Government and Big Banks Joined Forces to Violently Crush Peaceful Protests

The definition of fascism used by Mussolini is the “merger of state and corporate power“. Government and the big banks are in a malignant, symbiotic relationship. And our economy now exhibits a merger of state and bank power. Prominent economist Robert Kuttner said in 2009: What we have is something perilously close to a dictatorship of the Fed and the Treasury, acting in the interests of Wall Street. The government and banks use anti-terror laws to stifle dissent. As Naomi Wolf reports, they joined efforts to violently crush the occupy protests: The violent crackdown on Occupy [which was protesting the SAME THING as the Tea Party ... and the Boston Tea Party] last fall … was not just coordinated at the level of the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security, and local police. The crackdown, which involved, as you may recall, violent arrests, group disruption, canister ...