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Fascism and the Republican Party

by Gary Sudborough Monday, Mar. 03, 2003 at 9:31 PM
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The relationship between fascist individuals and groups from World War 2 with the Republican Party and the corporate connections between German and American corporations. Not to be construed as implying the Democrats aren't imperialistic

Both Democrats and Republicans are corporate-controlled parties. However, the Republicans have a deeper historical involvement with fascist individuals and groups from World War 2, including former SS officers. When Nazi troops conquered the Eastern European countries, they found and nurtured fascist parties like the Romanian Iron Guard, Hungarian Arrow Cross, Croatian Ustashi, Bulgarian Legion, Latvian Legion, Byelorussian Belarus Brigade, Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and Cossack SS officers. These fascists helped the Nazis carry on their atrocities, such as the extermination of Jews, communists, Gypsies, disabled people and others considered to be undesirable. Also, they formed Waffen SS divisions to fight against the Soviet Union.

The Republican Heritage Groups Council, a part of the Republican National Committee, has had members like Laszlo Pasztor from the Hungarian Arrow Cross, Florian Galdau of the Romanian Iron Guard and Nicolas Nazarenko, the leader of a Cossack SS division. Other members include Walter Melianovich affiliated with the Belarus Brigade, Method Balco associated with Slovak fascists from their puppet Nazi government and Philip Guarino, an Italian fascist leader of the P-2 Masonic Lodge. After World War 2, this P-2 organization in cooperation with the CIA conducted a series of terrorist bombings in Italy (Operation Gladio), which were blamed on leftists. These incidents effectively diminished the stature of the Italian Communist Party, which was on the verge of winning elections. All of this information is in a well-documented book called Old Nazis, the New Right and the Republican Party by Russ Bellant.

Remember when Republican President Ronald Reagan visited Bitburg cemetery in Germany, where Nazi SS troops were buried, and called them "victims" and stated that American soldiers who fought for the International Brigades in Spain were on the wrong side. Every once in a while, these people forget themselves and reveal where their true sympathies lie.

A carefully kept secret is the strong sympathy and corporate connections that existed between many of the most powerful American capitalists and German capitalists and their fascist system. Rockefeller-owned Standard Oil of New Jersey had close patent and other ties to I.G. Farben, the giant German corporation that used slave labor at Auschwitz. Standard Oil delivered oil to the Nazis through Switzerland and Spain and even refueled German submarines at Teneriffe in the Canary Islands. At the back of a book called Trading With the Enemy by Charles Higham is a photocopy of an intelligence document from an American officer complaining about this refueling operation and the presence of Nazi officers on Standard's oil tankers. Standard Oil also made tetraethyl lead and synthetic rubber available to the Nazis. Tetraethyl lead is an essential ingredient in aviation gasoline. Standard Oil was investigated several times by Congressional committees for trading with the enemy, but they were too powerful for anything substantive to be done. Chase Bank, also owned by Rockefeller, stayed open in Paris all during the war and helped finance the Nazis.

Rockefeller is far from alone in this collaboration with the Nazis. Both Henry Ford and Edsel Ford were great admirers of fascism, and Ford built trucks and armored cars for the Nazis in France. General Motors, owned by the DuPont family, manufactured tanks and the aircraft engines for the Junkers bombers at the Adam-Opel plant in Russelsheim,Germany. ITT supplied fuses for artillery shells and all sorts of communications equipment to the Nazis. In addition, they built the Focke-Wulf bombers for the Luftwaffe. Sosthenes Behn of ITT was a major financier of the Swedish ball bearing firm SKF, which preferentially supplied the Nazis with ball bearings and denied them to the US military.

These American capitalists were so important and influential in Nazi Germany that Hitler awarded the Order of Merit of the Golden Eagle to both Henry Ford and James Mooney, the director of operations for General Motors in Europe.

Irenee du Pont organized the Black Legion in the United States. This was a fascist organization that terrorized and murdered union leaders and disrupted union organizing campaigns. The members wore hoods and black robes with skull and crossbones. Another of his organizations was the American Liberty League, which taught hatred of blacks and Jews, love of Hitler and loathing of the Roosevelts. The DuPont and Morgan families even approached Major General Smedley Butler through an intermediary to determine if a military coup could be organized against President Roosevelt because Roosevelt's programs for the poor and working class were so hated by DuPont and other important American capitalists. Major General Butler was deeply offended and reported the plot to Roosevelt.

