How To Become A Fascist State
Clues That Your Country May Be Turning Into A Fascist State.
NOTE: Some of these symptoms are found in non-fascist countries where they should be treated as serious warning signs. On the other hand, fascist states - unlike democratic nations - have many, if not all, of these symptoms.
- Your president asserts the right to ignore part or all of laws passed by the national legislature.
- Massive warrantless searches
- Your president and other officials regularly lie to you
- Fraudulent election counts
- Government monitoring of letters, emails, phone calls and checking accounts
- Secret courts
- A government subservient to the interests of the country’s largest corporations.
- Use of torture on prisoners
- Courts that support presidential use of unconstitutional powers
- Massive spying on citizens, especially those involved in political dissent
- A government that uses words like democracy, freedom and peace while engaging in acts dramatically at odds with such words
- Government agencies or officials declaring themselves exempt from portions of the law or constitution
- Creation of watchlists, no-fly lists and similar exclusionary documents
- National ID cards
- Growing number of citizens incarcerated for a growing number of offenses
- Massive use of cameras to spy on citizens
- A media supportive of, or obsequious towards, the government in covering its police state activities
- Security bubble around government leaders’ public appearances including preselected audiences and limit on proximity of protests
- Disarming of citizenry
- Dissent characterized as disloyal by government and its supporting media
- Increasing government control over private behavior
- Lack of legal recourse to stop illegal government actions
- Prison without trial and arrests without charges
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