Friday, June 29, 2007

London This is a funnier version of what I first thought when I turned on the telly this morning and saw the news about that car bomb. Only a few days since Brown has taken office and he's already angling to whittle away the threadbare civil liberties of his countrymen with a fake terror attack -- taken straight from the American Neocon playbook. Here's the link LONDON BOMB 'NOT SCARY ENOUGH', BROWN TELLS MI5 PRIME Minister Gordon Brown has dismissed the latest London bomb scare as "feeble" and "unlikely to frighten the public". Mr Brown is understood to be disappointed with M15's effort, describint it as "half-arsed and transparent". A source close to Brown said: "The PM wanted to start things off by scaring the absolute, holy shit out of people. "A badly driven Merc with a couple of gas bottles in the back does not cut the mustard. "We asked for Arabic literature on the passenger seat, a map of Whitehall with big red crosses on it and a huge controlled explosion on live television. Someone will be getting their backside felt for this." The source added: "We're trying to introduce ID cards, imprisonment without trial and swingeing restrictions on freedom of speech. "We wouldn't be able to force through new parking regulations on the back of this pile of arse." Police say they are looking for "a man" in connection with the incident in London's Haymarket. A Metropolitan Police spokesman said: "Our investigations are currently centred on a man. If you see a man you should react with complete terror and run screaming into the nearest busy shop or pub." This might confirm my suspicions. He had such plans before the incident, but it seems so conveniently timed, like 9/11. Perhaps that's why Londoners seemed so blase about it. Just another day in their Orwellian nightmare. Brown sets out plan for tough new terror laws · Judges to get more sentencing power · PM-in-waiting takes on Labour left Nicholas Watt, political editor Sunday June 3, 2007 The Observer Hardline anti-terror laws are to be proposed by Gordon Brown - including an extension of the 28-day limit on detention without charge - as the Chancellor sends a powerful signal that he will take a harder line on terrorism than Tony Blair. In an intensification of Brown's plans for Number 10, which follows criticism that he has failed to flesh out his thoughts on terrorism, he will call this week for a series of measures that will infuriate his party's left wing. (more at link) 9:49:59 PM    comment []

Who Is On Our Side? I've been thinking for some time now that the two-party system is a charade, with leadership on both sides united against The People behind the scenes, and outwardly only pretending to be oppositional to each other. I found this on that woo-woo bulletin board I like to visit. It is the outline of just such a plan, written by whom, I don't know. But check this out. It sounds like the master plan for FOX TV News, but all the news networks are serving up the same cockamamie stew. It does describe exactly how I feel after nearly ten years of this kind of bombardment (I believe the campaign to step up the implementation of the "New World Order" began around the time congress tried to impeach Clinton). I am in a state of extreme disgust and have withdrawn my energies from things political. Perhaps this really is a strategy and perhaps it is working. Debilitate the public mind by continually fomenting contradictory opinions and thus distract it from serious reflections which might cause resistance to our aims. In all ages the people of the world, equally with individuals, have accepted words for deeds, for THEY ARE CONTENT WITH A SHOW and rarely pause to note, in the public arena, whether promises are followed by performance. Therefore we shall establish show institutions which will give eloquent proof of their benefit to progress. Assume the liberal physiognomy of all parties, of all directions, and give that physiognomy a VOICE IN ORATORS WHO WILL SPEAK SO MUCH THAT THEY WILL EXHAUST THE PATIENCE OF THEIR HEARERS AND PRODUCE AN ABHORRENCE OF ORATORY. PUBLIC OPINION MUST BE BROUGHT TO A STATE OF BEWILDERMENT BY GIVING EXPRESSION FROM ALL SIDES TO SO MANY CONTRADICTORY OPINIONS AND FOR SUCH LENGTH OF TIME AS WILL SUFFICE TO MAKE THEM LOSE THEIR HEADS IN THE LABYRINTH AND COME TO SEE THAT THE BEST THING IS TO HAVE NO OPINION OF ANY KIND IN MATTERS POLITICAL! Multiply to such an extent national failings, habits, passions, conditions of civil life, that it will be impossible for anyone to know where he is in the resulting chaos, so that the people in consequence will fail to understand one another. This measure will also serve to sow discord in all parties, to dislocate all collective forces which are still resist progress, and to discourage any kind of personal initiative which might in any degree hinder our future. IN ORDER THAT THE TRUE MEANING OF THINGS MAY NOT STRIKE THE THEM BEFORE THE PROPER TIME WE SHALL MASK IT UNDER AN ALLEGED ARDENT DESIRE TO SERVE THE WORKING CLASSES AND THE GREAT PRINCIPLES OF POLITICAL ECONOMY ABOUT WHICH OUR THEORIES ARE CARRYING ON AN ENERGETIC PROPAGANDA. Put them in the hands of persons whose past and reputation are such that between them and the people lies an abyss, persons who, in case of disobedience to our instructions, must face criminal charges or disappear - this in order to make them defend our interests to their last gasp. IT IS INDISPENSABLE TO TROUBLE IN ALL COUNTRIES THE PEOPLE'S RELATIONS WITH THEIR GOVERNMENTS SO AS TO UTTERLY EXHAUST HUMANITY WITH DISSENSION, HATRED, STRUGGLE, ENVY AND EVEN BY THE USE OF TORTURE, BY STARVATION, BY THE INOCULATION OF DISEASES, BY WANT, SO THAT PROGRESS MAY BE ACHIEVED! 8:48:50 PM    comment []