Chris Hedges - The Great Unraveling - USA on the brink of neo-fascist police state

[Magda Hassan]

A few days ago in Melbourne Australia our wanna be fascist government tried on a joint police, border patrol, customs operation called 'Operation Fortitude' It was going to be about stopping and frisking and asking for identity papers. Some thing that has never been attempted in this country, to non indigenous persons at least. People were wondering where on earth 'Border' there was in Melbourne to patrol when it dawned they were going to be patrolling us. It only took 2 hours to organise and the people took to the street and blocked the police inside 2 of the main city train stations. Not long after there was a tweet from the Commissioner saying that the original press statement was signed off by some one junior and it was all a big mistake and misunderstanding. Our police would never do any thing like that. yada yada. Another hour or two there was another announcement saying that 'Operation Ineptitude' was cancelled. Not that there was any thing to worry about. This was a routine police operation they said. A read of all the police statements leading up to this would indicate that they did indeed plan to stop people and ask for their papers. The militarisation of the Customs department has created a monster. And the reactivation of the unofficial white Australia policy has let the racist genie out of its bottle. A toxic mix. A large immigration centre was raided at 2 am the night before the police operation and the inmates were moved elsewhere with much abuse. "treated like dogs' they said. It is presumed this evacuation was for all the detainees they expected to scoop during Operation Fortitude/Ineptitude. it is just disgusting all round.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/operation-f...bf/5473163
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-08-28/ti...ed/6733252
http://www.afr.com/news/policy/immigrati...902-gjdayf

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/treate...jc7j8.html