist stupidity trying to get the anti-Semitic conspiracy 9/11 lunatics run out of my local anti-war organization and again and again it came back to “tolerance” and “inclusion” and the iron law that thou shalt not judge a fellow “activist” because this isn’t really a political activity, this is disposable leftism. And after all, they hate Israel too.

  4. cabdriver:

    The German National Socialists originally based much of their movement on an appeal to the Left, through the Strasser Brothers, Gregor and Otto. The pitch was approximately “we’re just like the Communists, except that we’re nationalistic- and NO JEWS, because Marxist/Bolshevik internationalism is merely a Jewish plot to weaken the Fatherland”. Etc.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregor_Strasser

    Gregor Strasser eventually became a casualty of the internecine power struggle that came to be known as the Night Of The Long Knives.

    His brother Otto went into exile- and, strangely enough, managed to successfully rehabilitate his reputation (at least to some extent) in the post-WW2 Federal Republic of Germany.

    A very interesting chapter in the history of Nazism and it’s influences, and in the history of interwar Germany.

  5. cabdriver:

    An aside- isn’t it interesting that we now have a Department of Homeland Security- rather than simply a Department of National Defense?

    That’s because the US government has applied the term “national defense” to missions of transglobal foreign military intervention for so long that the term can’t be officially applied in the sense of simply maintaining the defense of national borders.

    Hence, “Department of Homeland Security”…

  6. DeAnander:

    What a bizarre grab bag of good commonsense and frothing weirdness… Reading it is like trying to play racquetball wearing bifocals :-) It’s interesting that this group is actually making common cause with climate change activists and noises supportive of La Cumbre; the US far right is more generally known for climate change denial, abiotic oil enthusiasm, etc.

  7. Jon:

    Re: I’ve noticed, with all its faults, that Costa Rican culture is far less aggressive in the day-to-day lives of its people. Even the cops are very laid-back and non-confrontational.

    Having lived more than two-thirds of my life in L. America, I agree with you Stan. Compare the Ticos with the Nicaraguans. Perhaps the most aggressive L. American culture–to generalize somewhat imprudently–is the Mexican, the one most worked over by the Conquista. Traumatized masculinity. My wife is Mexican, by the way. The Mexican woman is indispensable to whatever stability the society still has, despite its ongoing destruction through NAFTA and other manifestations of neoliberal economics.

  8. Francis:

    The US is a real tower of babel. To me, at any rate, it looks like the government has been totally hijacked by the “military industrial complex”–including Wall St. The politics are purely farcical. The place is turning into a third world country. For the time being, the various and sundry “intellectuals” are allowed to let off steam. Anything serious will get eliminated. “Power comes from the barrel of a gun.” They definitely have the firepower. If people get seriously out of line, jets and tanks and SWAT teams will quickly restore order. I think the US is finished. Americans are waking up much too late. They fell hook, line and sinker for the party line concerning 911. After sort of waking up after Vietnam, they quickly went to sleep again. Totally media-driven, trivial culture. Bread and circuses.

  9. eoinmonkey:

    Just before reading this I was mailing someone about an email chain letter ranting about people who dont like “Christian religion in America” being made to “Sit down and shut up!”, mainly due to the Founding Fathers all having been fundamentalist Baptists or something equally preposterous and untrue. My comment was “Amazing how large the gap between thinking oneself smart, and actually being smart, actually is.” I see that it fits rather well here too.

  10. cabdriver:

    It’s possible to talk all kinds of good sense in that game, as long as it ends up blaming the Jews.

    Lyndon LaRouche’s line is more sophisticated. There’s a high likelihood that the LaRouche group is a deep-seeded US Intel honeytrap/social psychology covert op, in my opinion.

    A lot of this stuff appears to work off of more or less the same template. (Although granted, there are occasional idiosyncratic twists.) I’ve spent many hours researching the phenomenon. And it would in fact require a few hours of time just to provide an overview and historical outline.

    But there’s no need for everyone to get as far into it as I have.

    Just bite the coins they hand you, and look for teeth marks. Don’t take any wooden nickels. (Although the more sophisticated material may require the use of a micrometer and a digital scale, so to speak.)

