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On Wed, 28 Mar 2001 22:10:29 EST Kris Millegan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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> The Nazi Hydra
>
> In Fascist America
> The Nazi Hydra In Fascist America is a currently an ongoing work in
> progress
> of the White Rose. The Nazi Hydra was conceived to fill a gap in the
> literature by providing a detailed overview of the influence of
> fascism
> within the United States. The intent and motivation for such a
> project was
> twofold: to sound an ominous warning as to the direction this
> country is
> taking at the hands of the right wing and to provide a convenient
> all
> encompassing source on fascism in the Untied States for the reader.
> In this
> regards the chapters are heavily documented. And I urge the reader
> here and
> throughout the book to read the sources cited for further
> details.When
> complete the book is projected to span sixteen chapters. Chapters
> will be
> made available on this web site as they are completed.
> After two years into this project I now understand why such a book
> was never
> attempted before. Such a detailed accounting of fascism within this
> country
> would literally fill volumes. Some of the chapters are brutally
> long, yet I
> feel that I have omitted far too many details for the sake of the
> reader. For
> instance, the Chapter Ratlines covering the CIA and its reliance on
> Nazi war
> criminals, is over 27,000 words or roughly 60 pages.
> Many details had to be omitted in writing that chapter in setting up
> the
> premise of how this over reliance of Nazi war criminals started the
> cold war,
> influenced our foreign policy and even influence our medical testing
> on
> orphans and prisoners. At least a half dozen excellent books
> exploring this
> aspect of fascism comes to mind and the reader is referred to them
> extensively in the chapter. But such omissions of details become a
> fact of
> life in presenting a broad overview of a complex and many faceted
> topic.
> In fact nothing remains unchanged from the original outline. Even
> the title
> was changed to better reflect on the subject from the original title
> of High
> Noon: in Fascist America. The real danger of fascism is that its so
> insidious
> that it can creep into every crack of daily life unnoticed including
> religi
> ous groups, hence the logic behind the change in title. Chapters
> were omitted
> and others added as research dictated. Additional information and
> revisions
> need and will be made in some of the chapters already written. But
> such
> changes are the hallmark of good research.
> Some readers will undoubtedly find the Nazi Hydra disturbing. They
> shudder at
> reports of another Nazi war criminal being deported and the crimes
> against
> humanity that he inflicted onto others. They fear to ask the
> question how
> such a person could slip into the country or how many more are
> present.
> Others may be livid with anger as the Nazi Hydra details the
> associations of
> the Republican Party and past presidents: Nixon, Ford, Bush and
> Reagan with
> Nazi war criminals. But history cannot be rewritten and it's a story
> that
> must be told. Those that aided Nazi war criminals are no less guilty
> of
> crimes against humanity than any of the Nazi war criminals and need
> be held
> fully accountable at the end of a hangman's rope. As today we stand
> at the
> edge of a deep chasm with the right wing ready to shove us over the
> edge into
> full-blown fascism.
> Still others may find the Nazi Hydra as it was intended as a useful
> resource
> and the danger that fascism presents to the world and the United
> States
> today. In fact I have received an email from a wonderful lady in New
> Zealand
> that has been using it as a reference in the forum MAI-NOT. Her
> email with
> her name omitted appears in the rave review link below. The one
> thing I do
> promise is the book will not end in darkness. The final chapter will
> be a
> chapter detailing solutions to stopping fascism dead in its tracks.
> For the
> reader that cannot wait one such proposal can be found in the
> Corporate
> Welfare section in the links section of the White Rose. The proposed
> solution
> to ending once and for all time corporate rule and domination is the
> proposed
> constitutional amendment.
> I would greatly appreciate if any reader has documentable evidence
> of fascism
> or of right wing propaganda material to please email such material
> to me. One
> particular item that I am currently seeking is a list of the twenty
> one steps
> to communism originally put out by the John Birch Society in the
> 1960s. And
> currently being promoted by a militia group from Arizona and
> recently found
> posted on a bulletin board of a Midwest state university.
> I hope you find the Nazi Hydra useful and please feel free to quote
> it or
> cite it.
> Email
> Rave Review
>
> Preface
> Chapter 1 What Fascism Is & Isn't
> Corporate Law: A History
> The 1930s: Nazis Parading on Main Street
> The War Years
> Ratlines: The CIA & The Nazis
> Those Damn Hippies Are Still Trouble: How the 60s Still Effects Us.
