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Hi friends,

At SVN 10 days ago, Matthew Fox shared with us 14 characteristics of a fascist regime (reproduced below…from his website). It concisely dots the ‘I’s and crosses the ‘T’s for anyone who is still asleep around where this country is heading…(although I know none of you are!) I’m sending this to you as a prelude to an email (further below) which is offering yet more reasons to believe that #14 continues to be part of our sad state of affairs.

Recently a political scientist, Dr. Lawrence Britt, wrote an article naming fourteen characteristics of fascism. He based his study on an examination of the regimes of Hitler, Mussolini, Franco, Suharto and Pinochet. (For the record, we need to remind ourselves that four of these men were Roman Catholics never excommunicated by their church—all except Suharto.) A summary of Britt’s points follow.

1. Powerful and continuing nationalism employing constant use of patriotic slogans, symbols, songs, flags.

2. Disdain for the recognition of human rights because security needs outweigh human rights which can be ignored.

3. Using enemies as scapegoats for a unifying cause.

4. Supremacy of the military.

5. Rampant sexism including more rigid gender roles and anti-gay legislation.

6. Controlled mass media.

7. Obsession with national security driven by a politics of fear.

8. Religion and Government are intertwined especially in rhetoric employed by its leaders.

9. Corporate power is protected—industrial and business aristocracies put government leaders into power and keep them there creating a mutually beneficial business/government relationship and power elite.

10. Labor power, which represents one of the few threats to fascism, is suppressed.

11. Disdain for intellectuals and the arts and hostility to higher education along with censorship of arts or refusal to support the arts.

12. Obsession with crime and punishment.

13. Rampant cronyism and corruption.

14. Fraudulent Elections.

The email below was forwarded to me by my friend Michael Jascz in NYC. This is allegedly coming from someone at CBS and although I have no way to personally verify the accuracy of the claims in there, I am forwarding all this to you because I think we should all be greatly concerned that this is not under public scrutiny. Make sure to scroll down all the way to the bottom, and check out the 13 considerations (especially 8 and 13).

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