For around thre decades now, in quite ubtle ways, and more latantly over the past five years, American, British, Canadian, Australian, French, German and Brazilian governments have unleashed a series of all out assaults on dissent and criticism of authority against political opponents, weaponising the justics system against the exercise of free speech, introducing martial law, military occupations of major cities, government censorship of the internet, nationwide manhunts, televised raids and extended detentions without trial against those who challenge them or question official narratives. Most of those arrested have been guilty of political speech and protests generally far less violent than leftist riots by regime supporters, anti - racism protestors and supporters of terrorist movements.
Three of those leftist governments, the Biden-Harris administration,
the Starmer and Lula regimes, unleashed crackdowns immediately after taking power ,
using various pretexts. The fourth crackdown, in Canada under the
Trudeau regime, took place during an election year.
The pretexts, including UK’s anti-migrant
rallies, Trump supporters rallies, Anti - mask and anti - lockdown protests are far less significant than the pattern of leftist regimes
taking power and launching crackdowns against opponents who disputed
elections or, in the case of the Starmer regime, protested against
policies.
Governments that moan about “authoritarianism” abroad eagerly
adopted every element of the authoritarian playbook from endless
investigations of political opponents like Trump and Bolsonaro to
declaring states of emergency over political protests and censoring debate. They often justify their authoritarian ad fascistic measures as necessary to
stop their “far - right” opponents.
In the first stage of authoritarianism, the law is applied
unequally, in the second stage of authoritarianism, inequality is
written into the law, and in the final stage, the regime is the law.
The only thing free about any of this is that there are still
elections and people are still allowed to vote in them. But democracy,
as residents of North Korea’s Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
could tell you if they had any free speech, isn’t actually freedom.
Bringing democracy to Iraq just turned it into an Islamic theocracy run by the Shiite majority. In actual free countries, people have
more political freedom than just casting a ballot once every few years.
In order discuss the constitutional legitimacy of the regimes mentioned a clarification is what is meant by ‘totalitarian’ is needed?Encyclopedia Britannica, an authoritative enough source for anybody I hope, states:
Totalitarianism is a form of government that attempts to assert total control over the lives of its citizens. It is characterized by strong central rule that attempts to control and direct all aspects of individual life through coercion and repression. It does not permit individual freedom. Traditional social institutions and organizations are discouraged and suppressed, making people more willing to be merged into a single unified movement. Totalitarian states typically pursue a special goal to the exclusion of all others, with all resources directed toward its attainment, regardless of the cost.
This is an accurate description of the current UK government, based on performance during their first two months in office and plans so far announced for the rest of their term!
Ad in an interview shown on CNN, US Presidential candidate Kamala Harris took of the mask of the cackling Californian air head and reveled the authoritarian demon lurking behind it, revealing that she supports many of the anti-free speech techniques discussed earlier. She strongly suggests that X should be shut down if it does not yield to demands for regulation and censorship.
What is most chilling is how censorship and closure are Harris’s default positions when faced with unfettered speech. She stated on CNN that such unregulated free speech “has to stop” and that there is a danger to the country when people are allowed to “directly speak to millions and millions of people without any level of oversight and regulation.”
In the days of the Cold War, any criticism of a communist country would be answered with the standard “You are interfering in the internal affairs of the country”. With a lifetimes' experience behind me, I have come to fully support this attitude, i.e. leave others to get on with their own lives, unless a country is really committing some awful crime, like murdering its own citizens (e.g. Ukraine), in which case a remedy needs to be found.
Wannabe global hegemon, The USA likes to present itself itself as the world’s ‘international policeman’ but it only intervenes to its own benefit: there has to be oil or some other strategically important commodity involved or a lack of subservience to the US system for it to apply sanctions or intervene.
Are the Arabian states totalitarian? Many would say “yes” but is anyone bothered? If you read books written by people who have escaped from North Korea, you would definitely class North Korea as totalitarian but does anyone care? Is anyone attempting to change anything there? (Although to be honest, with NK's main ally China right nex door, pissing off Fat Boy Kim would be a terminal act of insanity.)
Many people in the west regard Islam as denigrating women’s rights but is anyone going to march into all the muslim countries and ‘sort them out’? It is less than 100 years since women were enfranchised to vote in UK. The last person to be tried under the Witchcraft Act of 1735 was in 1944, so I am not sure we should regard ourselves or our way of life as superior to the rest of the world.
To summarize, I think we should let people get on with their lives and decide how they want to live without the west imposing our ideas of ‘democracy’ on them. And any governments in lie 'liberal democracies' should treat their citizens to the same level of respect.
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