# 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
# 10. Suspend the rule of law
Right at number 3 it gets difficult, because without some extremely believable propaganda supporting an ideology which requires this imprisonment/harassment of the general population for some reason. In the USA this would be difficult because the military is volunteer and our economy is not absolutely hopeless. It would be difficult to find enough people motivated to do such a thing.
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Nah.
I posted earlier exactly your
"...extremely believable propaganda supporting an ideology which requires this imprisonment/harassment of the general population...", when I posted in this thread the U.S. right-wing agenda.
Bush II is a temporary pawn in it, others started it, Bush II and his successors implement it.
Note that U.S. has the highest population on earth in trouble with the law -1 adult in 32- (hence your
"...imprisonment/harassment of the general population..." takes place), not for political reasons since the Americans in Capitalism don't have a social conscience, but Capitalism is the cause of social unrest in U.S..
Read it first.
Talk afterwards.
Not before.
Today's
The San Diego Union Tribune writes on page A21:
"Torture complaint
European rights groups filed a legal complaint in France accusing former U.S. Secretary Donald Rumsfeld of responsability for torture in Iraq and at Guantanamo Bay.
The complaint was filled with the Paris prosecutor's office as Rumsfeld arrived in France for a visit, according to the Berlin-based European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights and two Paris-based groups, the International Fedaration of Human Rights and the League of Human Rights."
You shouldn't deny Fascist practices by U.S..
So much for Bush deriding
"...old Europe..." in 2003:
Bush resorts to old Fascism to lecture and grandstand
"...old Europe..." which evolved way past Fascism since 1940s.
I can't wait until Bush is out of the office, and like Rumsfeld now, becoming prone to lawsuits for his Fascism.
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The other problem is who does this benefit? Having your population imprisoned doesn't make the government more powerful, it takes away valuable members of the workforce and creates civil unrest...
Rich American lobbies.
Not the American people at large, who according to the polls, overwhelmingly reject the war.
The San Diego Union Tribune of Sunday September 30 2007 writes:
"Conservatives flexing wallets with group
Freedom's Watch finds raising voice
By Don Van Natta Jr.
NEW YORK TIMES NEWS SERVICE
Freedom's Watch, a deep pocketed conservative group began a $15 million advertising campaign destined to maintain congressional support for President Bush's troop increase in Iraq.
The nonprofit group is set apart from most advocacy groups by the immense wealth of its core group of benefactors, its intention to far outspend its rivals and its ambition to pursue a wide-ranging agenda.
Its next target: Iran.
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Some members have advocated a more confrontational policy with Iraq...
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"If Hitler's warnings were heeded when he wrote 'Mein Kampf' he could have been stopped," said Bradley Blakeman...
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"Ahmadinejad...wants the destruction of United States and the destruction of Israel."
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The idea for Freedom's Watch was hatched at the winter meeting of the Republican Jewish Coalition in Manalapan, Fla., where Vice President Dick Cheney was the keynote speaker.
One benefactor who spoke on condition of anonimity, said the group was hoping to raise as much as $200 million by Novemeber 2008. Raising big money "will be easy," the benefactor said, adding that several of the founders each wrote a check for $1 million...
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But many of its donors and organizers, including Ari Fleischer, a former White House press secretary, are well-connected to the administration...
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Note how it hijacks blaming Mein Kampf on others but not on themselves, note the Republican Jewish Coalition and speaker Cheney, note its concentrated wealth that it pursues, note Ari Fleischer, the U.S. Fascist who worked for the White House, in this.
This Jewish lobby is not the only lobby pursuing the U.S. Fascist right-wing agenda which Bush II is implementing right now, there are plenty of Christian right Fascist lobbies pursuing the U.S. Fascist right-wing agenda with bribes to the government.