NP: "definitely a force for fascism"

[Steve Maas]

Some of you may have read about these scary folks.
Steve Maas

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http://alternet.org/print.html?StoryID=16167

Meet 'The Family'
Anthony Lappé, Guerrilla News Network
June 12, 2003

[excerpts]
"In April, the AP broke the story that six U.S. congressmen were paying the 
bargain rate of $600 a month each to live together in a swanky DC townhouse 
owned by a secretive fundamentalist Christian group known as the Fellowship 
or the Foundation. Many, understandably, were curious. Who is this 
organization, and what is its agenda?"
[...]
"Last month, Harper's magazine published a rather extraordinary article by 
Jeffrey Sharlet, editor of the irreverent web site killingthebuddha.com and 
co-author of the upcoming "Killing the Buddha: A Heretic's Bible" (Free 
Press). The piece chronicled Sharlet's three-week semi-undercover stay at 
Ivanwald, the Fellowship's mansion"
[Sharlet's Harper's article can be found at
www.harpers.org/online/jesus_plus_nothing/?pg=1]
[...]
"GNN: So how scared are you of this group? Are they a force for fascism or 
some sort of cult-like group with big connections that comes and goes?
"SHARLET: I think they are definitely a force for fascism. I think a lot of 
the way the world looks is a result of their work. They were instrumental in 
getting U.S. government support for General Suharto, for the generals' 
juntas in Brazil. Just take those two countries alone, they are two of the 
biggest countries on Earth. Those countries might have been progressive 
democracies a long time ago had it not been for U.S. support for those 
regimes ... "

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