Greater madness
Only paranoia can justify the world's second biggest military budget
Britain's level of defence spending isn't related to real threats we face, but the needs of our military-industrial complex
George Monbiot
Tuesday November 28, 2006
The Guardian
"No one noticed. Or if they did, no one complained. The government didn't even bother to issue a press release. Last week the Ministry of Defence quietly secured a £1.7bn increase in its budget. "
'He who seeks to terrify others is more in fear himself' John Clarke,1639
I've been thinking about this state of terror we are being exhorted into.
Qui Bono (who benefits) ? The old legal adage is aposite to the world in which we find ourselves.
Today the death of a Russian spy in England occupied the British media. Analysis of the situation has been given, with an excruciating lack of oversight. Minutiae of scientific explanations have led reporters to completely miss the main question about the death of Alexander Litvinenko: who benefits from this sudden public health scare?
Neither the Russian security service (FSB) nor Putin stand to gain anything from this very public assassination. Given what is now made public about the isotope polonium-210 being the cause of death, it remains to examine who has the ability to a) manufacture and b) administer such a drug.
It had to be under the control of a government, and if not the Russian government, then which? Israel and America have been experimenting with drugs as weapons and it would not be beyond reason to suspect that the 'war on turr' benefits from this public adminstration of a lethal chemical.
Oh Tony, thank you for saving us from such fearful things. Please take away more of our freedom and self respect so that you can continue, until we are all so scared of each other that we beg Big Brother for more.
making sense of an insensible world - part one
The Shorter Oxford Dictionary states that terror is 'the state of being terrified or greatly frightened'
It also states that terrorism is 'A system of terror, government by intimidation'
Shorter OED 1983 reprint 1988 Book Club Associates page 2268
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Terror is a state of mind being induced daily by our government.
I invite people to truly join the 'War on Terror' and take personal action to counter the fear which is being imposed on us.
Join the Campaign for Human Contact and commit small acts of subversion every day - smile at people and speak in the street - who knows, it might start a revolution.
November 28, 2006 10:32 AM
In this increasingly paranoid 'newspeak' world being created by our esteemed leaders, the scandal of Weapons of Mass Destruction: cluster bombs, land mines, chemical weapons, manufactured daily with approval; 'Rendition' of people and weapons approved by decree; the obscenity of 'One rule for us, another for Them' about nuclear capability, lead to an increasing feeling of hopelessness.
George Orwell eat your heart out.
Change the language and the sheeple will not notice.
Governments demonstrate how much they are controlled by the capitalists. No matter how idealistic at the start, the system gets them every time. There is no way to stop this.
It stinks.