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Fascism: Are We There Yet?

by Open-Publishing - Wednesday 4 May 2005
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Fascism: Are We There Yet?
Margaret Kimberley
April 21, 2005

Our government is treating us the way exterminators treat vermin. We are ruled by people who mask evil ideology with the artful use of language, so an advertising slogan is in order.

“Roaches check in, but they don’t check out.”

The United States government is now proposing that the roach treatment be meted out to American humans who want to visit Canada, Mexico, Panama and Bermuda. These countries currently do not require visiting Americans to have passports.

The United States can’t force these nations to change their laws, so they are changing ours. The Department of State is proposing that Americans returning from these countries be required to have passports in order to re-enter the United States. We’ll be able to check in, but not check out without letting Uncle Sam know where we have been.

When the President was asked about the new travel proposals he feigned both ignorance and concern:

"When I first read that in the newspaper, about the need to have passports, for particularly the day crossings that take place - about a million, for example in the state of Texas - I said, ‘What’s going on here?’”

Bush added that finger prints may be used “to serve as a so-called passport for daily traffic.” Assuming this statement has any bearing in reality, a big leap to be sure, the President is proposing that we should all be finger printed like criminals. Bush once joked that a dictatorship wouldn’t bother him, as long as he was the dictator. His wish has come true.

Not only will Americans require passports to travel everywhere, but beginning in 2007 our passports will have Radio Frequency Identity (RFID) chips embedded inside them. Any RFID reader, not just those used by customs officials, can be used to find all the information contained on a passport. That means our personal information is not secure from identity thieves, kidnappers, terrorists, or nosy individuals. Why would an administration that claims to make us more secure actually make us less so?

“Unfortunately, there is only one possible reason: The administration wants surreptitious access themselves,” wrote security technologist Bruce Schneier in the October 4, 2004 International Herald Tribune. “It wants to be able to identify people in crowds. It wants to surreptitiously pick out the Americans, and pick out the foreigners. It wants to do the very thing that it insists, despite demonstrations to the contrary, can’t be done.”

The story gets even worse. Tom Ridge, former Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, recently became a board member of Savi Technology. Savi supplies RFID technology to the military. Will Savi and Tom Ridge make money from the imminent embedding of RFID chips in our passports? It is as likely as Dick Cheney and Halliburton making money in Iraq. The Bush doctrine of enriching cronies and keeping the population under control is alive and well.

The writing has been on the wall for some time now. We fight back as well as we can but big brother keeps getting bigger. Is it time to throw in the towel? Should we take our passports with their tracking devices and get out of Dodge before sundown?

Most progressives have muttered at one time or another that they would leave the country if Bush won again. Well, he did and it is as bad as we feared. The future isn’t looking a lot brighter and the attacks have become more brazen.

People who call themselves Christians speak of a legislative “nuclear option” meant to end the Senate filibuster and silence critics of the powerful. Even religious leaders have happily adopted the language of violence and death.

Their latest target is the judiciary. Even Republican appointees are not safe from their wrath. Supreme Court justice Anthony Kennedy is one of the five who voted to put George W. Bush in office. It didn’t do him much good with the Christian right.

One Edwin Vieira, an alleged expert on constitutional law and a right wing crazy, accused Kennedy of upholding “Marxist, Leninist, satanic principles drawn from foreign law.” He also had this to say about the Reagan appointee:

“He (Stalin) had a slogan, and it worked very well for him, whenever he ran into difficulty, No man: no problem.”

Joseph Stalin, the man who ruled an officially atheist nation, is now the darling of the Christian right. Anyone who dispatched their enemies ruthlessly is now their idol. When conservative jurists are fair game for violent threats from the Christian right, don’t bother seeking sanctuary in a church. Just pack your bags.

This nation is on a runaway train with insane people at the controls. We will end up in Crazyland, forever in debt, without social security, with RFID chips embedded in our foreheads. At a certain point it will be too late to jump. We may not have reached that point yet, but the train is not slowing down.

Forum posts

  • Yeah, Margaret, the train has truly left the station. No turning back now. Fight or Flight. No middle ground.

