Will the the 21st Century See The Dismantling Of Centralized Power?

“The story of the 21st Century will be the dismantling of centralized power.“ : Richard Bledsoe

I can’t think of any evidence for this. Are there any governments on earth which are smaller than they were ten years ago? Is Google’s power shrinking? Amazon’s? Big banks? Has Giant Faceless MegaCorp decided to break itself up into independent twenty employee segments?

We have seen in the last couple decades the creation of a global surveillance state of intertwined governments and private businesses which not even the Stasi could have dreamed of in their wildest drug induced fantasies.

We in the US have evolved from a nation of independent small business owners aka farmers and artisans, into a nation of employees trained to take orders. Our fundamental mindset has changed from that of owners into obedient order takers.

I see no evidence whatsoever that anyone in either major American political party would even consider overturning the foundation of the modern regulatory state -Wickard vs Filburn (look it up)- much less return our government to only those activities authorized by the Constitution.

The UN and leading politicians around the world are working openly to end national sovereignty, criminalize free speech including criticism of Islam and of immigration. Merkel may lose her office, but she has succeeded beyond the dreams of the mullahs in Islamizing Germany, and those people are not going to leave. Nor are those in France, Britain, Holland, Spain, or Italy.

Islam is hardly a force for decentralization, nor is the wave of socialism sweeping Americans who have been taught to despise individualism, capitalism, and the bourgeoisie.

Quite the contrary to decentralization: I think we are far more likely to see the complete politicization of economic activity coupled with a surveillance state like the world has never seen.

The First Wave at Omaha Beach

By S. L. A. Marshalll, published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1960

The Prosecutor is weary?

How does she think Brigitte Bardot feels? "The prosecutor said she was weary of charging Ms Bardot with offences relating to racial hatred and xenophobia." So why doesn't she just STOP?

I suppose believing in freedom of speech is way too...Americain.

A French court has fined former film star Brigitte Bardot 15,000 euros (£12,000) for inciting racial hatred.

Since when is Islam a race? Possibly BBC is leaving something out.

She was prosecuted over a letter published on her website that complained Muslims were "destroying our country by imposing their ways".

It is the fifth time Ms Bardot been convicted over her controversial remarks about Islam and its followers. This is her heaviest fine so far.

France is one of those countries which bien pensants hold up as ever so superior to the ever so provincial les Etats-Unis, dude. Are prosecutions such as this one of the reasons?

The fine - equivalent to $23,000 - related to a letter she wrote in December 2006 to the then Interior Minister, Nicolas Sarkozy...

Prosecuted for expressing her political views to the Interior Minister of France? That is Progressive.

...which was published on her website.

Ah, she posted her petition for redress of grievances where the public could read it. The Gaul of the subje..scratch that: Citoyen.

...in which she deplored the slaughter of animals for the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha.

She demanded that the animals be stunned before being killed.

She said she was "tired of being led by the nose by this population that is destroying us, destroying our country by imposing its acts".

First they came for the animal rightists, but I wasn't an animal rightist...

This rubbish is going on in Canada as well. Just ask
Macleans Magazine, which is in expensive kim chee right now with a so-called Human Rights Commission.

Nothing like commissars to ruin your day.

As I said...

...once before France is self-screwing:

"The unfettered rein of financial profit is intolerable for the general interest," she said. "You told me simple truths. You told me you wanted fewer income inequalities. You told me you wanted to tax capital more than labor. We will do that reform."

Royal said she would tax companies in relation to what share of their profits is reinvested in equipment and jobs, and what portion is paid to shareholders. She also promised to abolish a flexible work contract for small companies....

Indeed, she seemed to have something to offer to most groups in society without saying how much the combined measures would cost: Under her presidency, she said, young women would get free contraception, all young people would get access to a €10,000 interest- free loan and the handicapped would see their benefits rise.

She being Ségolène Royal, the presidential candidate of the Socialist Party. She also wants to raise the minimum wage to about US$2,000 per month and "and to guarantee a job or further training for every youth within six months of graduating from university."

One of the apparently few groups to whom she doesn't offer anything is the group which actually produces jobs. And unlike overt socialists in the US, she has a good chance of winning.