COMMENTS POSTED TO AN ARTICLE IN THE GUARDIAN
Well, I've always believed that at least a third of
Americans are thoroughgoing fascists.
The great American journalist of WWII, William Shirer,
author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, wrote that he believed America
was only a short way from going fascist.
And there were many historical bases for saying that.
The American Bund movement, often forgotten today, was a
huge quasi-Nazi organization running around the United States in uniforms like
Hitler’s Brownshirts.
The Klu Klux Klan, also in its practices much resembling the
Brownshirts, had almost a century of history.
American imperialism arose early in the country’s history and
with wars like the Spanish-American War, using phony excuses, was little
different to Nazi plans for German expansion in Europe.
There was the longstanding treatment of American Indians and
Blacks.
In the 1920s, there was a series of massacres of blacks in several
places, notably one in Oklahoma where a whole neighborhood of about 300 blacks
was murdered, their property stolen, and their bodies buried in mass graves.
Right down to today, American has very large groups of
private militias and Aryan Churches.
And just consider, since WWII, America has started many
wars, killed millions of innocents in dirty imperial wars from Vietnam to Iraq,
and has used dozens of dirty operations to topple governments, including a
number of democratic governments. America has also played an important role in
the several genuine genocides since WWII. In Indonesia, the State Department
actually worked into the night submitting names for the slaughter. The killing
fields of Cambodia only took place because America, in its insane war with
Vietnam (itself rightly termed a genocide, having slaughtered three million),
destabilized a moderate but non-aligned government allowing a ruthless bunch to
take over and begin murdering. In Rwanda, America early knew of the horror but
deliberately kept it quiet and offered no help. To all of that, we see virtually
no opposition inside America.
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In answer to another
reader’s assertion about keeping his guns:
Oh sure, you and a cabinet full of hunting rifles are going
to stand up to America's massive armed forces which are equipped with
everything from flamethrowers to tactical nuclear weapons.
And then there's the massive National Guard, almost equally
well equipped and having demonstrated in numerous black ghetto uprisings its
readiness to shoot dozens of Americans dead in the streets.
Then there are also America's massive, militarized police
forces that shoot people daily (about a thousand Americans a year) without
qualm and mainly without consequences.
We mustn't forget the Homeland Security organization which
recently has been storing arms and ammunition and vehicles at a furious pace
largely in secret.
Then there are all America’s belly-crawling Special Forces,
thousands of bountifully equipped and well trained murderers, especially
skilled at killing in the middle of the night.
And there’s an Air Force which could easily destroy whole
neighborhoods or towns with everything from white phosphorus to cluster bombs.
This is supplemented by the Air National Guard.
And today, still further supplemented by America's large,
secret extralegal execution organization using drones and missiles to kill
anyone they are ordered to kill.
Yep, you and other like-minded Americans are ready for a
last stand with shotguns and hunting rifles.
Your statement is yet one more tired repeat of the utterly
out-of-date Second Amendment stuff about opposing tyranny in America.
America has in fact morphed into something not one signatory
to its Constitution would even recognize and probably with which most would be
horrified. Much of the Constitution they wrote resembles a derelict building
creaking in the wind of a ghost town.
