How to turn a democracy into a STASI authoritarian state in 10 easy steps

[Billo_Really]

What do people who support...

• voter ID laws
• Internet ID laws
• the top 1%
• the GWOT
• the position Snowden and Manning committed treason
• the Patriot Act
• the Military Commission's Act
• the NDAA

...all have in common?

The desire to take what was once the greatest country on the planet and turn it into a totalitarian, fascist state, much like Stalin's Russia, Mussolini's Italy, Mao's China and Saddam Hussein's Iraq.

And this is how they do it!

How to Create a Dictatorship in 10 easy steps:

1. Misuse the concept of a Top Secret government document (say, the date of D-Day) and extend classification to trillions of mundane documents a year.

2. Classify all government crimes and violations of the Constitution as secret.

3. Create a class of 4.5 million privileged individuals, many of them corporate employees, with access to classified documents but allege it is illegal for public to see leaked classified documents.

4. Spy on the public in violation of the Constitution.

5. Classify environmental activists as terrorists while allowing Big Coal and Big Oil to pollute and destroy the planet.

6. Share info gained from NSA spying on public with DEA, FBI, local law enforcement to protect pharmaceuticals & liquor industry from competition from pot, or to protect polluters from activists.

7. Falsify to judges and defense attorneys how allegedly incriminating info was discovered.

8. Lie and deny to Congress you are spying on the public.

9. Criminalize the revelation of government crimes and spying as Espionage.

10. Further criminalize whistleblowing as “Terrorism”, have compradors arrest innocent people, detain them, and confiscate personal effects with no cause or warrant (i.e. David Miranda, partner of Glenn Greenwald).

And we have no one to blame but ourselves.

We spend all our time arguing left vs right, while this shit is going on right in front of us and we do nothing about it.

 

[percysunshine]

With the exception of voter ID laws, that pretty much describes Barak Obama.

 

[Billo_Really]

With the exception of voter ID laws, that pretty much describes Barak Obama.

It describes George Bush as well.

And you can include his father, Slick Willie and Ronnie in all of this to.

Hell, you could even throw in Hillary, when she takes office.

They all continue the policies of their predecessor's, because they all answer to the corporate oligarchy that pays for their elections.