Is America Becoming Fascist?

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foreign policy is all about americas agenda for self promotion, our foreign 
policy has nothing to do with doing what might be "right".
our form of govt. is as bad as facism, because any form of govt. is 
bullshit. if people cannot rule themselves individually, then there is no 
hope for govt. it should be about principles not rules and laws. if all you 
fuckheads werent so stupid maybe we wouldnt be in our current situation 
concerning govt. and culture.


sorry for the rant-style of this email, and i also am sorry for any 
misspellings, its very early in the morning and i havent had my coffee or 
smoke yet.





>From: Terrance <lycidas2 at earthlink.net>
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: Is America Becoming Fascist?
>Date: Sun, 27 Oct 2002 11:26:59 -0500
>
>Otto,
>
>It's all word play. No matter your knowledge and proficiency with
>idiomatic english it's mostly googleepoop so you can't quite figure it
>out unless you subscribe to that counterbashing bullshit "journalism."
>
>
>Bush/Rice  is a moralist not a fascist.
>
>Fascism? Golly, that's easy to say. It's 1984. beware the....the bush
>man, the save claw.....
>
>
>Notice how the author acknowledges that neither  Nixon nor Reagan were
>fascist but insists that America is becoming fascist under W Bush. A
>contradiction he smoothes over with citations none none has even read
>and he probably hasn't either.
>
>
>He loads up his article with word play, exaggerated conspiracy innuendo,
>and intellectual cant. He's an academic, teaches in an "English"
>department and he is talking to a handful of largely and mostly
>self-imposed (in comfortable academic exile) irrelevant academic
>Lefty's. Thus the jargon of his profession and his obscure references
>are no less than a dog-and-pony-show put on for his subscribers who are
>mostly smirking post-post-graduates and student sycophants. High-brown
>bush bashing is all it amounts too. In the USA the college campus is no
>different than the corporations that now fund them.  Find a corner
>cubicle and scratch out a study of the some dying language and be sure
>to cite Chomsky. Sell it. Dumb it down and provoke. Publish puke and
>pablum or perish.
>
>Skip it Otto, your too smart to get caught in that Saintly snare again.
>
>The Peace movement is trying to bring in support from across the
>political spectrum. We need the fractured Left but I'm not sure we need
>their fascist language and their worn out 60s tactics. I'm not surprised
>that in  New York City we have not managed to get out the anti-war
>message. We have here an older problem than the 60s leftovers, an
>ideological Left living in the 1930 while the trades and unions
>integrate and read the NY Post.  But is digress and pest.
>
>
>Mr. Bush's moralism is more ambitious, sometimes verging on messianic,
>when it comes to the world beyond our borders. It is encapsulated in two
>bits of
>presidential oratory that were widely written off as careless rhetorical
>flourishes -
>the glib "axis of evil" and the Islam-offending description of America's
>"crusade," which the White House later retracted. Read Mr. Bush's lips,
>and he seems deeply convinced that America's great project is to combat
>evil and implant what he calls "universal values" throughout the world.
>Foreign policy is not just about defending oilfields.
>
>The Soul of George W. Bush
>By BILL KELLER
>March 23, 2002
>
>http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/03.24G.Bush.Soul.htm


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