On
Friday I published a story about the insidious growth of a neo
fascist organisation called the Knights
Templar. http://all-to-human.blogspot.co.uk/2017/01/the-hard-right-and-myth-of-knights.html
I had noticed that on a certain Councillors Facebook group that it was infested by members of this group. Since the publication of my story I have never seen so many people from this group update thier profile so quickly. However the screen shots of those claiming membership has been forwarded to anti-racist groups and anti-fascist groups in the area. It is important that Councillor Stephen Hunt wakes up to the reality of the situation and thinks of a little more than his re-election in May of this year. Similar figures can also be found on a Facebook group that is prominent in Port Talbot
There
is a danger to all those who flirt with the far right. I suppose it
comes initially from those ideas you associate with and the people
you meet. Its very easy to meet people socially who gradually push
you further and further to the right. The danger is that there a bit
of Fascism lurking in all of us and its methods and approaches of
projection and displacement can lead us into some very strange places
and ideas. There us a film called “ Good” that I would recommend
and would urge many people to watch in these times of Brexit and
Trump . One can find parallels within the treatment of the Law Lords
in there previous decision on Brexit and we must consider what
today's decision may bring from the right wing press. Watch this film
or read the novel.....
https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/ft7/Good-DVD-Viggo-Mortensen/B002BC9Y48/ref=sr_1_1?s=dvd&ie=UTF8&qid=1485174216&sr=1-1&keywords=good There
is one scene that stands out above all
Doctor
Richard Fletcher:
The appalling thing about fascism is that you've got to use fascist
methods to get rid of it.
[Pauline
is registering]
Pauline:
I've decided to join.
Clerk:
We don't accept your decisions. You accept ours.
It
tells us a true story it is ts based on a novel about a mercy
killing it brings a German professor (Viggo
Mortensen) to the attention of the Nazi Party, which now wants him to
write a treatise on euthanasia to justify the "final solution”.
Councillor
Hunt should reflect on those who he considers threats and those he
does not. He and us all should reflect ion these comments by Erich
Fromm Perhaps he and we should watch this film as
well http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055024/
At
first many found comfort in the thought that the victory of the
authoritarian system was due to the madness of a few individuals as
and that their madness would lead to their downfall in due time.
Others smugly believed that the Italian people, or the Germans, were
lacking in the sufficiently long period of training in democracy, and
that therefore one could wait complacently until they had reached the
political maturity of the Western democracies. Another common
illusion, perhaps the most dangerous of all, was that men like Hitler
had gained power over the past apparatus of the state through nothing
but cunning and trickery, that they and their satellites ruled merely
by sheer force; that the whole population was only the will-less
object of betrayal and terror.
Erich
Fromm, Escape
From Freedom
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