Join the Dots: the 'War on Terror' and the War on Freedom
Emmanuel Goldstein | 10.08.2006 17:54 | Anti-militarism | Repression | Terror War
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Today, some are reporting that Reid has been "proved right" (
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Blair has already made unprecedented attacks on democratic rights, and Reid's speech shows that the government want to make even more. We must remember that it is Blair's support for Bush's oil wars that causes terrorist attacks on British and American people, not some invented "complacency" in existing laws.
Reid WAS right when he claimed that "We are probably in the most sustained period of severe threat since the end of the Second World War". But the threat is from him and his government, while working class people are the intended victims.
"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 pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger." - Joseph Goebbels
Emmanuel Goldstein
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