One facet of a totalitarian state
The zeitgeist shifts
The New Republic
by Jonathan Chait
03/25/10
The psychology of victory and defeat is a remarkable thing. A week ago, the Democrats were perceived to have an enormous political problem. Their agenda was stalled in Congress. There was a mass groundswell of public anger they had to contend with. Suddenly those problems have been flipped on their head. Now Democrats don’t have a problem because they can’t pass anything, Republicans have a problem because they’re obstructing everything. Whereas right-wing grassroots activism represented a public backlash against the Democrats, it’s now seen as an extremist element that discredits the GOP...
http://www.tnr.com/blog/jonathan-chait/the-zeitgeist-shifts
One facet of a totalitarian state
Adam Smith Institute
by Philip Salter
03/25/10
The facets that define a totalitarian state are often hard to discern; there is always the risk of pushing the argument too far, evoking unsuitable analogies with the fascist governments of the last century. Nevertheless, a spade is spade, and this story of the persecution of a German family point to a dangerous state of affairs. After the police came knocking, dragging their children off to school, Uwe and Hannalore Romeike and their three children applied for, and were thankfully granted, asylum in the US. Their crime? Educating their children in their home, rather than at school...
http://bit.ly/aTc6SI
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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Understanding the Mechanics of the Police State
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig11/hampton-m1.1.1.html
Is America Headed for a Fascist Takeover?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl2/naomi-wolf-america-headed-to-fascism.html
America Now Enforces Capital Controls
http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl2/capital-controls.html
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Remembering Fascism: Learning From the Past
Noam Chomsky, Truthout: "As I mentioned, I am just old enough to remember those chilling and ominous days of Germany's descent from decency to Nazi barbarism, to borrow the words of the distinguished scholar of German history Fritz Stern. He tells us that he has the future of the United States in mind when he reviews 'a historic process in which resentment against a disenchanted secular world found deliverance in the ecstatic escape of unreason.' The world is too complex for history to repeat, but there are nevertheless lessons to keep in mind."
http://www.truthout.org/remembering-fascism-learning-from-past58724
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=bipartisan
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http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Chomsky
The New Republic
by Jonathan Chait
03/25/10
The psychology of victory and defeat is a remarkable thing. A week ago, the Democrats were perceived to have an enormous political problem. Their agenda was stalled in Congress. There was a mass groundswell of public anger they had to contend with. Suddenly those problems have been flipped on their head. Now Democrats don’t have a problem because they can’t pass anything, Republicans have a problem because they’re obstructing everything. Whereas right-wing grassroots activism represented a public backlash against the Democrats, it’s now seen as an extremist element that discredits the GOP...
http://www.tnr.com/blog/jonathan-chait/the-zeitgeist-shifts
One facet of a totalitarian state
Adam Smith Institute
by Philip Salter
03/25/10
The facets that define a totalitarian state are often hard to discern; there is always the risk of pushing the argument too far, evoking unsuitable analogies with the fascist governments of the last century. Nevertheless, a spade is spade, and this story of the persecution of a German family point to a dangerous state of affairs. After the police came knocking, dragging their children off to school, Uwe and Hannalore Romeike and their three children applied for, and were thankfully granted, asylum in the US. Their crime? Educating their children in their home, rather than at school...
http://bit.ly/aTc6SI
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
--------
Understanding the Mechanics of the Police State
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig11/hampton-m1.1.1.html
Is America Headed for a Fascist Takeover?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl2/naomi-wolf-america-headed-to-fascism.html
America Now Enforces Capital Controls
http://www.lewrockwell.com/spl2/capital-controls.html
--------
Remembering Fascism: Learning From the Past
Noam Chomsky, Truthout: "As I mentioned, I am just old enough to remember those chilling and ominous days of Germany's descent from decency to Nazi barbarism, to borrow the words of the distinguished scholar of German history Fritz Stern. He tells us that he has the future of the United States in mind when he reviews 'a historic process in which resentment against a disenchanted secular world found deliverance in the ecstatic escape of unreason.' The world is too complex for history to repeat, but there are nevertheless lessons to keep in mind."
http://www.truthout.org/remembering-fascism-learning-from-past58724
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=bipartisan
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=GOP
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=fascis
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=totalitarian+state
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=police+state
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rudkla - 26. Mär, 08:45
