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
