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When a protestor attempts to publish a campaign against a company whom he believes is engaged in immoral activity and attends a protest against that company he finds himself in jail for 4 years 6 months.
This is the fate of Sean Kirtley who is now incarcerated for campaigning against animal testing company Sequani at Ledbury in Herefordshire.
A new law called SOCPA brought in by the Blair government makes it an offence to attempt to campaign against contractual relationships when animal testing laboratories are involved. When the state uses law to protect private companies from public protest and exposure of their business relationships this is, in Mussolini’s words, fascism.
How long now until arms dealers, factory food chains, and GMO importers successfully lobby for the same protections of their activities from public protest? We are heading down the slippery slope towards a fascist police state in which the individual is powerless against corporate interests.
IFWHITEAMERICATOLDTHETRUTHFORONEDAYIT’SWORLDWOULDFALLAPPART
(Manic Street Preachers, 1994)
And of course, it will.
Good to see so many people now saying the same thing.
Naomi Wolfe documents the similarities between the behaviour of the US state in recent years and the history of states that have succumbed to fascism. The evidence is worrying and the potential is certainly there for the unthinkable to happen again.
Wolfe’s analysis (The End of America: Letter of Warning To A Young Patriot) hardly touches on issues like the corporate kleptocracy and yet it is a powerful indictment of the shift towards to a tipping point from the far right into full-on fascism. We in Europe and other countries where the plebs are getting too smart and beginning to question and challenge state authority and power should be aware that we are following a similar techno-military route towards suppression of human values and conscience.
The War on Terror was never just an excuse for war and suppression of rights – the war on terror is a real war in which the state is preemptively targeting individuals and groups who challenge it in whatever way. The ecoterrorist and anyone else who challenges the state is a serious threat to the state – whether or not s/he uses violence.
Anyone who marshalls dissent and civil disobedience is an enemy of the state. In our increasingly fragile (see John Robb’s Brave New War) industrial-military-capitalist driven societies a group which uses words alone in order to trip-up a logistics system is as much a threat to the state as a group that uses violence or physical sabotage. Grass roots organisation is what the state wants to crush: the corporate-political globalised world will collapse if the people gain any more power, and the state will do everything it can, legal or illegal, in order to stop it.
The people of Europe need to be aware that the same is happening in our societies but due to our complacency about it never happening here again, and there being less overt organs of state power and oppression, the preparations for totalitarianism and fascism are not as obvious as in the US.
“This isn’t about party, it isn’t about Bush Bashing. It’s about our country, our constitution, and our future. … Your countrymen have been murdered and the more you delve into it the more it looks as though they were murdered by our government, who used it as an excuse to murder other people thousands of miles away.” -Lt. Col. Shelton F. Lankford, U.S. Marine Corps (ret).
The more I read about the 9/11 truth movement the more convinced I am that the US government has to answer some serious questions or be put on trial. If there turns out to be truth in the idea that 9/11 was an inside job then all the world’s citizens need to be asking themselves what to do about it.
The internet is the biggest tool we have against state power and control. How long before some ‘terrorist act’ or ’state of emergency’ either wipes out the internet or provides and excuse to close it down. We are coming close to a time when the machiavellian in this world are about to be outed – and they are going to find extreme machiavellian ways to prevent this and to maintain the hierarchical order that they benefit from. In fact governments are already working on ways to keep us all in our place: Total Information Awareness is aimed at this role (see my post Social Network Analysis and Thought Crime)
I will not be surprised if by 2015 there is a state of emergency in the US – under which a fascist state eventually takes over (if that’s not already happening). I will eat my words if this doesn’t happen but all the evidence I see indicates to me that the US government is going to take more and more extreme actions in the face of: global energy depletion, global resource and ecological depletion, a need for global depopulation, growing citizen empowerment and peer to peer communication which governments find hard to control and threatening to power, the fragility of urbanisation, etc, etc.
“A lot of the big forces that are driving world politics and the global economy at the moment are very much reflecting energy descent. Essentially the global war on terrorism – as Donald Rumsfeld said, “the war that will never end in our lifetimes” – is in fact their version of how to deal with energy-descent. They’re trying to gather all the key productive zones under their complete control. The idea that the society as a whole is completely ignorant of this is wrong. But it may not express itself in the ways we would expect. If you look at the drift towards fascism that’s everywhere in the world at the moment – that seeks to find blame or causes for unfortunate circumstances as being the responsibility of some other group – that is actually a classic response of established authority when it’s caught with its pants down.
Whether we describe that as a conscious conspiracy if you like, or whether it’s a natural, organic response to energy-descent, is playing out in front of our eyes now. That is actually the biggest threat to the permaculture industry now. We have an opportunity to positively engage with energy-descent and to learn and to change as we’ve done in the past.”
David Holmgren, co-originator of the permaculture concept
The precursors of fascism — militarization of culture, vigilantism, masculine fear of female power, xenophobia and economic destabilization — are ascendant in America today.
