ISN’T FASCISM FUNNY?

It looks like a Photoshop gag, but it’s real.  At 13 minutes and 50 seconds into the CNN video of Zero’s risible Jobs Speech to Congress (9/08), Slo-Jo flicked his tongue out for a moment to lubricate his dry lips at the exact time Zero closed his eyes to blink – so in a freeze-frame capture, one looks like the doofus he is, the other blind like he is.

The WaPo’s lib columnist Dana Milbank noted that Zero’s speech had the GOP Senators and Congressmen in hysterics, treating it as a "big fat joke."  Can you recall a time when a Joint Session Congressional audience actually laughed at the President of the United States?  An angry outburst, like Joe Wilson’s "You Lie!" at Zero, or audible grumbles of disagreement by Dems at George Bush, yes – but out loud laughter and ridicule to the president’s face?   

Today, not just Pubs in Congress but the whole world is laughing at Zero for having the egomaniacal gall to wave at the camera for a photo of world leaders at the UN on Tuesday (9/20), managing to block the face of Mongolia’s president Tsakhia Elbegdorj.

                                                                                  
Again, this is not Photoshopped – it’s a real Getty Image.  America has a world laughingstock for a president.  As Jay Leno said after Zero’s jobs speech, it was "A guy whose job nobody approves of giving a speech about jobs that don’t exist to people who don’t have any jobs.  He called his $447-billion legislation the American Jobs Act. Better than the original name, the Save My Ass Act."

Leno followed that up with:  "President Obama now says that his jobs bill will be paid for by raising taxes over 10 years. I can’t figure out if he’s the kind of guy who makes infomercials, or the kind of guy who falls for infomercials."  That is, Zero is either a slick con man, or brainless fool.

A fascist becoming a joke whom nobody respects is a very good thing.  It’s hard to be afraid of an object of ridicule.  Losing our fear of the fascists continuing to tighten their chokehold around our lives is a vitally necessary condition for starting to fight back against them.

You know how much and for how long I have been planting the meme of fascism as the most appropriate description of Zero and his Dems’ ruling political philosophy.

In 1997, I gave a keynote address to the Council on National Policy (CNP – an organization of conservative leaders) entitled None Dare Call It Fascism.  (The link is to one of several sites carrying it.).  This was summarized in TTP in Democratic Fascism (November 2005).

I have been waiting a long time for other conservatives to get on board, and now at last the widely-read American Thinker has, with Obama’s Fascist Economy yesterday (9/21). The author (Steve McCann) clearly understands the issue:

"Over the past seventy years, the left and their allies in the media have succeeded in labeling fascism as a right-wing or conservative philosophy when it in reality was an offshoot of socialism.  Socialism/Marxism seeks the total control of a society’s economy through complete state control of the means of production and income.  Fascism seeks that same control, indirectly by the state domination of private ownership, as well as controlling individual income and wealth through taxation and regulation."

That is exactly the goal, of course, of Zero and the Dems.  McCann also observes:

"A key characteristic of the reality of fascist thinking is rampant cronyism and corruption.  Certain capitalists, wishing to ingratiate themselves with the state, are willing to fund the election of those in power in exchange for favorable government contracts and avoidance of regulatory wrath."  

The essence of fascism as a governing philosophy is that "might makes right."  Fascists are champions of moral relativism, for if there are no objective moral truths, then, as Mussolini argued, the fascist has the moral authority to impose his will to power upon others by force – for who are they to say this is wrong? 

This allows fascists to dispense with laws and rule by whatever meaning they give them.  As Nancy Pelosi replied when asked where in the Constitution was Obamacare authorized, "Are you kidding me?  Are you kidding me?"

Thus it is important to understand, to grasp clearly and viscerally, that the United States Constitution no longer exists.  It no longer has any meaning thanks to our courts’ contortionist interpretations of such parts of it as the Commerce Clause.

This clause could not be clearer in its distinction between interstate and intrastate commerce, or that it applies only to commercial activities. The Endangered Species Act claims its constitutional basis is the Commerce Clause.  It would seem impossible then, for it to apply to a species, however "endangered," that exists wholly and entirely within one state and is no way involved in commerce.

But no.  Last March, the Ninth Federal Circuit Court held that the ESA applies to California’s delta smelt, a tiny fish.  The Pacific Legal Foundation argued that the fish are a "purely intrastate species," with no "commercial value," and therefore the federal government regulations to protect the fish were "invalid exercises of constitutional authority" under the Commerce Clause.  A no-brainer, right?

Wrong.  The 9^th upheld ESA regulation, writing that the Federal Government "has the power to regulate purely intrastate activity as long as the activity is being regulated under a general regulatory scheme that bears a substantial relationship to interstate commerce."