> =====
> Before diving into the subject mater at hand a note is in order
> concerning
> the documentation. This writer would have preferred to use
> references
> entirely from hard copy works over web site urls. Hard copy
> references are
> permanent as opposed to the more fleeting nature of the web. In this
> regard
> this writer has tried to limit web references to those of
> organizations only
> rather than to personnel pages that may be here today and gone
> tomorrow.
> But the web is a wonderful research tool, yes the web has a lot of
> junk as
> well but so does any library. It's up to the researcher to sort out
> the
> reliable information in both and to discard the junk. Secondly
> information on
> the web is more current than what you can find in any library. With
> that said
> the writer has made heavy use of web references. Yes, they may be
> fleeting in
> nature, and yes the information may be updated in the future but
> that is a
> hazard of any research source. With that said the web references
> found within
> this book do what any references do and that is to give credit to
> the
> original writer after all you are reading this book on line. For
> this reason
> no attempt to update the html links will be made.
> This book addresses the topic of creeping fascism in America. Before
> proceeding we need to carefully define what is meant by creeping
> fascism.
> Fascism itself will be defined in the first chapter. Creeping
> fascism refers
> to events themselves that may not be truly fascist in nature but
> when viewed
> in the context of a greater movement they can indeed be seen as part
> of a
> fascist movement or contributed to the rise of fascism. Events of
> creeping
> fascism will all have one thing in common they will represent a lost
> of
> freedoms for the average citizen. Indeed if any single event in the
> U. S.
> short of the suspension of the constitution could be properly
> labeled as
> fascist or in any other country for that matter.
> Much of what this writer labels as creeping fascism could be
> properly termed
> Neo-fascism. Another author who has struggled with what constitutes
> fascism a
> nd neo-fascism is Eatwell.3 The precise definition is all but
> impossible. Nor
> does this writer really like the term neo-fascist or neo-nazi. It
> tends to
> somehow lend some creditability to them. It's like putting a happy
> face on a
> Nazi; rip the mask off and you still have a stark raving lunatic.
> For the
> purpose of this book creeping fascism will be defined as any measure
> that
> lends support to the elite or takes freedoms away from the greater
> masses.
> The danger with such a definition is that's it's a little too broad
> if used
> indiscriminately as will be shown shortly but neither the less it's
> the best
> definition available to define creeping fascism, which in the
> remainder of
> the book will simply be referred to as fascism.
> It is the inherent nature of fascism that a revolution is not needed
> for the
> fascist to gain power. Indeed the only shooting revolution of the
> three
> classical fascist countries was in Franco's Spain. Both the Nazis
> and
> Mussolini rose to power in what could be more properly called a
> noisy
> protest. This is what makes fascism so dangerous and insidious. It
> can result
> from a natural decay of a democratic capitalistic society. Certainly
> economic
> troubles aid the fascist, as does the lack of strong leadership, it
> was
> precisely such conditions and the resulting chaos that allowed the
> Nazis to
> seize power in Germany.
> This then is the basis and justification of the term creeping
> fascism. It
> refers directly to the decay of a democratic society and the gradual
> erosion
> of liberties and freedom leading to an authoritarian state. Thus
> when the
> writer labels an event as fascism he is looking at that event in the
> context
> of a larger movement in which individual freedoms and liberties are
> being
> gradually washed away. Once again the same type of events are easy
> to spot
> looking at the history of Germany now, but without the benefit of
> hindsight
> the imagines are indeed blurry. For one America may reverse this
> slide into
> the dark side. We still have the ability to counteract those that
> wish to
> revoke our freedoms. In the final chapter the writer will present
> definite
> steps that can be taken to regain our freedoms. Failure to include
> such
> solutions is fatalistic and the outcome far too dark to contemplate
> without
> their inclusion.
