I too participated in the Vietnam adventure in empire. My grampa Ole won a Purple Heart in the Ardennes Forest and my old man brought home a Purple Heart, Bronze and Silver Stars and a life of constant pain and emotional hell from the War in Europe. Trust me, I understand the “song of violence” and the dance of death it brings, I was up to my bloody neck in it for 12 months. I also know that people don’t have a choice when confronted by violent tyranny…you won’t hear me trumpeting the romance and heroism of the fight I am only warning of it’s inevitability.

Please identify your target before ya shoot yer mouth off!!

KEEP THE FAITH AND DON’T SHOOT THE MESSENGER!!

Citizen Neiwert and the Firepup Freedom Fighters:

Thank you for the post…may I have another, it doesn’t hurt enough! I have appreciated your very important work on the definition and identification of authoritarian political movements in our country. You have developed for us a very workable definition of fascism that in my mind properly tracks this modern form of the political disease back to slavery and the American South and the end of reconstruction and the rise of political terrorism and it’s institution as a governing structure in the South.

The institutional machinery for the implementation of a fascist police state has existed for a long time and we have dodged that bullet several times in the last 75-80 years only by the skin of our teeth and the a division in the ruling oligarchy that had allowed for a semi-free press. There aren’t any divisions anymore in the ruling group of families who control the political economy and the media through the corporate structure. The ideological solidification of the domestic police forces, the disintegration of the state militias, the collapse of a productive employment economy and, of course, the buying of the Congress and courts have led us to the precipice on which we teeter right now.

The fascism we confront now is a political movement that has no intellectual foundation and no organized philosophy of governance…it is a political movement based on fear and physical power and it’s existence within the constitutional framework of government these last 8 years has allowed for the destruction or the complete corruption of all of the institutions, federal and local, that were designed to preserve the safety of the individual and mitigate against the consolidation of power by any faction. The immigration raids, then, are not a “harbinger” of a coming police state but the announcement of it’s arrival.

Now can we start callin’ the Republican party fascist and it’s followers and fellow travelers fascists? It seems to me that our only way out is to establish a political movement within the remainin political party that offers itself as an anti-fascist front and extends its arms to all those disenfranchised by the current authoritarian regime…and if ya look carefully enough, I think you will recognize that effort in Obama’s work to date. I am NOT optimistic about the success of this anti- fascist movement with out violent confrontations in the streets and some kind of organized resistance inside what is left of the public military. Remember, billions our tax dollars have gone to establishing and equipping a corporate mercenary army of over 100,000 while at the same time the government has been hollowing out the federal militia.

KEEP THE FAITH AND PASS THE AMMUNITION, FEAR IS JEST A WORD!!

I guess its treatable

Well, it is treatable but not curable. Like they say, love may die but Herpes is forever.

Hey Dr.Kirk is upstairs ….