America is Going Fascist

[Echo In Light]

America is Going Fascist
Michael Nenonen Republic of East Vancouver

The signs are all there for anyone to see, and time is getting short for action

Reading Naomi Wolf’s The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot (Chelsea Green Publishing, 2007), I realized the hour is later than I thought.

Many of us have watched the Bush regime’s actions with a growing feeling of horror intertwined with a sense that somehow we’ve seen all of this before, but we aren’t sure where. We’re confused because what we’re seeing conflicts with unexamined and deeply held assumptions we have about American freedom. Wolf’s short but meticulously documented book shows that what is happening in America has indeed happened many times before, not in the United States, but rather in places like Chile, Italy, Russia, and Germany. In each case, people couldn’t understand why they didn’t recognize where they were heading before they passed the point of no return.

It’s shifting fast

Wolf argues that the United States is undergoing a “fascist shift” from an authoritarian but still relatively open society to a totalitarian society. The techniques for forcing this shift have evolved over the last century and are now studied by aspiring tyrants the world over. These methods are even part of the formal curriculum in places like the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, previously known as the School of the Americas, in Fort Benning, Georgia, where thousands of Latin Americans have been trained by the United States government in the most savage techniques of insurgency and counterinsurgency. Fascists use ten basic strategies to shut down open societies. They invoke an external and internal threat in order to convince the population to grant their rulers extraordinary powers. They establish secret prisons that practice torture, prisons that are initially few in number and only incarcerate social pariahs, but that quickly multiply and soon imprison “opposition leaders, outspoken clergy, union leaders, well-known performers, publishers, and journalists.” They develop a paramilitary force that operates without legal restraint. They set up a system of intense domestic surveillance that gathers information for the purposes of intimidating and blackmailing citizens. They infiltrate, monitor, and disorganize citizens’ groups. They arbitrarily detain and release citizens, especially at borders. They target key individuals like civil servants, academics, and artists in order to ensure their complicity or silence. They take control of the press. They publicly equate dissent with treason. Finally, they suspend the rule of law. All of these strategies are being employed in America today.

Consider the evidence

The Bush administration and its supporters have consistently portrayed the security threat posed by international terrorists as a threat to the very survival of Western civilization in order to justify permanent war and to keep the American public in a state of panic and paranoia.

More:
http://rinf.com/alt-news/politics/america-is-going-fascist/1905/

[marmar]

1. Going, going.....gone

:scared:

[flashl]

2. Is it time for another Church-like committee?

Did we forget the reason why we had a need for the Freedom of Information Act of 1966?

And, more importantly, do we have people in American and in Washington, D.C. with the will to set things right?

[tom_paine]

3. The Bushies would False Flag 9/11 our asses if we tried that, then they would be majority forever

:nuke:

You want THAT?!?

(sorry, I was just channeling Harry Reid for a moment)

[Hydra]

4. I have to say, it's a great show

as Agent Smith says in "The Matrix":

"Have you ever stood and stared at it? Marveled at its beauty, its genius? Billions of people just living out their lives, oblivious."

For the longest time, I believed the myth that people were basically smart, but made bad decisions, had bad information...now I know that a good percentage of our species would simply prefer not to think, not to question, not to see.

I see it all. I see death, poverty and lawlessness. I see people afraid because they were told to be, turning their neighbors in like a bad remake of McCarthy's reign of terror. I see people looking for salvation, but not even wanting to define what or how that salvation would be.

I am a rebel. A questioner. An undesirable. I wanna know just how much better these "intellectual elite" know how to run things than me. I wanna know why war is inevitable when only a bunch of idiots running a country ever really want it. I wanna know just how legislated morality will make the world a better place.

And as long as you don't like people like me, get used to people like GWB running things.

[libodem]

5. And I love this new term

Islamofascist...WTF? When did Islam go corporate? The Fucktards don't even know what a Fascist is, let alone how to use it in a sentence. Good lord!