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Herman and Julia Schwendinger Big Brother Is Looking at You, Kid! Big Brother is Looking at You, Kid! Is Homeland Fascism Possible? Herman and Julia Schwendinger Office of Information Awareness, Pentagon Deutsche Hollerith Maschinen Gesellschaft 2002 Germany, 1934 BIG BROTHER is LOOKING at YOU, KID! Is Homeland Fascism Possible? As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there's a twilight where everything remains seemingly unchanged, and it is in such twilight that we must be aware of change in the air, however slight, lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness. —William O. Douglas, 1966 Herman & Julia Schwendinger 1 Acknowledgements This eBook is dedicated to Leni Schwendinger and Joseph Schwendinger CHRONOLOGY The first edition of the initial series was completed in 2002 and published in 2003 as Big Brother Is Looking At You, Kid: InfoTech and Weapons of Mass Repression That edition denounced the Bush administration's wars of aggression and the creation of an information technology that paralleled the technology adopted in Nazi Germany. However, the subtitle of the following editions became Is Homeland Fascism Possible? and, in 2008, we created the website, homelandfascism101.com and offered successive editions of Big Brother is Looking at You, Kid! Is Homeland Fascism Possible? at no charge to anyone who wanted to download the eBook. Our thanks to Robert Schwendinger for editing the eBook. Big Brother is Looking at You, Kid! Is Homeland Fascism Possible? Copyright©2011 -- Herman Schwendinger and Julia Schwendinger. All rights reserved. Published in the United States of America. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in articles and reviews. ISBN 978-0-9849316-0-6 Cover Page design: The logos on the top of the cover-page reproduce the Official Seal of the Pentagon’s ‘Total Information Awareness Project’ (2002) and the IBM 1933 German subsidiary, Deutsche Hollerith Maschinen Gesellschaft (DEHOMAG). In the Pentagon Seal, DARPA is the acronym for “Defense Advanced Research Program” and “Scientia Est Potentia” is translatable as “Science is Power”. At the top of the DEHOMAG logo, the word, "Übersicht," means "Oversight;" and "mit Hollerith Lochkarten," stands for "with Hollerith punch cards”. 2 A great democracy is coming, perhaps helped by a flicker of Reichstag fire, hint of Battleship Maine, whiff of Lusitania, scent of Gulf of Tonkin? Yes. o yes a great democracy where tongues will be cut out, fingernails pulled out, and fingers chopped and rapes in dank barracks. All who love democracy will be treated equally. Like the good old days, we will have open doors. Gene Grabiner, 2002 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION PART ONE CLASSICAL FASCISM Chapter 1 MASS REPRESSION THE THIRD REICH; THE UNITED STATES Chapter 2 SEARCHING FOR PARALLELS CONTEMPLATING PARALLELS; PLOT TO OVERTHROW FDR; STATE WITHIN A STATE; CORPORATE CAPITAL; WELFARE STATE; TRAITOR BAITING; THE FREIKORPS; RIGHT-WING INSURRECTIONS Chapter 3 HITLER’S TERRORISM MILITARY-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX, THE FASCIST MOVEMENT, PREPARING FOR CIVIL WAR, WELFARE STATE & VOTE SWITCHING, TAKING POWER, THE ‘STATE OF EMERGENCY,’ WHO TORCHED THE REICHSTAG? PART TWO ROAD SIGNS & REST STOPS Chapter 4 HIGHWAY TO FASCISM INTRODUCTION; RESURRECTION OF THE SS; CLIENT FASCISM; IDEOLOGICAL ARTIFACTS; FOSTERING TERRORISTS; THE ISLAMIC FOREIGN LEGION; AFGHANI CAPITALISM Chapter 5 FRIENDLY FASCISM INTRODUCTION; DOES IT QUALIFY?; CUSTOMARY REPRESSION; WAVES OF REPRESSION; 4 SUPPRESSING VOTING RIGHTS; PURGE LISTS DISCOVERED Chapter 6 CONSOLIDATING POWER HOMELAND SECURITY, THE RED SQUADS; THE HANDSCHU GUIDELINES; CHICAGO’S RED SQUAD, CONNECTING THE DOTS PART THREE SETTING UP THE APPARAT Chapter 7 CREATING THE APPARAT NATIONAL NETWORKS; PATRIOT ACT II; SPYING ON NEIGHBORS; DON’T SUCCEED? THEN TRY AGAIN Chapter 8 PSYOP & CYBERWAR PATRIOTIC SNAKE OIL; MISAPPROPRIATING FUNDS; TRAVEL? FORGET IT! YOU MIGHT BE A TERRORIST; POLITICAL DATA MINING; BUNGLING AGENCIES & POLITICAL TARGETS Chapter 9 VIOLENCE & MASS PROTESTS LAWLESS INVESTIGATION; MASS ARRESTS & DATABASES; PREEMPTIVE ARRESTS Chapter 10 PARAMILITARY ‘TRAINING’ THE MIAMI MODEL; WHO WERE THE TERRORISTS? PART FOUR UNCHECKS & IMBALANCES Chapter 11 DECAPITATING THE JUDICIARY FIGHTING THE NEW DEAL; TERRY SHIAVO & JUDICIAL ACTIVISTS; RIGHT-WING JUSTICES; DELETING CHECKS AND BALANCES; HOW ABOUT NEO-FASCISM? 