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talkpolitics2018-08-29 02:19 pm
johnny9fingers) wrote in talkpolitics2018-08-29 02:19 pm
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It is not as if folk haven't been told....
So today the Grauniad ran this byeline:
www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/29/arrest-warrant-leak-fuels-suspicions-of-far-right-links-with-german-police
Wherein we find that the German authorities suspect the German police may have links to far-right organisations. It's a bit of a laugh, ain't it? I mean to say it's almost as if far right groups, having thoroughly infiltrated the police and army, have moved on to the civil service and the media.
Talk about shutting the stable door after it has bolted.
In the UK the far-right expanded their targets to put in place folk sympathetic to their cause, from the police and army, to the Home Office and the Beeb. I suppose, thinking strategically, some co-ordination will be required for transport networks as well. Ergo I will expect Dept of Transport to be a place to put people too.
It's like the folk in our various administrations, or in the security services, can't really think properly any more. Strategy and tactics 101. It's not as if the security services don't have folk in place in these far-right organisations, after all. Maybe our chaps have gone native. Some folk in the security services do have a tendency to be a bit right-wing themselves - it goes with the turf.
Now the big question. If members of the panel have a discredited political position to foist upon the electorate, where would you place your chaps to provide the perfect fait accompli?
In the UK I'd put my minions in the Forces (especially the Special Forces) the police, the Home Office, The Beeb, and Transport. I'd try to get chaps into the Treasury too.
Where would folk put their placement in their own nations? Just as a theoretical exercise, obvs.
www.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/29/arrest-warrant-leak-fuels-suspicions-of-far-right-links-with-german-police
Wherein we find that the German authorities suspect the German police may have links to far-right organisations. It's a bit of a laugh, ain't it? I mean to say it's almost as if far right groups, having thoroughly infiltrated the police and army, have moved on to the civil service and the media.
Talk about shutting the stable door after it has bolted.
In the UK the far-right expanded their targets to put in place folk sympathetic to their cause, from the police and army, to the Home Office and the Beeb. I suppose, thinking strategically, some co-ordination will be required for transport networks as well. Ergo I will expect Dept of Transport to be a place to put people too.
It's like the folk in our various administrations, or in the security services, can't really think properly any more. Strategy and tactics 101. It's not as if the security services don't have folk in place in these far-right organisations, after all. Maybe our chaps have gone native. Some folk in the security services do have a tendency to be a bit right-wing themselves - it goes with the turf.
Now the big question. If members of the panel have a discredited political position to foist upon the electorate, where would you place your chaps to provide the perfect fait accompli?
In the UK I'd put my minions in the Forces (especially the Special Forces) the police, the Home Office, The Beeb, and Transport. I'd try to get chaps into the Treasury too.
Where would folk put their placement in their own nations? Just as a theoretical exercise, obvs.
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Teach the child and build them into the person.
However teachers are a low-paid, low respect profession. In England, you'd put your chaps into the private schools and better universities. Nevertheless better educated people are less inclined to be fascists - in general, not specifically. So it's more difficult to spread your message amongst the faculty (unless you're in the US, of course, where they appear to have some educated and intelligent fascists). However fraternities and sororities and "clubs" like the Bullingdon can always advance an extreme viewpoint.
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The other thing is I don’t want to start a McCarthyism of the centre or the left. It is my opinion that fascists are always with us, like the poor, socialists, junkies etc. As a society we need to find niches for them all, and trim the bits that don’t fit our notions of civilisation. But we don’t pander to them, we don’t enable their anti-social and criminal activities, but we do find them a place no matter how reprehensible their opinions may be.
We need to get the bus back on the road and ensure seatbelts for all the loonies, if you will excuse the somewhat pedestrian metaphor.
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Damn it.
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