By Steven Jonas
"Trump/Russia" roars on apace. The more the
President protests his innocence --- repeating "no collusion" and now adding to
it "no obstruction" --- the more one is led to the conclusion that indeed there is
a there there, perhaps a very big one.
This conclusion is confirmed by the release of the now famous "Nunes
Memo" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nunes_memo ).
Among other things, Trump claims that it completely exonerates him, a
conclusion denied by even such a Tea Party Republican, as the famous Benghazi/Clinton
hunter, the soon-to-be retired Congressman Trey Gowdy.
But beyond the specifics of "The Memo," what is being done
with it by the President and his political and media allies indicates that this
nation is on the verge of taking a major step in the direction of the open imposition
of the "Functional Fascism" (and perhaps then beyond it to the real thing). I have been writing about this subject in the previous four columns in this series. In this column, following this new introduction to the subject matters
of the first four, I am re-publishing them as a set.
It is
worthwhile noting that after I had written the first draft of the Introduction
just below, President Trump (or is it Your Grand Leader Trump) labeled those Democrats in
the Congress who gave a very tepid response to
his State-of-the-Union message as "traitors." "Treason" is mentioned in Article III, Sect.
3 of the U.S. Constitution and has been defined as:
"The betrayal of one's own country by waging war against it or by consciously or purposely acting to aid its enemies."
In the United States it
carries the death penalty. And Trump has
applied the term to elected Democrats who did not agree with the message he was
sending in his first SOTU. He apparently equilibrates that with "betrayal of country." My oh my. That certainly
has a full fascist ring to it.
And then we go
further with this analysis. In part, fascism, in the definition that I use is:
"A
politico-economic system in which there is: total executive branch
control of
both the legislative
and administrative powers of government; . . . no Constitution that
embodies the Rule of Law standing above the people who control
the government;
. . . the massive and regular use of hate, fear, racial and
religious prejudice, the Big Lie
technique . . ."
Click here for the full article.
Source: OpEdNews.com
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