Take the Fascist Dictator Test
January 22nd, 2009
1. Have you ever been Time Magazine’s Person of the Year? (add 4 points)
2. Did you rise to power with less than a majority of the votes? (add 3 points)
3. Have you used a terrorist attack as an excuse to invade another country? (add 5 points)
4. Have you secretly opened and read people’s mail? (add 2 points)
5. Have you secretly eavesdropped on people’s phone conversations? (add 2 points)
6. Have you temporarily revoked founding freedoms because they endangered the homeland to terrorists? (add 4 points)
7. Have you used a campaign based on fear to try and make temporary laws permanent? (add 3 points)
8. Have you frequently imprisoned a particular Middle-Eastern ethnic group without specific charges or the right to fair trials? (add 8 points)
9. Have you marketed yourself as deeply religious, and have you called for a revival of Christian faith across the nation? (add 3 points)
10. Have you appointed your corporate cronies to high government positions? (add 3 points)
11. Have you made corporations wealthy and rewarded society’s richest individuals through an ever-expanding war against terror? (add 5 points)
12. Have you claimed the right to strike another nation preemptively in self-defense? (add 6 points)
13. Have you actively promoted nationalism and questioned the patriotism of everyone who opposes you? (add 3 points)
Results
40 or more points: You’re a full-blown dictator. Tell Congress you have the legal authority to do anything God tells you to do. Refuse to negotiate with the enemy; send more troops.
35 to 39 points: You’re almost a dictator. Stop apologizing, and write more Presidential Signing Statements.
25 to 34 points: You’re probably not at war yet. A new war would improve your poll numbers and dramatically excuse your abuse of executive power. What are you waiting for? Invade somebody, quick.
24 points or less: You probably still feel uncomfortable telling lies. Overcome this weakness by lying about intelligence reports and denying anything your science advisors tell you. With a little practice, you’ll be dominating your nation and raping the world in no time flat!
Lessons in Dictatorship
Watch Thom Hartmann: Parallels between the rise of fascism in the US and 1930s Germany.
Source: http://joecrubaugh.com/blog/2007/03/10/take-the-fascist-dictator-test/
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March 3rd, 2009 at 10:56 am
First blog I read after wakeup from sleep today!
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August 2nd, 2009 at 7:57 pm
Let’s see how this scores for Obama…
1. Time magazine’s Person of the Year. Made the cover about 17 times by now. I’d say that’s equivalent at least. +4
2. Rose to power with less than a majority of the votes? Nope, got the majority. +0
3. Used terror attack to invade another country? Not yet. +0
4. Secretly opened and read people’s mail? That might be happening.
5. Eavesdropped on people’s phone conversations? Continuing the policy. +2
6. Revoked founding freedoms? Yes, though not because they endangered the homeland – because he thinks he can get away with it. +4, and probably should be more.
7. Campaign based on fear? Multiple times! (“We must pass the stimulus now to prevent catastrophe!” “We must pass health care reform now to prevent disaster.” “We must pass carbon emission legislation now, to save the planet!”) +3, though we could make a case for +3 EACH.
8. Frequently imprisoned a particular Middle Eastern ethnic group? Sure acting like he wants to make prisoners of the Israelis in their own country…
9. Marketed yourself as deeply religious. Check, though without calling for a religious revival, and did so to hide his true religion. +3
10. Appointed corporate cronies to high government positions? Yes (tax cheat Tim Geithner, kept Henry Paulson, etc.). +3
11. Made corporations wealthy and rewarded society’s richest individuals? Check. Subsidies to favored corporations, rewarded union bosses, paying back multi-billionaire George Soros, though not through war on terror… +5
12. Claimed the right to strike another nation pre-emptively in self-defense? Check, Pakistan. +6
13. Questioned the patriotism of those who oppose you? Check, though not while actively promoting nationalism. More like while promoting anti-nationalism. +3
So 33 points so far, not even counting whatever additional points should be added for arbitrarily seeking to punish taking earned pay and retention bonuses, flagrantly violating property rights, violating contract rights, disregarding bankruptcy law, obstructing justice by shutting down investigations of political supporters who acted criminally (e.g., Black Panthers at Philadelphia), supporting federal funding for other groups notorious for flouting the law (Acorn), actively supporting full-blown dictators in other countries and lending then legitimacy (Ahmedinejad in Iran, Chavez in Venezuela, Ortega in Nicaragua, the Castros in Cuba, etc.), actively opposing free and democratic nations with democratic processes and those seeking to become so (Israel, Honduras, the Iranian protestors…), seeking to get legislation passed that would give his government control over the lives of the citizens every bit as thorough as control over slaves (the provisions in “Cap and Trade” and in the “Health reform” bills being the big ones). Assign a few points for each of those and Obama easily eclipses 40 points on this test.
August 11th, 2009 at 5:10 pm
I haven’t heard about this on t.v. and when is the court date? if this is all real the lady will just wind up being killed or mysteriously die anyway. And what does Michael Jackson have to do with it again? I am slightly dead and can barely hear any of those women talking in the videos with the volume up as high as it can even go if anyone will tell me my e-mail is seal_of_solomon82@hotmail.com , thank you
August 11th, 2009 at 5:15 pm
It all makes sense, though. All the laws made before this “pandemic”, seems to connect. If they are found guilty it will just be “Conspiracy to commit” charges and as smart as they are i’d say they have a backup plan. It’s going to happen and there is nothing we can do about it. I might not be optimistic I don’t know but I fear for this Jane Burgermeister person that her life might be in danger if this is all indeed about to go down, the court case. I plan on taking my own life when it gets bad, I am just concerned for my nephews and all children all over the world. This is truly sad.