28-03-2010, 08:17 AM
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.
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.
Peter Presland
".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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".....there is something far worse than Nazism, and that is the hubris of the Anglo-American fraternities, whose routine is to incite indigenous monsters to war, and steer the pandemonium to further their imperial aims"
Guido Preparata. Preface to 'Conjuring Hitler'[size=12][size=12]
"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied"
Claud Cockburn
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