07/14/05

Like the Luddites who fought the industrial revolution, the established order will not give up its privileges without a fight. Efforts to revive the dying corpse of centralized power structures have taken on paramount importance. With the demise of the Soviet Union as its symbiotic partner for the rationalization of state power -- itself the victim of decentralist forces -- the United States has had to find a new threat with which to keep Americans as a fear-ridden herd. The statists believe they have found this eternal danger in the specter of 'terrorism,' which they hope can be manipulated to justify endless wars and unrestrained police powers. But if you can cut through the veneer of propaganda as 'news,' and begin to ask such questions as how US-supported persons and organizations (e.g., Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden, the Taliban) could suddenly became threats to America, you will begin to understand the nature of the herding game being played at your expense...

http://www.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer112.html

from LewRockwell.Com, by Butler Shaffer


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp