http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/totalitarian/ en-us Wed, 8 Oct 2008 23:46:34 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2100894/posts The secret to selling bad ideas is to make sure they are the only ones available. This is how totalitarian regimes take power. Whether it was Adolf Hitler in Nazi Germany or Vladimir Lenin in Communist Russia, the pattern is largely the same – totalitarian dictators come to power by enshrining themselves as cults of personality and then creating political monopolies through often less than delicate campaigns of indoctrination and censorship – especially censorship enshrouded in the intimidating aura of state power.Ironically, these cloven-tongued leaders often rise to dominance by preaching power to those they will dominate, provision to those... Catholic Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2100894/posts#comment Wed, 8 Oct 2008 23:46:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2058656/posts By see-dubya  •  August 8, 2008 01:54 AM Get a load of these guys: Nearly 10,000 of the biggest donors to Republican candidates and causes across the country will probably receive a foreboding “warning” letter in the mail next week. … Led by Tom Matzzie, a liberal political operative who has been involved with some prominent left-wing efforts in recent years, the newly formed nonprofit group, Accountable America, is planning to confront donors to conservative groups, hoping to create a chilling effect that will dry up contributions.“We want to stop the Swift Boating before it gets off the ground,” said Mr.... michellemalkin.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2058656/posts#comment Fri, 8 Aug 2008 17:20:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050413/posts The U.S. House of Representatives is scheduled to debate two bills that could give the federal government unprecedented control over the way parents raise their children – even providing funds for state workers to come into homes and screen babies for emotional and developmental problems. The Pre-K Act (HR 3289) and the Education Begins at Home Act (HR 2343) are two bills geared toward military and families who fall below state poverty lines. The measures are said to be a way to prevent child abuse, close the achievement gap in education between poor and minority infants versus middle-class children and... WorldNetDaily.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050413/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:32:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042254/posts BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: World War II, I read today, those of you from the greatest generation, you World War II vets still alive, apparently Monday night PBS is going to run a documentary on World War II in which the whole notion that we were the good guys is going to be turned upside down, that we used totalitarian dictatorship tactics to win World War II, that all we did was bomb the innocent in Dresden and Hamburg and, of course, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, that we were not the valiant and valorous victors that we were made out to be,... www.rushlimbaugh.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042254/posts#comment Tue, 8 Jul 2008 06:03:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2031059/posts Where does all this stuff that you�ve heard about this morning � the victim feminism, the gay rights movement, the invented statistics, the rewritten history, the lies, the demands, all the rest of it � where does it come from? For the first time in our history, Americans have to be fearful of what they say, of what they write, and of what they think. They have to be afraid of using the wrong word, a word denounced as offensive or insensitive, or racist, sexist, or homophobic. We have seen other countries, particularly in this century, where this has been... Accuracy in Academia http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2031059/posts#comment Sat, 14 Jun 2008 14:16:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2013487/posts Demonised in the West as goons guarding the Olympic torch along its chaotic world tour, these pictures show how China's paramilitary police learn their unwavering discipline. Officers of the People Paramilitary Police preparing for the Olympics are drilled on the parade ground with pins in their collars and crosses on their backs to ensure perfect posture. But instead of the blue tracksuits members wore while escorting the flame, they are kitted out in full dress uniform during the exercise at their base in Shenyang, Liaoning province. Daily Mail UK http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2013487/posts#comment Fri, 9 May 2008 09:19:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2007556/posts Return to the Article April 27, 2008Another Obama MarxistBy Lance Fairchok Barack Obama has a thing for Marxists. He befriends them, listens to their counsel, and he even hires them to work in his campaign.  And they seem to feel the warmth.  President Daniel Ortega of Nicaragua, who led a revolution there in 1979,  says Barack Obama's presidential bid is a "revolutionary" phenomenon, and Americans are "laying the foundations for a revolutionary change." A captured computer revealed that an unknown person chatted with Marxist FARC guerillas on Obama's behalf (they believed), stating he would be the next President and US policy... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2007556/posts#comment Sun, 27 Apr 2008 06:22:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2001953/posts PARIS (Reuters) - French former film star Brigitte Bardot went on trial on Tuesday for insulting Muslims, the fifth time she has faced the charge of "inciting racial hatred" over her controversial remarks about Islam and its followers. Prosecutors asked that the Paris court hand the 73-year-old former sex symbol a two-month suspended prison sentence and fine her 15,000 euros ($23,760) for saying the Muslim community was "destroying our country and imposing its acts." Since retiring from the film industry in the 1970s, Bardot has become a prominent animal rights activist but she has also courted controversy by denouncing Muslim... Reuters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2001953/posts#comment Tue, 15 Apr 2008 17:45:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1999597/posts BEIJING (AFP) - China bluntly told the world Olympics chief Thursday to keep out of politics, in a tart exchange on human rights following days of protests that have shadowed the Olympic