Governments Continue To Develop Fascist Policies

Fascism Alive and Well in UK

The Telegraph newspaper [telegraph.co.uk] reports on November 6th, 2008, that:

"Internet black boxes to record every email and website visit Internet "black boxes" could be used to record every email and website visit made by computer users in Britain....".

The article, by Graham Tibbetts, went on to say:

"Under Government plans to monitor internet traffic, raw data would be collected and stored by the black boxes before being transferred to a giant central database.

The vision was outlined at a meeting between officials from the Home Office and Internet Service Providers earlier this week.

It is further evidence of the Government's desire to have the capability to vet every telephone call, email and internet visit made in the UK, which has already provoked an outcry."

As I have written here on numerous occasions in the past, disturbing proposals, actions and laws of the UK government, lead any
democracy-loving observer to conclude that the UK government is slowly, but surely, slipping into a form of totalitarianism, which I like to call fascism [even though political scientists may argue my use of such a term is technically inaccurate]. Many Britons, to be sure, have protested against such anti-democratic measures, but the government persists in pushing its nazi-like agenda.

Of course, under the guise of the "war on terror", the Canadian, US and other nominally democratic governments, not to be outdone, have enacted several similarly fascist or nazi-like measures, eroding civil liberties and traditional freedoms. The latest instance in the US of this agenda is the government's policy of allowing border control cops to seize and steal from citizens and foreigners alike, without reasonable or probable cause, computers and other devices which might contain emails or other information the government might wish to examine.

All of this is ostensibly done to fight terrorism and crime, but in so doing, these governments are doing just what the Islamist terrorists want, namely, to destroy democracy. Is it a conspiracy between the terrorists and our fascist-like governments or is it mostly an expression of any government's natural tendency towards fascism which can bloom where the citizenry are ignorant, complacent, and foolish? I suspect it is the latter.