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argument | Regular_columnists  | Miles_Kington  | 2001-02



Today the pigs: tomorrow the people
Are you suggesting that the Government is going to forbid farmers from coming into
our gardens?
By Miles Kington
26 February 2001
I have learnt that the Government is drawing up secret plans in case of an epidemic
in our human population. If the outbreak is serious, a new government task force
will have no hesitation; it will go in and cordon off the stricken individuals and
slaughter them.
This plan is, of course, very very very secret indeed, as the Government thinks
there may be some hostile reaction. I only came across the plan by accident, when
one day last week by accident my phone rang and by accident I answered it.
"Kington?" said a voice. "It's Deep Sleep here."
Deep Sleep is the code name my government informant uses to pass on confidential
information. I have no idea what his real name is. Of course, he is in a similar
position. He has no idea what my code name is and so is forced to use my real name.
"I have the scoop of a lifetime, Kington," he said. "I have it on the best authority
that the Government is so encouraged by its success with foot-and-mouth disease that
it is going to do the same thing with humans."
"I'm not sure I know what you mean," I said. "Are you suggesting that the Government
is going to forbid farmers to come into our gardens?"
"Don't be silly," he said testily. "I mean that when large sections of the
population fall prey to some loathsome disease, a newly formed Slaughter Squad is to
go out, round them all up and discreetly cull them."
"You mean kill them?"
"Kill them, cull them, it's only words."
I tried to think about the unthinkable.
"The British public would never stand for it!"
"Don't be silly. The British public will stand for anything. They don't mind it when 
we go out and bomb innocent Iraqis or Kosovars. They don't mind it when we slaughter 
all the cod in the North Sea. They don't raise a sq
ueak when livestock is slaughtered to combat foot-and-mouth disease. They don't mind 
battery farming of chickens. They're hardly likely to object to a timely reduction of 
condemned people.
"The Government has done a lot of intensive research here and found that the British 
public will stand for almost anything as long as enough men in white coats say that it 
is necessary. They have even carried out a nation
wide experiment to prove it."
"Oh? When?"
"It was the 'beef-on-the-bone ban'. Remember that? There was no earthly justification 
for a ban on beef on the bone. They just tried it to see if people would stand for it. 
And the British public fell for it. Like a lamb
to the slaughter. Which is what this new move is all about. Lambs to the slaughter. Or 
mutton, maybe, as it will mostly be old people involved..."
"Do you honestly think that the British public would see numbers of its citizens being 
killed off without protest?"
"Why not? They did when Dr Harold Shipman did it. They did when Fred West did it. Not 
a murmur..."
I paused to give the plan more thought. I had to admit it; the plan was frighteningly 
plausible...
"Just think of all the advantages," Deep Sleep said insidiously. "It would lighten the 
load of the national health service immeasurably. It would reduce the cost of looking 
after the old enormously. If we decided that the
 best way of dealing with cancer was to eliminate the suffering..."
"Cancer?" I said. "You didn't say anything about cancer!"
"No, but it's bound to come to that eventually. In any case, the way that most
people live today, crammed into polluted, unhygienic cities, means that we are
sitting on a medical time bomb. Cities are human battery farms. City living is
intensive human farming. We know that intensive farming and the thrust for cheaper
food has brought susceptibility to disease in its wake for animals. It is logically
bound to do the same with humans. Round the corner is a terrifying epidemic for
which Aids was only a rehearsal. When that drastic day comes, there will be a need
for a drastic reaction. The Government thinks that it should be prepared now. That
is why I think you should know..."
There was a sudden cry at the far end of the phone, followed by a thud and the sound
of a fall.
"Sleep!" I cried.
There was no answer. The receiver was silently replaced. I had a terrible feeling
that I had heard Deep Sleep being, if not culled, at least muzzled.

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The libertarian therefore considers one of his prime educational
tasks is to spread the demystification and desanctification of the
State among its hapless subjects.  His task is to demonstrate
repeatedly and in depth that not only the emperor but even the
"democratic" State has no clothes; that all governments subsist
by exploitive rule over the public; and that such rule is the reverse
of objective necessity.  He strives to show that the existence of
taxation and the State necessarily sets up a class division between
the exploiting rulers and the exploited ruled.  He seeks to show that
the task of the court intellectuals who have always supported the State
has ever been to weave mystification in order to induce the public to
accept State rule and that these intellectuals obtain, in return, a
share in the power and pelf extracted by the rulers from their deluded
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