From Argentina: "Contemporary Fascism in the United States"

[BurtWorm]

Translated and reprinted at the blog, Watching America:

http://www.watchingamerica.com/argenpress000003.shtml

By Nestor Nunez

Translated by Barabara Howe

October 2, 2006

Argentine - Argen Press - Original Article (Spanish)


Is George W. Bush a fascist? Like it or not, many
on this earth believe he is, even doubting that he
knows what the word really means.




A Soviet-era documentary about fascism summarizes the absurd package of lies that the Nazis employed to justify their supposed superiority over other peoples on this planet, as well as their brutal crimes committed against humanity.

In Germany back then, speeches about a "pre-existing need" to fight "wars of ethnic cleansing" and to "purify the world" were applauded. During this nearly universal purge, concentration camps where millions of Russians, Slavs, Jews and other Europeans lost their lives were regarded as a "blessing."

Six decades after these crimes were committed, it seemed as though in the history of our species, nothing like them would ever be seen again. Nevertheless, the George W. Bush government and lawmakers in the North American Congress have just turned a similar page, by establishing "legalized" torture against their supposed opponents.

This new law for the courts and authorities of the United States renders those "inconvenient" Geneva Conventions, which prohibit abuse and offenses against the detained, obsolete.

The Oval Office insisted on this legislative battle. The President needed to get his "law" on the books before the upcoming mid-term elections, when his Republican party risks losing its majority in Congress.

The neoconservatives achieved their purpose. W. Bush's controversial and partisan "war against terrorism" can now depend on having a special tool to repeat the atrocities of Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, but this time under the appearance of normality and official recognition.

[nam78_two]

1. There is a Fox news contributor who said "ethnic cleansing has worked"

"look at history" or some such crap..I should fish it out and post it here..
It was in some obscure military journal.

There are certainly those with a very scary mind set in those circles...

Of course they don't say these things in front of large audiences...

[BurtWorm]

2. There's always someone on the right willing to test the waters

for the border between winger and fascist.

[Peace Patriot]

3. This Argentinian article also mentions the Venezuelan matter of the U.S.

(the Bush Junta) harboring a suspected airline bomber (which Hugo Chavez mentioned in his speech to the UN)...


"And at this point it is reasonable to ask oneself if the approval of the use of aggressive interrogation methods against prisoners, Washington has reached a moral crossroads when is says that it will not send the terrorist Luis Posada Carriles http://www.watchingamerica.com/juventudrebelde000019.shtml to face justice in Venezuela because, according to a local judge, he could be tortured by the government of Caracas.

"The government of the United States has taken an embarrassing step that the international community should not ignore and which should serve as an added incentive to the American people themselves to reject the current administration."

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I think I'd use a stronger word than "embarrassing" (damnable? diabolical?), but the article nevertheless indicates the world's revulsion at Bush Junta hypocrisy--and, perhaps the most awful impact of all (side from the torture itself), the loss of U.S. leadership in stopping human rights violations around the world.

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"Now we will see what happens at the U.N. Human Rights Council which in its previous life as the U.N. Commission on Human Rights, was the scene of resistance to the powerful, when it sought to investigate and denounce the abuses against 'enemy combatants' detained at the illegal American naval base in Guantanamo.

"In fact, various U.N. officials have described the legislation proposed by the White House as immoral and as a violation of civil rights. Now that it has been written into the Empire's laws, the least that can be hoped for is the condemnation of this century's Nazis."

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This century's Nazis. That's something to be remembered for.

[Karenina]

4. What MUST be recognized

is that the Nazis from Germany were "rescued" and installed into the OSS way back in the day. The seeds were saved and replanted in fertile ground. The NÜrnberg Trials were nothing more than a minor setback.

[Vidar]

6. Very good point on that deal with the devil.

[htuttle]

5. I guess Argentina is crying for us

..and they know fascists when they see them. All too well.

[Vidar]

7. Bravo for the writer & the blossoming democracies in South America.