Is America a Fascist Regime?

This is a question that many people have asked with increasing frequency of late. I am not an expert on fascism, but this website seems to have made up its mind on the subject. Its title, Project for the OLD American Century is a play on the NeoCon Imperialist blueprint published in advance of the 2000 election by Rumsfeld, Perle, Wolfowitz and others.

The OLD Century site provides a guide to the characteristics of fascism and supplies links and materials in support of the thesis that America fits the profile. Make up your own mind, but I’ll leave you with this quote:

Last September, I spoke to some 2,000 students during their annual lecture at a Baptist college in Pennsylvania. After a short prayer service for peace centered on the Beatitudes, I took the stage and got right to the point. “Now let me get this straight,� I said. “Jesus says, ‘Blessed are the peacemakers,’ which means he does not say, ‘Blessed are the warmakers,’ which means, the warmakers are not blessed, which means warmakers are cursed, which means, if you want to follow the nonviolent Jesus you have to work for peace, which means, we all have to resist this horrific, evil war on the people of Iraq.�

With that, the place exploded, and 500 students stormed out. The rest of them then started chanting, “Bush! Bush! Bush!�

So much for my speech. Not to mention the Beatitudes. [John Dear]

That’s a scary image.