How to create an angry American

I signed the petition here.
http://pepib.convio.net/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&...

I wasn't familiar with Cosmo's reference to Mussolini so I googled and found that it's true. History does seem to repeat itself...too bad we can't just immediately hang corporate neo-con jerks like this too. The world would be a better place:

"During his reign of oppression and media control, Mussolini, and his economic model, fascism, won the accolades of government-protection-seeking businesses, the magazines and newspapers they owned, and other morons in North America. Fascism (today, the politically correct terms include "corporativism", "corporatism", or "public-private partnership") also became the model upon which Franklin Delano Roosevelt would base his "New Deal". In his 1997 article in The New American, entitled The FDR Legacy: Lest We Forget, William P. Hoar explained:

Nor would he hesitate to take matters into his own hands: "In the event that the Congress shall fail to [act] and in the event that the national emergency is still critical ... I shall ask the Congress for ... broad executive power to wage a war against the emergency as great as the power that would be given me if we were in fact invaded by a foreign foe...

FDR was himself a creature of Wall Street, and those very "economic royalists" had helped elect him governor of New York; he was a friend of the very bankers he often disparaged to great political effect. For example, just after assuming office, FDR wrote to Edward Mandell House, one of the founders of the ubiquitous and influential Council on Foreign Relations: "The real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the larger centers has owned the government ever since the days of Andrew Jackson -- and I am not wholly excepting the Administration of W.W. [Woodrow Wilson, to whom House was an intimate adviser]."

Emergencies are a boon to the power-hungry, as Hitler and Mussolini -- both statists like FDR -- had proven. Hoover would later express dismay at how far FDR would go with his power grab, including proposing a bank holiday three days after refusing to go along with Hoover's similar proposal. Roosevelt, by Hoover's count, came up with "emergency" executive orders more than 200 times. The new President, recalled Professor Robert Higgs in his masterful Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government (1987), also used the term "emergency" in various public statements more than 400 times during his first two years in office.

Everyone, related Higgs, "who had not already jumped on the emergency bandwagon now hastened to do so. Congressmen attached the emergency label to almost every bill they enacted. In their rush to legislate, they often conformed to their characterization of the laws they passed. For example, the Emergency Banking Act of March 9, 1933, which validated the President's legally questionable declaration of a national banking closure, was approved by a unanimous shout in the House of Representatives after thirty-eight minutes of debate, even though no member of the House had a copy of the bill..."

informative stuff...
http://mackburped.blogspot.com/2006/04/anniversary-of-m...