[SusDet Announce] Replacing American Fascism with Democracy

Mon Feb 19 16:27:32 EST 2007

President's Day-February 19, 2007

  Dear Jacqui,

  Thank you so much, as the regional coordinator of the Alliance for Democracy, for asking how democracy can be taken from the fascistic clutches of the corporate kleptocracy abetted by our government, and returned to the American people.

  What I am about to say, I am not saying lightly, but after nearly forty years of thought and observation on this matter; I started this precociously in my mid-teens during the Vietnam War/Civil Rights Movement era:  

  It is time that the American people took back their country from fascist corporate control and for the first time, made it into a true democracy, rather than a soft fascist republic.  This cannot be done without significant sacrifice and repentence on our part for all of the atrocities we have allowed to be done in our name upon the peoples of other nations, and minorites in our own nation, since the time of the Civil War, when corporations became truly dominant on the planet, that the deeply entrenched roots of fascist control of our government and society might be forever extirpated.

  This in my opinion is going to entail:

  1)  A demand that Congress immediately begin to halt the War in Iraq and impeach the President and Vice President of the United States along with certain members of their cabinets, with a truly independent, possibly internationally-conducted Truth and Reconciliation Commission investigating the 9/11 Terrorist attacks being conducted simultaneously.  

  The latter needs to be done to show corporate-initiated planning of these attacks during the top-secret meetings of the Cheney Energy Task Force, the opening of whose top-secret records Cheney fought successfully all the way to the corporate-controlled US Supreme Court.  This will also lay bare to the American people the fascist underpinnings of our federal government entangled with those of the military-industrial complex, necessary for us to make an authentic break with the past for a new birth of freedom;

  2)  If this is not done within six months, nonviolent direct action by the American people to achieve the aforementioned demands of their federal government.  This will mean powerful nonviolent direct action that completely shuts down Washington, DC and its environs;

  3)  If this does not avail, a nationally organized general strike that shuts down the country.  This is NOT unreasonable, is EMINENTLY DOABLE and has been done in recent history and into the present by the peoples of Eastern Europe, Southern Asia and Latin America.  Such a strike is presently ongoing in the Mexican State of Oaxaca to gain the resignation of their corrupt governor, Ulises Ruiz, and was effectively used by the people of Cochibomba, Bolivia to end corporate privatization of their water supply by the Bechtel Corporation.   It is only Americans' attachment to their corporate-based, inequitably privileged lifestyle that could ultimately prevent this from happening.

  4)  Demand by the American people for a constitutional convention to rewrite portions of the Constitution of the United States, utilizing new digital communications technologies locally and coordinated nationally for direct democratic participation by all citizens in this  process.  

  This would include revision of the Fourteenth Amendment that has been erroneously and subversively utilized since 1886 to give corporations the status of persons; this, as you all-too-well know, is the Archimedian lever they have used ever since 1886 to move the earth according to their bidding.  A rewritten Fourteenth Amendment would include an explicit provision that corporations are not persons, but legal entities given existence at the pleasure of the people whose charters can be revoked for environmental and human rights violations.  The European Parliament is presently debating such a provision in their constitution, so this is NOT without recent legal/legislative precedent.

  This would also include a new amendment making secession from the American Empire legal if enough citizens of that bioregion decide it.  This would begin the desperately needed devolution of the United States into decentralized bioregional governments, cultures and economies that would prevent centralized corporate control and make the elements of a sustainable society -- such as a universal guaranteed annual income, universal preventive healthcare, alternative energy, organic local agriculture, local economic transactions systems, worker-owned cooperatives, living wages, voter-owned elections, locally-owned media and land and natural resources usage taxation rather than individual income or sales taxation for an abundant commonwealth, -- truly possible without constant interference by corporate-controlled governments at any level.  

