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From: orb@whuts.UUCP (SEVENER)
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Subject: Re: "Reds" vs "fascists":Reagan's remarks
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Date: Thu, 19-Dec-85 08:58:56 EST
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> >
> >I HAVE NEVER HEARD A MAINSTREAM POLITICIAN CRITICIZE ANYONE FOR BEING A FASCIST.
> >
> >I HAVE HEARD MANY POLITICIANS USE THE WORDS "COMMUNIST" AND "MARXIST" AS
> >NEGATIVE EPITHETS.
> >
> >Can someone provide a counter example (in the past 20 years?).
> 
> In one of my calmer moments I once told a guy pushing laser weapons at the
> airport that Lyndon LaRouche was a piece of dogshit and he called me a
> fascist.  I thought that was kind of funny and felt lucky he didn't pull a
> gun on me.
> 
> In this country fascists like Franco and Klaus Barbie are cool;
> it is the "premature anti-fascists" who got called up before HUAC.
> -- Jim Balter (ima!jim)

Not only have mainstream politicians *never* called anyone a fascist, our
beloved right-wing reactionary (fascist?) President Reagan stated
his support for fascism while in Portugal on his Bitburg trip.
Does anyone remember Reagan's marvelous attempt to whitewash Nazi
atrocities by traveling to Bitburg without any plans to go to
the Concentration Camps?
 
You probably are unaware of our Presidents remarks which stirred a storm
in Spain.  After leaving Spain, while in Portugal Reagan said that
he doesn't *always* support "freedom fighters" like the terrorists
in Nicaragua: for example he said he did *not* support the Lincoln
Brigade of Americans fighting against Franco's fascism.  Since Spain
just recently returned to democracy after years of oppression under
Franco this was not greatly appreciated.
 
But I suppose it shows quite plainly just *whose* side the extreme
rightwing represented by Kemp and Reagan really stands for:
given the choice between a democratically elected socialist government
and fascism they'll go for fascism every time.
But who would say that in the mainstream media?
   "You ain't been doing nothin' if you ain't been called a Red!!"
             tim sevener   whuxn!orb