-Caveat Lector-
In a message dated 99-04-17 23:50:33 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Let's hope there is already enough evil going on with war and
>nothing domestically happens.
Fingers crossed ... But there are all those "un-American" anti-war
"radicals" now, who are already shown on TV (or at least on local TV, here in
San Francisco) calling Clinton a genocidal murderer ... Don't forget the
'60s, when protesters against the VIETNAM War were met by surveillance, or
force, or "legally" silenced on trumped-up charges.
One can never be quite sure what these "dangerous madmen" who "see
conspiracies everywhere" and dare to question authority openly are "capable
of," according to the cliche picture conveyed repeatedly by the mass media
since Waco and the WTO bombing -- especially NOW, when moneyed, militarized,
social-control institutions like NATO (largely a front for the US
military/corporate/intelligence establishment) are so paranoid about the
legitimacy of their OWN authority, already thrusting well beyond all lawful
bounds and rational justification. Much is possible during a virtual state
of war, and more when we're LITERALLY at war, which we can expect to be the
case shortly --
and the opportunities, alas, are all on the side of certain types who expect
the PUBLIC to submit to their power every bit as much as the ENEMY and who
regard any kind of domestic dissent as the equivalent of treason --
particularly if it's VISIBLE dissent that might reveal to "the enemy" that
the American people are not united foursquare behind, and blindly support,
the whims of a "macho" US military-industrial inferiority complex.
Already I'm reading editorials in the press, by "mainstream" journalists,
that accuse those using the Internet to criticize this war of being the
equivalent of "fifth columnists," irresponsibly (or worse, like Tokyo Rose)
"forwarding Enemy propaganda" ... Yes, the Cold War is back, and with it, a
paranoid Manichean dualism that is best represented fictionally in "Invasion
of the Body Snatchers" (1954). The pods, they are a-growin' ...
They "thin the herd" of influential or potentially influential dissenters,
like peeling successive layers of an onion, in the following manner:
First they "woo," appealing to herd feelings like the fear of social
disapproval.
That failing, they bribe with something valuable, money or desired
advantages.
That failing, they back into the shadows, plot to entrap, and then resort to
blackmail.
Should THAT fail, they say "Oh, to hell with it" and just bring in the
Rottweilers.
Beat the rush: start now to take inventory of where you're vulnerable to
control.
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