Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Ten Easy Steps To A Fascist America - What Bush Learnt From Hitler & Pinochet.
Beneath our very noses, Bush and his administration
are using time-tested tactics to
close down an open society.
Naomi Wolf gives a frightening rundown of the methods used by would-be dictators to destroy constitutional freedoms.
If you look at history, she argues, you can see that there is essentially a blueprint for turning an open society into a dictatorship. That blueprint has been used again and again in more and less bloody, more and less terrifying ways. But it is always effective.
It is clear, if you are willing to look, that each of these 10 steps has already been initiated today in the United States by the Bush administration.
1. Invoke a terrifying internal and external enemy
2. Create a gulag
3. Develop a thug caste
4. Set up an internal surveillance system
5. Harass citizens' groups
6. Engage in arbitrary detention and release
7. Target key individuals
8. Control the press
9. Dissent equals treason
10. Suspend the rule of law
We hear much in the UK, and tend to be extremely critical, of the American love affair with firearms and especially the reason, oft quoted, that the US citizen does not trust government and has a right to a means of defence against the state.
Studying the 10 steps listed above, and Bush's steady application of them perhaps, just perhaps, the pro-gun attitude of many Americans may, after all, turn out to be justified.
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Labels: America, Bush, Liberty, State
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Not just the USA?...
I always thought that the spillting up of the UK was a bad thing when the aim should be towards a socialist world government.The EU does hold out some hope of eventully getting a European government? if the USA allows it??? and Nationalism doesn't kill it???.It follows that in time we stand a better chance of achieving a world government.
It all changed for me in the year 2000 when watching the Conservative party conference on television.I can only tell it as it happened...
Outside the conference hall two members of the Conservative party stood waiting to be interviewed (they were not MP`s but were high up`s in the party) they were asked "What is the big talking point on the floor of this years conference" the reply floored me this is what they said...
"It is clear that people don`t know how to use there vote.We left this country in the best economical state it has ever been in and now Labour will ruin it all.The big talking point on the floor is who should be allowed to vote should it be done on academic achievement or given to those who create the wealth or a combination of the two." The other one concurred.
Please note it seems the decision to take the vote away from us had already been decided.
Given that nothing happens on the floor of Conservative party conference without being instgated from above should frighting anyone that cares about democracy.The video of this must still be available in the archives of the BBC/Sky.Why I wonder are the Conservative party getting there members ready for a fascist state.After watching the documentary of what nearly happened to Harold Wilson`s government it becomes even more frightening.I now hope that Scotland gains it`s independence VERY soon. Looks like that hope has gone for good now.
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I always thought that the spillting up of the UK was a bad thing when the aim should be towards a socialist world government.The EU does hold out some hope of eventully getting a European government? if the USA allows it??? and Nationalism doesn't kill it???.It follows that in time we stand a better chance of achieving a world government.
It all changed for me in the year 2000 when watching the Conservative party conference on television.I can only tell it as it happened...
Outside the conference hall two members of the Conservative party stood waiting to be interviewed (they were not MP`s but were high up`s in the party) they were asked "What is the big talking point on the floor of this years conference" the reply floored me this is what they said...
"It is clear that people don`t know how to use there vote.We left this country in the best economical state it has ever been in and now Labour will ruin it all.The big talking point on the floor is who should be allowed to vote should it be done on academic achievement or given to those who create the wealth or a combination of the two." The other one concurred.
Please note it seems the decision to take the vote away from us had already been decided.
Given that nothing happens on the floor of Conservative party conference without being instgated from above should frighting anyone that cares about democracy.The video of this must still be available in the archives of the BBC/Sky.Why I wonder are the Conservative party getting there members ready for a fascist state.After watching the documentary of what nearly happened to Harold Wilson`s government it becomes even more frightening.I now hope that Scotland gains it`s independence VERY soon. Looks like that hope has gone for good now.
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