JimBowie1958
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Fascism; an ideology that states the state should have the following characteristics -
1) alliance between largest corporations and the government,
2) the state having the legal power to arrest anyone at any time and press no charges,
3) restrictions on freedom of speech and privacy,
4) is led by a chief executive who has the power to decree any change in law he wants without review or consent by the people or their representatives,
5) the public subject to propaganda that the nation is in constant danger and so all must support the central state or be labeled traitors, and
6) exessive incarceration.
Republic; a state that has the following characteristics -
1) distribution of power into separate institutions,
2) the citizenry possesses broad rights that the government can not simply ignore,
3) the scope of the government's power is deliberately limited,
4) a portion of the government's officers are elected by a segment of the population.
Crypto - hidden, disguised, camouflaged
We have seen in the past 10 years under Bush and Obama the federal government acquire powers over our people that would have made FDR blush. In peace time, our government can seize any resource, any funds, any property, and any human being and compel them to work without compensation, i.e. slavery. These were previous to Obama limited to war time or emergency areas, but Obama has broadened them to peace time non-emergency conditions anywhere and at any time. Looking at how Obama has constantly amended the ACA laws he supported, we now have a President who can rule by decree. Looking at how the ACA was developed, corporate interests matter more to our government than what the American people want, and the cynics will say it has always been this way, but that is a lie often used to protect the corrupt and no honest man should believe it. That corruption existed before today does not prove the corruption has not grown and become worse. International corporations now own the US government. And our own government spies on us at an incredible saturation once believed paranoid previous to Snowdens treachery. It has been shown that our government has even contracted the British government to spy on us when they could not do so legally, even under these draconian 'Patriot Act' laws.
We have the highest documented incarceration rate of any nation on the planet, comparable to that of North Korea, and most of it due to convictions regarding nonviolent crime. But now corporations, some partially owned by the judges and lawyers in the system themselves, now make money off each criminal in jail and so we have incentivized our legal system to incarcerate our own citizens for harmless infractions that pose no direct threat to anyone either physically or financially. This amounts to a legal form of slavery and indentured servitude.
A US citizen can now be designated as a terrorist by the government and then be subject to arrest without being charged, confined indefinitely without access to legal council, without access to family and friends or anyone other than his jailors. The government can even, after designating you a terrorist, have you assassinated, all legally. There is no legal check on who the government can designate as a terrorist, nor any definition of what process and criteria are used.
Our government has been exposed as lying to the American people about a huge range of issues from Ruby Ridge to Fukushima to the NSA scandal. Corporations now own our electoral process as they flood the political system with their money and then use their elected puppets to give them huge amounts of US currency, currently at the rate of $85,000,000,000 each MONTH. We are being robbed in broad daylight and the people are too distracted, confused and misled by its own press, a press that is owned by the same corporations that are fleecing the public via the controlled politicians.
Julius Caesar destroyed the Roman Republic not by declaring it ended, but by letting the form of that government continue while he changed the process to make the Senate and other institutions of that republic impotent and irrelevant by simply ruling by decree.
We are seeing the same thing happen today, only we are seeing the head of state being changed every 8 years...at least for now. Such a revolving dictatorship does not change the dicatorial nature of the office, but only aids in the camouflage of that office as not what it truly is; a dictatorial office with the legal right to execute and incarcerate in hidden cells any member of the American public.
THAT is fascism.
At least some are becoming aware of it....
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLwHrxjPT5E]AMERICA, Freedom to Fascism (Full length film) - YouTube[/ame]
Fascism; an ideology that states the state should have the following characteristics -
1) alliance between largest corporations and the government,
2) the state having the legal power to arrest anyone at any time and press no charges,
3) restrictions on freedom of speech and privacy,
4) is led by a chief executive who has the power to decree any change in law he wants without review or consent by the people or their representatives,
5) the public subject to propaganda that the nation is in constant danger and so all must support the central state or be labeled traitors, and
6) exessive incarceration.
Republic; a state that has the following characteristics -
1) distribution of power into separate institutions,
2) the citizenry possesses broad rights that the government can not simply ignore,
3) the scope of the government's power is deliberately limited,
4) a portion of the government's officers are elected by a segment of the population.
Crypto - hidden, disguised, camouflaged
We have seen in the past 10 years under Bush and Obama the federal government acquire powers over our people that would have made FDR blush. In peace time, our government can seize any resource, any funds, any property, and any human being and compel them to work without compensation, i.e. slavery. These were previous to Obama limited to war time or emergency areas, but Obama has broadened them to peace time non-emergency conditions anywhere and at any time. Looking at how Obama has constantly amended the ACA laws he supported, we now have a President who can rule by decree. Looking at how the ACA was developed, corporate interests matter more to our government than what the American people want, and the cynics will say it has always been this way, but that is a lie often used to protect the corrupt and no honest man should believe it. That corruption existed before today does not prove the corruption has not grown and become worse. International corporations now own the US government. And our own government spies on us at an incredible saturation once believed paranoid previous to Snowdens treachery. It has been shown that our government has even contracted the British government to spy on us when they could not do so legally, even under these draconian 'Patriot Act' laws.
We have the highest documented incarceration rate of any nation on the planet, comparable to that of North Korea, and most of it due to convictions regarding nonviolent crime. But now corporations, some partially owned by the judges and lawyers in the system themselves, now make money off each criminal in jail and so we have incentivized our legal system to incarcerate our own citizens for harmless infractions that pose no direct threat to anyone either physically or financially. This amounts to a legal form of slavery and indentured servitude.
A US citizen can now be designated as a terrorist by the government and then be subject to arrest without being charged, confined indefinitely without access to legal council, without access to family and friends or anyone other than his jailors. The government can even, after designating you a terrorist, have you assassinated, all legally. There is no legal check on who the government can designate as a terrorist, nor any definition of what process and criteria are used.
Our government has been exposed as lying to the American people about a huge range of issues from Ruby Ridge to Fukushima to the NSA scandal. Corporations now own our electoral process as they flood the political system with their money and then use their elected puppets to give them huge amounts of US currency, currently at the rate of $85,000,000,000 each MONTH. We are being robbed in broad daylight and the people are too distracted, confused and misled by its own press, a press that is owned by the same corporations that are fleecing the public via the controlled politicians.
Julius Caesar destroyed the Roman Republic not by declaring it ended, but by letting the form of that government continue while he changed the process to make the Senate and other institutions of that republic impotent and irrelevant by simply ruling by decree.
We are seeing the same thing happen today, only we are seeing the head of state being changed every 8 years...at least for now. Such a revolving dictatorship does not change the dicatorial nature of the office, but only aids in the camouflage of that office as not what it truly is; a dictatorial office with the legal right to execute and incarcerate in hidden cells any member of the American public.
THAT is fascism.
At least some are becoming aware of it....
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLwHrxjPT5E]AMERICA, Freedom to Fascism (Full length film) - YouTube[/ame]
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NEWSFLASH JimCrowie1958!!! The sky was falling from 2000-2006 (complete Repub control of gov't) & where were you?
