When Fascism Comes to This Country, It Will Be Wrapped in the Flag Carrying a Cross.
In response to Mike Huckabee's Christmas ad a quote was used by Ron Paul:
"It reminds me of what Sinclair Lewis once said. He says, 'when fascism comes to this country, it will be wrapped in the flag, carrying a cross.' Now I don't know whether that's a fair assessment or not, but you wonder about using a cross, like he (Huckabee) is the only Christian or implying that subtly."
When Fascism Comes to This Country, It Will Be Wrapped in the Flag Carrying a Cross.
What does that mean?
It means that the people are fooled by misdirection. It means that the concern of the people is not for truth or the betterment of humankind but rather their focus is on the mundane, their concern is for their own well-being. The people care about invisible men in the sky and zygotes and celebrities and television programs and the terrorist bogeymen who, incidentally, are not a threat to us or our way of life.
The true threat is not those conveniently labeled as enemies, the vilified caricatures of evil who shake their fist at us from across the ocean. The true thread is ignorance, complacency, fear. The only thing we have to fear is, in fact, fear itself. The Real Enemy is, in fact, those who would use our fear against us, who would steal the freedoms for which this country was created and replace them with the illusion of security.
When Fascism Comes to This Country, It Will Be Wrapped in the Flag Carrying a Cross.
The greatest threat is the enemy in plain sight, the proverbial wolf in sheep's clothing. The doltish leader who trashes our rights in exchange for illusions and rhetoric. The zealot whose allegiance is to an invisible man in the sky and not to us, the people.
There will not be a torrent of gunfire or the flash of a great bomb. The true threat is the one noticed too late, the wound that slowly festers. Suspension of a right here, construct a secret prison there, manipulate one political institution at a time. Dominoes slowly fall one into another, rights disappear in the name of security. Meticulously, one at a time.
And then it is too late.
When Fascism Comes to This Country, It Will Be Wrapped in the Flag Carrying a Cross.
It will wear a red sweater as it sits before a Christmas Tree wishing you a Merry Christmas (vote Huckabee). It will wear an American Flag pin upon its lapel as it assures you that you are safe (but could be safer).
Undeniably it will greet you with a warm smile, offer you its hand, and tell you all you wish to hear.
When Fascism Comes to This Country, It Will Be Wrapped in the Flag Carrying a Cross.
Count on it.
8 comments:
"The doltish leader who trashes our rights in exchange for illusions and rhetoric."
Could you name one right or civil liberty that has been denied you since GWB took the oath?
You're dangerously close to raising a a coup against magicians.
Gob's Alliance? Totally about ruling the world.
Misdirection, hmn?
Just because my rights have not been denied, does not mean that other's have not. Though, I wasn't directly affected by illegal searches and seizures, illegal invasions of privacy (i.e. wiretappings), or torture, the fact of the matter is that others in this fair country have been.
To quote Edmund Burke, "The only thing necessary for the triumph [of evil] is for good men to do nothing." I can not sit idly and quietly while people in this country are having their rights violated in the name of "security." Only a man of poor ethical quality can honestly believe that the ends justify the means.
I naively believed this when I was young (read teens), but have since matured, and have learned that living dignified and in danger is a far greater task than to stoop to the levels of those we consider our enemies and commit the atrocities our wonderful government has done these past 6 years.
"Could you name one right or civil liberty that has been denied you since GWB took the oath?"
That's not how it works.
The slow and subtle death of our rights starts with one individual, next a group of individuals, next a larger group of individuals.
If we embrace "us vs. them" mentality, if we ignore the death of rights for some then soon will follow the death of rights for all.
Read a history book.
You're dangerously close to raising a a coup against magicians.
No, that's not my trick.
It's my ILLUSION!
I'm pretty sure there's an allusion to be made with politics, a failed illusion, and the line "But Where'd the Lighter Fluid come from?"
I am more impressed by the appearance of lighter fluid than fire. Anyone can make fire appear out of nowhere.
Lighter fluid? That takes madd skills.
@Patrick Truaz:
Could you name one right or civil liberty that has been denied you since GWB took the oath?
yes i can. Provisions in the PATRIOT act now require me let any law enforcement officer go through my things, whether or not they have a search warrant. Remeber that 4th Amendment thing? The thing that protects us from government? Yeah - it does not apply any more.
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