The Separation between State and Religion

In time we will realize that Democracy is the entitlement of individuals to every right that was in its times alloted to kings. The right to speak and decide, to be treated with decency, to serve and be served by people in a State of “love” that is, to serve with one’s work for the development of ‘life’. To belong to the Kingdom of Human Beings without racial, national, social or academic separations. To love and be loved. To die at the service of the whole and be honored in one’s death, for one’s life and work was legitimately valued. To be graceful and grateful. To have the pride and the humility of being One with the Universe, One with every realm of Existence, One with every living and deceased soul. To treat with dignity and be treated with dignity for One is dignified together with All others and Life itself. To walk the path of compassion, not in the sorrow of guilt but in the pride of being. To take responsability for one’s mistakes and sufferings and stand up again and again like a hero and a heroine and face the struggle that is put at one’s feet and in one’s hands. Millions of people, millions and millions of people might take many generations to realize the consciousness of our humaneness but there is no other dignified path for the human being.

The “work” as I conceive it is psychological and political. Psychology is the connection between the different dimensions within one’s self and Politics is the actualization of that consciousness in our practical lives. Religion is the ceremony that binds the connectedness between the individual and the Universe. The separation between religion, politics and science, the arts and sports is, in the sphere of the social, the reflection of the schizophrenia within the individual and the masses. The dialogue between individuality and the "human" belongs to consciousness. The tendency to develop cults resides in the shortcomings we’are finding in life as it is structured today. “Life” has become the private property of a few priviledged who cannot profit from it because as soon as it is appropriated it stops to be “life” or “life-giving”.

We are all the victims of our own invention and each one is called upon to find solutions. The only problem is believing our selves incapable of finding them. We are now free to use all Systems of knowledge objectively, sharing them without imposing our will on each other. To become objective about our lives means to understand that the institutions that govern its experience are critically important. That we are one with the governments, one with the religious activities that mark its pace, that the arena’s in which we move our bodies and the laboratories in which we explore our possibilities are ALL part and parcel of our own personal responsibility. That WE ARE ONE WITH EACH OTHER AND EVERYTHING AROUND US and acknowledge for ourselves a bond of love in conscious responsibility. That we human beings know ourselves part of each other and are willing and able to act on our behalf for the benefit of each and every individual. That we no longer allow governments, industries, universities or any other institution to run along unchecked by the objective principles of humaneness. That we do not allow gurus to abuse their power or governors to steal the taxes and use them to their personal advantage in detriment of the whole. That we do not allow abuse from anyone anywhere because life is too beautiful to do so and that we are willing to stop the rampant crime with the necessary compassion Conscious knowledge is every individual's right. Conscious action is every individual's duty.

Sunday 27 November 2011

America Has Become a Fascist Police State


"It is no longer extreme to say we now live in a fascist police state. Thanks to the Patriot Act, the SCOTUS' Citizens United decision, and a complacent electorate, our First Amendment rights of free speech and free assembly now only exist on paper. In Tienanmen Square, the Chinese government also censored the press and violently cracked down on peaceful protesters. All that's missing here are the tanks."
A scene from director Michael Radford's version of Orwell's classic novel - 1984. (photo: MGM Studios Inc.)
A scene from director Michael Radford's version of Orwell's classic novel - 1984. (photo: MGM Studios Inc.)


America Has Become a Fascist Police State

By Carl Gibson, Reader Supported News
26 November 11

Reader Supported News | Perspective
Occupy Wall Street: Take the Bull by the Horns

