{"id":187766,"date":"2011-03-09T21:37:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T02:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/03\/09\/yes-this-is-fascism-2\/"},"modified":"2011-03-09T21:37:00","modified_gmt":"2011-03-10T02:37:00","slug":"yes-this-is-fascism-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/03\/09\/yes-this-is-fascism-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Yes, This is Fascism"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border: 1px solid black; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding: 5px; text-align: center; width: 400px;\"><object classid=\"clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0\" height=\"216\" width=\"384\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" \/><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"launch=41979558&amp;width=420&amp;height=245\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><embed name=\"msnbc54485\" src=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/32545640\" width=\"384\" height=\"216\" FlashVars=\"launch=41979558&amp;width=384&amp;height=216\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" wmode=\"transparent\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/shockwave\/download\/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Rachel Maddow and Naomi Klein on the &#8220;Emergency Manager&#8221; Bill<\/span><\/div>\n<p>In Michigan, the governor is pushing a bill through that would <a href=\"http:\/\/michiganmessenger.com\/47013\/bill-offers-no-guidelines-for-use-of-emergency-managers-powers\">grant Governor Rick Snyder the powers of a dictator<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, he can declare a financial emergency for any municipal government or school district, and then he can assign an &#8220;Emergency Manager&#8221;, who could, without any review cancel any contracts (including labor contracts), dismiss elected officials, disincorporate towns, and dismantle school districts.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, the Senate version of the bill allows the emergency manager to be assigned to a corporation, like Blackwater (now Xe) or Halliburton.<\/p>\n<p>There is no criteria for such a declaration, but even if there were, they are also gutting local aid, which pretty much means that they are <b>creating<\/b> fiscal crises anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, any elected official, and any semblance of due process is to be wiped away, in a bill that really does resemble the Emergency Laws that Mubarak used to rule Egypt with an iron fist for all these years.<\/p>\n<p>This is about a corporate takeover of civil society, and the vesting of near absolute power in the executive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rachel Maddow and Naomi Klein on the &#8220;Emergency Manager&#8221; Bill In Michigan, the governor is pushing a bill through that would grant Governor Rick Snyder the powers of a dictator. Basically, he can declare a financial emergency for any municipal government or school district, and then he can assign an &#8220;Emergency Manager&#8221;, who could, without &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1038,969,1009,1023,1020],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-evil","category-government","category-labor","category-legislation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187766"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187766\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}