This is absolutely ridiculous. Nationalism needs to be nipped at the bud before it spirals out of control.
These orders should not be followed. Nuremberg defense doesn't hold up.
These orders should not be followed. Nuremberg defense doesn't hold up.
The last time anti-intellectual forces that praised authoritarian figures, promised to take the country back to a more glorious time and zoned in on people of a particular religion, we called it a word stronger than 'Nationalism'.
Christian refugees from these nations are allowed, only Muslims aren't. This is the definition of religious discrimination. This will go down as a dark day in US history, I only hope that it's the lowest point and things don't get worse. But that might be an unrealistically optimistic outlook.
Small Government is a nice, and good, idea, but history shows us that neither surveillance apparatus (pl.) nor secret police (pl.) relinquish power, ever, within existing in the same continuum of legitimation (ie. state). There has been no previous instance where either were reduced; they only grow until chopped off entirely.
It's an infestation of the state. There is only one - proven - cure. (And I think it's naïve to assume that those who built and grow these structures are not aware of this)
You're right though, the biggest problem is all the people cheering this on. I read "Rise and Fall of the Third Reich" and this seems to be escalating even faster.
Is there a book or article that I can read about this point?
I'd really appreciate it if you could show me a few examples.
Wikipedia has a list of historical secret police: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_historical_secret_poli...
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Current examples that are still alive and well could be the various GCC states, but especially Saudi Arabia there; the UK and the US to some degree each (both are obviously full-blown surveillance states at the very least; and it can be reasonably argued that (divisions of) the FBI and some other agencies qualify as a secret police) in the western hemisphere; Russia.