All the Reich Moves

by William Norman Grigg
Jan. 26, 2010

We will not recognize [American Fascism] as it rises. It will wear no black shirts here. It will probably have no marching songs. It will rise out of a congealing of a group of elements that exist here and that are the essential components of Fascism....

It will be at first decorous, humane, glowing with homely American sentiment. But a dictatorship cannot remain benevolent. To continue, it must become ruthless. When this stage is reached we shall see that appeal by radio, movies, and government-controlled newspapers to all the worst instincts and emotions of our people. The rough, the violent, the lawless men will come to the surface and into power. This is the terrifying prospect as we move along our present course. –

~ John T. Flynn, American Mercury, February 1941

The formula for an American variant of Fascism includes, but is not limited to, the following:

*A fusion of institutions the constitutional Framers intended to keep separate; abolition or nullification of any residual checks on the power of the central government.

Barack Obama's January 11 executive order creating a "Council of Governors" to help "synchronize" policy regarding foreign and domestic military operations doesn't merely add another redundant layer of bureaucracy to the overgrown Homeland Security apparatus. It represents a critical milestone in the devolution of the American republic into an undisguised Reich.

The Council of Governors will be a bipartisan panel of ten state governors who "meet at the call" of various executive functionaries, including the Secretaries of Defense and Homeland Security, to assist the Supreme Leader in carrying out the "synchronization and integration of State and Federal military activities in the United States," with special emphasis on the role of the National Guard.

In 2006 Congress turned the National Guard into something akin to a Praetorian Guard to be used – whether at home or abroad – as the president desires. This helps explain an obvious and ominous change in the Guard’s definition of its mission and responsibilities, which include hands-on involvement in domestic law enforcement.

Either fight it now, or get used to this kind of thing: Pennsylvania State Troopers – one with a drawn assault rifle, his trigger-finger ready – bracket a terrified driver during a roadblock set up near Pittsburgh following the death of a "comrade" in a domestic shooting. Don't assume for a pico-second that the friendly people in official costumes would resist any opportunity to treat the rest of us like this.

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