Evil exists that threatens every man, woman and child of this great nation

[Q]

"We must take steps to ensure our domestic security and protect our homeland."

That was Adoph Hitler, writing about creation of the Gestapo in Nazi Germany.

Wecome to the American Gestapo. Be careful what you say and do. They are watching and they will be watching from now on.

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Published on Wednesday, November 20, 2002 by Capitol Hill Blue

Welcome to the American Gestapo

by Doug Thompson

 
Wonder if any of the vast sums of money approved Tuesday for the new Department of Homeland Security are set aside for black uniforms with knee-length boots and black leather trench coats?

Should be. Since we’ve gone to all this trouble to create the new American Gestapo we might as well let them look the part.

Excuse me if I don’t join in all the senseless celebration over creation of yet another mammoth bureaucracy of the federal government. Pardon me if I don’t go ga-ga over a federal agency that has been given unlimited powers to spy on Americans, trample all over the First and Fourth Amendments, ignore the privacy of anyone it chooses and violate the rights of every man, woman and child who used to live in the Land of the Free.

Our own paranoia has accomplished what Osama bin Laden and his minions could not with hijacked airplanes and vague threats about future attacks – these fears have forced America to abandon its principles and create a police state. This new Department of Homeland Security has the power to wiretap any American it wants, without a court order, without cause and without justification to any higher authority. Homeland Security goon squads will have the power to enter any American home, without a search warrant, without probable cause, simply because someone somewhere says “hey, this guy might be a threat.” No checks and balances, no due process. Nothing.

Video cameras at ATMs, convenience stores, department stores and office building lobbies already record Americans living in urban areas 75-100 times on any given day but that isn’t enough for the new American Gestapo. They plan to erect video cameras on streets, along public highways, in neighborhoods and deploy them on helicopters and police cars to record everything you and I do every day of the year.

http://www.commondreams.org/views02/1121-03.htm

[ElsewheresDaughter]

1. Welcome to Bush*s Amurika

[Ruti]

2. Fascism in America

"What emerges from this study? Above all, I suggest, the conclusion that Fascism is nothing but monopoly capitalism imposing its will on those masses whom it has deliberately transformed into slaves...a partnership between monopoly capitalism and the Nazi Party in which that supreme coercive power which is of the state's essence is used to compel obedience to the new system...

There is no reason to suppose that any nation is so inescapably wedded to democracy as to be free from the dangers of Fascism. Professor Brady shows how profound are Fascist tendencies in the United States...




Please continue:

http://www.revelation2seven.org/WebPages/SideLinks/Fascism.htm

[bobthedrummer]

5. Welcome to DU, Ruti!

I've fought fascists since I was 15, I'm 54 now.
:hi:

[DuctapeFatwa]

3. "goon squads" already do have the power to disappear anyone

for any or no reason. The number of disappeared is kept secret, but from the bits that have trickled out, it is in the 4 digits and growing.

The voting class does not have a problem with this, as long as the victims are of a demographic that the affluent consider undesirable.

[bvar22]

4. Money Targeted to fight terrorism......

..is ALREADY being used to suppress domestic dissent. $8.2Million was sliced off the $87Billion that was dedicated to fight terrorism in Iraq. This $8.2Million was given to Jeb Bush in Florida to suppress the protest and dissent in Miami against the WTO. Part of this money was used to purchase the black storm trooper uniforms of the New American Gestapo.

The similarities in these two photos is chilling!

[Nom de Plume]

6. They'll like you even less, if you're a gun owner...

[Beam Me Up]

7. Feel Secure Yet?

[Q]

8. Law enforcement has transformed into paramilitary units...

...designed more to put down dissent than protect and serve. This began with the 'war on drugs' and has escalated under King George* and HIS war on some terrorism.

[Beam Me Up]

10. Yes, during Vietnam it was the National Guard:

[bobthedrummer]

12. You can rent-a-cop from a PMC/Private Military Company

they are privatizing combat operations too.
http://www.icij.org/dtaweb/icij_bow.asp?Section=Chapter&ChapNum=2

[sweetheart]

9. You know Q, you can only say that in a free speech zone

This zone is newly created on uranus, and you can only have free speech there.

Its a good thing they constantly monitor all messages for words like NSA, nuclear bombs, semtex, president, nuke, hamas, islamic jihad, and CIA... so that they can read stupid messages like this and waste my taxes.... fucking assholes.

[Q]

15. "I thought all of America was a free speech zone?"

- Guess I was wrong.

[Terwilliger]

11. Ooooo! You can't claim that fascism is coming!

It's considered extreme and hateful!

[Q]

13. I never said 'fascism is coming...'

...( it's already here )

[Nom de Plume]

14. I dare say....

We'd all better say, before it's too late!

[Q]

16. Americans don't want to hear about 'fascism'...

...and 'totalitarianism' because they think it could never happen here. Nevermind that survivors of Hitler's Germany say that many of the same things are happening here.

- The problem is that even if Democrats win (or are allowed to take office) in 2004...the fascist power structure won't allow them to reverse the trend.

[Terwilliger]

17. if they were that willing to reverse it

frankly, most Dems are happy with the system that allows the Fascists to come to power