When an individual is blacklisted for jobs, harassed by taxes, subjected to illegal surveillance and threatened by thugs – his country´s freedom is arrested by politicism
Repression can be defined as an act of using force in order to control someone or something. Enchanted by the simplicity of this description, many political “alchemists” hoped for a gold- bearing mixture: coercion + thralldom= control. But did they find the elixir of eternal power, or just a false equation placing them a pseudo- philosophical – stone´s throw away from wrath of the “pawns”?
It is impossible to describe the vast variety of strategies of political repression in a few paragraphs; a short article can only give a hint of “Arcanum”.
Isolation can simply mean imprisonment, so judicial harassment and legal abuse become typical implements in a regime´s tool-box. In the case of individuals, “solitary confinement” can be also imposed by intimidation of the target´s friends and employers. Stripped from emotional support and blacklisted for jobs, the maltreated dissident feels the impact of harassment and surveillance even harder.
