When The Government Colludes With The Major Corporations –> FASCISM
With the chartering of the very first corporations in the USA came the purposeful and inexorable development of the Government-Corporate Complex. Today, the resulting fascist corporatocracy exerts its power in civil society throughout every sphere of life. In matters of law and order, and war and peace, this “800 pound gorilla” acts with an impunity that rivals the imperialism of Rome*.
The ever-present fasces of the Roman Empire were paraded throughout the far reaches of the empire, wherever naked and brutal force was required to keep the newly conquered kingdoms and tribes in check. The very same “bound bundle of wooden rods with protruding axe-blade” sits right on the front wall behind the podium (two fasces on either side) in the main chamber of the US House of Representatives in the nation’s capital.
The term fascismo is derived from the Latin word fasces.[15] The fasces, which consisted of a bundle of rods that were tied around an axe,[16] was an ancient Roman symbol of the authority of the civic magistrate.[17] They were carried by his lictors and could be used for corporal and capital punishment at his command.[18][19] The word fascismo also relates to political organizations in Italy known as fasci, groups similar to guilds or syndicates.
(Source: Wikipedia)
Just in case you can’t identify the two fasces on either side of the podium, here’s some assistance.
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Doesn’t this beg the question as to why such a prominent symbol behind the Speaker’s podium in the House Chamber is the same as that of Imperial Rome?
In case you can’t recognize the various elements in the fasces, each one has a quite imposing axehead protruding from the very top of the bundle of sticks. The entire ax can be seen clearly in the photo below.
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We don’t mean to belabor this subject, but the fasces does represent the manner in which the US Federal Government now imposes its will on its citizens at home, as well as on numerous conquered nations abroad. In short the current and previous US Administrations have been viewed in the same light as those of the hegemonic British Empire, as well as the Imperial ‘Holy’ Roman Empire.
The Constitutional Republic of the USA, in fact, has deeps roots sunk into both of these centuries-old forms of governance, as we are all instructed as young students. What is not taught, however, is the extent to which the actual power structure of the US Government mimics the most tyrannical aspects of Imperial Rome and despotic tendencies of the more recent British Empire.
This 800 Pound Gorilla Really Knows How To Swing An Axe
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