“Now listen to the first three aims of the corporatist movement in Germany, Italy and France during the 1920s. These were developed by the people who went on to become part of the Fascist experience:
• (1) shift power directly to economic and social interest groups;
• (2) push entrepreneurial initiative in areas normally reserved for public bodies;
• (3) obliterate the boundaries between public and private interest — that is, challenge the idea of the public interest.
This sounds like the official program of most contemporary Western governments.”
John Ralston Saul, The Unconscious Civilization
“Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.”
George Washington
“You’re ceding your conscience to a political figure. That’s what a lot of liberals have done. They’ve ceded their conscience to Obama because they trust him. What better person for the Empire to have sell this to liberals than a Constitutional law expert, Nobel Peace Prize-winning, first African-American President. I mean, it’s incredible.
Somewhere Cheney is sitting at that ranch, or fly fishing somewhere and at the back of his head he has to be thinking, “Thank God that Obama is president,” ’cause the next time a Republican comes in, and they want to do all these things, liberals aren’t going to have much of a leg to stand on in saying “We’re against this,” because they’re going to have to admit, ‘Well, we’re only in favor of it when our guy is in office,’ and that’s a pretty shameful way to dictate your conscience.”
Jeremy Scahill
