10 Indications The United States Is A Dictatorship

[NorthCarolina]

An interesting offering from ActivistPost.com

For a people to be free, they must first be honest with themselves, their government, and the world at large. History is filled with stories of free nations that fell under the spell cast by their governments who exploited the threat of terror.

In fact, numerous presidents in American history already have used various specific threats to sidestep their Constitutional restraints. Today we are entering a nebulous world where our "enemy" cannot be defined, has no particular allegiance to one country, and is able to adopt new leaders at will. Rather than encourage a sense of resilience and independence in its citizens, America has chosen to amplify the terror threat in order to concentrate power in the hands of the State. The very first signpost on this historically familiar road to tyranny is an atmosphere of hate, suspicion, and vindictiveness. It first begins as an outwardly directed aggression and then rather abruptly turns inward upon itself.

The good news is that freedom is won and lost in the hearts and minds of men. It is for this reason that we must state the obvious: we have clearly passed through the first "atmospheric" stage of approaching dictatorship, and have now entered the second -- the open behavior of a dictatorship in the United States.

It will never be announced on the evening news, and it is not likely to continue under an authoritarian leader in the mold of a Stalin, Hitler, or Mao. Likewise, it is not to say that Barack Obama is the first dictator of The United States, but rather is part of a continued expansion of executive power that is now so great that by all measures America can no longer be called a Land of the Free ruled by We the People. We stand no chance of reversing this forced march by false democracy until we understand where we are headed, who is leading us there, and for what purpose.

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Link: http://www.activistpost.com/2011/05/10-indications-united-states-is.html

[villager]

1. Well certainly the notion of Americans being "honest with themselves" was lost long ago...

...and no one seems to miss such an aspect of national character too much, these days. Alas.

[ZombieHorde]

2. Dictatorship has a meaning, and the article doesn't describe it.

Even if we lost all of our freedoms, the US would not be a dictatorship. Dictatorships have little to do with freedoms, they are a type of government.

[provis99]

4. I think they mean a Meet the New Boss, same as the Old Boss type of deal.

Its a dictatorship if you dont have a real choice, regardless of which empty suits occupy the levers of power.

[ZombieHorde]

5. No, a dictatorship is a system of government where one person has absolute power.

Bush did not have absolute power, and President Obama does not have absolute power.

[Demeter]

7. Bush Damn Near Did

and Obama has been increasing the Presidential Power Grab, not relinquishing it...

[valerief]

3. Thank goodness the world is ending next Saturday. nt

[KoKo]

6. K&R