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“Participatory fascism” – citizens can discuss, but Plutonium complex decisions made beforehand

” a totally state-controlled state investment in a very obsolete technology. It’s weapons socialism.”

A Giant New Plutonium Complex at Los Alamos, HUFFINGTON POST Mary-Charlotte Domandi,  10/31/11  or, “How to spend $6 billion, create 600 jobs, and prop up the most unproductive sector of the military industrial complex for another generation.”

(National Nuclear Security Administration’s plans for a new Chemistry and Metallurgy Research Replacement (CMRR) facility at LANL,)

“There’s the fake citizen input but not the real citizen input,” said Mello. “It’s what Robert Higgs called “participatory fascism.” We are allowed to participate in discussions which already have predetermined outcomes.”

Which, when you think about it, is one of the primary catalysts behind Tea Partiers and Occupiers alike. Apathetic as we’ve been these past few decades, we’ve been listened, paradoxically, into a state of rage. People have finally wised-up to the publicity and marketing-induced, corporate-strategized ruse of pretending to take our concerns, our pleas, our objectives into consideration. As Mello stated, our government’s pretense of soliciting input from its people amounts to little more than a giant suggestion box, inside of which lay a forever-churning paper shredder.

“People in Santa Fe go to these environmental impact statement hearings as if they’re views were remotely interesting to people in Washington. I can assure you they are not,” scoffed Mello. “The people who make decisions don’t know about your views. They never get there and it’s all a vast charade. And the Department of Energy is among the worst of all the agencies at this. It’s just a hoop they have to go through, having these statement hearings.”

Knowing this, having seen it and experienced it time and again, Mello and his compatriots have already started putting together their lawsuits, for failure to have an Environmental Impact Statement.

No participatory fascist, Mello added about the CMRR: “It’s a Soviet-style project that is a totally state-controlled state investment in a very obsolete technology. It’s weapons socialism.”

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marycharlotte-domandi/los-alamos-nuclear_b_1034330.html

November 1, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | civil liberties, USA