Fear is a wonderful tool for keeping people off balance and divided.
And of course we can all repeat the old line, "United we stand,
divided we fall."
The Ruling Class has used this device over our nation's history, to
keep us quarreling among ourselves, or just plain afraid of each
other.
From the time I was knee high to my grandma's Mini Skirt, I was afraid
of those sneaky Injuns. And how many parents warned their little
daughters of what those big Black Boys would do to them?
During the Second World War, we learned to fear Japs, even though they
were citizens, we rounded them up "for their own protection". After
the War, we turned our attention to fearing Commies and Pinkos.
Even though the Empire created fear of the Soviet Union and Communist
China, and even little old Communist Cuba, most of our fears were
focused on our wonderful American Dream being pulled down from within.
And of course it is being torn asunder by internal forces. Led by
such patriotic Americans as Nixon, Reagan, Bush 1, Clinton, Bush II
and now by Obama, the Ruling Class is raping and plundering its own
Land. But of course that's due to the fact that the American Empire
has become too big to be confined within one nation. It is fast
becoming an International Empire. By the way, speaking of "divide and
conquer", has anyone noticed how many nations and territories are
being torn into new little nations?
I wonder just how long it is going to take before the Working Class in
America wakes up to the fact that we are being played. Played for
Fools.
Carl Jarvis
On 10/27/14, Miriam Vieni <miriamvieni@optonline.net> wrote:
> 3.
> Government exploits attacks on military to push security agenda, Greenwald
> says
> Ian MacLeod, Ottawa Citizen 10.25.2014
>
> Journalist Glenn Greenwald poses for a photograph in Montreal, Thursday,
> October 23, 2014.
> Graham Hughes / Ottawa Citizen
> SHAREADJUSTCOMMENTPRINT
> The federal government is "shamelessly" exploiting last week's extremist
> attacks to dismantle liberties and core principles of justice, says
> journalist Glenn Greenwald.
> The Pulitzer-Prize winning U.S. reporter warned that the Conservative
> government, aided by docile news media, is purposely fuelling alarmist
> speculation about the domestic threat of Islamic terrorism to ram through
> legislation giving the state extraordinary new powers over citizens.
> It remained unclear whether last Monday's and Wednesday's assaults were
> individual deranged acts of religious-inspired violence, or somehow the
> work
> of Islamic terror groups.
> Yet, "we've allowed this word terrorism to take on such profound meaning
> that right before our eyes governments dismantle the protections and
> defining attributes of western justice in order to keep us safer,"
> Greenwald
> told an audience of more than 1,000 people in downtown Ottawa on Saturday
> night.
> "It is critically important not to reflexively act (like) that every time
> there's an attack."
> Greenwald, who last year broke international stories on whistleblower
> Edward
> Snowden's stunning revelations about mass electronic surveillance of
> citizens by western governments, directed his criticism at Prime Minister
> Stephen Harper.
> On Thursday, the day after gunman Micheal Zehaf-Bibeau killed National War
> Memorial sentry Cpl. Nathan Cirillo and then stormed Centre Block, Harper
> told the Commons new laws giving police more powers to surveil, detain and
> arrest suspected extremists are, "already underway and will be expedited."
> The legislation would give the Canadian Security Intelligence Service more
> power to track terror suspects abroad and provide blanket identity
> protection for the agency's human sources. Conservatives now are hinting
> that even more powers are required to make pre-emptive arrests.
> Greenwald lambasted Harper over what he characterized as a naked power
> grab.
> "The speed and the aggression and the brazenness and the shamelessness with
> which the prime minister moved to manipulate and exploit the emotions
> around
> these events to demand more power for himself was almost impressive," he
> said.
> "These attacks are instantly seized upon as a way to further dismantle
> civil
> liberties and core principles of western justice."
> The accusations flow from Greenwald's chief observation from the Snowden
> affair: Democracy is being gravely subverted by largely unaccountable and
> ultrasecret national security agencies under the guise of combating the
> bogeyman of global terrorism.
> Led by the U.S. National Security Agency, where Snowden once worked, five
> western electronic intelligence-gathering agencies, including Canada's
> Communications Security Establishment (along with counterparts in Britain,
> Australia and New Zealand) are allegedly monitoring people's electronic
> communications and Internet lives - and behaviours - on a colossal scale,
> according the Snowden leaks.
> "It is stunning that these five governments have instituted a system of
> mass
> surveillance as consequential, with such profound, far-reaching
> implications, without a whiff of disclosure or debate among the citizenry
> that are supposed to hold them democratically accountable," said Greenwald.
> "It's not just about surveillance, but all sorts of other policies
> implemented in the name of terrorism that have existed beyond this wall of
> secrecy. It's almost like a state within a state and one completely removed
> from transparency of any kind.
