Word: totalitarianism
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...greatest threat to these freedoms comes from the government. In most cases, this is true. However, citizens themselves are perfectly capable of mutilating their own rights without any help from authority. The incident on Wednesday is a case in point. The same individuals who were shouting "fascist" were using totalitarian tactics of their own. The great danger is that such actions may come to be tolerated. Harvard is already gaining a notorious reputation for conditioning the freedom of speech according to the views of the speaker. Caspar Weinberger, who was shouted off the stage two years ago, would no doubt...
...repressing opinions which one considers incorrect is totalitarian, and remains so whether practiced by governments or by groups of private individuals...
...portfolio is irresponsible and self-serving. Moreover, to concentrate exclusively on South Africa is inconsistent at best and hypocritical at worst. While demanding divestiture from companies which have played a positive role in breaking down the apartheid structure, the protesters ignore these same companies' role in supporting the totalitarian regimes of Angola and the Soviet Union. The case for divestiture is much more compelling in dealing with these regimes, under which American businesses have absolutely no potential to work for progress...
...there is no denying that the Sandinistas have imposed severe totalitarian restraints on the Nicaraguan people. Nina Shea of the New York City-based International League for Human Rights recently led a small delegation to Nicaragua to try to answer the question, How free is a Nicaraguan not to be a Sandinista? Some members of the Roman Catholic Church, opposition political parties and labor organizations, she says, suffer "undisguised and hidden repression." Her team heard repeated accounts of arbitrary arrests and interrogations that included food and water deprivation, simulated executions, and detention in dark cells. "The country...
...nationalists. To many, the revolution has meant better schools, improved health care, and the forging of a national identity. On the other side are those who understand the Sandinistas to be dedicated Communists, and some would say, with Reagan, that they will stoop to any crime to impose a totalitarian state. As many as 250,000 people have fled Nicaragua since the triumph of the revolution in 1979. The disheartened who remain behind say they stay to fight for the democratic society that the Sandinistas once promised and have long since betrayed...