14 Points of fascism: The warning signs pt1 ( Archived) (105)

ooby_dooby: 14 Points of fascism: The warning signs pt29.) Corporate Power is Protected: The industrial and business aristocracy of a fascist nation often are the ones who put the government leaders into power, creating a mutually beneficial business/government relationship and power elite.

10.) Labor Power is Suppressed: Because the organizing power of labor is the only real threat to a fascist government, labor unions are either eliminated entirely, or are severely suppressed.

11.) Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts: Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to higher education, and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other academics to be censored or even arrested. Free expression in the arts is openly attacked, and governments often refuse to fund the arts.

12.) Obsession with Crime and Punishment: Under fascist regimes, the police are given almost limitless power to enforce laws. The people are often willing to overlook police abuses and even forego civil liberties in the name of patriotism. There is often a national police force with virtually unlimited power in fascist nations

13.) Rampant Cronyism and Corruption: Fascist regimes almost always are governed by groups of friends and associates who appoint each other to government positions and use governmental power and authority to protect their friends from accountability. It is not uncommon in fascist regimes for national resources and even treasures to be appropriated or even outright stolen by government leaders.

14. Fraudulent Elections: Sometimes elections in fascist nations are a complete sham. Other times elections are manipulated by smear campaigns against or even assassination of opposition candidates, use of legislation to control voting numbers or political district boundaries, and manipulation of the media. Fascist nations also typically use their judiciaries to manipulate or control elections.

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Wake up America, we're losing our country.

hollandgirl: I am a firm believer to give drugs free!
The cops make a big deal out of having made a
big haul.
Ha, the percentage they find is a laugh.
They have admited they lost That war a long time ago.
So much crime would be prevented but also a lot of
cops would lose their jobs. ha ha, THAT is it!
Politics!

Drugs attraction is because it is against the law.
Would more people use it when free?
For awhile perhaps.

jbibiza: But the money saved in the so called war on drugs, the reduction of violent crime in order to fund a drug users habit etc. more then pays for the free drugs.

ooby_dooby: So, by that one must conclude that you advocate torturing POW's!
If that's true, you obviously know nothing about torture.
Is this what you want our POW's to go through? Would you want our men and women in uniform to be treated like this?

Torturing a prisoner will not get you the information you need it will only get what you want to hear. Under torture a person will say anything to save his life, confess to anything even though he may be totally innocent. How many people have been found to be innocent of crimes they were convicted of by forced confessions and have been released from prison? And, were paid large sums of money in compensation for being railroaded? Or worse, how many innocent people have been executed based on forced confessions? This troubles me a great deal because if it can happen to anybody, it can happen to me, and it can happen to you as well!

BTW, going off topic for a minute, it's amazing how many people who've posted in this thread are not here anymore.

trish123: The reaction of the police in the riots recently in London are just a precursor of how things will go if changes arent implemented - the masses are getting restless but the authorities are arming themselves in an unprecedented manner, they didnt bring out their new tazer weapons this time but it will happen - all this after they have affectively disarmed the populace too, they have even had a massive crackdown on people owning certain kinds of dogs, make of that what you will.

There are many ways of dispersing crowds, those white noise makers (cant remember the names) are pretty effective but ways are being found round this - i say why fight them at all, it is a slower process but i say that bringing up our children to fight them in the very seats of politics will have a much more lasting effect and this has already been going on since the sixties and long before that. Bringing up our children to teach effectively, to respect the planet and all her peoples - the changes we need to see must come from within those institutions of power, they cannot be overthrown but they can be melded into organisations which work in favour of the many rather than the few......... as has been the case for time infinitum - those people with minds that hate are very, very sad and deluded.........

Conrad73: Looks like you have met the "Grand Wizard" of CS!He lost his Hood though!

Conrad73: I was thinking more of a Bedsheet-Hood!