A prescription for fascism
07/11/05
A new authoritarianism is being born in the West, even as an American president announces our moral obligation to carry liberty to every country on earth. Kabul and Baghdad are 'liberated,' while in London and Washington a new tyranny establishes and consolidates its power, extending its tentacles into every corner of our lives. The PATRIOT Act, national ID cards, internal passports, 'limits' on the right of free speech, the tracking and compilation of dossiers on millions of potential 'subversives' -- black sheep, if you will -- all this and worse is being urged on us quite insistently, and not only by Halevi. Halevi speaks the language of our neoconservatives, who have advocated precisely these measures -- see An End to Evil, by David Frum and Richard Perle -- and also of the Bush White House, which often approaches his level of apocalyptic rhetoric...
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=6606
from AntiWar.Com, by Justin Raimondo
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
A new authoritarianism is being born in the West, even as an American president announces our moral obligation to carry liberty to every country on earth. Kabul and Baghdad are 'liberated,' while in London and Washington a new tyranny establishes and consolidates its power, extending its tentacles into every corner of our lives. The PATRIOT Act, national ID cards, internal passports, 'limits' on the right of free speech, the tracking and compilation of dossiers on millions of potential 'subversives' -- black sheep, if you will -- all this and worse is being urged on us quite insistently, and not only by Halevi. Halevi speaks the language of our neoconservatives, who have advocated precisely these measures -- see An End to Evil, by David Frum and Richard Perle -- and also of the Bush White House, which often approaches his level of apocalyptic rhetoric...
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=6606
from AntiWar.Com, by Justin Raimondo
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
Starmail - 11. Jul, 13:34
