Walking the Line in a Totalitarian Regime
Y’know it’s funny but when we hear about totalitarian regimes, especially those just-post-babyboomers and a little older, we tend to think of the old Soviet Union and Stalinism. Where are your papers? We will shoot you if we wish? And, the other hint you’re living in a totalitarian regime – hand over those photos.
But the truth about living in totalitarian regimes is not that one morning you wind up to find a President or a Prime Minister with tanks in the streets and a total suspension of a constitution. Rather, you find that every day a little bit of your constitution and your rights disappear through legitimate channels. One day you can drive from Yuma to wherever free as a bird living the American dream and the next you’re living in the world of anti-terrorist security checkpoints. Show us your papers. We will shoot you if you wish. Hand over those photos.
Terrorism is an interesting enemy – we’ve always had one. The dark threat is what the totalitarianist (that’s a word meaning public service terrorist) has always used to protect you… those Nazi checkpoints were for detecting Jews, by the way. The checkpoints are never for subjugating the people.
The real question to ask – why does an element in the world so vehemently hate America, Britain, Australia and the Europeans? OK mainly the Europeans are just tarred for being white guys like us… Answer: American bombs kill family members x, y and z and the hospital up the road is bombed, too. Meanwhile they watch The Bold and the Beautiful and that becomes America in their minds – opulent, wasteful, petty and corrupt. The hint to fixing this is what then? Mmm how about being nicer. It’s very hard to hate you if you like them…
Meanwhile, back at totalitarian regimes – aka the United States and Britain. Just remember it’s a day by day disease. Nothing like a good police beating on the way home from work, wot! And delete those photos. This is becoming a daily exercise in the slippage of the free world, no less. And what was the saying about the Nazis? Say it after me:
Evil prospers when good men do nothing.
By the way, when did torture stop being an international war crime and become a tool of democracy? Mmm… you get what you pay for.
