This Space for Rent

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The national government will maintain and defend the foundations on which the power of our nation rests. It will offer strong protection to Christianity as the very basis of our collective morality. Today Christians stand at the head of our country. We want to fill our culture again with the Christian spirit. We want to burn out all the recent immoral developments in literature, in the theatre, and in the press -- in short, we want to burn out the poison of immorality which has entered into our whole life and culture as a result of liberal excess during the past years.

Good, solid, time-tested prose. And the author was a certified kooky dictator who actually did the stuff the more candid loons in the American Right talk about doing.

Too bad the author is dead, or else he'd have a wonderful career working as part of the New American Fascism.

(via ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES)