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It is an endless quandry... the innocent have nothing to fear from the survalence and scrutiny of a mighty state... unless the state is in fact a racist, capitalist organisation who's express and blatant goal is the oppression of the working class.
When you have a culture of fear, the government feeds and fuels it, using that fear as an excuse to take on more and more power - which they will use to attack the working class and their politics, saying all the time it is in the name of security, and that the enemies are everywhere...
I expect everyone will have seen this by now, but it is interesting, and relates to this:
"Naturally the common people do not want war: neither in Russia, nor England, nor, for that matter, in Germany. That is understood. But, after all it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."
Hermann Wilhelm Goring at the Nuremberg Trails
This is the personal mantra of Bush and Blair, and it is why war is so good for capitalism, not only that it means anyone who opposes the capitalist can be called a traitor, but that the people are constantly made to be afraid, and anyone who opposes the capitalist is a traitor, and the people's hatrid of capitalist is turned into hatrid of an enemy - in America right now that enemy is Islam, and "Terrorism", but any enemy will do.
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"Do not tell lies, and do not do what you hate,
for all things are plain in the sight of Heaven. For nothing
hidden will not become manifest, and nothing covered will remain
without being uncovered."
The Gospel of Thomas
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