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Massive Purge Of Intel Community, Leakers Possible After Mike Flynn Situation Morning Joe MSNBC (Original Post) LongTomH Feb 2017 OP
That looks like... orwell Feb 2017 #1
FUCK U Joe Cryptoad Feb 2017 #2
In a battle of Intelligence C_U_L8R Feb 2017 #3
Imagine if Obama had purged the intel services & put his own man in charge. Honeycombe8 Feb 2017 #4
He is a fascist bastard just like the rest of that stinking party. olegramps Feb 2017 #5

Cryptoad

(8,254 posts)
2. FUCK U Joe
Thu Feb 16, 2017, 06:52 PM
Feb 2017

Here'e a big FUCK U Joe,,,,,, asshole! Why is what this asshole says on DU ????????? If I wanted to watch and see what this asshole has to say and spin, I would turn on his show ........geeez

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
4. Imagine if Obama had purged the intel services & put his own man in charge.
Thu Feb 16, 2017, 07:38 PM
Feb 2017

Imagine how heads would have exploded. And rightly so. But of course Obama (or any other President that I can think of, save Nixon) would have done such a thing.

Does a President have this much power? To kill an investigation of himself by firing the ones working on it, and putting his own person in charge? If so, the President, no matter who he is, should not have that much power.

How is it that Clinton got investigated over an affair with an intern, and even impeached by one house of Congress? If Clinton had the power to kill the investigation and put his own person in charge....why didn't he do it?

This is looking more and more like a sham democracy, and that we've got a puppet President.

olegramps

(8,200 posts)
5. He is a fascist bastard just like the rest of that stinking party.
Fri Feb 17, 2017, 03:44 AM
Feb 2017

He is the reincarnation of Mussolini. A bombastic ass that the morons will follow to their death. This is what the Republican Party has become and mimics every fascistic trait of the Nazis. Fascism has come to America. Compare today's Republican Party with the following:

Fourteen Defining
Characteristics Of Fascism
By Dr. Lawrence Britt
Source Free Inquiry.co
5-28-3


Dr. Lawrence Britt has examined the fascist regimes of Hitler (Germany), Mussolini (Italy), Franco (Spain), Suharto (Indonesia) and several Latin American regimes. Britt found 14 defining characteristics common to each:

1. Powerful and Continuing Nationalism - Fascist regimes tend to make constant use of patriotic mottos, slogans, symbols, songs, and other paraphernalia. Flags are seen everywhere, as are flag symbols on clothing and in public displays.

2. Disdain for the Recognition of Human Rights - Because of fear of enemies and the need for security, the people in fascist regimes are persuaded that human rights can be ignored in certain cases because of "need." The people tend to look the other way or even approve of torture, summary executions, assassinations, long incarcerations of prisoners, etc.

3. Identification of Enemies/Scapegoats as a Unifying Cause - The people are rallied into a unifying patriotic frenzy over the need to eliminate a perceived common threat or foe: racial , ethnic or religious minorities; liberals; communists; socialists, terrorists, etc.

4. Supremacy of the Military - Even when there are widespread
domestic problems, the military is given a disproportionate amount of government funding, and the domestic agenda is neglected. Soldiers and military service are glamorized.

5. Rampant Sexism - The governments of fascist nations tend to be almost exclusively male-dominated. Under fascist regimes, traditional gender roles are made more rigid. Divorce, abortion and homosexuality are suppressed and the state is represented as the ultimate guardian of the family institution.

6. Controlled Mass Media - Sometimes to media is directly controlled by the government, but in other cases, the media is indirectly controlled by government regulation, or sympathetic media spokespeople and executives. Censorship, especially in war time, is very common.

7. Obsession with National Security - Fear is used as a motivational tool by the government over the masses.

8. Religion and Government are Intertwined - Governments in fascist nations tend to use the most common religion in the nation as a tool to manipulate public opinion. Religious rhetoric and terminology is common from government leaders, even when the major tenets of the religion are diametrically opposed to the government's policies or actions.

9. Corporate Power is Protected - The industrial and business aristocracy of a fascist nation often are the ones who put the government leaders into power, creating a mutually beneficial business/government relationship and power elite.

10. Labor Power is Suppressed - Because the organizing power of labor is the only real threat to a fascist government, labor unions are either eliminated entirely, or are severely suppressed.

11. Disdain for Intellectuals and the Arts - Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to higher education, and academia. It is not uncommon for professors and other academics to be censored or even arrested. Free expression in the arts and letters is openly attacked.

12. Obsession with Crime and Punishment - Under fascist regimes, the police are given almost limitless power to enforce laws. The people are often willing to overlook police abuses and even forego civil liberties in the name of patriotism. There is often a national police force with virtually unlimited power in fascist nations.

13. Rampant Cronyism and Corruption - Fascist regimes almost always are governed by groups of friends and associates who appoint each other to government positions and use governmental power and authority to protect their friends from accountability. It is not uncommon in fascist regimes for national resources and even treasures to be appropriated or even outright stolen by government leaders.

14. Fraudulent Elections - Sometimes elections in fascist nations are a complete sham. Other times elections are manipulated by smear campaigns against or even assassination of opposition candidates, use of legislation to control voting numbers or political district boundaries, and manipulation of the media. Fascist nations also typically use their judiciaries to manipulate or control elections.

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