Posted on 04/24/2007 8:03:38 AM PDT by GeorgiaDawg32
From Hitler to Pinochet and beyond, history shows there are certain steps that any would-be dictator must take to destroy constitutional freedoms. And, argues Naomi Wolf, George Bush and his administration seem to be taking them all
Tuesday April 24, 2007 The Guardian
Last autumn, there was a military coup in Thailand. The leaders of the coup took a number of steps, rather systematically, as if they had a shopping list. In a sense, they did. Within a matter of days, democracy had been closed down: the coup leaders declared martial law, sent armed soldiers into residential areas, took over radio and TV stations, issued restrictions on the press, tightened some limits on travel, and took certain activists into custody.
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“Creating a terrifying threat - hydra-like, secretive, evil - is an old trick.”
Can you say “global warming?”
The number 1 thing that must be done, which these MScuM and the Democra#s constantly (or at least used to) push: DISARM THE POPULATION!
Seems Naomi is 0 for 10 when you read her non-sequetors.
When whacked out things happen that make you go HUH????, who is behind them? The left.
Which political direction do you go to get closer to Fascism, communism and national socialism? LEFT.
So this is what Naomi Wolf has been reduced to, eh? Kook columns in overseas newspapers? Ha ha!
Oh yeah, and I forgot to mention: Which has ALREADY been done in the socialist UK (disarm the population, that is).
He’s just taken six years so far. He’ll be able to transfer the project to his cohort in crime in 2008 when the Democrats win the WH by controlling the MSM.
This is ALL I needed to read to know this whole thing was a complete liberal whining session...
I did include the requisite BARF alert..:-)
(2) It's interesting that the Gruniad singles out Hitler and Pinochet - a non-Communist leftist and a conservative, respectively - and ignores Communist dictators of the past like Stalin, Pol Pot, Ho Chi Minh; Communist dictators who are still with us, like Mugabe and Castro and Communist dictators who are just getting started, like Chavez.
(3) The Gruniad ignores the fact that Hitler and Pinochet, two very different individuals with very different philosophies who made radically different responses, were both confronted not with imaginary enemies but with large and well-armed cadres of enemies who were willing to use force to impose Communist totalitarianism on their countries.
(4) Unlike 1930s Germany or 1970s Chile, 2000s America does not have large cohorts of violent Communists calling for the overthrow of the government.
The Gruniad allows its deep and abiding love for Communist dictatorships and its late-stage BDS to blind it to reality.
I wish one of these clowns would explain how if things are as bad as they claim: WHY THE HELL AREN’T THEY IN A CAMP SOMEWHERE?
Right. Like the press that declared Iraq was a quagmire after 2 weeks. Or that declared that sexual assault was enough to keep a Republican off of the Supreme Court or be removed from the Senate but thought rape by a Democrat was his own personal matter? That press? Or faked documents are evidence but real stolen evidence isn't newsworthy? The list goes on and on.
What are these groups scared of? What are they trying to hide?
Are government employees the only Americans deprived of the right of association?
You mean like when Tim Robbins’ whine about being censored was broadcast over 2,500 radio stations?
Ever notice how fascism keeps falling in America but landing Europe?
Support came from a quarter I hadn’t counted on. It was [Gunther] Grass, speaking in English.“For the past hour I have had my eyes fixed on the door here,” he said. “You talk about fascism and police repression. In Germany when I was a student, they come through these doors long ago. Here they must be very slow.”
— Tom Wolfe, The Intelligent Coed’s Guide to America.
yep
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