[extropy-chat] so is America fascist yet?

[Hubert Mania]

I could easily add another vicious rant against Bush and neocon politics, and why sympathy for this kind of politics is incompatible with even the lowest definition of transhumanism as I understand it. Don't bother.
Today, 60 years ago, the death camp of Auschwitz has been liberated by the Red Army. Industrialized production of death had been its unbelievable priority. In January and May 1945 the US Army were the good guys. They liberated my country from the worst nightmare the earth had ever known. Six months later, on August 6th, 1945, with the start of an artificial bird called Enola Gay, the USA experienced a turning point for they had found an even more efficient way to produce mega death based on the relations of mass, energy and light, German scientists had discovered. The list of US war crimes since that day towards Abu Ghraib and Falluja is long and I guess most of you know the locations and names. 

But I don't think it is even necessary at all to refer to the most horrendous crimes of Nazi Germany and its very special excess of fascism, national socialism, to find parallels for the disaster, the USA is already driving towards today. It starts with tiny steps like the one I want to direct your attention to. Fascism starts with keeping a population in a permanent state of fear and offering an outlet by producing an "enemy".

I am convinced, the following link - steaming video - shows an excellent example of turning a modern society with instant media access into a totalitary police state.If you should not believe that this Michigan police video is a veritable step towards fascism, I guess, any discussion is a waste of time.

Now, this is low, 
this is low, 
this is very very low:

http://www.wzzm13.com/temp/7signsofterrorism.wmv

humania
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Samantha Atkins 
  To: ExI chat list 
  Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 11:34 PM
  Subject: [extropy-chat] so is America fascist yet?


  For your consideration:

  http://www.bushflash.com/14.html

  - samantha



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