Sunday, September 16, 2007
Give me liberty or give me another look at that weapons system
Simon Jenkins considers the increasing curtailment of liberty and freedom in Britain and the US and gives us a look at the source of our problems.
The growth of Islamist terror, always described as "al-Qaida linked" (as international crime was always "mafia-linked"), meets Eisenhower's thesis. With the threat of communism gone, the military/industrial complex needs a new cause. Allied to a booming police and intelligence bureaucracy, it has grasped eagerly at terrorism. It has no interest in keeping that threat in proportion, and every interest in exaggerating it. To cover the bungles that led to 9/11, this security/industrial complex portrayed the terrorists as awesome and ubiquitous, capable of building vast bomb-proof bunkers in the Hindu Kush, fake plans of which were dumped on a gullible press. State security agencies dance to the tune of Oh! What a Lovely War. They enslave the language of freedom in the cause of repression.So long as you stay properly afraid, they will make their profits and keep their chosen "leaders" in power. Because power is more important than any liberty you may think you should have.
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