  Again, this is not without recent precedent;  besides the 19th Century secession by the Confederate Southern states and other such current secession movements in Northern California, Texas, Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Northwestern Ohio, Western North Carolina,  New Hampshire and Eastern Washington, there is a well-organized movement in the State of Vermont to secede and join bioregionally with Eastern Canada and the European Union, advocated by such credible individuals as ________, who, with Seattle's John de Graaf, co-authored the voluntary simplicity movement's bestseller, Affluenza; the late American elder statesman George Kennan; the late great reformatory economist, John Kenneth Galbraith; and the renowned communitarian bioregionalist advocate/author, Kirkpatrick Sale.

  5)  Repair of the badly frayed fabric of community in America that, the great early 19th-century French sociologist, Alexis De Toqueville, observed -- together with our love of liberty and self-employment (lost, alas, in the last century lost to corporations!), constituted the genius of the American people.  

  American activists would have to make concerted efforts to greet, eat and meet together and to show hospitality in their homes.  They would need  to attend each others' meetings/events, be on each others' listserves/mailing lists and allow open traffic of general 
  -- rather than narrow-band "on-topic" information on their internet listserves without politically correct censorship.  They would need to develop genuine friendship -- not only task-based associations -- among themselves and with other citizens.

  Progressives would need to reach out to traditional conservatives and minorities, finding common ground.  The American people would have to stop using electronic devices -- such as email, ipods, laptop computers, PDAs and television -- and self-absorbed busyness in general -- to substitute for human contact in their society and in their immediate surroundings in particular.  We as a people will have to be willing to make sacrifices of our personal and financial security far beyond what we have thus far seen, supported by a new, strongly-woven fabric of community throughout American society.

  Unless we make all of the above happen, I believe that there will be a traumatic collapse of the American Empire within the next decade, endangering not only our well-being, but that of the entire planet.  If we make all of the above happen, it will result in a new birth of political freedom, solidly based on economic and cultural freedom, for all nations, and in abundant sustainable life on earth.

  Earnestly,

  Rebecca Em Campbell
  Eccentric and Heretic

Jacqui Brown Miller <JacquiAfD at comcast.net> wrote:
  Well, What do you propose that we should do about this? Seriously. 
Jacqui

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Subject: RE: [PCSCD] on "fascism..."

Rebecca,

This is right on the money. Its only in the context of corporate 
kolptocracy does the disaster of Iraq make sense, Cheney's secret energy 
policy, mainstream media's complicity with the corporatist policies of our 
country's political leadrs, the continuous assault on unions, the 
dismantling of the social safety net are all one and the same theme - keep 
us ignorant of what is going on. At the core of all of this are the power 
hungry elitists of the corporate empire. Their basic credo is we are 
nothing more than fodder.

Dan

>From: Rebecca Wolfe 
>Reply-To: PCSCD at yahoogroups.com
>To: "PCSCD at yahoogroups.com" 
,John Rajcich 
>
>CC: "Hawkins, Marylyn" ,Elaine Phelps 
>,Jan Strout ,ClaudiaRKuhn 
>,Nancy Morris ,Campbell Rebecca 
>,Rebecca Wolfe ,Esther 
>Batterson <9-Esther at MyWay.com>,Wayne Apostolik 
>,Bonnie Barrett ,Jacqui

