For those against America
Originally posted 4/5/03

Soldat, I'm not using fascist as an insult. I am being factual. What they advocate is straight out of Websters:

Main Entry: fas·cism
Pronunciation: 'fa-"shi-z&m also 'fa-"si-
Function: noun
Etymology: Italian fascismo, from fascio bundle, fasces, group, from Latin fascis bundle & fasces fasces
Date: 1921
1 often capitalized : a political philosophy, movement, or regime (as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition
2 : a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control

I've pointed this out several times on several different threads. Contrary to the b.com fascist advocates, NJMaster1, ceanthia, neema_girl, LeCrow, Mauser, etc, think, the US is still governed by the Constitution and that Constitution guarantees certain rights, irrespective of the tools who may be in power at the moment. First among these rights is the freedom of speech, the freedom to peaceably assemble. The right, my friend, to dissent, to say the government is wrong and that we should throw the bums out.

This right is enshrined not just in the Bill of Rights, but also in our culture. Check out Henry David Thoreau, the father of civil disobedience here in the US.

Those who advocate the disassembly of our rights are not true Americans in my view. They may well live here and have citizenship here, but they have lost what it means to be free.

Feel free to dig out what irony you can here; I'm not opposed to that. I'll not comment on the irony of an old-school conservative defending people who espouse views so strongly opposed to what you and I have defended.

What goes around comes around as you well know, and I didn't start this shit. But I will definitely be around for the finish.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the president is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable.
-- Teddy Roosevelt during WWI