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a twist. A bald eagle's head sits atop the axe, an American touch on an ancient Roman symbol.
Adding to the American-ness, there are thirteen rods shown in the fasces, suggesting the thirteen
original states that achieved independence from Britain and formed the United States. Seen as
symbols of the states, and the American motto "E Pluribus Unum," or "Out of Many, One," the rods
bound together suggest the union of the states and their bond by the Constitution. Each state is
weaker individually, but together, they are stronger. This concept is so important that it is presented
long before visitors reach the building itself and see the representation of the Savior of the Union.
[Source: http://www.nps.gov/nama/blogs/Secret-Symbol-of-the-Lincoln-Memorial.htm]

If you are an American and imbibed the usual political indoctrination throughout your school years,
you may be shocked at what is written above on this official government website. Perhaps you were
raised to view government as a servant of the people. After all, the Constitution speaks of a
government “of the people, by the people, and for the people.” Why adopt the fascis as the symbol
of American government? “The rods suggest punishment by beating, the axe suggests beheading...
The fasces indicate the power and authority of the state over the citizens.”

If any President exercised the power of the Federal government over the citizens of the nation, it was
surely Lincoln. He used the full might and force of the U.S. military to wage war on America’s
citizens. He imprisoned tens of thousands of northern citizens without charge or trial for the duration
of the war simply because their opinions were considered a threat to his war aims. The American
Civil War, which was conducted entirely under the Presidency of Abraham Lincoln, claimed the
lives of an estimated 620,000 to 850,000 soldiers from both sides of the conflict, depending on
which report is cited. It has been estimated that another 200,000 to 250,000 civilians died during the
conflict as a direct result of the war.

The association of fascist forms of government with strong-arm dictators is firmly established.
Lincoln is no exception. Although the symbol may have originally had more positive associations,
signifying strength through union, and limited federal government, it should be remembered that the
Roman Republic eventually gave way to the Roman Empire where Caesars ruled with the
authoritarian might of absolute dictators. It could be argued that the fascis adopted by America’s
founding fathers prophesied symbolically of a similar path for this nation.

I think it should be self-evident that America can be rightly defined as a fascist state. The adoption
of the symbol of the fascis speaks for itself. Yet it is important to clarify that America is a
Corporatist Fascist state. The framers of America’s Constitution may have intended for the
government to answer to the citizens of the nation, but this is no longer the reality. It is now the
corporations that have control of the government.

As misguided as Thomas Jefferson was (see the book Dragon Flood for details), he understood one
thing correctly. One of the greatest threats to a free, peaceful, and prosperous society are the money
powers of this world. In a letter dated May 28, 1816, addressed to John Taylor, Jefferson wrote the
following.

The system of banking we have both equally and ever reprobated (expressed disapproval of). I
contemplate it as a blot left in all our constitutions, which, if not covered, will end in their