eorge Orwell's "1984" wasn't meant to be an instruction manual.
One word that emerged from the novel was the word "doublespeak," where truth is deliberately obfuscated through clever wording. In some cases, the meaning of a word is reversed entirely. Oceania, the totalitarian regime in Orwell's book, used doublespeak as a matter of course. The Ministry of Truth specialized in propaganda. The Ministry of Love was a secretive torture complex.
In the early years of public school, or in public addresses by politicians, America is touted as the Land of the Free, or the Land of Opportunity, or the Greatest Country on Earth. We're taught from near-infancy that this country was founded on the right to say what you want, whenever, wherever, to whomever. We're told we have the freedom to assemble peacefully, to petition our leaders for a redress of grievances. We're taught that if you're apprehended by the law, you have the right to a fair trial and legal representation.
Yet, today we live in a country where government aids the corporate takeover of elections. Here, banks who fraudulently took Americans' homes for profit can get bailed out by the taxpayers, and use the money to pay themselves 12-figure bonuses. This is a country where even US citizens can be detained without due process, tortured, and even assassinated overseas.
Today, in the Land of the Free, nonviolent political protesters using their First Amendment rights to speak out against all of the above can be beaten, tasered, and maced by heavily-militarized police forces, using military-grade equipment, without any provocation.
The recent Black Friday mobs of consumers pitching tents in parking lots and rioting over $2 waffle irons were met with silence from the police. Yet, 10 people speaking out in a Wal-Mart about the company's CEO making $19,000 per hour while his employees are forced to work on a holiday for less than poverty-level wages apparently provokes police to tackle and arrest the citizens nonviolently encouraging shoppers to buy local. In today's America we can Occupy for Capitalism, but not for Democracy.
Oakland Mayor Jean Quan has openly admitted that the recent police crackdowns on Occupy Wall Street solidarity encampments were the result of careful coordination between mayors on a series of conference calls. There are also reports that the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI gave advice on the crackdowns, encouraging municipalities to deploy large numbers of police, equip them with riot gear, and break up encampments when the media were least likely to be present. Reports from New York allege that reporters were asked to raise their hand if they had press credentials, before being penned in an area far from the protests. Those trying to get through were arrested, and told that it was illegal to "take pictures on the sidewalk."
It is no longer extreme to say we now live in a fascist police state. Thanks to the Patriot Act, the SCOTUS' Citizens United decision, and a complacent electorate, our First Amendment rights of free speech and free assembly now only exist on paper. In Tienanmen Square, the Chinese government also censored the press and violently cracked down on peaceful protesters. All that's missing here are the tanks.
Mussolini said, "Fascism should be more accurately called corporatism, because it is a merger of state and corporate power." It is Orwellian doublespeak to call this country "free" while freedom is actively suppressed with aid from a corporate-owned government. The people are not free if their leaders are actively making war with them.

Carl Gibson, 24, of Lexington, Kentucky, is a spokesman and organizer for US Uncut, a nonviolent, creative direct-action movement to stop budget cuts by getting corporations to pay their fair share of taxes. He graduated from Morehead State University in 2009 with a B.A. in Journalism before starting the first US Uncut group in Jackson, Mississippi, in February of 2011. Since then, over 20,000 US Uncut activists have carried out more than 300 actions in over 100 cities nationwide. You may contact Carl at carl@rsnorg.orgThis e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
Reader Supported News is the Publication of Origin for this work. Permission to republish is freely granted with credit and a link back to Reader Supported News.
 

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+29 # Holyone 2011-11-26 17:37
This seems to be no different than the "60s with the Civil Rights movement when we thought the non-violent protest of laws and practices was for the Freedom of Black People.

Now, it looks like we now need to re-fight this battle to free us all.

Who is J.Edgar Hoover in this current state of affaires?

This is another "Change" worth fighting for. Where do we start?


Excellent article Carl.
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+42 # pernsey 2011-11-26 17:52
I can only say shame on the corporations and the politicians who allowed this to happen. They have the police we pay, beating the hell out of the citizens that dont fall in line with the corporate line. Ever since GWB... double speak has been ramped up by our government, and since its not being corrected so here we are.

SHAME ON YOU!!!
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+47 # Capn Canard 2011-11-26 19:10
pernsey, I am of the opinion that shaming them isn't enough. We need to castrate them of their power. To completely remove their authority.
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+1 # John Locke 2011-11-27 07:06
I couldn't agree more
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+5 # mtravis 2011-11-26 22:28
The corporations and politicians MADE THIS HAPPEN. They are one and the same. The government is owned by the corporations, bankers who hire the lobbyists to write the laws. They are NOT your protectors. This is not new.

