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 flyingrose rated 11 months ago - People like me who choose to speak out publicly are taking a calculated risk. Even if we are individually affected, there are so many of us now that the word will still be spread and whatever happens will have been for the greatest good of all. The stage is set for a tragedy. Only through enough in...
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- WakeUpNow rated 11 months ago
- From the page: "Last autumn, there was a military coup in Thailand. The leaders of the coup took a number of steps, rather systematically, as if they had a shopping list. In a sense, they did. Within a matter of days, democracy had been closed down: the coup leaders declared martial law, sent armed soldiers into residential areas, took over radio and TV stations, issued restrictions on the press, tightened some limits on travel, and took certain activists into custody.
They were not figuring these things out as they went along. If you look at history, 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 very difficult and arduous to create and sustain a democracy - but history shows that closing one down is much simpler. You simply have to be willing to take the 10 steps.
As difficult as this is to contemplate, 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."
....and now PAKISTAN! When will it happen here????
- BettyJoBradley rated 11 months ago
- "Fascist America, in 10 easy steps"
by the always magnificent writer/thinker Naomi Wolf.
- sandwalker2 rated 11 months ago
- Pretty scary article - 10 steps to fascism. The facts were well presented and once anyone puts current events we read about in the media or watch on TV or experience for ourselves, the more the writing appears on the wall. I fear for American society (and maybe I should take my photo down?). You have to be a real dummy not to be able to see how the evidence is mounting. There are some excellent exposes out there that document the changes that are taking place. I liked Aaron Russos expose of the Federal Reserve Bank and the lack of a law that requires Americans to pay a personal income tax on our wages from our labor.
Oh and have I mentioned the 9-11 evidence. There's the start of the ten point recipe for fascism. I have posted my own blog on several items I have run across at http://www.coconut-crisis.blogspot.com
- ketogah rated 11 months ago
- This won't last and the movement for peace and social justice is growing in this country, despite what they would have you believe in the censored media.
- JoeLondon rated 11 months ago
- From the page: "Because Americans like me were born in freedom, we have a hard time even considering that it is possible for us to become as unfree - domestically - as many other nations. Because we no longer learn much about our rights or our system of government - the task of being aware of the constitution has been outsourced from citizens' ownership to being the domain of professionals such as lawyers and professors - we scarcely recognise the checks and balances that the founders put in place, even as they are being systematically dismantled. Because we don't learn much about European history, the setting up of a department of "homeland" security - remember who else was keen on the word "homeland" - didn't raise the alarm bells it might have."
- jeffmo rated 11 months ago
- Please read this.........
- zwsnipboy rated 11 months ago
- I'm currently reading a book entitled: The Breakdown of Democratic Regimes by Juan J. Linz, and this articles does of good job at supplying a condensed and current day analysis of the gradual conversion of a democratic nation into a fascist regime. Whereas my book analyzes distant historical events, this makes great use of the numerous real-time examples that are readily available now-a-days.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doKkduuY-M4
- flyingrose rated 11 months ago
- People like me who choose to speak out publicly are taking a calculated risk. Even if we are individually affected, there are so many of us now that the word will still be spread and whatever happens will have been for the greatest good of all. The stage is set for a tragedy. Only through enough individuals being willing to act courageously will it be averted. Will you join us? Will you speak out if someone who has risked all to warn you is unjustly treated? Will you be wise enough not to fall for propaganda asking you to turn in innocent people who are your friends, family or neighbors? From the page: "most Americans do not realise that since September of last year - when Congress wrongly, foolishly, passed the Military Commissions Act of 2006 - the president has the power to call any US citizen an "enemy combatant". He has the power to define what "enemy combatant" means. The president can also delegate to anyone he chooses in the executive branch the right to define "enemy combatant" any way he or she wants and then seize Americans accordingly. Even if you or I are American citizens, even if we turn out to be completely innocent of what he has accused us of doing, he has the power to have us seized as we are changing planes at Newark tomorrow, or have us taken with a knock on the door; ship you or me to a navy brig; and keep you or me in isolation, possibly for months, while awaiting trial. (Prolonged isolation, as psychiatrists know, triggers psychosis in otherwise mentally healthy prisoners. That is why Stalin's gulag had an isolation cell, like Guantánamo's, in every satellite prison. Camp 6, the newest, most brutal facility at Guantánamo, is all isolation cells.) We US citizens will get a trial eventually - for now. But legal rights activists at the Center for Constitutional Rights say that the Bush administration is trying increasingly aggressively to find ways to get around giving even US citizens fair trials. "Enemy combatant" is a status offence - it is not even something you have to have done. "We have absolutely moved over into a preventive detention model - you look like you could do something bad, you might do something bad, so we're going to hold you," says a spokeswoman of the CCR. Most Americans surely do not get this yet. No wonder: it is hard to believe, even though it is true. In every closing society, at a certain point there are some high-profile arrests - usually of opposition leaders, clergy and journalists. Then everything goes quiet. After those arrests, there are still newspapers, courts, TV and radio, and the facades of a civil society. There just isn't real dissent. There just isn't freedom. If you look at history, just before those arrests is where we are now. I remember one thing clearly from my childhood that I believe was printed in a Dear Abby or Ann Landers column. I share it again now: They came for the Communists, and I didn't object - For I wasn't a Communist;They came for the Socialists, and I didn't object - For I wasn't a Socialist;They came for the labor leaders, and I didn't object - For I wasn't a labor leader;They came for the Jews, and I didn't object - For I wasn't a Jew;Then they came for me - And there was no one left to object. ~ Martin Niemoller, German Protestant Pastor, 1892-1984
- drivelmaster rated 11 months ago
- This needs to be looked at. Nuff said.
- Mayamoi rated 11 months ago
- No checks and balances (remember those?). How about legitimate elections? (oh they are legitimate you say?).
Looks like bush's 'enemies of freedom' have won. Americans aren't the free people they once were. And a government for the people seems to have vanished around the year 2000 when democracy died. It's dead the people just haven't realized it yet.
How did this happen? Too many took their freedom for granted and they didn't appreciate what they had.
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