Friday, June 27, 2025

It Can't Happen Here

 


The United States of America has been a gonzo, berserk nation from its inception, an unlikely an amalgam as ever pullulated up from planet earth, with silk stockinged bewigged delegates from the slave states of South Carolina and Virginia (Edward Rutledge, Thomas Jefferson)  joining dowdy, disgruntled New Englanders (John Adams) along with Benjamin Franklin, to establish a half slave nation which claimed to be a beacon of liberty, and which did, indeed inspire others (the French most immediately) to realize that even if there is a God in Heaven, He likely did not actually anoint a mere mortal to be a king. 



This America, Man!


Looking at developments in their own countries and in the world Sinclair Lewis and George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair) wrote parables which proved to be both prescient and illuminating. Lewis's novel and then stage play depicted the rise of a Hitler/Huey Long like figure who played on American prejudices and gullibility to seize power.

Orwell once said he'd like his tombstone to read, "Damn you all to Hell! I told you this would happen!"



Mad Dog has thought fascism would not take hold outside the South, where it has been in place since the 18th century, simply because the rest of the country was too self absorbed, complacent and ignorant to actually bother embracing the mind control necessary to a fascist state.

But now, we see masked goon squads, trundling people off into unmarked vans in broad daylight. So, Mad Dog asks, how are we any different from Russia, Venezuela, Brazil or El Salvador? 

No Baklava. Home Address is Public


When asked why sheriffs from Rockingham County who now assist ICE agents in abducting people from their work sites or automobiles, the New Hampshire's finest replied that police are now subject to "doxing" and they and their families are at risk from "the cartels," and so the police are afraid and must be allowed to beat, subdue and even kill their prey for fear...fear of what? 

We Hang Together or We Hang Separately


Mad Dog asked what doxing is and was told it meant publishing on social media the telephone numbers, home addresses and other identifiers publicly.

Which reminded Mad Dog of the conversation he once had with the CEO of Portsmouth Hospital, in Portsmouth New Hampshire. Mad Dog said he was glad to finally meet her because he could not find her name on any of the printed media, on the hospital website or even at the reception desk in the hospital and when he asked where her office was, the man behind the counter asked, "What do you need to know for?"  

If You Can Find Me


She explained she did not want anyone to know who she was--outside of the hospital staff--because she feared getting hate mail and who knows what else? This was fifteen years ago, well before doxxing or shootings of CEO's of health insurance companies. 

I stared at her thinking: If you are THAT afraid, maybe you should not BE the CEO. After all, isn't that why we pay CEO's the big bucks, because they are willing to take the responsibility? (Of course, all this was long before that United Health Care CEO got shot.) But really, if you are going to be a CEO, or a cop, shouldn't that entail a certain risk? What's next, soldiers and sailors and marines wearing masks?

Eventually, the CEO was fired for not meeting budgets and the CEO functions transferred to the Hospital Corporation of America in Nashville, Tennessee, where presumably the managers in power would be safe.

No Hiding From His Enemies


Taken to it's logical extreme, this might mean our next candidates for Congress, for the Presidency may simply identify themselves by numbers or some sort of social media tag, "MAGAMAN" or "Super Sleuth" or "Ultra Kool Dude."  And police walking a beat? Forget about it. Police will cruise around in airconditioned Hum Vees totally garbed up in body armor and equipped with robots to pluck likely looking suspects off the streets.


Remember when police in New York did "stop and frisk" for any suspicious looking (i.e. dark skinned) young males walking down the street, claiming that technique had made crime drop? Then, when the actual data was examined it turned out crime had dropped years before stop and frisk and after stop and frisk was outlawed, crime dropped further.

Buy Your Badge on Line


So, yes, it CAN happen here.

Already has. 

Where's His Baklava?


We are just too complacent and preoccupied with getting the kids to day care and camp and with watching the Red Sox and the girls displaying on the Sea Wall to notice.

5 comments:

  1. Mad dog just because your candidate lost does not mean you are living in a fascist state. It sounds like you don’t support democracy unless leftists are in control. News flash that is not democracy.

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  2. As for your observation about stop and frisk it saved thousands of poor minority lives by reducing gun violence. Living as a white rich left elitist in New Hampshire I know those lives don’t matter to you. But for those like me who heart bleeds for those that are slain in the streets of ny by hoodlums who carry guns, stop and frisk that complies with the constitution should not be a subject of criticism as it was a valued tool for effective policing.

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  3. Before espousing views that discount the value of minority life and liberty you should educate yourself on the value of crime reduction policing. Please read https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/crime-dropped-under-stop-frisk-which-worth-remembering-rush-criticize-ncna1151121

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  4. As for the masked men whisking people away, you seem to want to deny these are illegal foreign invaders. In the case of those who are here legallly but who misrepresented their application to be here in order to assault and harass Jews and support terrorist groups they will get due process and then should be deported. These are not people who qualify for legally being here. Support for terrorists and sharia law are not American values. You as an American are free to espouse your Jew hatred and leftist elitist views without fear of deportation be assured .

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  5. Ah, BotAnonTroll, how I missed you so!

    I was beginning to fear the Brazilian/Vietnamese programmers had found a new blogger on whom to focus, and I was beginning wonder whether I am still sufficiently rabidly-antisemitic-leftist-elitist to warrant ongoing attention.

    "Crime reduction policing" is surely a phrase to echo down the decades, and obviously preferable to "community policing." Personally, my insights into policing come mostly from "The Wire." Your insights, I'm guessing, come from "Birth of a Nation," which is clearly what your programmers have run through their AI. It must have been tricky to educate AI using that ode to the KKK while trying to meld the Netanyahu stuff--but then again, Netanyahu is simply the same thing with a different flag attached.

    Never mind--we are all safe now, as the bunker busters have rid us of fear of any Iranian nukes, because those bombs erased all Iranian knowledge of nuclear physics and now they've forgotten how to enrich uranium or build bombs.

    Mad Dog

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