I read the article [Fascism in a Stetson | http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=3816 ] about Nazism, the tobacco industry, and the US on [CapMag.com | http://www.capmag.com/ ]. Here's a notable quote:

;:The tobacco industry was de facto nationalized by the 1998 settlement. It exists by permission of the federal government. The settlement recently brokered in the Senate is the formal nationalization of the industry. Its point man is Senator Mitch McConnell, of Kentucky.

;:There is soft-pedaled socialism -- see the incremental nationalization of medical care for details -- and there is national socialism, its more aggressively virulent brother. It can't happen here? Think again. It is.

Add this to my idea of the American Gestapo.