5 Chapter 12 CHANGING DRIVERS & MOVING ON ‘LYING LIARS’; THE NATIONAL SS; ”BRING ON THE TROOPS”; NEW REVELATIONS Chapter 13 WIDENING TERRORISM INTRODUCTION; INSURGENCY OR TERRORISM?; SHOCK & AWE PART FIVE RIGHT-WING CULTURE WARS Chapter 14 CULTURE WARS RIGHT-WING DEMAGOGUES; THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT; EVANGELICAL ISLAMOPHOBIA; RACISM & RIGHT-WING POPULISM; UR-FASCISM; NEOLIBERALISM & INEQUALITY Chapter 15 MAINSTREAM & ALTERNATIVE MEDIA A FOOT IN THE DOOR; ALTERNATIVE MEDIA; PROPAGANDA TSUNAMI PART SIX REVIVING THE INQUISITION Chapter 16 THE NEW INQUISITORS THE CUSTOMARY HERETICS; THE NEW McCarthyism; PERSECUTION OF AL-ARIAN; THE LYNCH MOB Chapter 17 THE COUNTER REFORMATION THE RIGHT-WING INSURGENCY; THE ABOR CAMPAIGN; THE “DANGEROUS ACADEMICS”; ANOTHER POLITICAL LYNCHING Chapter 18 BEHIND THE SCENES BULLSHIT AS MODUS OPERANDI; MONEY TALKS; CREEPING FASCISM; TRAITOR BAITERS 6 PART SEVEN FASCISM OR DEMOCRACY Chapter 19 REASSEMBLING THE FASCES INTRODUCTION; BUNDLING THE RODS; GLOBALIZATION & NEO-FASCISM; WHAT ABOUT THE AXE? Chapter 20 TURNING POINTS INTRODUCTION; TURNING AROUND; CAMP CASEY, THIRD-PARTY DEBATE; FRANK’S PROPOSALS; DOMHOFF’S PROPOSALS; COUNTERFEITING AN ELECTION; TO THE RESCUE; DESTABILIZATION; IMPEACHMENT Chapter 21 FIGHTING CUSTOMARY REPRESSION INTRODUCTION; CRIMINALIZE REPRESSION; PARAMILITARY REPRESSION; MONITORING REPRESSION; AUDITING REPRESSION; CIVIL DISOBEDIANCE Chapter 22 IMPEACHMENT & PROSECUTION IMPEACHMENT; FALSE PROMISES; WHISTLEBLOWERS & DEMOGOGUES; SPINNING TORTURE; OBAMA & WALL STREET; THE LEFT TURN PART EIGHT THE STRUGGLE CONTINUES Chapter 23 DOING THE HOKEY-POKEY PUT YOUR RIGHT FOOT IN; OBAMA & WALL STREET; OCCUPY WALL STREET Chapter 24 For BREAD and ROSES 7 INTRODUCTION; THE SECOND GILDED AGE; UNIONS AS LAUNCH PADS; WALKER'S COUP & AMERICA'S SOZIALPOLITIK Chapter 25 INEQUALITY & NEO-FASCISM PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENTS; INEQUALITY & COUPS; CORPORATE DOMINATON & NEO-FASCISM BIBLIOGRAPHY 8 INTRODUCTION TERRORISM, NEIGHBORS AND NUREMBERG To initiate a war of aggression . is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole. Robert H. Jackson, Supreme Court Justice & Chief American Prosecutor, Nuremberg Tribunal Millions of Americans were astonished on September 11, 2001 at telecasts of two passenger jets smashing into the World Trade Center’s twin towers. Wrapped in fire and smoke, the towers collapsed into an immense pile of toxic rubble. People remained glued to the reruns of this catastrophe. Then, President G. W. Bush returned from his safe haven in a Strategic Air Command bunker in Nebraska, grimly declaring: This is War! Immediately, our Florida neighbors joined millions of other patriots and unfurled Old Glory. People in supermarkets walked proudly with red, white and blue ribbons pinned to their lapels and sported T-shirts imprinted with patriotic sentiments such as “You’re Gonna Get Yours Bin Laden! Death to Terrorists!” Wherever we went, we heard, “Bomb the shit out of the Taliban!” and “Nuke ‘em!” A red-blooded neighbor snapped, “Who gives a rat’s ass about their civilians? They killed 6000 American civilians!”1 (Later the media reduced the estimate to 2,830—still a lot of people.) In accord with the President’s declaration of war, officials, journalists, and policy pundits confronted critics with the classic one-liner from the President’s speech to Congress: “If you aren’t with us, you’re with them.” How does an informed person deal with these gut reactions? Hopefully, not by resorting to obtuse academic discourse. Take the example of one of our neighbors who, although successful, never graduated from high school. He would nod off before the “boring” post-911 lecture was done. But he 1 People were using the 6000 figure because it was aired during the week following 9/11 but when a more accurate count became available the estimate proved to be lower. 9 certainly knew that the authors of this book had our heads screwed on right when we agreed that the terrorists had murdered thousands and that those still alive should be hunted down and killed. Still, it was not easy to summon credible ‘talking points’ that would get people to back off and think about the whole picture. The President and mass media had underplayed America’s role in Afghanistan. “We” had originally helped the warlords, the Taliban and other fundamentalists to crush their secular opposition—and establish one of the most politically repressive and sexist regimes in the world. Our leadership and mainstream press had reported nothing about the financial support and military equipment given by the CIA to Osama bin Laden. And even those who knew about this support cynically wrote it off as just another stupid mistake by our unbelievably imperfect government. Nonetheless, the historical events leading to the atrocities in New York City and elsewhere on 9/11 might at least provide answers for a neighbor who complained, “Why did these Muslims do it? We didn’t hurt them.” In fact, why they did it was a well-kept secret. There wasn’t a single individual in our Florida
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