> In the second chapter it will be shown that how fascism is unique in
> not
> requiring a shooting revolution and can arise out of a nature
> degenerative
> process of a democratic capitalistic society. Since fascism is a top
> down
> movement all that is required is that the elite of that society
> begin to
> concentrate their power without regards to the masses. Thus all
> fascist need
> do is to corrupt the political and economic processes to begin their
> march to
> a totalitarian state. They can do so with spreading forth propaganda
> to
> discredit the government, the schools, the media, the scientists,
> the courts
> and the remainder of the very institutions that have made America
> great. Once
> they have created a critical mass of distrust in the public then
> they are
> free to begin the process of concentration of power. This is the
> approach
> that the hard right and Republican Party has followed since the
> election of
> Reagan in 1980. It is a gradual process that can easily be cloaked
> until it's
> too late. The purveyors of fascism are free to mask much of the
> concentration
> under the banner of capitalism. Such as the consolidation of the
> media, which
> is today nothing more than the mouth-piece for corporate America.
> The writer is not being an alarmist when he labels an event that
> seems almost
> harmless as fascism. It's the inherent nature of creeping fascism
> that masks
> the true significance of these events until it's too late. Freedom
> is a
> precious commodity nor is there any shortage of thugs that will do
> anything
> to kill it; it requires a constant vigil. These events leading to
> fascism may
> appear to be innocuous by themselves, certainly there were many such
> events
> in Germany prior to the rise of the Nazis. Its only after we have
> seen the
> nasty outcome of Nazi Germany that we can see that these events were
> not
> innocuous that they contributed directly to the rise of the Nazis.
> But at the
> time of their occurrence the average German citizen would have
> dismissed them
> without any further thought as harmless. But that's the benefit of
> hindsight.
> To expound further on how these events can appear harmless at the
> time of the
> event, a brief look at the reaction to the appointment of Hitler
> will provide
> the ideal example. Considering the enormity of the event with the
> benefit of
> hindsight one would except the reaction to have been a loud and
> bloody
> protest, but instead the reaction was muted indifference. In a
> newsreel that
> was widely shown in movie houses throughout Germany, Hitler's
> appointment as
> chancellor was the last of six events. It followed such newsworthy
> items as a
> report on ski jumping, a horse race and a horse show. Editor of
> Vorwarts,
> Fredirich Stampfer recalled that most people had no idea what had
> befallen
> them. Foreign reactions were restrained. A Czech diplomat in Berlin
> saw
> nothing significant in the new cabinet. The British ambassador
> informed
> England that the appointment of the cabinet marked the end of the
> presidential governments.1 Other members of the German press
> reported that it
> was Hugenberg who was the power behind the new cabinet. Indeed some
> of the
> leaders of big business expressed more concern over Hugenberg as
> economic
> minister than of Hitler.2
> To further complicate maters these events need not have been
> supported by the
> Nazis, they may have been supported by well meaning government
> officials or
> others while the Nazis were still viewed as nothing more than a
> noisy bunch
> of thugs led by a little guy with a funny mustache. One such example
> would be
> the flaw in the German constitution that made no allowances for a
> negative
> parliament. It was a defect that Hitler successfully exploited in
> his quest
> for power. Following the war the flaw was corrected and the German
> parliamentary system has performed admirably. Another example would
> be the
> lack of comprising among the various parties to form a parliamentary
> president starting around 1930. This was another large factor in the
> rise to
> power of the Nazis, there was an acute power vacuum; there was no
> strong
> leadership. The electorate was simply too fractured or polarized for
> a strong
> leader that was responsible to the people to arise. Yes, much of
> that
> polarization was the direct cause of the Nazis, but the other
> parties
> likewise contributed to it, including the centralist parties.
> Another example would be the practice of big businesses forming
> cartels
> dating all the way back into the monarchy. How much these cartels
> contributed
> to the economic problems of the 1920s can only be estimated, but it
> certainly
> added to the economic woes of Germany. Further the various fractions
> of
> businesses sought out conflicting goals from the government
> contributing to
> the general government instability. The Rhur industrial sought to
> promote
> free trade while the agribusiness's sought out higher tariffs on
> grain
> imports to protect their livelihood.
> Additionally we have already hinted that some of these events even
> proceeded
> the formation of the Nazi party. Indeed the best example of this is
> the
> prevalence of anti-Semitic feelings in Germany dating all the way
> back to the
> time of Martin Luther. Hitler exploited the underlying anti-Semitism
> to
> divide the electorate in order to gain power. Is racism in America
> part of a
> fascist movement? In the book that follows it will indeed be treated
> and
> labeled simply as fascist. Again we don't have the benefit of
> hindsight at
> the moment to know. We do know from looking at the history of
> fascism that
> racism is indeed a characteristic of fascism, as is any method that
> can
> divide the electorate.
