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“The Enemy From Within”: Mission Fascist Creep Goes Full Speed Ahead
Two speeches of division and dangerous divisiveness on the exact same day, plus a murderous order
“Huey Long once said, ‘Fascism will come to America in the name of anti-fascism.’ I’m afraid, based on my own experience, that fascism will come to America in the name of national security.”
— Jim Garrison (Playboy interview, October 1967.)
Last night, as usual, I switched on the television to watch ITV News and catch up on the daily events around the world. Presented by the brilliant Tom Bradby, who can both be utterly professional and yet show his obvious disgust when the regularly shocking stories on Gaza, Trump, Ukraine, Epstein, or the Labour (sic) government of Britain are reported.
Last night it was one of the most shocking and dangerous news programmes I have ever seen. And it was because of two speeches, one from the leader of the Labour Party at the annual Labour conference in Liverpool and the other from Trump at Quantico.
Trump spoke to a room full of Generals and Admirals and told them that he wanted more military action to reduce crime in many American cities, even though the crime statistics are falling. He declared that the military could use the…
