My state government has implemented a number of clearly fascist policies since it came to power last year.

And just today, a minister compared the newly proposed 'Stop & Search' policy (whereby you can be frisked and searched without suspicion, for no reason) to Hitler's apparently successful attempts to control his people...

The guy was being dead serious, praising Hitler's "control" of his people.

The search policy is on top of:

- Mandatory sentencing (that sentencing being jail time) introduced (for anyone who assaults a Police Officer, Transit Officer, Ambulance worker, Security Guard (!!!) and a couple of other officers).

- Re-criminalisation of Marijuana, despite a decrease in the number of people using Cannabis and a decrease in the amount of Cannabis used, since the previous government decriminalised it 5 years ago.

This has all happened in less than 12 months of government.

I guess this would be comparable to the US, in some respects, but additionally as an Australian my civil liberties are impinged upon severely in numerous other ways which American's don't experience (most of which i don't have a problem with).

My point being, sure, Obama has been ineffectual, and hasn't yet done what he said he will do, but at least you guys don't have an openly Fascist government.

I know some of you think you're government is Fascist, but you really have no actually proof of this.

I am living under a Fascist regime.

So cut Obama some slack maybe.