Word: totalitarianism
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...smacks of Big Brother. Indeed, the prospect of a police officer saying, "Your papers, please," seems to represent everything we fought against during the Cold War. It reeks of the repressive policies of totalitarian states that restrict the free flow of ideas, of people, of commerce, of everything...
...another Reagan-esque motion, Bush has succeeded in defining the moral imperative of our actions. In his speech before Congress on Sept. 20, he clearly identified the evilness of radical Islamic terrorism by comparing it to fascism and Nazism. Then—just as Reagan predicted the repressive, totalitarian Soviet government was destined for the “ash heap of history”—Bush vowed that murderous terror organizations would end up “in history’s unmarked grave of discarded lies.” He distinctly laid out the moral and practical...
...close down the Atlantic slave trade. If Bush is serious, he has laid upon his successors a task hardly less demanding than the one he has adopted for himself. In just such fashion did Harry Truman in 1947 commit his nation to a 40-year-long cold war against totalitarian communism...
...leftist rhetoric of the time. (Remember the Munich Olympics in 1972? I don't think the Koran ever got mentioned as Black September terrorists held and eventually slaughtered the Israeli Olympic team.) Its one of the oddities of this tragedy. And it could explain how the basically secular, totalitarian regime in Iraq might have teamed up with these people...
...late '80s grudgingly opened up to (as a talisman of capitalism), with heavy censor oversight. Just as China has spent the past decade trying to prove that communist capitalism is no contradiction in terms, so is it trying to show that defanged rock music can be the totalitarian capitalist's pal. (Take the danger out of rock and what do you have, if not a Britney Spears Pepsi commercial?) Arguably it has been successful on both fronts. The recent recordings of China's foremost protest rocker, Cui Jian, whose Nothing to My Name was an anthem of the Tiananmen protests...