>at AfD 
>Subject: [PCSCD] on "fascism..."
>Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 14:58:54 -0800
>
>Friends,
>
>In June of 2005 the WA Federation of Democratic Women (May Arkwright Hutton
>Chapter, hosting and responsible for the program) held a convention in
>Shoreline. At that convention we presented the case against fascism. Our
>title was ³Democracy or Fascism: A Critical Choice.² We held panel
>discussions and showed films on election reform and media reform. Some of
>our presenters are national leaders on their issues: Jan Strout and Susan
>Gleason (Media Reform) and Paul Lehto and Ellen Thiesen (Election Reform).
>
>We made the case that these two pillars of our democracy were sliding fast
>into the hands of corporations and that they must be rescued or our
>democracy would be finished. That was nearly two years ago. Some 
>Democrats
>argued that what we were dealing with was not actually ³fascism.² However,
>Mussolini himself said that ³fascism² is ³rule by corporations.² We relied
>upon the ³14 Points of Fascism² in organizing our convention. If you have
>not studied them, please see an in-depth presentation of the 14 points at
>.
>
>This is why I have been working increasingly on education about corporate
>personhood and corporate power issues. Last March we formed a non-profit,
>non-partisan organization, ³The Greater Seattle Chapter of the Alliance for
>Democracy.² We are affiliated with the nation AfD and have a sister
>organization in the Olympia area: the Sound Puget Sound Chapter of the
>Alliance for Democracy. We focus on corporate abuse issues and recommend
>these website: and and
>. There are other related sites, but these offer many
>resources to explore.
>
>Recently twenty-one non-profit, non-partisan, environmental groups in WA
>went through an extensive process to come to consensus on four top
>legislative priorities for the environment. I mention this because the
>principal enemy of the environment in these four priorities is corporate
>profit over the planet. One example: the proposed legislation that would
>ban toxic fire retardants. We now know that there are non-toxic (or far
>less toxic) fire retardants than the PBDEs that are currently in just about
>everything that could catch on fire. PBDEs are known carcinogens and
>dangerous levels are now found in our bodies, breast milk, our fish, and
>Puget Sound generally. The industry that sells the products with PBDEs are
>now spending millions to fight legislation banning PBDEs. The reason? 
>They
>don¹t want to lose the high profits that they now make from selling huge
>quantities of PBDEs. We all need to contact our legislators and urge them
>to pass the ban on toxic fire retardants. The EU did it and they now use
>fire retardants that are non-carcinogenic. Let¹s hope that we will, too.
>
>In our Sno. Co. Democratic Party Platform we added language in support of
>³the precautionary principle.² If we had laws requiring that manufacturers
>and others had to follow this principle before putting new products or
>materials in the marketplace. We also included language supporting the
>Universal Declaration of Human Rights. People (children, especially) are
>the victims of corporations that push their harmful products on the public.
>They put GMO foods on the shelves and in many crops that can hardly be
>controlled from sharing their ³suicide gene² with neighboring crops that 
>may
>not want to be ³GMO² tainted.
>
>All of this is just to say that the women of our Democratic Party were
>trying in 2005 to tell the world that fascism is already with us in these
>United States. The U. S. Army is accepting a growing number of Skinheads
>and Aryan Nations members who just want the killing skills and equipment
>that our tax money provides. What will it take to get the attention of
>enough voters to call a halt to this headlong fall into the clutches of the
>far-right?
>
>Sincere thanks to Rick Steves who opened his Edmonds office (³Europe 
>Through
>the Back Door²) on Thursday evening to host a ³MoveOn.org² showing of
>³Ground Truth.² He has a teenage son and is, it appears, deeply committed
>to opposing the escalation of U. S. troops in Iraq. He commented: ³Every
>bullet fired by a U. S. soldier has my name on it.² Now that¹s a 
>courageous
>man ‹ speaking about this in his own (rather conservative) hometown, 
>putting
>himself on the line for what he believes in. The ³Peace Network² is
>expanding. Let¹s keep it growing....
>
>Rebecca
>
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>
>On 2/17/07 12:33 PM, "Luis Moscoso" wrote:
>
> > Is the Bush Administration Fascist?
> > The following article appears in the Winter 2007 issue of New Politics:
> >
> > THE IDEA THAT the Bush administration is imposing fascism on the United 
>States
> > has become increasingly commonplace in leftist and liberal circles. It's

>often
> > taken as a given in political discussions, at protest rallies, and on 
>the
> > Internet. Sometimes this is little more than name calling, but over the 
>past
> > six years, a number of critics have offered serious arguments to back up

>the
> > claim, and the claim deserves serious attention....
> >
> > Read more > > http://www.threewayfight.blogspot.com/
> >
> >
>

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