> "The implications for democracy are incredibly profound and our ability as
> citizen to understand what our government is doing."
> Unless citizens rebel and demand transparency and accountability, Greenwald
> believes one ultimate consequence could be an endless war between the West,
> Muslim nations, and extremist movements.
> "Future generations will look back and say that in the wake of 9/11, the
> U.S. and its allies put themselves in a mindset and a policy approach that
> guaranteed not only a long war but a war that had no end.
> "The pattern is clear. We do something (militarily) in that part of the
> world that generates all sorts of rage and fury, rightly or wrongly. That
> rage and fury causes a tiny percentage of the people in that world to want
> to bring violence back to us.
> "When the violence is brought back to us, we immediately demand that our
> government further erode civil liberties and we need even more militarism,
> which in turn inflames that part of the world more and causes more violence
> to be brought back to us in a never-ending spiral."
> imacleod@ottawacitizen.com
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> . The federal government is "shamelessly" exploiting last week's
> extremist attacks to dismantle liberties and core principles of justice,
> says journalist Glenn Greenwald.
> . The Pulitzer-Prize winning U.S. reporter warned that the
> Conservative government, aided by docile news media, is purposely fuelling
> alarmist speculation about the domestic threat of Islamic terrorism to ram
> through legislation giving the state extraordinary new powers over
> citizens.
> . It remained unclear whether last Monday's and Wednesday's assaults
> were individual deranged acts of religious-inspired violence, or somehow
> the
> work of Islamic terror groups.
> . Yet, "we've allowed this word terrorism to take on such profound
> meaning that right before our eyes governments dismantle the protections
> and
> defining attributes of western justice in order to keep us safer,"
> Greenwald
> told an audience of more than 1,000 people in downtown Ottawa on Saturday
> night.
> . "It is critically important not to reflexively act (like) that every
> time there's an attack."
> . Greenwald, who last year broke international stories on
> whistleblower Edward Snowden's stunning revelations about mass electronic
> surveillance of citizens by western governments, directed his criticism at
> Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
> . On Thursday, the day after gunman Micheal Zehaf-Bibeau killed
> National War Memorial sentry Cpl. Nathan Cirillo and then stormed Centre
> Block, Harper told the Commons new laws giving police more powers to
> surveil, detain and arrest suspected extremists are, "already underway and
> will be expedited."
> . The legislation would give the Canadian Security Intelligence
> Service more power to track terror suspects abroad and provide blanket
> identity protection for the agency's human sources. Conservatives now are
> hinting that even more powers are required to make pre-emptive arrests.
> . Greenwald lambasted Harper over what he characterized as a naked
> power grab.
> . "The speed and the aggression and the brazenness and the
> shamelessness with which the prime minister moved to manipulate and exploit
> the emotions around these events to demand more power for himself was
> almost
> impressive," he said.
> . "These attacks are instantly seized upon as a way to further
> dismantle civil liberties and core principles of western justice."
> . The accusations flow from Greenwald's chief observation from the
> Snowden affair: Democracy is being gravely subverted by largely
> unaccountable and ultrasecret national security agencies under the guise of
> combating the bogeyman of global terrorism.
> . Led by the U.S. National Security Agency, where Snowden once worked,
> five western electronic intelligence-gathering agencies, including Canada's
> Communications Security Establishment (along with counterparts in Britain,
> Australia and New Zealand) are allegedly monitoring people's electronic
> communications and Internet lives - and behaviours - on a colossal scale,
> according the Snowden leaks.
> . "It is stunning that these five governments have instituted a system
> of mass surveillance as consequential, with such profound, far-reaching
> implications, without a whiff of disclosure or debate among the citizenry
> that are supposed to hold them democratically accountable," said Greenwald.
> . "It's not just about surveillance, but all sorts of other policies
> implemented in the name of terrorism that have existed beyond this wall of
> secrecy. It's almost like a state within a state and one completely removed
> from transparency of any kind.
> . "The implications for democracy are incredibly profound and our
> ability as citizen to understand what our government is doing."
> . Unless citizens rebel and demand transparency and accountability,
> Greenwald believes one ultimate consequence could be an endless war between
> the West, Muslim nations, and extremist movements.
> . "Future generations will look back and say that in the wake of 9/11,
> the U.S. and its allies put themselves in a mindset and a policy approach
> that guaranteed not only a long war but a war that had no end.
> . "The pattern is clear. We do something (militarily) in that part of
> the world that generates all sorts of rage and fury, rightly or wrongly.
> That rage and fury causes a tiny percentage of the people in that world to
> want to bring violence back to us.
> . "When the violence is brought back to us, we immediately demand that
> our government further erode civil liberties and we need even more
> militarism, which in turn inflames that part of the world more and causes
> more violence to be brought back to us in a never-ending spiral."
> . imacleod@ottawacitizen.com
>
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