Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Fascist America, in 10 easy steps

Fascist America, in 10 easy steps is a compelling editorial in The Guardian.

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As Americans turn away quite leisurely, keeping tuned to internet shopping and American Idol, the foundations of democracy are being fatally corroded. Something has changed profoundly that weakens us unprecedentedly: our democratic traditions, independent judiciary and free press do their work today in a context in which we are "at war" in a "long war" - a war without end, on a battlefield described as the globe, in a context that gives the president - without US citizens realising it yet - the power over US citizens of freedom or long solitary incarceration, on his say-so alone.

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Prison Cell

2 comments:

Ramanan Sivaranjan said...

I saw this over at MetaFilter. Pretty well written I thought, though these America is fascist articles never seem to get much traction. I wonder if things will/have changed much now that the democrats have a bit more power. It seems like they always come back and fix all the Republican fuck ups.

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