Fascist Cookbook: Index
In recent article for The Guardian, Naomi Wolf suggests what she calls a fascist “shopping list”, a handful of actions that every tyrant-wannabe must enforce in order to disrupt any constitutional status quo. She argues that if there is such a list - and history proves that some of the signs she indicates are indeed worrisome – probably Mr. George W. Bush is in a shopping spree. The contents of the list are the following:
1 Invoke a terrifying internal and external enemy
2 Create a gulag
3 Develop a thug caste
4 Set up an internal surveillance system
5 Harass citizens' groups
6 Engage in arbitrary detention and release
7 Target key individuals
8 Control the press
9 Dissent equals treason
Even though some of Wolf’s accusations may seem a little too harsh, the question remains. Not that civil liberties in United States have been slowly forfeited, that’s a fact. The point is: how fast the civil society must be threatened so it considers a threat as a real one?
postado por Wagner Artur at 9:17 PM
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Factoides fascistoides assim jamais poderiam acontecer in Soviet Russia.
Tudo bem, havia terriveis inimigos internos (trotskistas, espiões, zinovievistas) e externos (o imperialismo burguês), a classe reprimida dos kulaks, o sistema de controle da KGB, a eliminação de qualquer grupo dos cidadãos, milhões de prisões arbitrarias, o ataque a individuos-chave, o monopolio estatal da imprensa, a liquidação de todos os opositores e a negligência permanente da lei.
Mas isso é apenas uma coincidência. In Soviet Russia, coincidence makes YOU!!
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