Look up the definition of "Fascism" and you will then know what is happening here.
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+1 # John Locke 2011-11-27 07:09
it actually began in the 1930's just like in Europe, the banks here and large corporations even tried to take over the US Government, a coup was plotted involving JP Morgan and Dupont, and many influencial families to rtake over the government, NO one was prosecuted
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+7 # lobdillj 2011-11-27 05:08
Pernsey, Do you try to shame convicted murderers too? What are you thinking? Corporations behave like sociopaths--by design. They control governments by exploiting greed.

We should clearly see that our system is fatally flawed and move to replace it.
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0 # John Locke 2011-11-27 07:09
Yes!
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0 # NanFan 2011-11-27 06:55
SHAME???

This has been going on FOREVER by the US all over the world. We just got thrown out of the Shamsi air strip for our role in the NATO air strike that killed 25 Pakistani's, unprovoked!

The bigger deal is that the US have been doing this sort of thing here in the face of non-violent disruption recently; we've been a fascist State for a long, long time.

Carl's right: "all that's missing are the tanks" on our soil and I fully expect that to happen.

N.
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0 # John Locke 2011-11-27 07:06
It was happening Long before GWB, Think Roosevelt and world war 11... we gave the Japanese a threat about manchuria for which they as expected retaliated... we needed an excuse to get into WW2, and even before that, we have been played by the corporate interests and the war department, and especially the banks Burr and Hamilton were Wall Street Bankers, and we were sold out even as the country was founded
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+19 # LessSaid 2011-11-26 18:41
Now do I hear anyone who want and think that a relationship can be developed between the 99%ers and the police that will benefit and protect the 99%ers from the police when the police is a corporate-owned entity. They may be part of the 99%ers, but they aren't of the 99%.
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+1 # John Locke 2011-11-27 07:11
The Police and National Guard should be viewed and watched very carefully less we repeat Kent State and Jackson State
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+9 # Uranus 2011-11-26 19:58
I discovered a fire bomb in my kitchen built by a girl I hired Nov. 8 to do some things around the house.

Its construction followed a long, private phone conversation she held outside with someone.

I questioned her after discovering and disassembling it. She assured me it was a "mistake." Clearly, someone prompted her, and I'm rather sure it was to send me a message about some of the things coming from my keyboard the last couple months.

I guess I've graduated.
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+3 # Bluesguy 2011-11-26 22:40
Perhaps you have; heard of Michael Ruppert? they harassed and poisoned him.
Check out "Crossing the Rubicon"(had/has site called fromthewilderne ss.com)
I am becoming more cautious, dammit!
We cannot let em pick us off individually, if we can help it.
Best wishes and keep the faith !
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+1 # John Locke 2011-11-27 07:13
There was a saying I believe by Patrick Henry... we hang together or we hang separately
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+36 # Activista 2011-11-26 20:07
Excellent and simple analysis - USA IS a Fascist Police State internally - and -
Imperial militaristic power destroying the World - hated.
Not an optimistic outlook for young generation.
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+4 # Carolyn 2011-11-27 02:27
Quoting
Excellent and simple analysis - USA IS a Fascist Police State internally - and -
Imperial militaristic power destroying the World - hated.
Not an optimistic outlook for young generation.


