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Hon. Paul Craig Roberts, Ph.D.<\/p>\n
My appreciation to those with the foresight to organize this conference.<\/p>\n
I limit my remarks to definitional clarity.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>By \u201cfascism\u201d I assume we mean not merely economic corporation between government and private business, but the over-riding of citizens\u2019 values and opinions by powerful groups in control of governing.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>We mean by fascism the ignoring and suppression of popular opinion.<\/p>\n Moreover, we mean the use of media as propaganda in order to implant falsehoods in the minds of the populations that make them easier to sway and control. Under a regime of fascism, official narratives are constructed, and any dissent, regardless of how factual, is dismissed as \u201cmisinformation.\u201d<\/p>\n In these few words, I have described our current existence in the Western World.<\/p>\n The beliefs that made us free by restraining government power and holding it accountable are everywhere under attack.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>We are being dehumanized by fascism, which makes it easier to dispose of us. For example, the liberal city government of San Francisco on November 29, 2022, by a vote of 8 to 3 gave robots the right to kill humans.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>San Francisco will now employ killer robots as members of its police force.<\/p>\n In the United States today free speech is said to be a threat to democracy if it dissents from official explanations.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>There is talk about criminalizing \u201cmisinformation.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n We know how close we are to being muzzled when in the United States free speech, protected by the First Amendment to the US Constitution is under attack as a \u201cthreat to democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n There is a second necessary definitional clarification.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>We must not confuse fascism with nationalism.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>It is the globalism of American hegemony and the globalism of the World Economic Forum\u2019s \u201cgreat reset\u201d that terminates self-rule that are the threats, not nationalism.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>The nations of the world are being turned into towers of babel where internal disunity makes them unable to resist tyranny. Once Identity Politics divides a population, there is no unity necessary to constrain a government. Only a people unified with common values into a nation can resist the global forces constructing a tyranny. If nationalism is conflated with nazism and racism, on what political basis can globalism be resisted?\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>Globalism is the ultimate tower of babel. The division created by Identity Politics eliminates the unity necessary for opposing tyranny.<\/p>\n The belief system that upholds liberty is seriously weakened by decades of attack.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>In the Western world the costs imposed on belief systems by self-denunciation and virtue-signaling are now apparent.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>To restore freedom to people requires resurrection of an almost dead civilization.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>I hope clarity about the definition of fascism contributes to this important effort.<\/p>\n Thank you for the opportunity to address this important conference.<\/p>\n