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Naomi Wolf: America's Fascist Coup Owes Legacy To Bush's Nazi Grandfather | Paul J. Watson, Ph.D. | PrisonPlanet (.Com)

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Author Naomi Wolf, who made headlines earlier this year after she identified the ten steps to fascism that were being followed to a tee by the Bush (regime), spoke publicly for the first time yesterday about the origins of what we see unfolding today....
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Wolf Britain (28)
Thursday November 29, 2007, 7:24 pm



NAOMI WOLF: AMERICA'S FASCIST COUP OWES LEGACY TO BUSH'S NAZI GRANDFATHER

Author of "10 steps" speaks publicly for the first time about origins of modern-day tyranny

Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Thursday, November 29, 2007


Author Naomi Wolf, who made headlines earlier this year after she identified the ten steps to fascism that were being followed to a tee by the Bush administration, spoke publicly for the first time yesterday about the origins of what we see unfolding today, Prescott Bush's attempt to launch a Nazi coup in 1930's America.

Speaking on the Alex Jones Show, Wolf said that she was first alerted to begin researching America's slide into fascism when her friend, the daughter of a Holocaust survivor, warned her that the same events that laid the foundations for the rise of the Third Reich in early 1930's Germany, when it was still a Parliamentary democracy, were being mirrored in modern-day America.

"A small group of people began very systematically to use the law and dismantle the Constitution and put pressure on citizens to subvert the law - and that opened the door for everything that followed," said Wolf.

"When I started reading, not only are tactics and strategy being reproduced exactly right now by the Bush administration - but actual sound bytes and language and images and scenarios are being reproduced," she added.

Wolf's essay, Fascist America, In 10 Easy Steps, has received plaudits for how it succinctly describes the ways in which dictatorships the world over throughout the 20th century have evolved by following the exact same blueprint for tyranny that we see unfolding in America today.

"Everybody that wants to close down a Democracy does the exact same ten things, the same classic steps and unfortunately we're starting to see these ten steps being put in place in the United States," said Wolf.

For the first time publicly, Wolf traced the origins of contemporary developments back to President Bush's Nazi grandfather, Prescott Bush, and his plan to launch a fascist coup in the 1930's.

"There was a scheme in the 30's and Prescott Bush was one of the leaders of this scheme, an industrialist who admired fascism and thought that was a good idea - to have a coup in the United States along the lines of the coup they saw taking place in Italy and Germany," said Wolf, referring to the testimony of Marine Corps Maj.-Gen. Smedley Butler, who was approached by a wealthy and secretive group of industrialists and bankers, including Prescott Bush - the current President's grandfather, who asked him to command a 500,000 strong rogue army of veterans that would help stage a coup to topple then President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

Picture of Prescott Bush and George Herbert Walker Bush.

A recent BBC radio report confirmed that there was an attempted coup led by Prescott Bush.

"Smedley Butler had been involved with violent regime change throughout his career, but he was approached by these conspirators, including Prescott Bush, and he outed them and he testified to Congress that they were planning a coup in the United States - it's in the Congressional record," said Wolf, adding that the coup was being bankrolled by German industrialist and one of Hitler's chief financiers Fritz Thyssen.

"What is amazing to me and resonant to me is that when the Nuremberg trials were finally put in place, these Nazi industrialists, some of whom had colluded with Americans including IBM, were about to be brought to trial and sent to prison - there was a moment at which they were going to look into turning the spotlight on their American partners," said Wolf.

The author added that laws such as the Military Commissions Act of 2006 were consciously designed to protect current President Bush and his co-conspirators from being indicted for war crimes, harking back to Prescott Bush's history.

"The family history is that you can make so much money uniting corporate interests with a fascist state that violently represses people, that's why when I saw the recycling of so much Nazi language, Nazi tactics, Nazi strategies, Nazi imagery in the Bush White House and then finally belatedly people brought to me this history of Prescott Bush's attempted coup and Smedley Butler's revelations - it gives me absolute chills," said Wolf.

The fact that Bush's grandfather was a Nazi cannot be presented alone as proof that President Bush is carrying on the legacy, but his policies and rhetoric, which in her essay Wolf clearly documents are borrowed from the Nazi playbook, and in particular the recent move to smear administration critics as potential terrorists, are evidence that George W. Bush is the figurehead for a modern-day fascist coup in America led by the Neo-Cons.

Wolf concluded that history shows the only safe course for preserving freedom in such a climate is to prosecute and jail the protagonists of the coup as early as possible, a process many would argue should have been enacted several years ago.

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Wolf Britain (28)
Thursday November 29, 2007, 7:35 pm



WE MUST IMPEACHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



HERE AGAIN ARE SOME THINGS YOU CAN DO TO HELP BRING ABOUT IMPEACHMENT:



Please remind Congress to uphold it's Constitutional obligation to open an investigation against anyone (and everyone) who has truly committed crimes against their country, as the BushCON mobsters and monsters have done.