It is up to ua, the 99% -- it is our job to bring in the Change we can believe in. We must evolve our consciousness beyond the self-survival 'fight/flight' instinctive level. That is legitimate for the physical survival of animals but it is not appropriate for humans to use as an ezxuse for war on behalf of our 'beliefs'.
the consvioudnrdd of human beings must rise to the level of compassion. Eac one of us must live for the good of the whole.
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+29 # MainStreetMentor 2011-11-26 21:16
There is much work to do at the city and county levels regarding revamping of “cops-for-hire” in off-duty conditions, situations and circumstances. HOWEVER … to accomplish that, we must FIRST legally vote out of office any and all conservative RepubTeacans and “Blue Dog” Democrats, and replace them with citizens who are willing to actually represent the TRUE needs of their fellow citizens. We must NOT become distracted or diverted from the underlying needs: Stop the Greed, reign-in corporate controls/influence of government and legislation, stop lobbyists (by re-writing lobbyist controlling legislation), break-up the military-industrial complex, reinstate and enforce the Glass-Steagall Act. And that’s only a partial – but important – listing of what MUST be done in our country.
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+17 # wwway 2011-11-26 21:17
chicken Little was right.
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+2 # Gary E. 2011-11-26 22:25
As far as I know, not a single congressman or congresswoman has spoken out against the pepper spraying of those students at UC Davis. (Correct me, dear readers, if I'm wrong on this.) It just blows my mind and makes me wonder if I'm just having a bad dream.
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0 # John Locke 2011-11-27 07:14
even if they did speak out, it would only serve as lip service, and not to make change
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+2 # Patch 2011-11-26 22:29
Ghandi managed to free India from England's rule by peaceful protest. May We the People be as successful.
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0 # John Locke 2011-11-27 07:15
I pray we are because the alternative would be unthinkable
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+3 # CCB5er34 2011-11-26 22:32
No freling doubt about it, it is something else, and I think 1984, if not an istruction manual, was a warning about what signs to look for. And they are here, all around us.
This is a vile country, and the Foxes, in more ways then one, are in the chicken coop. Horrifying!!
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-4 # chris1 2011-11-26 22:44
You are 11 years behind the times. It was in 2000 (when you were 13) that RSN's buddy Ralph Nader sold this country out to Bush, giving him Florida and New Hampshire. The numbers are readily available and beyond controversy.
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-2 # chris1 2011-11-26 22:51
You are 11 years behind the times. In 2000 (when you were 13) Ralph Nader gained enough votes in Florida and New Hampshire to put Bush ahead of Gore in those states and thereby hand this country over to your fascist friends.
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+3 # mwd870 2011-11-26 22:55
This commentary by Carl Gibson says it all. My first reaction was what happened to our country? It has the existential quality of a bad dream that turns out to be true.
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+2 # Polimorphus 2011-11-26 23:32
"...banks who fraudulently took Americans' homes for profit can get bailed out by the taxpayers,..."
Not quite! Banks got bailed out by representatives elected taxpayers who chose to vote on a given day. That's a problem with representative democracy that could in fact be resolved by universal referenda on key issues, which digital technology and telecom have made possible. The one hurdle left thereafter is the software for voting and vote-counting that, for some reason, America can't get right but more primitive democracies, such as India, can. The US need not be allowed to go wholly fascist and getting alarmist might cause more apathy and less participation.
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+4 # maddave 2011-11-26 23:40
During my entire 75 years of life, the fascist police state has been a reality for all Americans who cannot afford proper, effective legal assistance. Concurrently, it has been a slap-on-the-wrist for the well connected and affluent! Currently, given the middle class' essentially flat wages since the 1970's, more and more of our once prosperous middle class are rapidly sinking into a socio-economic sub-stratus wherein they can no longer afford capable, dedicated legal counsel in either criminal or civil cases.
"But there are Public defenders!" you say ? OK - but be aware that most - if not all - of America's condemned prisoners on death rows were defended by overworked, underpaid and understaffed Public Defenders. On the other hand, prosperous well connected, true criminals who can afford top lawyers are rarely questioned seriously and seldom, if ever, indicted.

Everything always comes down to "money" (which is synonymous with "power"). Consequently, through Citizens United and the Too Big To Fail FUBAR, Fat Corporate America - aided dy their cyphers in Congress & the Administration - can - and do - loot the American Treasury and WE THE PEOPLE with naked impunity.

Is this not what OWS is all aout?
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0 # mwd870 2011-11-27 06:56
Everything always comes down to "money."

Yes, that is what OWS is all about.

"Everything always comes down to "money" (which is synonymous with "power"). Consequently, through Citizens United and the Too Big To Fail FUBAR, Fat Corporate America - aided dy their cyphers in Congress & the Administration - can - and do - loot the American Treasury and WE THE PEOPLE with naked impunity."

