2006-09-04 05:29:36 · 12 answers · asked by Hans B 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
People!!! Keith Olbermann did not call the USA a fascist regime! he said we should avoid being one, why don't you actually read his speech, linked below....
It was a pretty moving speech by Keith Olberman. He didn't call America a fascist regime, but he did say that those whom Rumsfeld had impugned as appeasers were exactly those who were preventing America from becoming a fascist state.
Olbermann used this from Edward R. Murrow as part of his own speech, definitely worth reading....
Although I presumptuously use his sign-off each night, in feeble tribute, I have utterly no claim to the words of the exemplary journalist Edward R. Murrow.
But never in the trial of a thousand years of writing could I come close to matching how he phrased a warning to an earlier generation of us, at a time when other politicians thought they (and they alone) knew everything, and branded those who disagreed: “confused” or “immoral.”
Thus, forgive me, for reading Murrow, in full:
“We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty,” he said, in 1954. “We must remember always that accusation is not proof, and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law.
“We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men, not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate, and to defend causes that were for the moment unpopular.”
And so good night, and good luck.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12131617/
2006-09-04 05:30:58 · answer #1 · answered by Charles D 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it rather is propaganda, of the worst and maximum clean variety, even though it easily seems to suck interior the gullible fools between us. QED. it fairly is unhappy that it would desire to be mentioned that it rather is painfully obtrusive that this guy began with the top that we are a fascist state (an absurd lie) and synthetic imprecise sufficient factors to help his end. Heck, the US became extra fascistic decrease than FDR, complete with concentration camps, than it rather is decrease than Bush. factors 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 13, and 14 at the instant are not correct or perfect to the US, until you distort and twist the reality previous attractiveness. a million. there is not something incorrect with patriotism, extraordinarily in case you have been attacked! the US became rather patriotic for various years after December 7, 1941, too. Did that make us fascists then? i could additionally prefer to point out the severe patriotic emotions of the Hungarians and Czechoslovakians who rose up against their Soviet oppressors interior the 1950's. They have been some distance from being fascist. this might nicely be a bogus declare. 7. national protection might desire to be an obsession of the government!! We have been attacked at domicile with the help of terrorists, with 3,000 death in one day. This displayed an alarming vulnerability to assaults. Following 9/11, the two events have been somewhat enthusiastic approximately national protection. For a stable reason, do not you think of? 12. Is there some thing incorrect with being for regulation enforcement and punishment of criminals? Can the jackass who wrote this lameass record, or any of the actual believers, cite a single occasion of bigger regulation enforcement powers previous the classic ones? Police have not got from now on potential, nor do the FBI (national police). Heck, they are able to basically choose they had the powers of the gendarmerie in France or the carabinieri in Italy, the place they are able to arrest you without even probably reason, and the place you're in charge until shown harmless.
2016-11-24 21:17:04 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most morons who call America a fascist regime have never lived in a fascist regime. America is about the most non-fascist country in existence.
2006-09-04 05:34:59 · answer #3 · answered by S H I R A Z 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Most morons who call America a fascist regime have never lived in a fascist regime. America is about the most non-fascist country in existence.
2006-09-04 05:32:26 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I saw a video of it online. America is not a fascist regime at all. Check into the definition of fascism and you'll see for yourself. By the way, Islamic terrorist organizations are not fascists either. Rumsfeld certainly had that one wrong.
The parties in power are particularly heinous, I think. They do demonize dissent, paint anybody who disagrees with them as a friend to terrorists, and ignore the constitution, but America is starting to catch on and they can't get away with it for much longer.
2006-09-04 05:37:06 · answer #5 · answered by τεκνον θεου 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
American is not yet a fascist regime as compared to say, Nazi Germany. Those in power, however, lean toward fascism and away from libertarianism. If you want a very interesting website on political differences, which shows both the social and the economic dimension of politics and how they are intertwined, please check out the link below.
2006-09-04 10:50:25 · answer #6 · answered by Dianna P 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No I did not see it and no the USA is not a fascist regime.
2006-09-04 05:38:40 · answer #7 · answered by bumpocooper 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It is not fascist, if it was most of our goods would be made in USA since one aspect of Fascism is state capitalism
2006-09-04 05:37:02 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I missed it and no America is not a facist regime. It is just a brief dark period in American history.
2006-09-04 05:32:28 · answer #9 · answered by Juniper 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Walter for President!!
(minus the "f" word of course)
2006-09-04 05:36:19 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