torch around the world. International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge said the Games were in "crisis" following the demonstrations, and urged China to respect its pledge to improve its rights record before the event begins in August. China fired back that Rogge should keep politics out of the Olympics, which Beijing hoped would showcase its much-touted "peaceful rise" to power -- but which have instead become a public... AFP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1999597/posts#comment Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:38:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1984734/posts "I am afraid there are people who want to stop the economic growth, the rise in the standard of living (though not their own) and the ability of man to use the expanding wealth, science and technology for solving the actual pressing problems of mankind, especially of the developing countries." "I am also afraid that the same people, imprisoned in the Malthusian tenets and in their own megalomaniacal ambitions, want to regulate and constrain demographic development, which is something only the totalitarian regimes have until now dared to experiment with." The Austrailian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1984734/posts#comment Wed, 12 Mar 2008 23:59:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1958703/posts Globalization relates to social change and the connectivity of societies around the world. The goal of globalization is to create one global village that has mutual understanding and friendship between all citizens of the world community. The signs of globalization are many. Some major ones are: 1. “Increase in international trade at a faster rate than the growth in the world economy 2. Greater international cultural exchange 3. Greater international travel and tourism 4. Greater immigration, including illegal immigration 5. Development of global telecommunications infrastructure 6. Development of global financial systems 7. Increase in the share of the world economy... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1958703/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jan 2008 12:40:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1954891/posts Police in San Mateo County, California apparently first spent months investigating the small-stakes poker game. From this firsthand account, it looks like a couple of the officers were playing regularly for several weeks before sending in the SWAT team, guns drawn, last week. If California is like most states (and I believe it is), a poker game is only illegal if the house is taking a rake off the top. In this case, it looks like that "rake" was the $5 the extra the hosts asked from each buy-in to pay for pizza and beer. Police also took a 13-year-old... Reason Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1954891/posts#comment Thu, 17 Jan 2008 00:35:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1928670/posts Saudi lawyer in rape victim plea Story Highlights - Woman sentenced to 200 lashes and six months in jail under Islamic law - Judge more than doubled 19-year-old's sentence for speaking to the media - Woman's lawyer loses law license for speaking to Saudi-controlled media - Human rights group: Lawyer faces three-year suspension and disbarment (CNN) -- A Saudi Arabian human rights attorney is asking the government to allow him to represent a woman who was gang-raped -- and then sentenced to prison for speaking out about the case. The attorney, Abdulrahman al-Lahim, had his license revoked last week by... CNN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1928670/posts#comment Wed, 21 Nov 2007 03:35:59 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1927449/posts POLICE STATE, GERMANY Court: Homeschooling is 'child endangerment' Gives 2 kids to government, castigates social workers for letting family flee A court decision that categorized homeschooling as "child welfare endangerment" has assigned custody of two children to the government and criticized a social services agency for allowing a family to flee Germany, where homeschooling remains illegal. Federal High Court in Karlsruhe, Germany's highest court, was reported by the German edition of Agence France-Presse, as well as Netwerk Bildungsfreiheit, an organization that advocates for homeschoolers against the repression in Germany. The report did not directly identify the family involved, but described... WND http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1927449/posts#comment Sun, 18 Nov 2007 13:37:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1923454/posts Remembering Kristallnacht, the 'Night of Broken Glass' By Hilda Pierce November 9, 2007 Crystal Night is a beautiful name for an evil event that took place in Austria and Germany on the night of Nov. 9, 1938. It was orchestrated on the orders of Adolph Hitler's minister of propaganda, Josef Goebbels. Adolf Eichmann also had a part in organizing the “Night of Broken Glass,” the night of burning synagogues, smashing windows of Jewish stores, looting, killing or torturing Jews on the streets and in their homes, 69 years ago today. It is a historical date because it was also the... SignOnSanDiego.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1923454/posts#comment Fri, 9 Nov 2007 18:23:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1913615/posts This afternoon [10/18/2007] the editorial desk of Noticiero Digital contacted the news department of Mérida radio station Estudio 102.7 FM, who confirmed the information reported this morning. They added that the recently inaugurated monument was destroyed by gunfire. The glass monument honoring Argentinian guerilla Ernesto Guevara was not well received by the area's communities, to whom [Che] represented a figure who was totally foreign to its history and values. Noticiero Digital (Spanish Language) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1913615/posts#comment Fri, 19 Oct 2007 18:48:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1867402/posts The Chinese government has launched a campaign to limit the number of hours teenagers spend online playing games. Under new rules that took effect Monday, Chinese Internet gaming companies must install a program that requires users to enter their ID card numbers. After three hours, players under 18 are prompted to stop and "do suitable physical exercise." If they continue, the software slashes by half any points earned in the game. All points are wiped out if players stay on more than five hours. The program is part of a government campaign to combat Internet gaming