On 3 February 2015 at 12:18, spudboy100 via Everything List < everything-list@googlegroups.com> wrote:
> Liz, this is only for the brainwashed, the ideological. You need to ask > him why he makes justification for ISIS? For Iran, for Al Qaeda. My guess > is that its ideological. If you like Eric Blair/Orwell, "Freedom is the > right to tell people what they do not want to hear. In a time of universal > deceit telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." > I was talking about the way that terrorism has been used as an excuse to reduce the population of the western world to a form of slavery - with increased surveillance and power in the hands of the (increasingly secret, increasingly well armed) police - and how this is being used to maintain a perpetual state of fear - a "cold war" against a shadowy and perhaps largely nonexistent foe (like al Qaeda, which reports suggest basically shot its bolt with 911 and was nothing like the monster it was subsequently painted as). And how most people are ignorant of what is being done to them in the name of "freedom". It's summed up to a large extent by this infographic. Note the line on terrorism, 33 deaths which have been "leveraged" to create virtual police states in various western democracies. (Apart from "1984", by the way, this also reminds me of James Blish's "Cities in flight" timeline of furture history, in which by 2018 the USA and USSR had merged into a world totalitarian state because they had found there were no significant ideological differences - obviously Blish didn't foresee the fall of "communism" in the 80s, but he seems to have also had a hotline to the 21st century in some respects). -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
