“It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
– Joseph Goebbels, Reich Minister of Propaganda, Nazi Germany
Remember the game, Where’s Waldo? Well here’s a new twist on the game.
First, consider the recognized elements of fascism, I like the definitions on Wikipedia.
Next, consider the political, social and economic situation that exists in this country today. If you’re a little fuzzy on the details, consider that the great working class of America has been decimated, unemployment for returning soldiers and veterans is shockingly high, college graduates are unemployed at record rates, Americans are being summarily evicted from their homes through farcical extra legal processes, the banks that run this country boldly assert that they can kick down your door and change your locks whenever they chose with no notice and no court order, Americans unable to pay debts can be sent to debtor’s prisons, our nation’s youth can have their assets and meager paychecks seized to pay student loan debt with no legal process, Seniors can have their social security checks seized to pay student loan debts with no legal process.
Here in Florida, the unification between the corporate state and the state are more clear than ever before with a brazenly corrupt legislative and executive branch working feverishly to deliver state assets like roads, medical care and prisons to private corporations…..anyone who dares to challenge this march, like Senator Mike Fasano, feels the crush of the fascist state’s boot.
Oh, and we haven’t even begun to talk about the austerity programs that are coming.
Next, the federal government obtained the power to secretly disappear American citizens with no records and no explanation. When asked by a federal judge to give assurances that this power would not be used to disappear bloggers or journalists or people like you who are reading this, the Obama Administration specifically refused to provide such assurances. More on that here
Americans are suffering like never before. No, that’s not true, Americans suffered worse during the Great Depression. But one certainly has to ask whether there’s anyway that we will not see those pictures revisited again? For now, the mainstream media and the addled masses are able to divert their stare and avoid such uncomfortable realities.
Today’s mainstream media is like a lottery scratch off ticket….you’ve got to scratch away the grey matter in order to see what surprises are covered underneath. And like a lottery ticket, once you scratch away that thin veneer, the vast, vast majority will find there is nothing there but misery and hopelessness.
Why are we spending trillions of dollars to bomb our way into peace? (The terrorists hate us because of our freedoms.)
Maybe if terrorists (today’s catch all boogeyman) saw the images of what happens on American streets, and recognized that the prisoner industrial complex makes the US the most imprisoned population on the planet, they wouldn’t hate us so much….
For every bomb that’s built and tank that welded together and multi-billion dollar aircraft that’s built in order to deliver or message of peace, (a message punctuated with burning, melting, limb severing flesh) we earn more friends and supporters in this global video game of conquest and idealistic principle sharing.
As to the governments ability to
take into custody persons that it deems “dangerous” without even stating the guidelines to be used, is disturbing even in time of war.
“federal government obtained the power to secretly disappear American citizens with no records and no explanation”.
I use you Matt, as like a canary in a coal mine. When and if I see your post disappear, I know people like me will be next.
The Constitution is and has been under attack for quite some time.
We allowed Iraq & Afghanistan to languish for years haggling over the formations of their constitution’s “basis of governing” when we could have imposed ours. Whats wrong with that? The answer is the people who are in charge, don’t want to spread American democracy, and in fact want to circumvent ours.
Our nations decline started with the Kennedy Coup in 1963, followed by the Gulf of Tonkin lie, that started a war that cost 58,000 American boys their lives, and ended 10 years later with people clinging onto helicopters off the embassy roof. The financial cost was a very modest sounding amount today, of 248 billion dollars.
We will only leave Iraq & Afghanistan when the public elects anti war legislators as we did in 1972.
Nixon “the peace candidate” converted to “peace with honor” then in 73 as he went to China “Nixon the 50s Commie Hunter” opened the door for China giving them most favored trade status, while dispatching Henry Kissinger to the middle east to organize, and establish OPEC “he even coined the name”.
My father told me 25 years ago that they were doing everything they could to bust this country.
Since 63 we have gone from being the country that was owed the most, to the country that owes the most.
Who is to blame?
A large portion of blame belongs to the dumbed down American citizenry, who failed to heed Eisenhower’s exit speech, where he warned of the danger presented by the military industrial complex.
This conglomerate of war hardware producers are owned/controlled by the same people who own the Bank of England,and our Federal Reserve, the Rothschild’s.
They killed Kennedy in part because he wanted and was exploring ways to do away with the FED.
Were you aware that George Bush Sr was in Dallas in 63 when the coup was carried out? He later became head of the CIA, before becoming Reagan’s VP.
The children and grandchildren of the people who killed Kennedy committed the false flag attack of 9/11, that was necessary to gather support for wars that only benefits the 1% and Israel. The phony economic crisis was&is to be the death blow to Americans economic future.
Our governments inability to provide prosperity and employment to its citizens, has been replaced by a offer to provide protection from nonexistent and at least overblown threats posed by Al Qaeda “the CIA name given to the fighters we paid to fight the Russians in Afghanistan in the 80s” and so called Muslim extremist who so far have caused less than one tenth of 1% of the injuries and death caused by slip & falls in bathtubs.
Why are we not doing anything about bathtub safety?
one of the best comments ever…i made it a post.
If you like video and more detail see this video.
“The United States is on the road to becoming a fascist society, right under our very noses. That’s the premise of a new book by feminist social critic Naomi Wolf. It’s called “The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot” and is already on the New York Times bestseller list. Naomi Wolf outlines what she sees as the ten steps to shut down a democratic society [in this video]”
http://youtu.be/9f0sBA61L0Y
Goebbels is an easy target ,, Edward Bernays literally wrote the book on Propaganda (1928) … Goebbels in one famous photo has Bernays book displayed behind him. http://www.ozorganization.com/website/images/pdf/bernays.pdf