Whether it's the Italian Carbinieri, the L.A. Sherriff's Department or the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, recent developments in policing the corporate state should be taken as an announcement of the coming crackdown on dissent.

Mussolini's "stato corporativo" needed the Blackshirts to institute Italy's brutal business dictatorship; today's rising global plutocracy requires far greater violence to silence the rising outcry against its murderous excesses, as its victims in Latin America and other areas in the southern hemisphere know well, and the post-Seattle movement are beginning to understand. Ronald McDonald's happy face mask has slipped to reveal Hannibal Lector.

Mainstream (Southam) rag the Ottawa Citizen, reported the rise of surveilance and repression against Canadian dissidents this week (see:http://www.ottawacitizen.com/criminalization) by agents of CSIS and the RCMP. Earlier this month, Germany's interior minister, Otto Schily called for a special European anti-protest police force.

The European civil libertarian organization Statewatch has released a report (use link below) that examines European Union plans to institute sweeping, anti-democratic powers against protesters.

There is little time left to build an effective resistance to the most frightening tyranny ever wielded over humankind. What can you do today to resist?

See also: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/010822/80/c1v44.html