Wednesday, April 25, 2007

UK Guardian - USA is Fascist

How do they get to that idea? It's a list of 10 steps to fascism.

  1. Invoke a terrifying internal and external enemy - Islamic terrorists
  2. Create a gulag - Gitmo
  3. Develop a thug caste - Mercenaries (a bit of a stretch maybe)
  4. Set up an internal surveillance system - Wiretaps
  5. Harass citizens' groups - Watch ordinary US citizen activists
  6. Engage in arbitrary detention and release - list of passengers targeted for security searches
  7. Target key individuals - purged US attorneys for insufficient political loyalty
  8. Control the press - White House directing a stream of false information
  9. Dissent equals treason - you're either with us or against us
  10. Suspend the rule of law - laws that strike to the heart of American democracy have been passed in the dead of night

Ok, #'s 1, 2, 4, 9 and maybe 10 are definites

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