This means anything goes, there is no law, and there is no Constitution.  The Feds are free to destroy the economy of California’s Central Valley for a two-inch long trash species fish – and to halt development of one of the US’ top oil-producing regions for a tiny desert lizard in Texas.

There is a fascinatingly instructive essay by Bret Stephens in the Wall Street Journal this week (9/19), What Comes After Europe? 

He divides the history of the rise and fall of postwar Western Europe into three phases:  that of Hard Facts, based on hard money and hard work, during which Europe bloomed from 1946 to about 1973;  of Convenient Fictions, based on the welfare entitlement state ("Europeans love their vacations and thought they were entitled to a long vacation from history as well") and failure denial, from the mid-seventies to the entry of Greece into the eurozone in 2001; and of the current phase of Outright Fraud.

It’s worth reading entire, and thinking about America as you do.  For we have gone through the same three phases, albeit that our transition from Hard Facts to Convenient Fictions began during the disastrous one term of Lyndon Johnson and his establishment of the Great Society in the mid-60s.  And that we had a respite with the heroic presidency of Ronald Reagan.

Since Reagan, it’s been downhill ever since.  Yes, Bush was infinitely better than either Algore or Kerry would have been, and his failures were sins of omission, such as a refusal to veto Congress’ spending binges.  So our transition from Fiction to Fraud began later, in 2008 with Zero. 

The acceleration of fascism under Zero has been prodigious – and concomitant with it, massive criminal fraud.  Just as we no longer have a Constitution, we no longer have a real government – it has become under Zero a fascist criminal conspiracy masquerading as a government.

Just peruse this description of a global thieving operation called FATCA – the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act – being conducted by the gangsters at the IRS.  Zero and the Dems slipped it into the Stimulus Bill.

Under it, "every bank in the world will be required to report to the IRS all accounts held by current and former US citizens. If account holders refuse to provide verification of their non-US citizenship, the banks will be required to impose a 30 percent tax of all payments or transfers to the account on behalf of the IRS. Banks that do not comply will ‘face withholding on U.S.-source interest and dividends, gross proceeds from the disposition of U.S. securities, and pass-through payments’."

In other words, any payment or funds transfer from an account (personal or business) in a US bank to a foreign bank may be subject to a 30% withholding tax.  All banks throughout the world must do the same for an account held by a US citizen or company.  This is straight-out currency control.  You can’t get much more of a stranglehold on Americans doing international business.

As a result, banks all over the world will no longer take Americans as customers.  Virtually every bank in Switzerland, for example, refuses to do business with Americans.  Good luck in setting up a company in the Caymans.  One of the very few places that will still accept American bank accounts is Macau, a SAR (special autonomous region) of China.  Backed by Beijing, Macau banks can tell the IRS to screw itself.

The one bit of good news in this saga is that foreign banks and even entire countries like Australia and Japan are refusing to obey the US law.  Canada is strongly considering refusal, as FATCA "would turn Canadian banks into extensions of the IRS," as Canada’s Finance Minister puts it.  A manager for a major Singapore bank condemns FATCA as "complete madness for the US."

But it is not madness.  It is fascism.  Fascists do not care about prosperity. They care about power.  You are going to see a tsunami of dollars flood out of the US next year – FATCA takes effect January 2013 – and into any bank anywhere that will take American money.  Macau is going to do land-office business.

All of these accounts will be "illegal offshore accounts" in the eyes of the IRS unless fully reported and 30% tax paid.  Since the seven million Americans living outside the US filed only 400,000 returns last year (a 6% compliance rate), few of these new accounts, set up to escape from IRS thievery, will be reported.

What we see emerging here is one primary way to fight fascism: Disobey.  Ignore and refuse to comply with the fascists’ rules.  Entire countries and international banking organizations are disobeying US "law."  They are big and sovereign enough to get away with it.  Millions of individual Americans will disobey as well, and take their chances.

This is in no way to encourage you to do so yourself.  If a hoodlum with a gun threatens to shoot you if you do not give him your money, the wisest course is usually to comply.

That leaves us with one other way to fight fascism:  Ridicule.  Make fun of them at every opportunity in any way possible.  The more they are made fun of, the less people will be afraid of them, which increases the level of disobedience.

There is now such a gigantic morass of federalie rules that the system will soon collapse of its own unmanageable weight.  The collapse of our economy will accelerate this.  People will have to disobey to survive, and they will have to make fun of the fascists to get through each day. 

So find your golden mean of disobedience appropriate for your comfort level, and laugh at Zero, Dems, liberals, and federalie bureaucrats as ridiculously funny fascists every chance you get.  We will get through this.  Might as well try to have fun doing so.

You could start by printing out that freeze-frame shot of Slo-Jo and Zero above, and taping it to your refrigerator.