Banned because it has illegible text.
As for Starship Troopers, I'm also glad he didn't see that movie. But I think the last person to bring up the fascist deal was just sensitive to the idea that the military (in some form or fashion) held so much power. Truth is that citizenship through service has no direct bearing on military power over civilians. Not only was that the form of government in ancient Greece, the model for later democracies, but it's currently true in Israel and Switzerland, neither of which would be considered fascist by any significant number of people. Dealing with criminals varies highly, both in fascist and democratic (or republic) countries.
I've actually thought a lot about how to keep a military out of political power, and one of the things I realized is that there are two ways to go about it. The first is to keep the military as marginalized as possible, distancing it from the government and from civilian affairs. That way, it's something "else" that's rarely seen and rarely recognized as a part of the government except when it's needed.
But the other way is to entangle the military deeply in every facet of life, in essence "watering it down" to the point where an average "soldier" might work not on a base but in a hospital or factory, in a noncombat position that puts him (or her) in regular contact with civilians. That way, military service becomes mainstream, and therefore nothing special, as well as something that has little to with actual soldiering for the overwhelming majority of its participants. I've never read S.T. (It's on my list), so I don't know if this is the system the book had in mind, but I could see it working that way.
