"Democracy severely restricted? " that is the facist part, citizenship only open to those having gone thru military (federal service). You haven't gone through the service ? Then you are not a citizen with degraded rights. Saying it is open to everyone does not make it more democratic.
Would that make 17th century England fascist, since the franchise was rather restricted? Does fascism = limited franchise?
From Wikipedia - Heinlein made a similar claim, over two decades after Starship Troopers's publication, in his Expanded Universe and further claimed that 95% of "veterans" were not military personnel but members of the civil service and that only retired veterans could vote or hold office.[48]
And, the important point of federal service was that it was elective, not mandatory - it was something people chose rather than something they were forced to do.
I think part of the problem is, I wouldn't trust a company that said it's product was based on GnuPG, but wouldn't let me look at the source code for the encryption bits. How would you know they hadn't given the NSA a backdoor of some sort?
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"Democracy severely restricted? " that is the facist part, citizenship only open to those having gone thru military (federal service). You haven't gone through the service ? Then you are not a citizen with degraded rights. Saying it is open to everyone does not make it more democratic.
Would that make 17th century England fascist, since the franchise was rather restricted? Does fascism = limited franchise?
From Wikipedia - Heinlein made a similar claim, over two decades after Starship Troopers's publication, in his Expanded Universe and further claimed that 95% of "veterans" were not military personnel but members of the civil service and that only retired veterans could vote or hold office.[48]
And, the important point of federal service was that it was elective, not mandatory - it was something people chose rather than something they were forced to do.
My cube-mate called up and politely said "WFT!?", and after some sighing, Verizon agreed to send him a new box for free. So that's something.
I think part of the problem is, I wouldn't trust a company that said it's product was based on GnuPG, but wouldn't let me look at the source code for the encryption bits. How would you know they hadn't given the NSA a backdoor of some sort?