Leonid Posted January 9, 2012 Report Share Posted January 9, 2012 (edited) Here is a technique as ancient as the rule of Pharaohs. 1. Choose some part of population on the ethnic, religious or political basis. 2 Designate this part as internal enemy of the people. Don’t tell complete lies-people are not that stupid. Remember that half-truths are better tools of deception than pure lies. Find few isolated incidents of hostility committed by some members of this group, generalize their action and vilify all members of this group. Make sure that this group is big enough to install the fear in the rest of population, but weak enough, so it could be easily defeated. 3. Proclaim that “we are in war” with this group and with their system of believes and such a war demands suspension of all rights and liberties. Subdue them but don’t, I repeat, DON’T eliminate them completely. You will need them in future to maintain your regime. 4. Now, you can do every thing you like with the rest of population. Everybody who disagrees with you is an enemy, or appeaser of enemy or sympathizer of enemy or traitor or appeaser of traitors or double agent-the list is endless. You may dispose of all these at your leisure. After all we are in war, and all rights have been abrogated. 5.Congratulations. Your rule is now unlimited. You don’t have to worry about such a tiresome details as justice, evidence, legality or presumption of innocence. You may discard all this old fashioned technicalities and substitute them with presumptions, assumptions, suspicions, or simply gut feelings in order to prosecute, ban, put under surveillance, indefinitely detend or to do every thing you please with anybody. Edited January 9, 2012 by Leonid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hairnet Posted January 10, 2012 Report Share Posted January 10, 2012 The oppression of minorities has been done democratically. For instance, the populist Andrew Jackson, who was elected, and I do not believe over stepped his bounds when it came to white men, was responsible for the unjustified killings, kidnappings, and displacement of many native americans. Dictatorship vs Democracy is really a beurecratic matter. What really matters is what everyone believes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grames Posted January 10, 2012 Report Share Posted January 10, 2012 Was there some problem with the way the "The Age of Fear" thread was progressing that you felt the need to start over with a new thread? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leonid Posted January 11, 2012 Author Report Share Posted January 11, 2012 (edited) Was there some problem with the way the "The Age of Fear" thread was progressing that you felt the need to start over with a new thread? Not really a problem. I decided to open the new thread instead to post this on the "The Age of Fear" simply because this post refers more to the philosophy behind the presidential decree, regardless its connection with the war against terror. Edited January 11, 2012 by Leonid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nigel Posted January 22, 2012 Report Share Posted January 22, 2012 I just read Garet Garrett's book Ex America, previosly published under the title The People's Pottage. The first essay, The Revolution Was goes into great detail about how Rosevelt usurped incredible power. Basically, Garrett argues that the control of the economy, in addition to fear and the use of "economic emergency" in place of war, was essential. The taking of the people's gold and control of the money supply was absolutely essential. Garrett argues that Rosevelt, Hitler, Lenin, and Mouselini all used inflation as a means of control, and without this these governments would not have been able to shore up their control over the people. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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