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People should not fear their governments; governments should fear their people.

Who exactly are the fascists here?

‘Islamo-Fascists’. This morning, I heard Bush use this idiot-neocon phrase to describe the supposed UK airline bombers.

Now, anybody who would bomb a jetliner or a city is a murdering monster, but fundamentalist Islamic militants adhere to a premodern creed that, awful as it is, has nothing to do with fascism.

A 20th-century scourge, fascism combines the corporate state, the welfare state, the police state, the national security state, religion, glorification of the military, aggressive war, hatred of the other, state control of the culture, education, and the media, political centralization, the leader principle, and the rhetoric of fear and belligerent nationalism.

Now, who does that sound like? [LewRockwell.com Blog]

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