It's spelled F-A-S-C-I-S-M

Almost. Just be patient. We really are "Almost there!"

Have to chuckle. Remember those large billboards one would encounter along the freeway from a few years ago--I think it was during the Clinton era--warning there were U.N. troops in America? The implication being we were going to somehow be overtaken by outside forces.

All of that appears like so much right-wing extremist overreaction. What's currently unfolding in Louisiana is far more likely to compromise the freedoms and security of the former America than any U.N. takeover.

You see, there are Israeli mercenaries deployed in the streets of post Katrina New Orleans. An Israeli company called Instinctive Shooting International (ISI)is providing security against post storm "lawlessness". But they're just part of a number of private security companies like Blackwater, DynCorp, Intercon, American Security Group, Blackhawk, Wackenhut, etc. operating with impunity within that city. And some of these have been hired by our own Department of Homeland Security.

I know we've all heard of "deputized" private security cos. taking control of the streets of New Orleans, but let me just repeat it for those of us who aren't fucking getting it, or don't fucking care! Business leaders and government officials are openly discussing the total alteration of one of the US's most culturally vibrant cities. See, it will mean bulldozing poor neighborhoods and denying the return of poor folks (who won't have any homes to return to anyway, but that's okay because if they were allowed back they wouldn't be able to afford the new ones that are going to be built to replace theirs).

Private security companies will maintain order while New Orleans gets a new paint job (guess what color!). It may be testy at times, but mercenaries driving around in SUV's with blackened windows, no license plates and impunity from the law as hired by our Homeland Security (remember, those post 9/11 folks created by us, paid for by us, to "protect us" from whom--ourselves?) will see it gets done.

Now we learn the definition of fascism. Folks in New Orleans are living it.

Those of you who tried to warn America back in the 90's of the invasion of U.N. troops on American soil? Go choke on that bullshit. The invasion is here, but it's not from outside. It's from within. With the blessings and oversight by our own Department of Homeland Security.

If you think "fascism" is just a slam disgruntled folks on the left use to describe America today, one need only see what's happening as monied opportunists try to capitalize on Katrina's destruction by reconstructing New Orleans into the new All-American city (read "without blacks and impoverished folks").

For the full story, check out Jeremy Scahill's "Blackwater Down"
in The Nation.