Don't think for a minute it can't happen in the US.
[Peter Brimelow writes: Nearly forty
years ago, I was immensely impressed with The New Totalitariansa brilliant
study of Swedish political culture by Roland Huntford, making the point that
totalitarianism, in the sense of complete political control of society, can be
brought about by bureaucracy as well as brute force. (To my amazement, this
book’s influence on my own book on Canada, The Patriot Game, iscited—currently—in its Wikipedia entry.) Sean Gabb reports here that it’s coming soon to another common law country
near you—Britain. Indeed, the British government’s current
drive to force the anti-immigration British
National Party to admit immigrant minorities to
membership is the very essence of totalitarianism: no private sphere can be
allowed; in Mussolini’swords“Everything within the state, nothing outside the
state, nothing against the state”. This is why the passage of the so
called Hate
Crimes legislation, lauded by President Obama in his recent
State of the Union address, was such a disaster—yet almost
unopposed by the Beltway Right. It’s happening there. It can happen here.]
By Sean Gabb
At the moment in Britain, the Labor Government’s Equality Bill is completing its progress through Parliament. The purpose of the Bill is to bring all the various “equality” laws and rulings made since 1965—race, sex, sexual preference, age-based, religious, etc—within a single statute, and to enable a single scheme of enforcement, the quasi-judicial Human Rights Commission. It also tightens these laws so that such “discrimination” as has continued to exist will be made illegal.
The exact meaning of any proposed law is hard to judge in advance. We need to see the final Act of Parliament. We need to see the hundreds of pages of regulations that it enables through its delegated legislation sections. We need to see how it will be enforced by the authorities, and how the courts will rule on its interpretation.
