I'm very worried about the journalists at the Guardian now that they verified the extent of police state surveillance revealed in earlier whistle blowers' persecution! (see 1st link)
As more people reluctantly see the truths about our police state, I think folks should look at the effectiveness and techniques of the East German Stasi to understand the model in our America. The ubiquitous infiltration of secret police, or at least the fear of infiltration, and the vast methodology of surveillance was perfected with new technology. And we already have the structures of our "folks police" operating here in our village paradise for many years.
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/6/6/nsa_whistleblowers_all_us_citizens_targeted
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/06/nsa-whistleblowers_n_3398618.html
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/6/6/nsa_whistleblowers_all_us_citizens_targeted
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/06/nsa-whistleblowers_n_3398618.html
Ralph Nader correctly identifies US as "American fascism" on Democracy Now. "Inverted totalitarianism" has been offered to distinguish differences in our American/global form to fascist movements of the early twentieth century (Wolin). The veneer of a republic and less emphasis on a single leader is a primary difference between the modern American form and Chile, Italian, and German forms. Pinochet's Chile should be seen as a guide for American/global fascism because of the US testing of neoliberal economics (aka the Chicago school of Milton Friedman)
But I have long maintained, in accordance with Umberto Eco in Ur Fascism, that core features of eternal fascism exist with a wide variation of historical differences between its rise in different cultures and times. America has been on a proto-fascist vector for decades, and I detected the embrace of the ideology at the neighborhood level well before 9/11/01. It was the undeniable trickle down of eternal fascist ideology at the neighborhood level that finally radicalized me. I had already accepted the infiltration and loss of major research universities and "scientific literature."
