<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV>Happy Memorial Day. <FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">Something to ponder. After studying 7 fascist regimes, Laurence W. Britt distilled these 14 common points of fascism. He studied: Adolph Hitlers Nazi Germany; Benito Musolini's Italy; Francisco Franco's Spain; Antonio De Oliveiro Salazar's Portugal; George Papadopolous's Greece; Agosto Pinochet's Chile; and Mohamed Suharto's Indonesia.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><P align="justify" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 9px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">These signs resonate with the political and economic direction of the Bush/Cheney regime.</SPAN></FONT></P><DIV style="text-align: justify;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 9px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"> <BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><P align="justify" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 9px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">1. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism</SPAN></FONT></P><P align="justify" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 9px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"> 2. Disdain for Human Rights</SPAN></FONT></P><P align="justify" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 9px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"> 3.Identification of Enemies As A Unifying Cause</SPAN></FONT></P><P align="justify" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 9px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"> 4. Supremacy of the Military</SPAN></FONT></P><P align="justify" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 9px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"> 5. Rampant Sexism</SPAN></FONT></P><P align="justify" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 9px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"> 6. Controlled Mass Media</SPAN></FONT></P><P align="justify" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 9px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"> 7. Obsession With National Security</SPAN></FONT></P><P align="justify" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 9px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"> 8. Relgion and Government Intertwined</SPAN></FONT></P><P align="justify" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 9px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"> 9. Corporate Pwer Protected</SPAN></FONT></P><P align="justify" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 9px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"> 10. Labor Power Suppressed</SPAN></FONT></P><P align="justify" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 9px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"> 11. Dosdain for Intellectuals and the Arts</SPAN></FONT></P><P align="justify" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 9px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"> 12. Obsession With Crime and Punishment</SPAN></FONT></P><P align="justify" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 9px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"> 13. Rampant Cronyism and Corruption</SPAN></FONT></P><P align="justify" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 9px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"> 14. Fraudulent Elections</SPAN></FONT></P></BODY></HTML>