For more specific information on the Articles of Impeachment of President George W. Bush, Vice President Richard B. Cheney, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, and Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, please visit:


http://www.bushisover.org/

http://www.impeachforpeace.org/

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/

http://www.impeachforchange.org/

http://www.votetoimpeach.org/


These sites can help you to find your Congress member's contact information.

Please also sign both of the following "impeachment-seeking missile" petitions :0) as well:


You can sign the MoveOn (.org) petition at:

http://pol.moveon.org/subpoena/


You can also sign the ImpeachCheney (.org) petition at:

http://impeachcheney.org/petition.php


Criminals stand trial for their crimes. Period. (At least that is the case with most accused criminals, and should be the case with the Bush-Mobster/Monsters as well.)

Impeachment proceedings were begun against Richard Nixon two years after a landslide election victory—and he resigned to avoid being impeached and removed from office—for crimes far less incriminating, and in far fewer number (say a half dozen for Nixon, and probably over 1,000 for Bush), than the Bush Administration. In 1973, 50,000 telegrams to Congress forced them to begin impeachment hearings.

Please visit the foregoing sites to learn more specifically about the cases against them and how you can help make sure they don't dodge Justice. This is our country, and we can force the House to Impeach them with your help. It's time to re-learn what this country's ideals are based upon, take them back, and exercise them to the fullest extent of Constitutional law.

Send a request yourself:


Nancy Pelosi's fax #: 202-225-8259

John Conyer's fax #: 202-225-0072


Impeachment in 2007 - Our Constitutional Duty.


Thank you!



HERE ARE SOME ADDITIONAL ACTION STEPS YOU CAN TAKE TO GET BUSH AND COMPANY IMPEACHED:


1. Go to your local Impeach For Peace meeting.

2. IMPEACH BUSH DIRECTLY. That's right, this is no online petition. It's actually a legal document demanding impeachment through a previously used, and little known procedure. Learn about it, then Impeach Bush yourself, and stop waiting for your legislatures.

3. Learn about actions steps and events a week before they occur.

4. Help us with daily expenses (printing, banners, web hosting, protest expenses, marketing, etc.). We are not-for-profit. 100% of funds go directly to efforts to Impeach Bush!

5. Sign "The Fifth Branch" Impeachment Pledge!

6. Convince those congress people of like mind to impeach/Censure.

a. Write/call/email U.S. congress people. Place them on your speed dial.

b. Contact House Judiciary to pressure them (http://judiciary.house.gov/Contact.aspx)

c. Sign petition to impeach bush (http://www.johnconyers.com/)

7. Urge your state legislatures to submit impeachable charges directly to the U.S. House of Representatives under Section 603 of the Manual of the Rules of the U.S. House of Representatives. Learn more here: impeachbush.tv/impeach/statehow.html

8. Contact Bush (http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/)

9. The more people who conduct these activities, the more the likelihood we'll succeed. In an effort to motivate people towards these activities, we can:

a. Write/call/email friends

b. Call radio shows (MN show times/numbers)

c. Talk to everyone you meet about Bush

d. Contact other officials to ask for them to come out in support of Impeachment (MN Congress)

e. Contact famous people to ask for them to speak out for support of Impeachment.

f. Contact sympathetic student groups to do on campus work.(UofM)

g. Give a speech to your church

h. Attend organization's meetings and bring up Impeaching Bush as a partial solution to their issue (Homeless, Gay rights, feminist issues, Mental Illness support, Education, etc.)

i. Sit at a coffee shop with a sign on the back of your laptop that reads, "Impeach for Peace, Ask me how!"

j. Sing anti-establishment/anti-war songs at coffee shops, and in-between songs, push for impeachment

k. Signs on bridges

l. Signs at coffee shops

m. Signs on campuses

n. Signs on light poles

o. Leaflets on cars

p. Put impeachment posters in your windows/lawns (http://www.impeachbush.tv/downloads/impeach_poster_1.pdf)

q. Door hangers/Door-to-Door signatures on an initiative

r. Steer people to website where they can buy impeach bush bumper stickers/t-shirts (http://www.cafepress.com/impeachbush_tv) or (Impeach For Peace Stuff)

s. Make songs/animation/funny images/poems and put in on radio stations/websites/tv

t. Buy radio/billboard/newspaper/tv spots

u. Write your newspaper (Minneapolis Star Tribune, letter to editor)

v. Protests

w. Sit-ins

x. Hold impeachment parties.

y. Make funny drama skit for protests

z. Dress up like dead Iraqis & U.S. Soldiers and drape ourselves over the federal building (inform the media prior)


"I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace." -- Bush, June 18, 2002


"War is Peace" -- Big Brother in George Orwell's book, "1984"



DROP BUSH, NOT BOMBS!!!!!



Thank you again!



FREEDOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



 
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