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http://www.dissidentvoice.org/April2004/Pretzlik0415.htmUntil recently it was a mystery to me how in the 1930s on of the most evil regimes in history could usurp power in a country that at the time represented the pinnacle of culture in terms of the arts and sciences, and was thought to be a model of democracy. How could the German populace have permitted such an occurrence?
As the Project for the New American Century unfolds and the unholy alliance of Christian Zionists, Neo Conservatives and corporate and Jewish Lobbies act in concert to dictate the foreign policy of the world’s only superpower, the global situation deteriorates. It seems inevitable now that the bogeyman of organized international terror will fill the void left by the demise of the Cold War. The fear generated by its intangible tentacles already acts as the catalyst, which is perverting western democracies and eroding established civil rights. When people are sufficiently afraid, they will accept whatever information they are given by those in authority, even if logic indicates that the information is skewed.
Post 9/11, few Americans think to ask why it is that much of the world detests the US. Nor is it often said that this animosity is felt by non-Moslem populations too -- scratch the surface and anti American sentiment will be found in the hearts of Bolivians, Colombians and Venezuelans just as it is in the Arab street. Yet, in the United States it is considered disloyal - unpatriotic even -- to question whether decades of rapacious American international trading practices, coupled with support for repressive regimes in South East Asia, Central and South America and the Middle East have been influential in bringing this situation about. Not only that, but the American public has been so well shielded from the facts surrounding their country’s involvement in post 1945 global events that the truth can now be portrayed as a lie, as can the corollary that a lie now be portrayed as the truth.
Once people are sufficiently confused, frightened and paranoid logic can be stood on its head. Pre-emptive wars –- even preventative wars -– are made acceptable. Attack becomes defense and, providing opinion is suitably "shaped", the public can be persuaded to tolerate almost anything. How else could the rocketing and bombing of crowded civilian areas - as happens on a regular basis in Gaza and in the West Bank – be perceived as acceptable? It is not acceptable. State sponsored targeted killing is terror by another name....more...
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