can someone help me find examples of the 12th characteristic of Fascism, which is Obsession with Crime and Punishment. I've tried searching but i can't find any examples.
2007-02-22 13:00:37 · 2 answers · asked by jls10 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
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.
The 10 most outrageous civil liberties violations of 2006
The United States has now become the world leader in its rate of incarceration, locking up its citizens at 5-8 times the rate of other industrialized nations.
American Gestapo is here: "There is hereby created and established a permanent police force, to be known as the 'United States Secret Service Uniformed Division.'"
America: secret jails, secret courts, secret arrests, and now secret laws
Snitch-or-Go-to-Jail bill will make pretty much anything short of reporting on everyone you see for doing just about anything a jailable offense. With minimum sentences, up to and including life without parole.
The problem with Gonzales is that he has been deeply involved in developing some of the most sweeping claims of near-dictatorial presidential power in our nation's history, allowing him to imprison and even (at least in theory) torture anyone in the world, at any time
Police officers don't have to give a reason at the time they arrest someone, the U.S. Supreme Court said in a ruling that shields officers from false-arrest lawsuits.
2007-02-22 13:08:16 · answer #1 · answered by landhermit 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Third Reich has some great examples......SS and Gestapo
2007-02-22 21:06:11 · answer #2 · answered by The Angry Stick Man 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