Cody Willard: The Day Our Nation Died (Clip)
Willard Attacks the Democrat-Republican Machine
FBN's Cody Willard appropriately loses his mind and declares that Capitalism has died and Fascism prevails. You will hear quickly that this is not a single shot at Obama, rather an attack on the Bush-Paulson-Obama-Geithner Doctrine of bailing out friends and allowing one's enemies to wither (witness Lehman). Willard has been consistent with his bi-partisan blame and antipathy, and he skewers both Republicans and Democrats in this clip, which we endorse and have been doing ourselves since the day we launched The Daily Bail.
It's short and comical though Willard wasn't laughing. Submit your questions for an interview I'm doing with Cody later this week. The topic is wide open so offer up some thoughts and I'll work them into the mix.
Jul 27, 2009 at 2:54 PM
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Oh, and ask him if he thinks it's still the 70's. "Get a haircut, hippy" ;-))
Moreover, his attack on both parties is correct and warranted in my view. Not having watched him much before I was impressed with his rant (not at the tea party) but at our modern political structure.
Feudalism, is one of the most stable of the three historic tyrannies (kingdoms, theocracies, feudalism) that ruled nations prior to the rise of American democracy, and can be roughly defined as "rule by the rich."
Democracy dies and is crushed into the ground when campaign contributions and graft rule over the will of the majority.
Thus, the feudal/fascistic rich get richer (and more powerful) on the backs of the poor and the middle class, as we see today. And as they crash our system through blind greed and malice towards the American people, accolades, promotions, and bonuses abound.
The definition Mussolini had in mind when he claimed to have coined the word. (It was actually Italian philosopher Giovanni Gentile that wrote the entry in the Encyclopedia Italiana that said: "Fascism should more appropriately be called corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power." Mussolini, however, affixed his name to the entry, and claimed credit for it.)
Mussolini was very serious about this. In a 1923 pamphlet titled "The Doctrine of Fascism" he wrote, "If classical liberalism spells individualism, Fascism spells government." But not a government of, by, and for We The People - instead, it would be a government of, by, and for the most powerful corporate interests in the nation.
In early 1944, the New York Times asked Vice President Henry Wallace to, as Wallace noted, "write a piece answering the following questions: What is a fascist? How many fascists have we? How dangerous are they?"
Vice President Wallace's response was published in The New York Times on April 9, 1944, at the height of the war against the Axis powers of Germany and Japan.
"The really dangerous American fascists," Wallace wrote, "are not those who are hooked up directly or indirectly with the Axis. The FBI has its finger on those. The dangerous American fascist is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power."
Vice President Wallace laid out in his 1944 Times article his concern about the same thing happening here in America:
" If we define an American fascist as one who in case of conflict puts money and power ahead of human beings, then there are undoubtedly several million fascists in the United States. There are probably several hundred thousand if we narrow the definition to include only those who in their search for money and power are ruthless and deceitful. ... They are patriotic in time of war because it is to their interest to be so, but in time of peace they follow power and the dollar wherever they may lead."
Nonetheless, at that time there were very few corporate heads who had run for political office, and, in Wallace's view, most politicians still felt it was their obligation to represent “We The People” instead of corporate cartels. "American fascism will not be really dangerous," he added in the next paragraph, "until there is a purposeful coalition among the cartelists, the deliberate poisoners of public information..."
Noting that, "Fascism is a worldwide disease," Wallace suggests that fascism's "greatest threat to the United States will come after the war" and will manifest "within the United States itself."
Many well-known and powerful Americans, lost businesses in the early 1940s because of charges by Roosevelt that they were doing business with Hitler.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/sep/25/usa.secondworldwar
http://chaplain1.tripod.com/ford.html
http://www.bulldognews.net/issues_ford_slave_labor.html
http://coat.ncf.ca/our_magazine/links/53/rockefeller.html
These events all, no doubt, colored Vice President Wallace's thinking when he wrote:
"Still another danger is represented by those who, paying lip service to democracy and the common welfare, in their insatiable greed for money and the power which money gives, do not hesitate surreptitiously to evade the laws designed to safeguard the public from monopolistic extortion. American fascists of this stamp were clandestinely aligned with their German counterparts before the war, and are even now preparing to resume where they left off, after 'the present unpleasantness' ceases."
There is a close and often ignored relationship between fascism and capitalism. German corporations financed Hitler's rise to power and were rewarded by slave labor. Krupp, I.G. Farben and other corporations used Jewish and Slavic slave labor. Alfred Krupp called girl babies born to his slaves "useless feeders" because they were not as strong a potential worker as were boy babies. These girl babies were gassed.
American corporations invested heavily in Facsist Germany, and many like General Motors and Ford had factories there, which also used slave labor and produced war materials for the Nazis. US corporate investment in Germany increased rapidly after Hitler came to power. Investment increased 48.5% between 1929 and 1940, while declining in the rest of continental Europe. U.S. bombers deliberately avoided hitting these U.S. factories, and the companies received compensation from the American taxpayer for any damage after the war. U.S. oil companies sold oil to the Nazis and oil on credit to the fascists in Spain.
The fascists broke unions, lowered wages, abolished overtime pay, decreased business taxes and increased business subsidies. Their program bears a strong resemblance to one party’s agenda in America.
"The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact," Wallace wrote. "Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism. They use every opportunity to impugn democracy."
In his strongest indictment of the tide of fascism the Vice President of the United States saw rising in America, he added, "They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective toward which all their deceit is directed is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection."
Finally, Wallace said, "The myth of fascist efficiency has deluded many people. ... Democracy, to crush fascism internally, must...develop the ability to keep people fully employed and at the same time balance the budget. It must put human beings first and dollars second. It must appeal to reason and decency and not to violence and deceit. We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels."
As Wallace's President, Franklin D. Roosevelt, said when he accepted his party's re-nomination in 1936 in Philadelphia, "...out of this modern civilization, economic royalists [have] carved new dynasties.... It was natural and perhaps human that the privileged princes of these new economic dynasties, thirsting for power, reached out for control over government itself. They created a new despotism and wrapped it in the robes of legal sanction.... And as a result the average man once more confronts the problem that faced the Minute Man...."
The American corporate fascists even attempted a coup against President Roosevelt to align the business interests of fascist Germany and Italy into a complete “global business model”.
http://www.chris-floyd.com/plot/
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