The Grave Threat of the Bush Administration - Paul Craig Roberts

[Wind Dancer]

The Detainees are Props in the Terror Game
The Grave Threat of the Bush Administration

By PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS

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Considering the drastic gestapo-type activities for which Washington is clamoring, a person would think that America is being overwhelmed by terrorist attacks. Yet, despite an aggressive and brutal war that Bush has been waging in Iraq for going on three years, terrorist attacks in America are even more rare than a honest politician. There has not been a terror attack since September 11, 2001, more than four years ago!

The Bush administration's hype about terrorism serves no purpose other than to build a police state that is far more dangerous to Americans than terrorists.

Ever since the "war on terror" was initiated by the Bush administration, the US has been holding large numbers of "detainees." By chance or the laws of probability, a few of these people might fit some definition of "terrorist." The vast majority, however, are innocents picked up in the equivalent of Stalin-era KGB street sweeps. Many are hapless people sold by warlords to the US in order to receive cash awards for turning in "terrorists."

Despite the large number of alleged "terrorists" or "enemy combatants" that are being held, the Bush administration simply hasn't a shred of evidence with which to bring "detainees" to trial.

If truth be known, the "detainees" are merely props for Bush's hype about the "terrorist threat." The "detainees" were arrested in order to make Americans feel safe and at ease with the police state.

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Paul Craig Roberts has held a number of academic appointments and has contributed to numerous scholarly publications. He served as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration. His graduate economics education was at the University of Virginia, the University of California at Berkeley, and Oxford University. He is coauthor of The Tyranny of Good Intentions. He can be reached at: [e-mail]

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[Talismom]

1. Yep, the main purpose of all this fear mongering is to arrange a

gradual yet steady destruction of civil liberties and establish wide-spread spying on any US citizen with the balls to express dissent. Then you can just toss 'em in the cell and call 'em enemy combatants and throw away the keys! Damn it makes me proud to be an Umurican! Thanks for the post FDinNC. I'm a very FDinNYC!

[Wind Dancer]

2. LOL, the FDs must unite!

We are living in an Orwellian state of fear. Soon, our dissenting voices will be silenced by the enforcers - the Thought Police.

"It does not matter whether the war is actually happening, and, since no decisive victory is possible, it does not matter whether the war is going badly. All that is needed is that a state of war should exist." 1984

[Talismom]

3. Oh what a perfect quote! I haven't read Orwellin years and

plumb forget how on target it was!

[Wind Dancer]

4. I had a feeling ya might appreciate that quote.

:pals:

[Talismom]

5. Yeah, not bad for a southern gal! (hee, hee, looking for trouble!)n/t