    • As congress and the senate are about to take up the national I.D. bill, an idea fresh out of the Nazi playbook that Bu$hco champions............"Your papers please". Could we be any more there after they implement this? We’re all suspect until proven innocent.

  • I have to agree with you - Margaret Kimberley. We’re not quite there yet, but for the past few years we have been prepped for a fascist world - Bush and his Arab buddies, with a couple of weak primeministers, kissing his shoes have pushed us further in this direction. Probably another 10 years and we’ll be there.

    Since the second world war, life started to improve for most of us, probably not so much in third world and developing countries (apart from their leaders living in the lap of luxury). Maybe us westerners born after World War 11 have never seen the sort of hardship we are starting to see lately, particularly since Bush came into power.

    We have been softened up for the multinationals to use us as cheap labour and we will soon lose the power of free speech. We will be joining all those third world and developing countries by having dictators rule us and working for 50 cents an hour. It will be our children who suffer the most. All citizens in all countries will be equally suppressed and just ruled by an elite few who control the world.

    We are sitting back and taking this. We are so useless in the scheme of things. We seem to have lost the ability to fight, but unless we do, we won’t be able to call our country of birth our own.

    The Iraqis have got the guts to fight the US invasion - but they’ve had hard lives and are a lot tougher than most of us who have had life easy until now. How do we stop these elite leaders and their increasing control over our lives. We are submitting to this apathetically.

  • They are not "Christains" (they are silly sheep that can’t be bothered to read and they send their money to men that predict things that never happen) and yes something has been set up. It’s not just Bush, this progression has been in place a long time. It’s just moving faster due to that very factual $$$$$ terrorist threat ;-| . The parties are one in the same (very few true independants in either party), you aren’t looking at the big picture if you can’t see that.

    I actually will be moving back to the EU in a few months (not because of Bush persue, just because I can’t handle the lies anymore, they get worse everyday), I can’t believe how she has fallen in such a short time and maschosistic way. :(

    • Forgot to add the EU is just as bad. But here where I was born and raised it’s too painful to watch up close and personal.

  • We DON"T have to GO THERE!
    We outnumber THEM! Let’s stand up and fight and force THEM to leave the Country!

  • It gets even "better" kiddies. Under the Computer Assisted Passenger Pre-Screening System (CAPPS II), proposed by the Transportation Security Administration, color coded, "internal passports" will be used as a "threat assessment" tool to be applied to everyone using air carriers. If you’re assessed as "green," you pose no risk, "yellow" possible risk and "red" likely risk. So far, CAPPS II has been stalled in Congress because of the infringement of privacy it represents and the possibility that it will lead to mistakes. A "green" person could be mistaken for a "red" person. But don’t hold your breath that CAPPS II won’t eventually become law. The Soviet Union didn’t disintegrate. It just changed its location to North America.

    • Yes - there will be mistakes - but our privacy and free speech is coming to an end. There are mistakes now with so many alleged terrorists being imprisoned for having the wrong name or the wrong colour. How many innocent people are in prisons worldwide. All countries will be the same shortly. We’ll all have the same wages - for the ones lucky enough to work, but forget about welfare for the poor. The global leaders have been weakening us for a long time to prepare us for this and it’s happened sooner than later.

  • That’s why we the civilized nation of the earth ask for passports. Every American should be finger- and butt printed and a large sample of his blood should be taken too.
    The Rotten Staates of America are nothing more then evil terrorists. The threat spoken by the american governments and its military does not need any further comments.

    Stay home Ami! You make us puke!

    • Je ne me déplace pas en France :) Je me déplace en Toscane!
      au revoir ami

  • That’s why it was worth it to Bush and Cheney to kill their own countrymen. Their goal is absolute fascism. Currently the fascist fist is still clothed in a velvet glove. There is no media, only propaganda outlets (the NY Times is simply the smooth voice of fascism). The Democrats simply a pretend opposition.

    Ann Coulter and Wayne LaPierre can’t wait to free their armed psychopaths to act against all who resist. It’s going to get a lot worse.