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A Fascist Christian America Is Upon Us
(George E. Lowe, BuzzFlash, June 10, 2005)
A BUZZFLASH INTERVIEW
They're planning ... to create a nation where you can change the Constitution with simple majorities, where you can pass laws with simple majorities, where you can pack the courts and thereby create a Christian nation through a simple majority vote. ... The whole thing is one of the grand coup d'etats of all time. That's what we're seeing. . . . George E. Lowe's two-volume collection [It Can Happen Here] is a labor of love (originally and prophetically written in 2000) that offers a provocative and persuasive explanation about how the Neo-Cons became a logical partner with the "Rapture" Christians, whose goal is to precipitate Armageddon and a Second Coming of Christ. One clear common political goal is increasing weapons production, because it will both enrich the Neo-Con corporate interests and help precipitate a Messianic age for the radical fundamentalists. . . . For many BuzzFlash readers, following the subtleties of the religious right fanatics is a challenge. But Lowe takes the reader on a journey through the strange permutations of Christian extremism and the danger it presents to America as a Constitutional democracy. Moreover, the Christian fanatics seek a World War III, because it will lead to the triumphant return of a resurrected Christ and a transformed Israel. . . . [From the interview with Lowe] When the Reagan Administration came in, I was Secretary of Education Bell's speech writer. I looked around and who did I see? Gary Bauer as an Assistant Secretary. Bob Billings, one of the founders of the Moral Majority -- -- another Assistant Secretary. Civil rights was handed over to Alan Keyes and Clarence Thomas. They dumped a lot of strange people into the department that had Hal Lindsey's book, The Late, Great Planet Earth, and the Good Shepherd's Yellow Pages. They had little cards that they would post up in the halls saying, "Listen to Jim Bakker and Tammy Faye." They were revolutionaries. And here I am, an American historian, worried about this, because I was fighting the military fascists in the sixties. Here we get Christian fascists, and I just couldn't comprehend it. . . . As I say on the cover of my book, it's that they've taken over the party of Lincoln. You could just look at the electoral map and you know that. It's the old Confederacy. And they've expanded it to the new booming Southwest. That and the Mountain West is their core base. There are people that essentially are the old David Duke crowd -- the Northern European, white, Protestant, small town, middle and lower-middle classes -- and their time has come. They're tired of all these foreigners that came in after '48 or after the Civil War, and all those two million Jews and all those Southern European Catholics -- those dusty people -- all those. They feel it's time to take back America. In essence, this is the revenge of the South for losing the Civil War. . . . The genius behind this is Pat Buchanan. He put together the great coalition, along with Paul Weyrich, and that other genius, Richard Viguerie, and they put together a coalition of Orthodox Jews, conservative Catholics and fundamentalists, conservative Evangelicals and Pentecostals. And that's the coalition that is now in power. . . . some of the Catholics are going back to a previous golden age, and some of the Protestants are looking forward to a new golden age. But the idea is a fusion, or a union of church and state. Franco did that, Peron and Mussolini did it. . . . Jerry Falwell, and others, believe God wanted them to have the entire West Bank, frankly Syria and the whole Middle East. That should be the greater Israel, from Jerry Falwell's point of view. . . . Scalia is blinded by Opus Dei [the Catholic Church's ultra right wing coven of wealthy white men]. The point is that he is a hyper-intellectual, and he's taken all this doctrine and believes it, that's all. . . . The only way you can get Christ back is if you destroy the Dome of Omar and the infidel structures and build the third temple. And if the Jews don't build the third temple, Jesus can't give his abomination of desolation. Once they build the third temple, Jesus comes back and he brings the raptured church back with him, armed with NRA Uzi and AK-47s, and they run us all for a thousand years. . . . It's signing the death warrant of the Jewish race. No question about it. . . . BuzzFlash: We have now a concerted effort by the Bush Administration to put onto the federal bench judges who believe that they, in essence, have a divine calling. What are the implications of this? . . . George E. Lowe: I explain it in my book at length, but it's simply this. They're planning to, and they almost did except for the senate's recently reached judicial filibuster compromise -- they're going to create a nation where you can change the Constitution with simple majorities, where you can pass laws with simple majorities, where you can pack the courts and thereby create a Christian nation through a simple majority vote. And put no more lifetime judges -- five years at the most. The whole thing is one of the grand coup d'etats of all time. That's what we're seeing. . . . BuzzFlash: Well, what would a fascist Christian America look like? Are we there yet? . . . George E. Lowe: Oh, we're much further ahead than I ever expected. . . . Incidentally, I was part of a top-secret Navy team that helped create the idea that the military-industrial complex imposed a threat to America. We also worried then about fascist Christian military officers. . . . In the Bush Administration you have, it seems to me, two divisions. On one side you have the extreme fundamentalists, what some people call the American Taliban, and you call the Christian fascists. . . . And the key weapons system is the ballistic missile defense system, and the RMA -- the Revolution in Military Affairs. The New York Times has the most amazing piece by historian Niall Ferguson, in which he talks about the great scheme of Rumsfeld, and why he won't put more troops into Iraq, and why they're talking about attacks against all the rogue nations. Rumsfeld had an idea called 10-30-30. Ten days to take down the rogue nations, thirty days to mop up, and then thirty days to plan for the next rogue nation. . . . Exactly. And they have to have Armageddon because their doctrine won't bring Jesus back unless they have Armageddon. That's their whole point. That's why they've got to get Bush to trigger Armageddon. So they're happy to make all sorts of deals with the Likud and welcome anything that stirs up conflict. . . . [COMMENT by Lorenzo: If you think the world is upside down right now, just wait until 2008. Once the Bush Junta realizes that even with their control of the black box voting machines the people of this nation are going to rise up against them, they are going to precipitate a crisis that calls for marshal law . . . and then the real battle for control of this besotted nation will begin in earnest. IMHO, the Bush Junta was directly involved in the events of 9-11. I think we can expect them to do it again once they realize that the majority of citizens in this nation want to see them sent to prison for the rest of their lives in punishment for their crimes against humanity.] . . . BuzzFlash: In closing -- A lot of moderate Republicans don't take people like Gary Bauer and Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell and James Dobson seriously. They find them almost disgustingly amusing and entertaining. But they don't take them seriously. . . . George E. Lowe: The moderates didn't take Hitler seriously either. Remember the great scene in "Cabaret" at that outdoor garden, when suddenly a German fascist kid starts singing? And the response is, "Oh, we can control them." . . . George W. Bush met these people when he was his father's liaison in the 1992 campaign. That's where he met them, and that's when he solidified his base. And that's when he went into this whole business of the Jesus is my favorite philosopher. The point is that Bush has been doing this for a long time. . . . Kevin Phillips says the best thing the Bush family does is steal elections . . . And destroy documents. And keep them from the public. Bush is the Manchurian Candidate. There's no question. He's been put in by the cabal.

posted by Lorenzo 6:01 AM