Jim Hightower discusses the powerful speech Al Gore gave last year, January 16, 2006, about the Constitutional crisis and power grab of this administration in his recent article, "Is a Presidential Coup Under Way?"
This is probably old news on the blogosphere, but I thought it was worth repeating. After all, they do seem eerily familiar...
(cross-posted from the Stonewall Democrats NYC blog)
Dr. Lawrence Britt has examined the fascist regimes of Hitler (Germany), Mussolini (Italy), Franco (Spain), Suharto (Indonesia) and several Latin American regimes. Britt found 14 defining characteristics common to each.
Read the list here
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