Michigan’s “Emergency” Financial Regime: What Fascism Looks Like

[babsbunny]

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Tue, 04/26/2011 - 17:56 — Glen Ford

A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford

Michigan’s Republicans are creating a legal model for American fascism for the benefit of Wall Street. The state’s new emergency financial management legislation “is the prototype for a host of laws designed to make government – the state – a compliant tool for a dictatorship of the most predatory sections of the ruling class.” Naturally – this being the United States – the first localities targeted for de-democratization are Black.

Michigan’s “Emergency” Financial Regime: What Fascism Looks Like

A Black Agenda Radio commentary by Glen Ford

“There is nothing to stop the state from abolishing democratic governance in any of Michigan’s cities, if an emergency can be declared or created.”

Fascism is not all about jack-boots and guys with mustaches. It is a system of economic and social control. The particularities of fascism in any given nation grow out of the special dynamics of that country. Fascism in the United States will be blow-dried. And its legal and bureaucratic form will take shape in places like Michigan, where an innocuous sounding piece of legislation called the Local Government and School District Fiscal Accountability Act is the prototype for a host of laws designed to make government – the state – a compliant tool for the dictatorial rule of the most predatory sections of the ruling class. In 2011 America, that’s Wall Street, finance capital.

[MedleyMisty]

1. K & R

[MichiganVote]

2. K&R

[midnight]

3. K&R We need to start electing people who can work will with working people...

[AndyTiedye]

4. This Will Give the Repigs Permanent Control of the State

Taking over all the Democratic cities will also allow them to control the ELECTIONS there, so we will never be able to vote them out.

[socialist_n_TN]

5. Yep. That's why we're going to need extra electoral

remedies. Dual government anyone? The local actually ELECTED officials have to stay at their posts and the PEOPLE have to look to THEM for leadership rather than the appointed fascists. A boatload of continuous street demonstrations, protests, strikes, and civil disobedience will need to happen too.

Folks, they're playing SERIOUS hardball with this. We HAVE to stand up or it's over.

[Bozita]

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