Tuesday April 24, 2007The Guardian
....3. Develop a thug caste
When leaders who seek what I call a "fascist shift" want to close down an open society, they send paramilitary groups of scary young men out to terrorise citizens. The Blackshirts roamed the Italian countryside beating up communists; the Brownshirts staged violent rallies throughout Germany.....
...Thugs in America? Groups of angry young Republican men, dressed in identical shirts and trousers, menaced poll workers counting the votes in Florida in 2000. If you are reading history, you can imagine that there can be a need for "public order" on the next election day. Say there are protests, or a threat, on the day of an election; history would not rule out the presence of a private security firm at a polling station "to restore public order...
Are Rove’s Missing E-mails the Smoking Guns of the Stolen 2004 Election?
Published on Wednesday, April 25, 2007 by CommonDreams.org
by Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman
by Bob Fitrakis and Harvey Wasserman
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