Belgium's government has Nazi-sympathizer ties It is well-known that the newly elected Prime Minister in Italy is leading a neo-fascist alliance. Meanwhile in Belgium, it is coming out that two government officials are Nazi-sympathizers. One interior minister for the Flemish region had to resign when caught singing fascist songs on behalf of a World War II Waffen SS veterans support organization. Meanwhile, Jack Gabriels is the agriculture minister with links to the same group. Fascism is the normal product of bourgeois democratic society thanks to the decay of imperialism. These societies cannot learn the lessons of World War I and World War II, no matter what high school teachers might want. Fascism is in the very economic soil of imperialism. Note: Former Kissinger and Cyrus Vance staffer and diplomat, Harry C. Blaney III, "Europe changing but not for the better," Japan Times 9June2001, p. 18.