    One important thing to remember is that once someone sees through the phoniness and posturing of the Establishment Liberal/Conservative political games in this system, the tendency is to begin a sort of autodidactic search for the answers to what’s really going on. And in turn, there are those who are only too happy to supply those answers.

    Meanwhile, the Demo/Repub Establishment seeks to ridicule or shame such people, just for straying off of the bounded ideological turf in an attempt to think outside of those confines.

    So I have quite a bit of sympathy for those confused by their researches. Even if they’re reeally confused.

  11. Stan:

    They are having a conversation about fascism over at marxmail, where one of the predominant theories is that fascism is a specific response to the expansion of socialist parties. And that without the socialist upheaval, fascism won’t emerge as a political force. Time will tell, or it won’t, I suppose; but I’m very skeptical of this. I believe the “reaction” in reactionary begins as an extra-state reaction to a destabilized middle-class. Then an alarmed ruling class political establishment makes way for them to be coopted wihtin the state apparatus… only the cooption goes the other way. But this degree of abstraction, which I have to take responsibility for here, despecifies actual events and rolls them into our pre-existing political taxonomies.

    What appears to be going on right now is a destabilization of political categories as both parties are increasingly exposed in their hypocrisy and their fresh wounds in the wake of the housing bubble crash. I doubt the last shoe has dropped. The TARP money hasn’t run out of the tank yet.

    The teabageurs are predominantly united around their alarm that there is a black face in the Oval Office, and all the other shit is post-Cold War window dressing. It is a reassertion of white nationalism, which makes a lot more sense of the gun-culture/pre-Revolutionary War symbology.

    The crossover appeal to a certain species of libertarianism – which is not explicitly founded on racial categories – confuses matters, but it doesn’t sufficiently dilute the main white nationalist thrust of the movement as a whole. I know a lot of people think I’m a one-trick pony when I say the shared cultural norm that merges these disparate currents, and that creates the greatest potential for the in corporation of more “mainstreamers” (ie, panicked suburbanites), is a warlike masculinity.

    Many middleclass males are only now becoming aware of how vulnerable their own positions are – as family providers, a centerpiece of traditional male identity. Until the center began not to hold, they rested comfortably in the delusion that they were the beneficiaries of some kind of meritocracy (still part of the appeal of the dominant political parties, who orient their campaign theses to this massive suburban bloc). As this role dissolves in the face of a more general disorganization, they will reach for another model to reassert their masculinity. Things like vigilantism and survivialism will have ever greater appeal, but that presupposes the construction of enemies against which this alternative male identity can measure itself.

    That’s what to look for: who is being constructed as the enemy, and how.

    My 2 centavos.

  12. (Boer) Tom:

    @Steve
    Don’t try to destroy the truthers completely – try to get one or two fundamental realities recognized. I found that by convincing people that the buildings would not have toppled in fall, despite any leaning to one side, and that real aircraft parts were strewn over the ground, and that much debris fell on building 7, I could get them to accept that the established narrative is at least as plausible as the truthers’ narrative. It comes down to respecting their intellect – they must strike their own path, and most truthers aren’t too concerned in the long run about debating minutiae when the substance has fled.

  13. Auntie Imperial:

    Cabdriver, LaRouche’s US Labor Party has a Loooooong history of spying on the US left, as documented by Phil Agee in CounterSpy magazine quite a few years ago. They have offshoots like California Homemakers Association, Western (and Eastern) Service Workers Association, and a number of other organizations that APPEAR to be unions of sorts, but my personal experience tells me they collect information. In some cases, simply information about who can fix the local chapter’s car for free or which business will supply it’s parts, or printing services, or whatever, for a write-off (this is personal experience).

    They remind me of a cross between a federally financed provocateur group (I STILL suspect if a returning from Vietnam US soldier was ever spat on by ‘protestors’ (and Jerry Lembke’s research could not find a verifiable case, but ‘if’…) it was most likely US Labor Party folks who did it, and the cult group Westboro Baptist Church.

    Locally, they target college students by ‘tabling’, who think they’ll be doing ‘Labor Organizing’. I confront these folks in front of the students with their history, and have been threatened by them. Sometimes, when the pressure’s on them, they bring out the ‘big guys’ to do their tabling. By ‘big guys’ I mean they’re all over 6′ and built like brawlers.

    All in all, they give me the creeps.

