Demolition Access To The WTC Towers - Kevin Ryan

[Peter Presland]

Democracies do not attack unless attacked.

This not a ganging up - honest. But like David I can not let that statement pass.

As a citizen of the UK, I can tell you that we do not have genuine, functioning democracy. We have a system where the qualified masses go to the polls every 5 years and vote for 1 of 2 main and a number of no-hoper political parties. Aside from hotly contested differences over the trivia of domestic politics you cannot put a fag paper between their stated policies - let alone the unstated and largely hidden ones concerning foreign policy and the security state. On the epoch-defining issues there is either deafening silence or a suffocating zombie-like PC conformity which can be questioned only on pain of excommunication from polite establishment society. I suspect - in fact I know - that similar conditions prevail in the US.

If by 'democracies' you mean, roughly, the UKUSA/NATO group of nations, then the statement may be correct if applied to appearances but in the cold hard reality of geo-politics and 'the great game' it is frankly absurd.

If deep state policy arbiters decide they need war to further an agenda or protect some notional commercial interest or other then, in the absence of any genuine attack or attack threat, they will engineer one - a USS Maine, a Gulf of Tonkin, a WMD threat that can be activated in 45 minutes - that sort of thing. And in the 70 odd years since WWII, the so-called 'Democracies', lead by the US, have been the worst offenders by a truly colossal margin.

I too recommend William Blum's books. He has given me specific permission to post many of their chapters on Wikispooks here