Category Archives: Enemy/Scapegoat

Is ‘the enemy’ used to unify and manipulate? Are terrorists the only enemy? Who is supporting them? Is the enemy list growing? Have the monsters been set loose on Maple Street, USA? Is assumption of trustworthiness in most encounters being replaced by suspicion of everyone? Is the potential for mob rule more likely? Does the enemy include your neighbor who doesn’t agree with you? When will the enemy be tattooed with a scarlet letter? When will guilty until proven innocent become the law? When will mass graves guide our choices? How far is too far?

Tracking the Growth of American Authoritarianism

“Can There Really Be Fascist People In A Democracy?”
Libertarians are stealthily taking over America.
Since the 1971 Powell Memo, America has moved closer and closer to Fascism.

 

Bad Deeds for 5-15-2008

Posted on May 16, 2008 by Jim Vogas

  Pentagon Propagandist General Calls for US to Sponsor Terrorism Against Iran – Last month on Fox News, Ret. Gen. Thomas McInerney, one of the Pentagon’s propaganda team of military analysts exposed by David Barstow in the NYT, openly called … Continue reading →

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Bad Deeds for 4-22-2008

Posted on April 22, 2008 by Jim Vogas

Colorado State Rep. Douglas Bruce Calls Mexican Migrant Workers Illiterate Peasants – State Rep. Douglas Bruce’s derogatory remarks Monday about Mexican migrant workers could leave him facing a second censure penalty or worse. “We don’t need 5,000 more illiterate peasants … Continue reading →

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Bad Deeds for 3-21-2008

Posted on March 21, 2008 by Jim Vogas

Another Lie to Scare You: Bush Falsely Says Iran Announced Their Desire for Nuclear Weapons – President Bush contended that Iran has “declared they want a nuclear weapon to destroy people” and that the Islamic Republic could be hiding a … Continue reading →

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Bad Deeds for 3-13-2008

Posted on March 13, 2008 by Jim Vogas

Four Consecutive Years of Privacy Breaches by FBI – A long-anticipated audit, to be released Thursday, is expected to show a fourth consecutive year of privacy breaches by FBI agents using so-called national security letters to gain access to telephone, … Continue reading →

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Bad Deeds for 3-10-2008

Posted on March 12, 2008 by Jim Vogas

Republican Sally Kern Says Gays Are a Bigger Threat Than Terrorism or Islam – Republican State Representative Sally Kern of Oklahoma says gays are a bigger threat than terrorism or Islam. (Way to go; insult gays and a religion in … Continue reading →

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Bad Deeds for 3-7-2008

Posted on March 6, 2008 by Jim Vogas

Officials Monitor Thousands of Letters Without Warrants – The US postal service approves more than 10,000 requests from US law enforcement each year to record names, addresses and other information from the outside of packages every year, according to information … Continue reading →

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Bad Deeds for 1-24-2008

Posted on January 24, 2008 by Jim Vogas

Fox Host Makes Gay Jokes about Death of Heath Ledger – On Fox Radio, John Gibson used the occasion of the death of actor Heath Ledger to crack jokes about the actor and play clips from his most notable film, … Continue reading →

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Bad Deeds for 1-15-2008

Posted on January 15, 2008 by Jim Vogas

Romney Photo-op Was With Staffer’s Mom – Media outlets reported that Mitt Romney was the picture of empathy as he sat at the Marshall, Mich. kitchen table of 51-year-old Elizabeth Sachs, a single mother of two who lost her job … Continue reading →

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The Left Gets Blasted While the Extreme Right Gets Free Speech

Posted on September 21, 2007 by Andy Hailey

The focused condemnation of MoveOn.org from inside the Beltway, where doing wrong has been the norm since 1994, means MoveOn must be doing something right with that full page ad in the in the New York Times. Why has Congress … Continue reading →

  • Related NPR Stories: <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14599235" target="_blank" title="Columbia's president, Lee Bollinger, says it follows the school's free-speech tradition.">Free speech even applies to the President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.</a>
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Authoritarians Identify Enemies/Scapegoats to Unify Their Followers

Posted on August 28, 2007 by Andy Hailey

The following was distributed by Andy Shanks on August 27, 2007, and is published here with his permission: “We’re ashamed that the President of the United States is from Texas,” Natalie Mains of the Dixie Chicks.  What followed was a … Continue reading →

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