> This writer feels that divisionism is another trait of fascism that
> is always
> present just as is authoritarian and extreme nationalism is. The
> writer
> acknowledges that any political party in a democracy uses some form
> of
> divisionism in order to win elections. But there is a difference
> here, when
> this writer refers to divisionism as a trait of fascism he is
> referring to
> destructive divisionism that serves only but one purpose and that is
> to
> solely further the aims of the user.
> A good example of this destructive divisionism was after first being
> appointed chancellor Hitler immediately set about destroying any
> chance at
> forming a parliamentary majority. This will be gone into more depth
> in the
> first chapter. Likewise, the Republican led government shut down
> over the
> budget in 1997 was simply labeled a fascist move on the part of the
> Republicans in an analogy in the same chapter. Clearly this writer
> means it
> to be an example of creeping fascism and not out right fascism, the
> writer
> chooses not to insult his readers' intelligence by repeating the
> exact
> phrase. Throughout the remainder of this book the writer will label
> such
> events as fascism rather than creeping fascism. Likewise this writer
> will
> simply label an event as divisionism rather than destructive
> divisionism. One
> final example of divisionism that has already been mentioned is
> racism.
> Certainly it serves no constructive purpose and it certainly
> fractures the
> electorate.
> This particular rise of the hard right in America is unique and
> poses a
> dangerous threat to our liberties and freedoms. Like the period
> between wars
> this rise in fascism is global in nature not confined to one country
> or one
> area of the world. The author does recognize that there have been
> times in
> the past of widespread repression such as the rise of the Klan in
> the 1920s,
> the prosecution of the Wobblies in the same time period, McCarthyism
> in the
> 1950s and even COINTELPRO in the 1960s. What then makes this time
> particularly dangerous and unique? The second chapter explores the
> 3Ms needed
> for a revolution to succeed. Those are the media, the military and
> the money.
> The hard right today have taken on the aspects of social darwinism
> and at no
> time in the past has the wealth of the country been controlled by so
> few. The
> media has consolidated until only seven companies now control the
> airwaves
> and the press. . In essence it is now a reality that big money now
> owns the
> media, the only exception to that is the net. But even here
> consolidation is
> already beginning to occur.
> It should be noted that a similar consolidation of the press
> occurred in
> Germany during the late 1920s. Indeed there are many parallels and
> analogies
> between the present time and Nazi Germany. Other writers have also
> noted a "h
> auntingly similarity" to Nazi Germany.4 In this case the writer
> attributes
> the sudden shift to the right in America to five factors:
> conservative
> religious revitalization, economic contraction and restructuring,
> racism,
> social stress and backlash, and a well-funded network. In past
> times, not all
> of these root causes have occurred simultaneously. This writer
> concurs with
> such an analysis and those topics will be explored later in detail.
> Indeed this shift to the hard right would not have happened without
> the
> excesses from the 1960s. The 60s was the period in which the
> religious right
> laid the ground work for their movement. The Goldwater campaign
> provided a
> pivotal role for the formation of today's hard right. Not only did
> it provide
> fertile ground for the organizers but it also lent some sort of
> legitimacy to
> their radical extremist views and served to desensitize us.
> The primary focus of this book will be the times following 1980. As
> hinted to
> already in order to understand the shift and the danger it presents
> background material from earlier times is needed. The chapters from
> the first
> section will lay the ground work for the background needed to fully
> understand the 1980s and the hard right movement. The second part
> will deal
> with the 1980s and more recent times. In any book such as this,
> which is
> primarily a survey of the subject, the various topics are numerous
> and a full
> discussion of any single topic is beyond the scope of this book.
> Indeed books
> have been written on the topics or even of subdivisions of a topic.
> The
> writer is not going to bore you with over repetitious examples and
> analysis.
> Rather the writer will present various examples that serve to make
> the point
> before moving on. The objective here is to stimulate the reader into
> thinking
> for himself not to provide exhaustive analysis and examples.
> 1. Thirty Days to Power, Henry Ashby Turner, Addison-Wesley
> Publishing, 1996,
> p159.
> 2. German Big Business and the Rise of Hitler, Henry Ashby Turner,
> Oxford
> Press, 1985, p326.
> 3. Fascism, Roger Eatwell, Penguin, 1996. 4.
> http://www.publiceye.org/magazine/whynow.html
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