Land Control Quotes
The Catholic Church was allied with the Fascists in Spain in the 1930’s. In the Spanish Civil War many Americans supported democracy and the Republicans. Historically in these days the Church had been associated with the power establishment and when there was a revolution as in Mexico, the Church was seen to have been part of the problem and its assets were nationalized and its influence diminished. Spellman and the Vatican were worried about the same thing in Spain and hence allied themselves with Franco, Hitler and Mussolini. As a result of backing the wrong side morally at that time, the Church after WWII became a leader in advocating freedom and democracy in many parts of the world, but still had historical ties to the right wing elements of a new nations in South America.
Although Israel is a vibrant democracy with an aggressive muckraking press, the continuous threats and actual attacks via missiles or terrorists, give national security and safety a high priority in political budgeting and policy making. There is a very powerful role of censorship that the military could and does exercise, with nothing like the American 1st Amendment to protect freedom of speech. However, the military generally has not utilized that power to enable governments of any political party to cover-up scandals or incompetency. However, no one knows if they have used censorship to cover up the incompetencies and scandals of the military itself.
