Banana Republic? a message from your publisher Reg Buxton
One of the definitions of a Banana Republic is a POLITICAL and ECONOMICALLY UNSTABLE country. Some examples from history include Nicaragua, Panama, El Salvador, and Guatemala, just to name a few.
Some characteristics of Banana Republics:
• One person leading the country either on their own or as a front man for other powerful men.
• Newspapers, radio, and TV are either completely owned or heavily influenced by those in power. The media outlets then mislead, lie and/or do not report factually according to the whims of those men.
• Elections, though said to be “honest” / “fair”, are, again, influenced by those same powerful men, if not just outright manipulated by them.
• Voters are harassed at the polls to the extent they become afraid to vote.
• Offices of Government are weaponized against those who do not follow the Leadership’s will.
• The armed forces get directed by those who are chosen not for their skill, but for their willingness to follow the orders of those who appointed them, regardless of the morality of those orders.
• Citizens are harassed by the government. Their homes get entered illegally and they are imprisoned on either trumped up charges or even no charges at all.
• The government never quits trying to take away citizens’ rights given to them by the Constitution.
• Prices are controlled either outright or by back door influences.
I talk about the above not from reading or hearing about them, but from being involved in the countries mentioned above, among others, during the height of their “Banana Republic” days. I hope you take time to read what I have to say and use it to look at what’s happening around you and think and question what you see.
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