You don't get proper fascism until you've lost your first world war.
The Bushies are working on it.
There's an organization trying to revive the Cornish stannary parliament, very likely for similar reasons.
If you can stand to read anything more about American subcontracting of torture, I posted a short history of it on my blog. It's not unique to terror cases by any means; it became widespread in Latin American drug cases during the 1970s. In many ways, drug-war operations in Latin America served as a proving ground for the techniques now being used against suspected terrorists.
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