You know, even that young and I was asking my mother “How can we be sending that boy back to such a terrible place?” I knew in my bones that it was not right.

“Fascists advocate the creation of a single-party state.[7] Fascist governments forbid and suppress criticism and opposition to the government and the fascist movement.[8] Fascism opposes class conflict, blames capitalist liberal democracies for its creation and communists for exploiting the concept.[9]

In the economic sphere, many fascist leaders have claimed to support a “Third Way” in economic policy, which they believed superior to both the rampant individualism of unrestrained capitalism and the severe control of state communism.[10][11] This was to be achieved by establishing significant government control over business and labour (Mussolini called his nation’s system “the corporate state”).[12][13]”

What Friedman wants is the right to banish those who do not agree, those who stand with their arms crossed saying no to his plans. He wants the right to ignore all who object to his platform and to take steps to suppress them as required to implement this wonderful future. The forceful suppression of dissent is always part of the fascist program. However else does one eliminate the roadblocks to a glorious future? That’s pretty textbook authoritarianism, and fits quite well the definition of fascism.

Unfortunately, there is more. People have a range of views on the Elian Gonzalez case from the 1990s. However, most of us regret both the process that resulted in a ruling that sent the boy back to Cuba and the way that the order was carried out. Not Tom Friedman (April 2000):

“Yup, I gotta confess, that now-famous picture of a U.S. marshal in Miami pointing an automatic weapon toward Donato Dalrymple and ordering him in the name of the U.S. government to turn over Elian Gonzalez warmed my heart.”

Frustrated, no doubt, by the refusal of the majority of Americans to sign onto his environmental crusade, Friedman is gazing enviously at the Chinese dictators’ ability to institute their policies without discussion. Certainly our system of government is less efficient than is China’s and, in fact, it was purposely designed to be that way. Our founding fathers were not opposed to change, but they wanted to be sure that changes were well thought before they were made. As a result, they erected a number of procedural roadblocks that had to be navigated before new legislation could be enacted. One such roadblock is the need to convince a majority of our representatives of the efficacy of a proposed change.

To date, global warming alarmists have not been able to make their case either to the American people or to a sufficient number of Congressmen and their ability to do so is daily being battered by falling global temperatures and scientific studies whose underlying data do not stand up to scrutiny. Worse, their constant ad hominem attacks on “deniers” and threats of “Nuremburg-like trials” are having less and less impact. As their window of opportunity shrinks many alarmists must, like Friedman, be casting longing glances at the world’s “enlightened” despots.

On Meet the Press this past Sunday, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman railed against internet news sources, referring to them as an “open sewer of untreated, unfiltered information.” He continued to mock new media, suggesting that the American public is incapable of deciphering between facts, fiction and opinion, when he said that modems should have a warning label from the surgeon general that reads “judgment not included.” What Mr. Friedman cannot understand is that web-based information sources like blogs, wikis and vlogs (video blogs) are the new beat reporters and investigative journalists of our time.

–Paul Miller, American Thinker, 10 September 2009

The corpratists in the White House and their totalitarian wannabe cheerleaders literally send a chill up my spine.

http://www.c3headlines.com/2009/09/us-govt-reports-that-nations-temperatures-continue-cooling-freefall-new-little-ice-age.html

Although the U.S. is not the world, its recent temperatures indicate there are major drivers of climate other than the CO2 trace gas that causes “elites” like Tom to say incredibly stupid, and most importantly, revealing things. For those other climate drivers, here’s one that open-minded scientists and individuals are now focusing on:

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/09/10/svensmark-global-warming-stopped-and-a-cooling-is-beginning-enjoy-global-warming-while-it-lasts/

C3H Editor, http://www.c3headlines.com