Honor America: Fascism Lorenzo Komboa Ervin "Fascism - a mass movement or government dictatorship characterized by racism, undemocratic authority, police state repression, military adventurism, unbridled capitalist expansionism and corporate control of the economy and political system." It's September 11, 2002. So now, on the anniversary of the attack on America, we are solemnly expected to wave the flag and uncritically support George W. Bush and the government. Bush has cynically exploited the deaths of all those who died in the World Trade towers and the Pentagon, and used the justified fear and anger of the American people to create a 'wave of patriotism', as described by the mass media. It is really the use of the mass psychology of fascism disguised as 'love of country', as Adolph Hitler used to great effect in the 1930's. But this is a cruel trick, a ruse for his government to seize emergency powers and create an outright fascist state, and he doesn't care who dies here or abroad for him to do it. He wants a war with numerous countries, world war III. We should look at what he has done since the initial attacks on September 11, 2001: he declared a 'war on terrorism' and attacked Afghanistan, causing massive casualties among the civilian population, and he is now calling for a military invasion of Iraq, and has threatened Iran, Libya, Syria, North Korea, and other countries; but the war that he is most interested in winning is the war at home. He secretly created a 'shadow government' of bureaucrats loyal to him which he says he will use to take power from the civilian government 'in the event of another terrorist attack'; he badgered Congress into passing the USA-PATRIOT act which gives the government power to spy on anyone, open their mail, tap their phones, arrest and bring them in for questioning or detention, deprive suspects of an attorney, designate any organization as a terrorist group and ban it; authorize the use of deadly force in terrorist investigations by federal agents; try citizens before military tribunals as 'enemy combatants' at secret trials, and allow the government to make anyone into a suspect and to stifle all dissent by citizens. It is secret police legislation, and we can expect to see even more repressive legislation if we do not speak out. First, we must understand this: the government never gave the common people constitutional rights, we struggled and fought for the Bill of Rights. These democratic rights were not included by the rich white men who founded the United States. The government has always wanted to find a way to limit or stifle the constitution's provisions on civil liberties, which it has always seen as a nuisance. This is why the Supreme Court continues to give so much power to the FBI and the police to raid our homes, places or employment. They already had too much power, and now they are being given new emergency powers by presidential decree. It is important that we not become sheep or live in the fear engendered by Bush and Ashcroft, who promise more 'Arab terrorist attacks' every day. That only empowers the government to behave more and more like an outright dictatorship. If the police can routinely violate the rights of the people in criminal or 'national security' investigations, then there are no individual rights or civil rights protection of racial or cultural population groups, or any limits against the government's power. We are thus living in a police state, and being told that "everything is alright, we'll protect you" by fascist politicians. They'll protect us alright, the same way a wolf 'protects' a sheep. We'll make good eating for a hungry beast! The policies of this government created the September 11th tragedy. Thousands were killed in America because of the policies of an imperialist power, as retaliation for all those killed in the Middle East in an American-financed war by Israel. Now having caused these deaths last year, this government wishes to kill others in their names all over the world, again and again. It wishes to shift blame for its historical crimes in supporting the Israeli Zionist military and government. It wants to overthrow governments, kill officials, and enslave the civilian population in the name of an American sponsored crusade against Islam, the Middle East, and Arabs. The government has created an atmosphere of conformity to this military conquest and this creation of a police state. We are told that we must accept it, it is for our 'own good.' We are told that if we do not accept it, we are traitors and should be watched. The government recently stated that it would create a Terrorism Information and Prevention System, which would recruit millions to spy on other citizens. They would be in effect the first fascist American 'Brown Shirts' used by Hitler to spy on the German people. They would use this TIPS group to first, spy on anyone deemed a critic or radical, then use them as goon squads to beat down all opponents of the government's policies. It was only after there was widespread criticism that Bush backed up, and said they would go back to the drawing board, but would not give up on the idea entirely. We are at a decisive moment in American history, we see these things happening before our very eyes and we must respond. We must build a movement against the war, against concentration camps, against racism and racial profiling, and against the emerging use of police powers to take away whatever democratic rights we had in this society. That is the only real 'patriotism', not going along with the government's program of political repression. They won't give up these emergency powers voluntarily, and they cannot be used for the good of society. They will not protect us from foreign threats, nor make us free. It is clear now that we must resist them from totally enslaving us. We must fight not just for re-establishing democratic rights, but to create an entirely new society where racism, war, police controls over the population, and poverty are outlawed. We cannot depend upon George Bush or the government to do it for us, they are the problem, not the solution. The truth is that we need another revolution in this country, to free us from the government itself. Back to Anarchism And The Black Revolution