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The spooking of anarchy - Paul Rigby - 27-03-2010 http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/mar/27/world-never-was-alex-butterworth The World That Never Was: A True Story of Dreamers, Schemers, Anarchists and Secret Agents by Alex Butterworth (384pp, Bodley Head, £25) Stuart Christie learns that secret police tactics have changed little in a century The Guardian, Review, Saturday, 27 March 2010, p.9 Quote:Appearing in the wake of allegations of assassination by Israel's Mossad and the British secret services' involvement in torture, the publication of Alex Butterworth's compelling and insightful book is well timed. Woven into the book's backdrop are the lives of some of the notable late-19th-century European revolutionaries radicalised by poverty, injustice, tsarist tyranny and the bloody suppression of the Paris commune of 1871. These were men and women who believed, in William Morris's words, that "No man is good enough to be another man's master", and who shared a vision of the world as it might one day be – a cooperative commonwealth rid of exploitation, oppression and conflict. Stuart Christie is the editor of The Chronicles of Farquhar McHarg: Pistoleros! 1:1918 (ChristieBooks). The spooking of anarchy - Peter Presland - 28-03-2010 Plus ca change eh? But these sort of things could never happen in our enlightened times of course. I still find it incredible the way that the public swallows the whole war on terrorism - and much else besides - narrative(s) hook line and sinker. Nods are made in the direction of alleged Security/SIS incompetence, bad luck, 'bravery in foiling the wicked terrorists in the nick of time' etc etc. But the core issues of a totally unaccountable 'Secret State' it's functionaries, agencies and hidden manipulative agendas simply do not exist - except in fairy tales, horror fiction plus suitably sanitised and co opted Hollywood spectaculars. The spooking of anarchy - Paul Rigby - 28-03-2010 Peter Presland Wrote:Plus ca change eh? Depressing, isn't it, how the same rudimentary techniques work generation after generation? The same transparent measures which made the Gunpowder Plot such a striking success play out in the Lincoln Conspiracy; and prop up much of the nonsense of the Oswald fiction. Part of the problem lies in the fact that the general public has no reliable institutional memory to which it can turn for precedent and pointers. Relying on the BBC or the Guardian to offer instruction in such matters is, of course, a joke in rather bad taste. Another hefty part of the answer lies in the total control of the media, as it evolves through successive incarnations: The striking feature of the internet, for example, is how early and successfully the CIA got its nose out in front, and created a series of cutting edge websites and web tools for liberals and the left (Daily Kos, Huffington Post, Google). What is to be done, as some Russian bloke once famously asked? The spooking of anarchy - Peter Presland - 28-03-2010 Paul Rigby Wrote:Depressing, isn't it, how the same rudimentary techniques work generation after generation? The same transparent measures which made the Gunpowder Plot such a striking success play out in the Lincoln Conspiracy; and prop up much of the nonsense of the Oswald fiction."Deeply depressing" it most surely is. And agreed - 'The Gunpowder Plot' has represented perhaps THE archetype for Secret policemen and the National Security State ever since - in the English speaking world anyway. I think it was you who introduced me to John Gerrard's 'What was the Gunpowder Plot'. One of many gems stands out. Update the archaic English and it describes 9/11, 7/7 and much else to a tee. Quote:"...much of what the conspirators are said to have done is well-nigh incredible, while it is utterly impossible that if they really acted in the manner described, the public authorities should not have had full knowledge of their proceedings"Plus ca change indeed. As to what is to be done. One thing's for sure: start to organise and the moment such organisation is seen as having the remotest possibility of becoming effective, it will be infiltrated and used. I see no prospect of worthwhile change short of human nature itself changing. Power accrues to the psychopathic personality type - period. All any individual can do is try to act according to his own lights - in concience I suppose, and that will always carry risks. I was struck by a few things John Young of Cryptome had to say about personal opposition to the 'National Security State' in a recent Siebel Edmonds 'Boiling Frogs podcast. A full transcript would be nice but here are few notes I took: Quote:I really do rate John Young The spooking of anarchy - Paul Rigby - 28-03-2010 Peter, I'm delighted you acquainted yourself with Father G, SJ. His demolition of the official version of the Cecil Gunpowder Plot is not merely a great work of historical research, but a key to understanding the formation of the modern British state, its American successor, and any number of world-historical covert ops. I've often wondered about his life and career, and thought what a good idea it would be to put together a script for a doc on his take on the CGP. Another project for which I lack both time and money. I like very much Young on the spooks: The terrible truth is that even the most conscientious of us can turn into vehicles of disinfo, for the best possible reasons. The spooks have no such defence, as practically everything they do is in bad faith. We have several weapons to wield against them. By far the most under-rated is satire. We should also seek to form ad hoc groups to subject as much of their self-serving lies to savage scrutiny as possible. Anglo-American spookery has worked tirelessly to destroy the role of the public intellectual to prevent precisely this kind of organisation, but we can - must - find ways round it. They are morally insane, and if left unchallenged, are guaranteed to wreck our descendants' futures. Paul The spooking of anarchy - Magda Hassan - 28-03-2010 Quote:We have several weapons to wield against them. By far the mostAbsolutely and one of the most powerful too. The spooking of anarchy - Ed Jewett - 28-03-2010 Oooh, good stuff, people. Thank you, Peter, Paul and Mary (Magda-lene) (is this a new folk group, the truth-seekers'?) The spooking of anarchy - Paul Rigby - 30-03-2010 Paul Rigby Wrote:http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/mar/27/world-never-was-alex-butterworth A quick plug for a book which demonstrates how false-flag ops know no borders; and how the war against Irish nationalism was dovetailed by the British securicrats of the late nineteenth century with their broader foreign policy objectives - not least in & against Russia. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Fenian-Fire-Government-Assassinate-Victoria/dp/0007104839 |