German and American capitalists were as thick as thieves, often sitting on the boards of directors of the same corporation. They repeatedly tried to get a peace agreement between the United States and Germany that would allow a world fascist government and destroy the common enemy-socialism in the Soviet Union. Hitler obstructed these efforts. It should come as no great surprise to people that after World War 2, the CIA utilized Nazi war criminals in their covert wars against leftists worldwide or that the Republican Party, which represents fascist capitalists like the DuPonts and Fords, should accept a large number of these European fascists into their ranks.

To bring this matter of fascism and the Republican Party up to date, both George W. Bush's grandfather and great-grandfather were on the board of Brown Brothers Harriman, which was so flagrant in its financing of the Nazis that two of its subsidiaries, Union Banking Co. and Hamburg-Amerika Shipping Line, were seized under the Trading With the Enemy Act. Now, the present administration is pushing ahead with its war for empire under the disguise of a "war on terrorism." It is fervently attempting to destroy civil liberties in this country using the same excuse. They can now imprison US citizens as enemy combatants with no charges, no access to lawyers and one's family and friends not knowing where one is imprisoned. One is essentially "disappeared," similar to what the CIA-sponsored death squads did in Latin America, except one is not killed. With the second Patriot Act, they can even take away one's citizenship. What I am saying is this. The present US administration is not just sympathetic to fascism. They are fascists, and their war agenda in an age of nuclear weapons is extremely dangerous to our survival as a species!
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The Matrix: the Illusion of Democracy

by Ronald Greene Sunday, Jul. 06, 2003 at 3:46 PM
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The Matrix: the Illusion of Democracy

The frightening truth is, that we as individuals have be stripped of our political power. This by a "Matrix", an illusion of freedom so powerful it convinces us that we are still living in a democracy when the horrible truth is that we are actually living in a fascist dictatorship.

Further, "How we voted in this next election will made little or no difference because we have been fooled by the power of the Matrix. The Matrix is really a "counterfeit" democracy" which has secretly replaced our real democracy. It so closely resembles our democracy that only an expert can tell the difference.

The Matrix first came into being when our second Nazi President Bill Clinton replaced our first Nazi President Greoge Bush Sr. The Matrix then simply allowed one Nazi president to replace another and nobody even noticed the difference. Further, 9/11 is the work of three consecutive Nazi presidents who all worked to set it up to happen.

The Matrix is formed from two different forms of fascism and together are called "Friendly Fascism". The corruption of the right wing of our government and the republicans was started after WWII using the old European style of Nazi fascism. Then Starting after 1960's the Democratic Party becan being corrupted by a left wing "Marxist form of fascism". Very clever indeed, as this made the complete fascist corruption of our government resemble politics as usual or democrats vs. republicans when nothing could be futher from the truth since what now we really had was a single party fascist government.

If you look through the Matrix illusion it then becomes obvious that President Bush and President Bill Clinton actually belong to the same political party the "Illuminati Fascist party" and both are dedicated Nazi's. Beginining to get the picture why it does not make any difference who you voted for since both "Illuminati Democrats" and "Illuminati Republicans" are on the same tream and both have been working very hard to futher the goals of fascsim to overthrow our democracy.

If you find this hard to believe, then go get yourself a list of the people who attended the Nazi's Brandenburg
meeting in Europe and you will find Bill and Hillary's names on the list with all the other important republicans in this country such as George Bush. Yes, it is "fascist conspiracy and the Matrix is happening right in front of your face.
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sphere

by circle Sunday, Jul. 06, 2003 at 4:58 PM

"Fascism and the Republican Party"

circle
circle going nowhere
circle stuck in neutral
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PsyOps

by Detector Sunday, Jul. 06, 2003 at 5:56 PM

Recycling PsyOps
Making no point
Recylcling PsyOps
Making no point
Recycling PsyOps
Making no point
Stuck in Langely.
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sphere

by circle Sunday, Jul. 06, 2003 at 6:44 PM

This is all I have:

circle
circle going nowhere
circle stuck in neutral


I'm a conservative.

