On Tue, 19 Jul 2005 05:58:32 GMT, Strabo
wrote:

"The 14 Defining Characteristics Of Fascism"
http://www.oldamericancentury.org/14pts.htm

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This definition is partially inaccurate.

Only parts 1, 3, 4, 6, and 7 are consistent elements
of fascism.

Parts 2

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2. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights - Because of fear of
enemies and the need for security, the people in fascist regimes are
persuaded that human rights can be ignored in certain cases because of
"need." The people tend to look the other way or even approve of
torture, summary executions, assassinations, long incarcerations of
prisoners, etc.
]

[
Cheney comes out in favor of keeping Gitmo
Bush, Cheney Attack Amnesty International
"For Amnesty International to suggest that somehow the United States
is a violator of human rights, I frankly just don't take them
seriously.": Bush calls Amnesty International's "gulag" report absurd
(three times in two sentences)
Guantanamo Judge: “I don’t care about international law. I don’t want
to hear the words ‘international law’ again. We are not concerned with
international law.”
Rumsfeld to approve new guidelines that will formalize the
administration's policy of imprisoning without the protections of the
Geneva Conventions and enable the Pentagon to legally hold "ghost
detainees,"
US 'preparing to detain terror suspects for life without trial'
U.S. oks evidence gained through torture.
The Bush administration has concluded for the first time that some
non-Iraqi prisoners captured by American forces in Iraq are not
entitled to the protections of the Geneva Conventions
July 1, 2003: U.S. Suspends Military Aid to Nearly 50 Countries:
because they have supported the International Criminal Court and
failed to exempt Americans from possible prosecution.
US has at least 9000 prisoners in secret detention
U.S. listed as cause of most human rights abuses
]

and 5

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5. Rampant Sexism - The governments of fascist nations tend to be
almost exclusively male-dominated. Under fascist regimes, traditional
gender roles are made more rigid. Divorce, abortion and homosexuality
are suppressed and the state is represented as the ultimate guardian
of the family institution.
]

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It's legal again, to fire gov't workers for being gay
Bush calls for Constitutional ban on same-sex marriages
Bush refuses to sign U.N proposal on women's "sexual" rights
W. David Hager chairman of the FDA's Reproductive Health Drugs
Advisory Committee does not prescribe contraceptives for single women,
does not do abortions, will not prescribe RU-486 and will not insert
IUDs. Hager believes that headaches, PMS and eating disorders can be
cured by reading Scripture.
The State Department has awarded an explicitly anti-feminist U.S.
group part of a US$10 million grant to train Iraqi women in political
participation and democracy.
]


are politically correct borrowings from the UN
charter.

As compared to the neocons?

The Communist party of the USSR was quite progressive
when it came to putting women in positions of authority.

Well, you now have "Ann" Coulter
http://www.ramdac.org/images/anncoulter1.jpg and Rice,
right?

It seems that security states like women in power because they
are more easily duped and controlled.

As compared to wingers?

Number 2 is irrelevant. Individual rights don't exist
under fascism,

You just seem to have contradicted yourself.

or the UN for that matter.

??
Which bit of the UN charter?
It's the neocons that got the US tossed out of the
UN's human rights commission, right?

Historically, parts 8, 9 10, and 11 may or may not play a
role in fascism.

What about in this specific case?
--
Cliff