super-patri-idiots: how a democracy can act like a fascist regime

From the Letters section of the Press and Sun Bulletin Binghamton, N.Y. 
6/24/03

"I am glad we finally have leadership with the guts to face off against 
these abominations and eliminate them. If they had to lie to get the 
isolationists on board, so be it. The lesser of two evils, as I see it.
As for the condition of Iraq's infrastructure, we did the dirty work and 
gave the Iraqis a chance. It's time for them to quit crying and build their 
own country, physically and politically." -
(Quoted in "In Your Face," by W. David Jenkins III,  June 30, 2003, 
911truthalliance list)

And another illuminating excerpt from 
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=15814
"For many leading Republicans, dying coral reefs and melting ice caps are 
welcomed as signs of the Rapture."

In his book "The Carbon Wars," Greenpeace activist Jeremy Leggett tells how 
he stumbled upon this otherworldly agenda. During the Kyoto climate change 
negotiations, Leggett candidly asked Ford Motor Company executive John 
Schiller how opponents of the pact could believe there is no problem with 
"a world of a billion cars intent on burning all the oil and gas available 
on the planet?" The executive asserted first that scientists get it wrong 
when they say fossil fuels have been sequestered underground for eons. The 
Earth, he said, is just 10,000, not 4.5 billion years old, the age widely 
accepted by scientists.

Then Schiller confidently declared, "You know, the more I look, the more it 
is just as it says in the Bible." The Book of Daniel, he told Leggett, 
predicts that increased earthly devastation will mark the "End Time" and 
return of Christ. Paradoxically, Leggett notes, many fundamentalists see 
dying coral reefs, melting ice caps and other environmental destruction not 
as an urgent call to action, but as God's will. In the religious right 
worldview, the wreck of the Earth can be seen as Good News!

Some true believers, interpreting biblical prophecy, are sure they will be 
saved from the horrific destruction brought by ecosystem collapse. They'll 
be raptured: rescued from Earth by God, who will then rain down seven 
ghastly years of misery on unbelieving humanity. Jesus' return will mark 
the Millennium, when the Lord restores the Earth to its green pristine 
condition, and the faithful enjoy a thousand years of peace and prosperity.