This is the status quo that makes me angrier than every other issue threatening the well-being of our country. OWS deserves so much credit.
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+5 # badbenski 2011-11-26 23:55
Those of us who tried to warn the nation decades ago that what we're witnessing now was on the horizon were called "conspiracy theorists," with a hint of madness implied. This reaction was, of course, anticipated. The goal then was to wake up as many people as possible before events made the matter no longer a bone of contention. As government gloves come off and the reality of the situation becomes more clear every day, there is no satisfaction or "I-told-you-so" impulse. There is only a modicum of relief that our dire warnings no longer appear to be so outlandish. However, the consequence of the citizenry achieving a certain awareness at such a late date is the fact that our options are greatly reduced. The apparatus of oppression is now firmly in place, complete with some new technological wrinkles and our legislative bodies are now essentially wholly owned subsidiaries of corporate interests. A combination of massive civil protest, far larger than we're seeing today, and a very real threat of the use of force in some situations now appear to be the only hope. The fact that things have gotten to this point is not a good thing at all. Corporate and governmental interests seem totally willing to utilize whatever degree of force required to stifle real resistance while firm citizen resolve is slow in coming. In other words, we may be too late to save our freedom.
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+4 # Thel 2011-11-27 00:02
"All that's missing here are the tanks."

Actually, there be tanks here, too, Carl. In Tampa http://twitpic.com/7fnsos and Georgia http://www.shtfplan.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/policetank2.jpg

Plus LRADs http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/328-121/8476-introducing-the-lrad-sound-cannon

Land of the Fried and Home of the Bruised. Let freedom wring!
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+3 # sandyboy 2011-11-27 01:20
Vote V for Vendetta! Well, you would if you could! Anarchy for the USA!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!
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+1 # WLawpsh 2011-11-27 01:29
Dear Carl, true it is that what "We're taught...from near-infancy that this country" is not what we get. The supposed-to-be values and practices that you identify derive, of course, from the Declaration of Independence's and Constitution's rejection and preclusion of imperialism, ultimately under the commerce, defence and treaty clauses that together implement the proclaimed intent to establish Justice, Tranquility, defence, Welfare and Liberty, all of which crashed when the US Supreme Court adopted its internal policy of undermining constitutional democracy by obstructing and ignoring constitutional challenges to the federal imperial statutes of 1871 and 1973. Now the Court (other than Justice Thomas) bizarrely interprets the commerce clause, read in isolation with blinkers on, as delegating to Congress sovereign power over the entire world, as if the jurisdiction to regulate trade "with" foreign Nations and Indian tribes signifies sovereignty "over" them. United States v. Lara (2004)(per Chief Justice Roberts). There is a solution, Carl, namely, forcing the US Supreme Court to do its duty to uphold the Constitution. Please, please, please see the website "Might Is Not Right" at http://mightisnotright.org/ before the opportunity has passed! Best, W'Lawpsh
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+3 # Magars 2011-11-27 01:52
Brilliant!!! Maybe this article will help other readers understand how deep is the political situation in our country, It is not anymore about Republicans or Democrats. Little by little corrupted politician with the help of corporations started taking our rights As Mr. Gibson ,this incredible young man,said they ( the establishment) for years and years make the people believe in myths,like American Exceptionalism. The lack of veracity in our school History books,the corporate media misinformation of the public to pursuit the people manipulation, etc. make people believe in lies.Examples of actions to brainwash people :PATRIOT Act, Control of Internet,Milita risation of police force,degradati on of whistle-blowers,mercena ry groups working for and with the government and the state of fears to control everything and everybody,and all of this with the approval of both parties in Congress. THANK YOU,MR. GIBSON FOR YOUR FANTASTIC ARTICLE!
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+3 # Obwon 2011-11-27 03:44
Americans are all citizens bound by our national laws. Soldiers are citizens, Congressmen/women are citizens, Millionaires and Billionaires are citizens, as are police, Officers, officials and their wives and children.