addiction, "clean up the... Associated Press (newsvine.com) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1867402/posts#comment Tue, 17 Jul 2007 21:26:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1865514/posts Che Guevara: PC Icon by Larry Pratt July 12, 2007 02:00 PM EST Che Guevara's image graces many a T-shirt worn in the US. Wearing one of these seems to be intended as a statement that it is good to be free of the crushing norms of a civilization tricked up by dead white men. The T-shirt image depicts a long-haired 1960’s hippy gazing steadfastly into the future. The truth is, Ernesto "Che" Guevara, the one-time number three in Fidel Castro's thugocracy, would have had a guy looking like Guevara's resemblance arrested and sent to a concentration camp known by... Gun Owners of America http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1865514/posts#comment Fri, 13 Jul 2007 18:22:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1864284/posts 'Mohammad cartoon' publisher appalled at reaction to Rushdie's knighting Chad Groening OneNewsNow.com July 9, 2007 The man responsible for publishing the controversial cartoons that angered the Islamic world almost two years ago says he's seeing similar reaction to the decision by Queen Elizabeth to knight author Salman Rushdie, who received death threats for writing The Satanic Verses. Hear this Report Flemming Rose is the cultural editor for Jyllands Posten, the Danish newspaper that published the "Mohammad cartoons" that sparked one of the most significant discussions of free speech of this generation. He sees similarities between Muslim reaction to that and... OneNewsNow http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1864284/posts#comment Wed, 11 Jul 2007 16:55:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1857165/posts Frustrated by a legislative session that left many key issues hanging, Gov. Eliot Spitzer said Tuesday that he could govern without lawmakers. Downplaying the importance of passing laws, the freshman governor said he favored regulatory changes and executive orders to run the state -- neither of which require prior approval by the legislature. The Democratic governor repeated his criticism of a decision by the Senate's Republican majority to go home June 21, the official end of the six-month session, though many bills remain to be considered. Newsday http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1857165/posts#comment Wed, 27 Jun 2007 17:36:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1851058/posts North Korea has increased its public executions against cell phone users and those who circulate outside information in the communist country, a South Korean government think tank said Thursday. The phenomenon of executions of those who "circulate South Korean leaflets and sell videos and use cell phones are on the rise," the South's government-affiliated Korea Institute for National Unification think tank said in a white paper on the North's human rights conditions. No exact figures were given. North Koreans are officially banned from communicating with the outside world but some of them listen to foreign news and use cell phones... Jerusalem Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1851058/posts#comment Fri, 15 Jun 2007 23:33:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1849658/posts Che Guevara: Mass Murderer and Coward By Jamie Glazov FrontPageMagazine.com June 13, 2007 Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Cuban-born Humberto Fontova, who left Cuba in 1961 at age seven, has written for several conservative magazines and is the author of Fidel: Hollywood's Favorite Tyrant. He has appeared on many radio and television shows and is active in the Cuban American community. He is the author of the new book Exposing the Real Che Guevara: And the Useful Idiots Who Idolize Him. FP: Humberto Fontova, welcome to Frontpage Interview. Fontova: It's my pleasure. Let's face it: how many media outlets are... FrontPageMagazine.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1849658/posts#comment Wed, 13 Jun 2007 19:50:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1846020/posts Malaysia: 37 books that 'undermine Islam' banned Associated Press, THE JERUSALEM POST Jun. 6, 2007 Malaysia has banned 37 books and other publications on Islam, saying they contain "twisted facts" that could undermine Muslims' faith. Che Din Yusoh, a senior official of the Publications and Quranic Texts Control Division, said in a statement Wednesday that 21 of the items were English-language publications from the US, UK and Jordan, and 16 others were in the Bahasa Malaysia language, published in Malaysia and Indonesia. "These publications can cause confusion and apprehension among Muslims and eventually jeopardize public order," Che Din said in... international.jpost.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1846020/posts#comment Wed, 6 Jun 2007 21:24:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1844844/posts A Chinese-language international TV station called New Tang Dynasty TV (NTDTV) recently broadcast a news item on Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv's adamant prohibition of Jews deriving any benefit from Chinese organ harvesting, even in life-threatening situations. Elyashiv, the most respected halachic authority among haredi Lithuanian Jewry, ruled over a month ago that it was forbidden to use organs harvested from members of the Falun Gong, a spiritual movement that is being persecuted by the Chinese Communist regime. Although Elyashiv did not mention the Falun Gong by name, he said it was a desecration of God's name for Jews to exploit... The Jerusalem Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1844844/posts#comment Tue, 5 Jun 2007 00:29:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1844727/posts 1989 : Tiananmen Square Massacre Takes Place Chinese troops storm through Tiananmen Square in the center of Beijing, killing and arresting thousands of pro-democracy protesters. The brutal Chinese government assault on the protesters shocked the West and brought denunciations and sanctions from the United States. In May 1989, nearly a million Chinese, mostly young students, crowded into central Beijing to protest for greater democracy and call for the resignations of Chinese Communist Party leaders deemed too repressive. For nearly three weeks, the protesters kept up daily vigils, and marched and chanted. Western reporters captured much of the drama for television... History.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1844727/posts#comment Mon, 4 Jun 2007 20:37:45 GMT