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Category Archives: Authoritarianism
Hillary Clinton: Women in the World 2012 / Women Need to Be Able to Choose
“Why extremists always focus on women remains a mystery to me, but they all seem to. It doesn’t matter what country they’re in, or what religion they claim, they all want to control women. They want to control how we dress. They want to control how we act. They even want to control the decisions we make about our own health and our own bodies.”
~ Hillary Clinton
Noam Chomsky: How the Young are Indoctrinated to Obey
Ralph Waldo Emerson observed that political leaders call for popular education because they fear that “This country is filling up with thousands and millions of voters, and you must educate them to keep them from our throats.” But educated the right way: Limit their perspectives and understanding, discourage free and independent thought, and train them for obedience.
. . . many measures have been taken to restore discipline. One is the crusade for privatization – placing control in reliable hands. . .
Justifications are offered on economic grounds, but are singularly unconvincing . . . [which has led] to imposition of a business culture of “efficiency” – an ideological notion, not just an economic one.
Jonathan Turley: Sarkozy Proposes To Arrest People Who Visit “Terrorist” Websites
. . .[I]n the wake of the recent killings by a Muslim extremist, the government of President Nicolas Sarkozy is proposing a new law that would jail repeat visitors to extremist web sites. It is a measure that strips away core free speech rights of citizens and gives the government a new ambiguous power to arrest people for the things that they read. . . .
Sarkozy’s Internet law would leave it to the government to determine what sites are espousing “terrorist” viewpoints. Authoritarian governments have long defined critics as criminals and terrorists from China to Iran to North Korea. . . .
It is a pattern that is all too familiar to Americans. After an individual or group commits a heinous act of terror, the government immediately uses the attack to limit freedoms of all citizens and to expand its own ill-defined powers.
Always Question Authority 