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Politics : Clinton's Scandals: Is this corruption the worst ever? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Catfish who wrote (10872)	1/31/1999 11:43:00 PM
From: j g cordes	Respond to of 13994

That's an interesting piece, though it wanders some and fails to draw any direction. The United States has been the center of a new world order since the end of World War II. There have been many views on how to unite the many nations of the world at political and economic levels.. the United Nations is one such effort. Unification isn't new, what's important is for what aim and how equity, justice and power are conceived. Hamilton was right of course, Chomsky always makes sense while adding a dimension of humanity. Darrell, I guess you know that while this is very unflattering to Albright, its not written in support of the Republican agenda by a long shot.

To: Catfish who wrote (10872)	2/1/1999 1:15:00 AM
From: The Irb	Respond to of 13994

Speaking of a right-wing conspiracy (theorist), Darrell Youngblood wrote: Perhaps it was their dedication to Western tradition that led our forefathers to mount the Roman fasces behind the Speaker's chair in the U.S. House of Representatives. Made up of rods bound about an ax, this ancient symbol has appropriately become the trademark of modern fascism, "a system of government characterized by dictatorship, belligerent nationalism, and racism, militarism, etc..." (Webster's New World Dictionary) Aha! Notice the definition comes from Webster's New World Dictionary. Coincidence? I think not... ;-) In all seriousness, I think America's symbols are a bit on the fascist side. Ben Franklin himself argued against the adoption of the bald eagle as national bird and symbol and argued instead for the turkey. At least with the turkey as mascot we couldn't take ourselves too seriously. (I wonder if shooting a wild turkey would now be illegal?) The marriage of money and demagoguery was consummated in Hitler's Third Reich and Mussolini's Italy. While wealth and political power have always colluded to some degree, there comes a point where apathy, pseudo-tolerance and ignorance binds the will of the masses to a fanatical idea that brings their destruction. It is this subjective, enervated, and brain-dead mental state that led the Germans to embrace the Nazi regime. This is a fancy version of the old saw, "At least Hitler made the trains run on time." The scary thing about fascism in America is that it could happen so easily given our current fixation on corporate profits above all other domestic concerns (such as jobs, health care, etc.). Think of the parallels between today and 1920-1930's Germany: 1914-1918 The 1st World War (most widespread and devastating war in history at the time) 1922-1929 Stock market booms. 1929 Stock market crashes. 1932 Stock market crashes again. 1933 Hitler and Nazis gain power Compare to more recent history: 1946-1991 The Cold War (arguably the most costly and widespread war in history) 1993-1999 Stock market booms. 2000 Y2K bug does the funky chicken with our computer data files unless we use Macintosh computers 2000 Stock market crashes? 2002 Stock market crashes again? 2003 ? Joel Irby Austin, Texas A quote to remember: "Those who do not remember the past are doomed to repeat it." found on this web page, although they didn't say it first: www2.dgsys.com Bonus points to anybody who can name the original source of the above quote.