  14. Marcilla Elizabeth Smith:

    Isn’t there some quote about not ascribing to malice that which can be explained by ignorance? Applying Achem’s Razer does not always prove 100% useful, but I hope we can at least consider it, here. I certainly believe we are headed toward a more authoritarian state of consolidated US national power, but I believe countering that is a point in the future where there can really be a convergence of resistance and activist movements that doesn’t look so fragmented, sectarian, and even counter-productive at times.

    If the far right (or any other stripe of political “other”) hasn’t gotten it all right, yet, do we need to assume that every truth must be part of a conspiracy to deceive our own (sacrosanct) truth? Couldn’t it be that we are nearing a populist singularity?

    I certainly hope so, because I’m not sure what else will save us from the system. Maybe gray goo =-S

  15. cabdriver:

    The LaRouche Org has as many front groups with respectable names as, uh, the Rev. Moon’s “Unification Church”. Lots of them.

    I returned back to the Washington D.C. area in late 2005 after living for a couple of years in Northern California, and lived there for about three years. The culture shock was considerable. Not that the place is Mars, but it was…different.

    One of the most remarkable features I found was the quality and quantity of “anti-Establishment” dissent. The LaRouche people were almost the only people with a presence on the street in Washington D.C., peddling their screeds, like ‘New Federalist’ magazine.

    If you had just gotten Fresh Over the Beltway from the flatlands as a young intern on Capitol Hill in 2006, it would have appeared as if the only people engaged in the task of actively calling out George W. Bush were LaRouchies.

    And I can only wonder what the tourists might be taking away from all that.

    They were the only people doing the leafleting and postering on the street corners surrounding the White House, and up around NorthWest DC- not counting Lafayette Square, where there were a few non-LaRouche related groups tabling, and so forth.

    I’ve followed LaRouche long enough to see him and his boys constantly playing the game of trying to re-position themselves within the bounds of Democratic Party “progressivism”, from the 1990s to now.

    I haven’t been following his act recently- I need to check in, and find out what His Nibs is saying nowadays about the still-fledgling Obama administration, the Clintons, Bush, Cheney, etc…

    Lyndon LaRouche never seems the least bit stuck for funds for his projects (which are manifold). Could it be due to all that street cred, from his Federal conviction, back in the 1980s?

  16. xenia:

    cabdriver, it’s simply unfair to mention the purported “socialist” element of nazi ideology without adding that thousands of communists and socialist were among the first nazi targets, sent to labor camps even before the jews.

    theweleit’s male fantasies remains required reading!

  17. cabdriver:

    Xenia, please, bear with me. Sometimes that’s how it is…I can’t do a teach-in on the entire history of fascism and Nazism from scratch.

    Mussolini’s innovation as a political-economic thinker was to come up with a form of “socialism” that favored the ruling classes of his society- the aristocracy and the industrialists. As such, it was mostly ad hoc quackery; but as politics, it was genius. A brilliant swindle.

    The political genius of fascism is that it has no underlying principles. It’s more bound up with a social-psychological appeal to mysticism and personalist charisma than it is with a coherent ideology.

    Male Fantasies by Theleweit, that’s a new book recommendation to me. I’ll try and find a copy.

    A couple of book recommendations for Stan in light of his last comment, if he hasn’t read them already:

    The Mass Psychology of Fascism, by Wilhelm Reich

    and

    Universal Fascism, by Michael Ledeen

    I’ll leave them unreviewed. I can’t keep writing everything on my mind, I’ll never quit. I have enough trouble with that already.

    Anyway, I don’t want to spoil it for the readers. Let’s just say that the thematic approaches of the authors diverge considerably. I do recommend reading Reich first, then Ledeen afterward.

  18. cabdriver:

    A couple of good links on the philosophy of Fascism and its influences

    a treatise seeking to draw points of affinity between fascism and post-modernism

    http://tinyurl.com/22weh9k

    Umberto Eco’s essay on the defining features of “Ur-fascism”

    http://www.themodernword.com/eco/eco_blackshirt.html

    Excerpts from Wilhelm Reich’s Mass Psychology of Fascism

    http://nickcooper.com/mass.htm

    also, I’ve looked up some refs on Male Fantasies by Theweleit (corrected spelling); that does look like a book well worth reading.

  19. Marcilla Elizabeth Smith:

    I am curious to check out your reads. If I may diverge slightly from your line about coherent ideology (or perhaps just adding to it), fascism has had an ideology-”ish” appeal, I think it’s fair to say. As you say, perhaps not coherent, but I think it goes beyond elevating the dictator-figurehead to god-like status. Fascism has tended to gain momentum in nations with recent declines in historical trending (economic, etc.). The appeal goes beyond the “savior” and must include a vision of salvation. This has typically been a return to a kind of false historical toryism, which has its own corporatist nature. Look at the extent the Nazis went through in order to “prove” their theories of Aryan history. Fascism is about a return to the “good old days” – but they are a good old days that never truly existed. It is Cinderella’s Castle in place of a drafty stonework.

    Of course, this may not hold true when fascism comes to the US. And the US has no history comparable to Germany, Italy, Japan, etc. I suppose the closest is all of this “founding fathers” crap we are seeing hauled out like some kind of religious revival. But we have neither the land, the slave labor, nor the markets they had in the 18th century, so we’ll have to substitute with command capitalism and autocratic police state tactics. It should be interesting =-S

  20. (Boer) Tom:

    @cabdriver
    The fascists were big on ethnic solidarity, or fraternity, as you may prefer. What the postmodernists could in principle achieve would be to tire out the whole ethnic nationalism to sadomasochism spectrum of behaviours. Tradition can be updated, and we continually create new traditions and slowly abandon old ones. The thing with traditions is to critically examine them – the problem with the new-age people is that they are uncritical both by choice, and as they’ve never had the opportunity to develop a critical worldview, which leads to such weird behaviours as virulently attacking a white individual who is homophobic, while patiently listening to a black individual who is homophobic (and thereby creating general disgust, without addressing either individual’s homophobia meaningfully) to take a recent example. And here again we see the contradiction in the first article – conservatives demand that one condemn FGM, instead of applying rationality (learning from one’s mistakes – let individuals within the cultures argue against it, so that the ethnic groups in question don’t feel under siege, which is a large part of what derailed anti-FGM efforts under colonialism – rationality is impossible without sympathy – even Francis Bacon’s rapist-scientist is sympathetic in his violence to his victim – that’s where the insight and pleasure are derived – ‘objectivity’ was a pleasant and mutually agreed-upon lie – rationality is the application of the understanding of a process to manipulate that process, and this requires understanding/sympathy).

    As for the purportedly fascist idea that disagreement is treason (it is by no means limited to them, and even Hitler could show great liberality, e.g. his defense of a cartoonist who drew a caricature of Hitler, upon which he said that it is the role of satirists to satirise – see Hilberg’s “Perpetrators Victims Bystanders”), it is clearly insufficient – material action is verboten, and words only go that way when they are perceived as materially threatening. The Nazi party was very diverse internally (see e.g. Neumann’s Behemoth).

    The fear of diversity (and here the argument with new-agers works – all seek unity) can be undermined with a similarly primitive argument – a monocrop leads to plant disease (yes, I’ve used that argument ;) ) – but here we have a contradiction – either we see conflict (on whatever levels) as good, or we seek unity/monocrop/stagnation. Was it a failure of the left’s imagination? Or how about ethnicity and language? Some conflicts are real, and one can bring about a less hateful interaction… I find Eco unimaginative in dealing with what he describes – is it that he wants the person he sees as the ur-fascist to simply adopt his world-view, rather than develop intellectually? That seems to be a problem with much of the left.

    I find the ‘mass psychology of fascism’ approach puerile. If the soldier returns to his ranks, is it because of a sense of guilt and/or sexual starvation (funny, I thought soldiers were notorious for rape), or is it due to a sense of belonging and a calculation of what the final outcome may be, based on the support and surveillance structures that exist within the force? Again, it strikes me as an obsession with theory over practice, which is probably what allowed the fascists to become so successful: they didn’t have as much theory to constrain experiments (theory that was largely unfalsifiable to the left, and thus constrained them), they didn’t have sympathetic opponents (the left was merely hostile, and could thus not study them – the fascists were correct to be suspicious of ‘objectivity’), and as such, they could draw on the experience of their countries’ bureaucracies for their projects (e.g. the destruction of Europe’s Jews – the Nazi bureaucrats were too corrupt and inexperienced to pull of an act of such complexity).

  21. m.c.:

    I’m not an expert on the masons, but a few years ago reading a book review or magazine article about Eichmann(I can’t remember the title) he started out early on the Freemasonry desk before being transferred by Heydrich.

  22. cabdriver:

    “The appeal goes beyond the “savior” and must include a vision of salvation. This has typically been a return to a kind of false historical toryism, which has its own corporatist nature. Look at the extent the Nazis went through in order to “prove” their theories of Aryan history.”

    Yes. There’s invariably been an appeal to a mythic past involved. Mussolini had the ancient Roman Empire. And that’s where the symbol of the fasces came from- the bundled sticks (solidarity increasing strength) around the axe (action; power; military force.)

    re: America’s mythic past- I’ve been reading a book called Arming America, recently- a history of the so-called American love affair with firearms. A tremendous amount of debunking in that book about the historical usefulness of guns to buttress Pilgrim, Colonial, militia, and pioneer self-reliance. Lots of references to primary sources and contemprary accounts.

    Turns out that mythos is mostly Hollywood, so to speak. A fabrication.

    Tom Boer: lots of points worthy of discussion, when I get more time.

  23. m.c.:

    If/When full-bore Fascism comes to the U.S., it will look something like Texas. Big Oil, bash the immigrants, Death Penalty wild, Prison systems like something from the 1830′s. On the take judges, gated communities, the rich spend their summers in Paris(Houston is way to0 hot & humid in the summer), right to work, unions are commie & godless. You get the idea…

  24. Marcilla Elizabeth Smith:

    I was disappointed to see (via only a cursory internet search, granted) that Arming America has been so thoroughly accused of fraud. From what I could tell, it probably had a valid point to make. However, I can see how the subtlety of that point (combined with Capitalism) would have incentivized “fudging” the details :: sigh ::

  25. Marcilla Elizabeth Smith:

    Noam Chomsky has been saying that what our proto-fascist system lacks to kick us into “full-bore” is the rise of a charismatic leader relatively untainted by scandal. Reading this piece from the RPUSA has caused me to start having these horrible visions of a Josef-Goebbels-directed, Betsy-Ross-costumed, pro-wrestling-styled Jesse “The Body” Ventura rise to tyrannical power complete with a suspension of Congress and (what’s left of) the Constitution, a cabinet replete with old buddies of his from the SEAL days and his co-stars from Predator, and — sorry, I have to go physically purge my stomach contents now!

  26. cabdriver:

    Wow. You said it. It’s been a long time since I’ve read a book where the research was found to be that suspect:

    “…Garry Wills, who had enthusiastically reviewed Arming America for the New York Times, later said, “I was took. The book is a fraud.” He also told an interviewer for C-SPAN that Bellesiles “claimed to have consulted archives he didn’t and he misrepresented those archives,” arguing that Bellesiles did not have to do that because he had good evidence for many of his claims. Wills added, “People get taken by very good con men.” [13] Historian Roger Lane, who written a positive review of the book for the Journal of American History, offered a similar opinion: “It is entirely clear to me that he’s made up a lot of these records. He’s betrayed us. He’s betrayed the cause. It’s 100 percent clear that the guy is a liar and a disgrace to my profession. He’s breached that trust.”[14]…”

    From the Wikipedia entry on the book http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_A._Bellesiles

    What’s really tough: I have to go back into the book and do comparative research. There are quotes aplenty, supposedly from historical accounts- beyond the apparent slipshod research and confabulation of statistics, I’m interested to know if any of the quoted material consists of outright forgeries.

    It’s really too bad, because I expect better from books that emphasize their references and footnotes.

    Interesting that Garry Wills was taken in, too: he’s one of my favorite writers on American history. His book Under God: Religion and Politics is a modern classic- perhaps the best popular history on the subject.

  27. Steve:

    It is beyond hilarious to listen to a bunch of lefties talk about “fascism” while themselves knee deep in nonsense conspiracy theory. Once you accept the non-logic of conspiracy theory, all roads eventually lead back to the “international jew”.

  28. Stan:

    Cabdriver?? This you?

    http://www.marxmail.org/msg76221.html

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