Keeping a jaundiced eye on the corporate media.
Aug 19th, 2005 at 9:06 am by Susie
Ah, democracy. It was fun while it lasted:
WASHINGTON — As a legal aide in the Reagan administration in 1983, Supreme Court nominee John G. Roberts Jr. declared that he would support creating a national identification card in order to combat “the real threat to our social fabric posed by uncontrolled immigration,” a memo released yesterday by the National Archives revealed.
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The reason national ID is called the hallmark of fascism is because of the sea change in attitude and relationship it marks between government and citizen.
In a free society, the government responds to citizens — laws and government adjust as people go about their lives, change their views, culture, ways and means. Government follows populace.
In a fascist society, the citizen responds to the state, or loses primary rights and privileges. You are either within the State or outside the State. Populace follows government.
The State becomes the focus, not the individual.
All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state. — Mussolini
To put it another way, in a fascist society, basic rights are granted by the State.
In a free society, basic rights can only be violated or denied by the State. You don’t get permission, you are free to do anything that isn’t forbidden.
Theoreticaly, you could be less restricted is a fascist society than in a free one. In fact, some people usualy are. A fascist society often gives special people permission to do things that would usualy be forbidden in a free society.
That’s what the cop says to me everytime I’m stopped.
When I was a kid, that’s how you knew in movies that the Nazis were the bad guys–when they took over everyone got stopped and asked for their papers. ‘Never in America!’ we would say to each other…