{"id":154,"date":"2006-10-04T11:36:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-04T18:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.montaraventures.com\/blog\/?p=154"},"modified":"2006-10-04T11:37:34","modified_gmt":"2006-10-04T18:37:34","slug":"fascism-rears-its-ugly-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/04\/fascism-rears-its-ugly-head\/","title":{"rendered":"Fascism rears its ugly head"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nThis article is well worth reading<\/a> authored by Gene Callahan<\/a> and is harvested from a blog entry by Ron Garret<\/a>. If the parallels to 1934 Nazi Germany don’t scare you, you’re not paying attention.
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\nTop Ten signs your democracy is devolving into a fascist regime:<\/p>\n

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  1. Secret prisons \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Check.\n
  2. Torture \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Check.\n
  3. Spying on all<\/i> citizens – Check.\n
  4. Arrests and indefinite imprisonment without trial – Check.\n
  5. Secret detention – Check.\n
  6. Denial and restriction of habeas corpus<\/i> – Check.\n
  7. Unprovoked wars to “protect us from them” – Check.\n
  8. Unfair trial procedures – Check.\n
  9. Consistent lying by goverment officials – Check.\n
  10. Reprisals for anyone who dares to speak out – Check.\n<\/ol>\n

    This list was derived from Callahan’s<\/a> entry which in turn was derived from Amnesty International<\/a>.<\/small>
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    \nSeems pretty clear cut. It is no longer outrageous to say our democracy is devolving into a fascist regime. Question is, what are we going to do about it?
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    \nMeatspace coordinates:     N37.324 W122.309<\/a>
    \nOhio State\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s 2006 record:     5-0<\/a> Next up: Bowling Green 10\/7
    \nTune:     Undone<\/a> by Weezer<\/a>
    \nTechnorati Tags:     Fascism<\/a> | Democracy<\/a> | Regime<\/a> | Mike Harding Blog<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    This article is well worth reading authored by Gene Callahan and is harvested from a blog entry by Ron Garret. If the parallels to 1934 Nazi Germany don’t scare you, you’re not paying attention. Top Ten signs your democracy is devolving into a fascist regime: Secret prisons \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Check. Torture \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Check. Spying on all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/montaraventures.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}