by Norman Solomon

AlterNet

06/25/04

About three-quarters of a century ago, the Louisiana populist Huey Long commented: 'If fascism came to America it would be on a program of Americanism.' Well, fascism hasn't arrived in the United States -- millions exercise crucial freedoms of speech and press every day -- but we should recognize that the U.S. government's response to 9/11 has included some fascistic elements. ... At Cornell University, government professor Theodore Lowi now aptly describes the George W. Bush administration as 'a toxic combination of God rhetoric, money, cronyism and severe moral hierarchy that poses a real threat of fascism for our nation...

http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/19050/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp