President Bush's Fascist Tribunals Week of November 25, 2001 - 8 minutes, 13 seconds by William Norman Grigg President George W. Bush, by outward appearances, seems to be a decent and humane man. But if we measure his performance against the only standard that matters - the United States Constitution - it becomes clear that President Bush is rapidly amassing dictatorial powers that Bill Clinton could only have dreamed of.
Review of the News Online
Review of the News Online, Week of November 25, 2001
President Bush's Fascist Tribunals
Hello and welcome to Review of the News Online. I'm William Norman Grigg, Senior Editor for The New American magazine - an affiliated publication of The John Birch Society.
In the heat of crisis, the restraints on government power evaporate - and the chains of slavery can be forged. Sixty years ago, as FDR worked to bring about American involvement in World War II, economist John T. Flynn warned that the increasingly lawless Roosevelt Administration was taking on many of the traits found in the fascist and militarist regimes our nation would soon be fighting.
In the pages of The American Mercury magazine, Flynn foretold the coming of an American version of fascism:
"We will not recognize it when it rises. It will wear no black shirts here. It will probably have no marching songs
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Original: President Bush's Fascist Tribunals (The New American)