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americanre Just Holding On - Subscribe
It's been very difficult to come up with a decent topic to write about lately. Everything that merits attention - Iraq, the Blackwater attack, the impending nuking of Iran - would take up far more time than I've had available. In addition, my real-world employment has been a jungle!

I will at some point soon regain my footing, and produce something worthy of your attention. Until then, as a now-deceased commentator for Pacifica used to sign off his show, "Persevere!"
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americanre What You Gonna Do When They Come For You Sep 28th, 2007 3:39:18 pm - Subscribe
When do you think the average German realized that he or she was living under a fascist dictatorship?
- Chris Rowthorn

When the truth about our country’s policy becomes clear, can we summon the courage to address it from a moral perspective? The Germans left it up to the churches; the churches collaborated.
- Ray McGovern


First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a Socialist.
Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I did not speak out - because I was not a Trade Unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out - because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for the sick, the so-called incurables, and I didn't speak up, because I wasn't mentally ill.

[When They Came... Rev. Martin Niemoller]



When they came for ... the blacks, I turned away
When they came for the writers and the thinkers and the radicals and the protesters, I turned away
When they came for the gays, and the minorities, and the utopians, and the dancers, I turned away

[Hue and Cry in a song recorded in 1991 at Cirque Royale, Brussels.]


They put away the dealers to keep our kids safe and off the streets.

Then they put away the prostitutes to keep married men cloistered at home.
Then they shooed away the bums, then they beat and bashed the queers,
turned away asylum-seekers, fed us suspicions and fears.
We didn't raise our voice, we didn't make a fuss.

[Re-gaining Unconsciousness by NOFX]



When They Cracked The Whip, Nothing Was Said
When The Flames Burned, Nothing Was Said
When They Notched The Barrels, Nothing Was Said
When The Bays Opened, Nothing Was Said
When The Dogs Were Set Loose, Nothing Was Said
When The Colors Run Red, Nothing Was Said
When Innocents Cried In The Face Of The Guilty
No One Said Anything


[White Noise by Corrosion of Conformity]


Now I'm scared to whistle 'swanee'
'Cause they'll ask me for my spit...

[Madame Guillotine" by Legendary Pink Dots]



Then one day they came and they took me
And I could say nothing because I was as guilty as they were
For not speaking out and saying that all men have a right to freedom
On any land

I was as guilty of genocide
As you
All of you

For you know when a man is free
And when to set him free from his slavery

So I charge you all with genocide
The same as I

[Don't Let It Happen Here by Charles Mingus on the album Music Written for Monterey, 1965 Not Heard...Played Live in Its Entirety at UCLA," re-released on September 26, 2006.]


Chris Rowthorn:

"In 2007, the average American is in exactly the same position as the typical German, Japanese or Italian citizen of the early to mid-1930s. Unless you happen to be a Muslim, a left-wing political activist, or a regular reader of left-wing political websites or journals, you could be forgiven for thinking that it's business as usual in the United States of America.

"Consider the factors that could easily unleash outright fascism in the United States: the accelerating collapse of the US dollar; the follow-on effects from the subprime loan debacle; soaring energy prices (peak oil); catastrophic weather events caused by global warming; and, of course, the one thing that Bush's entire foreign policy seems almost guaranteed to bring about: another large-scale terrorist attack on American soil. Any one of these by itself could trigger outright fascism. Combine two or more, and American fascism is 100% certain.

"History teaches that there is a point of no return in the evolution of a fascist state. Once that line is crossed, there is no turning back until the country lies in ashes and millions lie dead both inside and outside the country."
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