Once you hear the jackboots, it’s too late
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kittysjones:
Dr. Lawrence
Britt examined the fascist regimes of Hitler (Germany), Mussolini
(Italy), Franco (Spain), Suharto (Indonesia) and several Latin American
regimes. Britt found 14 defining characteristics common
to each, and it is becoming increasingly difficult to overlook some of
the parallels with the characteristics of our government here in the UK.
Controlled mass media is one example of such a defining feature of
fascism, with “news” being directly controlled and manipulated by the
government, regulation, or sympathetic media spokespeople and
executives. Censorship is very common. And then there is an obsession
with “National Security” – fear is used as a “motivational tool” by the government over the public.
A few months ago, a visit by
Government national security agents to smash up computers at The Guardian newspaper hit the news surpisingly quietly, when Edward
Snowden exposed a gross abuse of power and revealed mass surveillance
programmes by American and British secret policing agencies...
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