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� June 8, 2006 - Fear, terror and lies.
Dr Bodi cites the ricin plot as an example. The government in this instance knowingly and deliberately compounded the felony by delaying the trials until they could get an extension on the duration of detention without charge or trial and to get through parliament the Control Orders. One could also recall the transparently cynical way in which Blair ordered the deployment of a massive, heavily armed police force and soldiers in tanks, no less, at London’s Heathrow airport on 14th February, 2003 announcing that there was a terrorist plot against the airport. It was cynical because, this was the eve of the biggest ever anti-war protest march scheduled for 15th February, 2003. It was cynical because the government used this “fear” factor in an attempt to turn people away from the march and to dissuade foreign visitors from coming into London to join the march. It did not work. Two million people went on the march and these people knew then that Blair was a fraud.
However, the use of "fear" as a tactic by governments to usurp more power and diminish civil liberties for such activities is a tactic as old as the hill. Back then it was fear of communism. Remember the Truman Doctrine? Democrat Truman was advised by Republican Senator Arthur Vandenberg to "scare the hell out of the American people" to exaggerate the communist threat. The same "fear" and tactic was used by the CIA to oust Mossadegh, the democratically elected prime minister of Iran, in 1953. The US atrocities in Vietnam and the totally false 'domino theory' are well documented. The murder of democratically elected Allende in Chile aided, funded and abetted by the US government and the CIA to install the despot Pinochet, and the sabotage by France and the US of democratic elections in Algeria and fostering, instead, a murderous military regime are other examples.
The use of loaded expressions such as "terrorist", "evil empire", "rogue states", "axis of evil" are all intended to instil "fear" in the minds of the local population. This tactic has been used for ages by Israel to bomb and kill Palestinians at will without a whimper out of the UN, never mind the US or the UK. Such examples are legion culminating in the rape of Iraq based on: blatant lies about WMDs, 'dodgy dossiers', the false, concocted statements regarding the capability of Iraq to attack the UK within 45 minutes, the fraudulent claim that Saddam was buying uranium ore from Niger, the smearing of the French falsely accusing them of having sabotaged the now infamous and non-existent Second UN Resolution and so on.
Many have been sacrificed along the way to defend these lies including Dr David Kelly, the management of the BBC including Gavyn Davies and Greg Dyke, the journalist Andrew Gilligan and scores of others. In Blair's scheme of things, lives of people (good or bad) do not matter a jot as long as he gets his way. I don't think he cares if/whether his policies do lead to violence in the streets of Britain.
As I have said before, Blair is the most selfish, despicable and despotic prime minister this country has ever had. Do not trust a single word of what he says. He would do anything and sacrifice anyone to save his skin and usurp more power. He has enough sycophantic henchman like Falconer, Goldsmith and Reid - appointed in the key law making positions of Lord Chancellor, Attorney General and Home Secretary respectively - to do his bidding.
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� June 17, 2006 - You are very correct in your judgement of BliarPosted by Anonymous
You have said
"Many have been sacrificed along the way to defend these lies including Dr David Kelly, the management of the BBC including Gavyn Davies and Greg Dyke, the journalist Andrew Gilligan and scores of others. In Blair's scheme of things, lives of people (good or bad) do not matter a jot as long as he gets his way. I don't think he cares if/whether his policies do lead to violence in the streets of Britain.
As I have said before, Blair is the most selfish, despicable and despotic prime minister this country has ever had. Do not trust a single word of what he says. He would do anything and sacrifice anyone to save his skin and usurp more power. He has enough sycophantic henchman like Falconer, Goldsmith and Reid - appointed in the key law making positions of Lord Chancellor, Attorney General and Home Secretary respectively - to do his bidding."
I could not add anything because you have stated exactly how it is.
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Faisal Bodi
Thursday June 8, 2006
The Guardian
'You can only imagine if they fail to take action and something terrible happened what the outcry would be then, so they are in an impossible situation." That was Tony Blair's take on last week's "anti-terrorism" operation in Forest Gate, London.
But something terrible did go wrong. A man was shot in what seems like a misconceived and violent raid. His brother, and a next-door family, were terrified by gun-toting police. And a hole was blown in the already frayed trust between the Muslim community and law-enforcement officials.
[read article. The article has an unfortunate title.]Krisco's comments on the same page. The original is unformatted, I have tried to format it sensibly.