So, let's have a show of hands: Who in America really wants to live under a totalitarian fascist government?

No one? Then why are we trying so hard to achieve it? Remember, we're all working together at this, whether we like it or not. Because we're abiding by laws, that we're electing officials to change. Yet no one wants to claim responsibility for anything that doesn't sound good. While everyone keeps claiming that they're fighting against things that are bad!

So, why is it that the sum total effect of all this goodness is turning out bad? I don't understand, should we be fighting for badness? Would that make things good again? Oh wait, now I see it, it's this imprecise usage of words that is causing the confusion, problems and troubles.

Therefore, what we need is clearer interpretations of what is being said. Once people understand that, the liars can "drop dead"!
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+4 # cordleycoit 2011-11-27 04:36
Why the Occupy Movement is considered dangerous is because it sets in motion parallel institutions.Peace officers instead of police, free instead of commodified, real news instead of reified faerie tales. The people love to see the government turned into the the collection of dangerous clowns that it is. The mayors of New York, Denver, Oakland, Portland all look like the stooges they are Opera Buffo caricatures sending their death squads out with their shoe laces tied together. Remember a complaint is a request.
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-7 # Robt Eagle 2011-11-27 04:40
Carl Gibson is so far off base... isolated incidents where the police acted to disband those who had pushed the limits by destroying private or public property that was not designated for camping. Furthermore the OWS sites have been given tremendous leeway until the situation got out of hand and lawlessness took over. Isolated incidents of police acting inappropriately often have been taken out of context of a long period where the police have asked repeatedly for the lawbreakers to move or relocate and they refused. Keep it all in perspective. Carl Gibson really needs to get a real job also.
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+3 # sugrem 2011-11-27 04:56
Some of us--too few--have been making the fascist allegation for over a decade now. The young man who wrote this article deserves great praise for paying attention to the situation, recognizing the police state which has emerged, and telling it like it is. Those Americans who still have their heads up their ----- had better get aware fast because history gives us very clear examples of what lies soon ahead of us--total repression of freedoms and terror not from abroad but from right here at home, from our own governments at the federal, the state, and the local levels.
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+3 # Jill of York 2011-11-27 05:03
Yep. I wrote about this back in January in my article "Is It Fascism Yet?" and looks like the answer is yes. Please check out my article published on RSN.

http://readersupportednews.org/pm-section/256-justice/4820-is-it-fascism-yet
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+2 # cvm79 2011-11-27 05:53
I pledge allegiance to the Statue of the Bull on Wall Street and to the Corporations for which it stands. One nation ruled by Nobles, narrow-minded, with bonuses and bail outs for the waelthy.
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0 # Glen 2011-11-27 06:00
Moses said to Aaron, "What did this people do to you that you have brought so great a sin upon them?"

Insert any names of your choosing for Moses or Aaron. What exactly have the citizens of the U.S. done? Or the citizens of the many countries now suffering punishment?

Citizens must decide where to go from here. Make no mistake, however, the tanks are lurking just outside the firelight.
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0 # mike/ 2011-11-27 06:38
the Mussolini quote just hits you in the face and goes 'splat'! the activist side of SCOTUS is more focused on ideology than the rule of law for the majority;

instead of the 19th century fear of 'tyranny of the majority', we have moved to 'tyranny of the minority' in the form of the corporations and the tea-baggers; John C. Calhoun is spinning in his grave...
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0 # Pufferly 2011-11-27 06:50
My novel of 2008, my hundreds of letters to editors of regional newspapers and national magazines over the last 20 years have said unequivocally that we are an emerging theofascist corporatocracy, the next flavor of fascism. It's ironic that we fought WWII and subsequent wars against totalitarian governments only to then emulate them. Our comfort and apathy have allowed this. Now we have the ingredients of a revolution if The People will just wake up. It doesn't have to be violent. Was Marx right?
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0 # carioca 2011-11-27 07:13
America became a fascist police state for communists, blacks, latinos and drug users a century ago. Now it has become a fascist police state for the rest of us, the 99%.
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