Sunday, January 1, 2017

FIFTEEN WARNING SIGNS OF IMPENDING TYRANNY


Robert Reich

What are the 15 warning signs of impending tyranny? As tyrants take control of democracies, they:
1. Exaggerate their mandate to govern -- claiming, for example, that they won an election by a landslide even after losing the popular vote.
2. Repeatedly claim massive voter fraud in the absence of any evidence, in order to restrict voting in subsequent elections.
3. Publicly criticize anyone who criticizes them, labeling them "enemies."
4. Turn the public against journalists or media outlets that criticize them, calling them "deceitful" and "scum."
5. Hold few if any press conferences, preferring to communicate with the public directly through mass rallies and unfiltered statements.
6. Tell the public big lies, causing them to doubt the truth and believe fictions that support the tyrants' goals.
7. Blame economic stresses on immigrants or racial or religious minorities, and foment public bias and even violence against them.
8. Attribute acts of domestic violence on "enemies within," and use such events as excuses to beef up internal security and limit civil liberties.
9. Threaten mass deportations, registries of religious minorities, the banning or extreme vetting of refugees.
10. Seek to reduce or eliminate competing centers of power, such as trade unions and opposition parties.
11. Appoint family members to high positions of authority.
12. Surround themselves with their own personal security force rather than with a security detail accountable to the public.
13. Put generals and other military commanders into top civilian posts.
14. Make personal alliances with foreign dictators.
15. Draw no distinction between personal property and public property, profiteering from their public office.
Be warned. 20 days to go.

NEVER AGAIN?
Yesterday, the Jews – Tomorrow?
http://phylliscartersjournal.blogspot.ca/2014/02/never-again.html.

PASTOR MARTIN NIEMOLLER
http://phylliscartersjournal.blogspot.ca/2015/02/we-said-never-again-world-war-pastor.html.

I DON'T WANT TO BELIEVE IT, BUT I DO !
http://phylliscartersjournal.blogspot.ca/2016/11/i-dont-want-to-believe-it-but-i-do.html

THE PERFECT FORMULA TO END CIVILIZATION – REVELATION – THE WITCHES' BREW
http://phylliscartersjournal.blogspot.ca/2016/12/revelation-perfect-formula-to-end.html

BUILDING YOUR OWN ATOM BOMB SHELTER
http://phylliscartersjournal.blogspot.ca/2016/12/building-your-nuclear-bomb-shelter.html

TRUMP COULD LAUNCH A NUCLEAR MISSILE IN FOUR MINUTES - DEMOCRACY NOW – DECEMBER 29, 2016
https://www.democracynow.org/2016/12/29/donald_trump_s_new_nuclear_instability

MELANIA TRUMP – AMERICA'S FIRST "LADY"
http://phylliscartersjournal.blogspot.ca/2016/11/melania-trump-americas-first-lady.html

THROUGH THE DECADES, PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN ABOUT THE NAZI ERA, AND WONDERED ALOUD, HOW THE PEOPLE OF GERMANY AND ITALY AND FRANCE AND POLAND COULD HAVE ALLOWED THE HOLOCAUST TO HAPPEN. AND NOW, LOOK AT US .... THE NAZIS ARE IN ALL THEIR GLORY WITH THEIR FUHRER ABOUT TO ASCEND THE THRONE, SUPPORTED BY GOERING, HIMMLER, MENGELE ET AL.

I BELIEVE THAT AMERICA IS ON THE BRINK OF THE MOST CATASTROPHIC EVENT IN ITS HISTORY. IN THE PAST, WARS WERE FAR ACROSS THE SEA. THIS WAR - THESE WARS - WILL BE FOUGHT IN THE STREETS AND FIELDS OF AMERICA, AND MANY WILL DIE.

I CANNOT IMAGINE FOR A MOMENT THAT MILLIONS OF PEOPLE ARE GOING TO LINE UP QUIETLY WITH THEIR LITTLE SATCHELS - AS THE JEWS OF THE NAZI ERA DID - AND ALLOW THEMSELVES TO BE FORCED INTO CAMPS OR BOATS, PLANES, TRAINS, TRUCKS. MUSLIMS, MEXICANS - ANYONE WHO DOES NOT HAVE A WHITE SKIN AND ORANGE HAIR - WILL BE AT RISK.

NO MATTER HOW CAREFULLY THE TRUMP GENERALS TRY TO ORGANIZE THE ONSLAUGHT, THE PEOPLE WILL NOT TAKE IT WITHOUT RESISTANCE - ARMED AND UNARMED - ARMED WITH KITCHEN KNIVES, WITH MOLOTOV COCKTAILS - THEY WILL FIGHT AGAINST TRUMP'S POLICE AND ARMIES AND TANKS AND HEAVY WEAPONS. AMERICA WILL SEE KILLING FIELDS AND RAGING FIRES. AMERICA WILL BE ALEPPO.

THIS IS NOT WHAT I WANT TO HAPPEN.  THIS IS WHAT I BELIEVE WILL HAPPEN.

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