What to do about the government becoming fascist?
Doug, you pointed out some excellent observations, but you never said what call to action to start the change in the other direction? Anyone who has any ideas would be appreciated, here is an excerpt of Doug’s remarks:
But if we look closely, there are warning signs of the tyranny to come are all around us. They are subtle but they are there if you have the courage to look. For example, the police have been militarized in preparation for crowd control duties for unspecified reasons; the police now wear dark blue or black uniforms; no fly lists arbitrarily restrict a citizen’s right to travel; the government has authorized detention without trial; the police used agent provocateurs at the 2007 Montebello SPP meeting; there is a planned introduction of biometric IDs in our driver’s licenses that can be used to track and trace our every move; we see ongoing harassment of peace activists; we have overly broad anti-terrorism laws that could be applied to anyone opposing government policy; racial profiling is conducted on a regular basis; the police are tasering people with very little or no provocation and with increasing regularity; the banks are promoting a cashless society where every financial transaction is tracked; there are ongoing attempts to undermine Internet neutrality and give control of the Internet to corporate interests; and of course there is the always unpopular gun registry where the government knows who has a firearm and where to come and get it if they want to confiscate it. If you look around you’ll surely see many, many more signs…it’s all around us and the reasons we have been given are at best excuses and at worst outright lies.
thanks Jenny, I tend to agree being from Germany myself, but I am intrigued, COULD the USA become Fascist?