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Compare it yourself

by Ziegler Monday, Jul. 07, 2003 at 2:07 PM

fascism ['fæʃýzəm]
noun [sometimes cap]
1 any right-wing nationalist ideology or movement with an authoritarian and hierarchical structure that is fundamentally opposed to democracy and liberalism

2 any ideology, movement, programme, tendency, etc., that may be characterized as right-wing, chauvinist, authoritarian, etc

(Source: Collins Dictionary)

Compare this definition to the demeanor of the Bush crowd and check the boxes.
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that first nazi

by Jay Prestenback Saturday, Jul. 19, 2003 at 10:46 PM
ContraRNC@Aol.com

Time to correct the Nazi order. That First Nazi Nixon, then Reagan and all since that second nazi have been part of the problem and not the solution!
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What complete garbage

by erbyn Tuesday, Jul. 22, 2003 at 10:42 PM
zerbz@richmond.com

If you actually did your research then you would understand how closely associated the Liberals are to ACTUAL Nazism and not just being sympethetic. Do you realise that Hitler gained power from all the poor and criminals, just like the Democratic party is doing now? Hitler was two-faced just as Liberals are, turning good into evil, and evil into good in the eye of the public. Nazism was originally a "trend" among the wealthy, much as Liberism is in Hollywood.
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Liberism is in Hollywood.

by oh wow Tuesday, Jul. 22, 2003 at 11:00 PM

Another party. Do they have special hats and handshakes?
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Bush Admirer

by yert Tuesday, Jul. 22, 2003 at 11:10 PM

stop playing with yourself.
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Help!

by erbyn Wednesday, Jul. 23, 2003 at 2:21 PM
zerbz@richmond.com

The men in the white coats just pulled into my driveway! They're carrying a straightjacket! They look like communists! Help me!!!!
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Try a real dictionary

by Dude Saturday, Oct. 20, 2007 at 4:41 PM

fas·cism /ˈfæʃɪzəm/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[fash-iz-uhm] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun 1. (sometimes initial capital letter) a governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism.
2. (sometimes initial capital letter) the philosophy, principles, or methods of fascism.
3. (initial capital letter) a fascist movement, esp. the one established by Mussolini in Italy 1922–43.


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[Origin: 1915–20; < It fascismo, equiv. to fasc(io) bundle, political group (see fasces) + -ismo -ism]

n.
often Fascism
A system of government marked by centralization of authority under a dictator, stringent socioeconomic controls, suppression of the opposition through terror and censorship, and typically a policy of belligerent nationalism and racism.
A political philosophy or movement based on or advocating such a system of government.
Oppressive, dictatorial control.

noun
a political theory advocating an authoritarian hierarchical government (as opposed to democracy or liberalism)

Fascism [ˈfӕʃizəm] noun

a nationalistic and anti-Communist system of government like that of Italy 1922-43, where all aspects of society are controlled by the state and all criticism or opposition is suppressed

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hmmm

by corrector Saturday, Oct. 20, 2007 at 5:14 PM

Fascism from the root wood fascis or bundle of sticks.
It can be seen in the merger between government and corporations in the sense that Mussolini meant it or in the sense of the disregard of anti trust laws pertaining to monopolizing mergers.
In the end it's rule by the elite as is its cousin feudalism.
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hmmm

by corrector Saturday, Oct. 20, 2007 at 5:16 PM

Fascism from the root wood fascis or bundle of sticks.
It can be seen in the merger between government and corporations in the sense that Mussolini meant it or in the sense of the disregard of anti trust laws pertaining to monopolizing mergers.
In the end it's rule by the elite as is its cousin feudalism.
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fascism

by Meyer London Thursday, Oct. 25, 2007 at 4:50 PM

The suspension of habeus corpus and the designation of people as "enemy combatants" who have the rights of neither POWs nor of civilians charged with committing crimes is the US version of the Enabling Act, passed after the burning of the Reichstag (parliament building), allegedly by the Communists. The Enabling Act in Germany "temporarily" abolished civil rights and liberties and gave Hitler dictatorial powers to deal with the supposed terrorist threat. The Nazis didn't have enough votes in the national parliament to force it through themselves, but they found enough allies in the Catholic Center Party (political "moderates," often glorified in the US) to get it passed. The Social Democrats (Socialists) unanimously voted against it and the Communists had already been expelled with the terrorism excuse.
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