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Extract from a post I made about 6 months ago: The actions of our government in response to the terrorist threat and the wishes of the White House are both subservient and misguided.
Let's take the official government line just once, to try and reach its rabid supporters and make them see sense:
OK, so the terror attacks are coming from a shadowy cabal that wish to spread disorder and chaos; what better way to do so than to manipulate us in a way that leads to civil unrest and eventually, violent confrontation? The claim of convenient timing does not necessarily point the finger of blame at our government, but it does pose serious questions regarding overall responsibility.
A terror attack on British soil that just happens to precede the release of the results of the Hutton Inquiry? On American soil (or near enough to freak people out) just before the presidential elections in the U.S.?
How many of you would ask yourselves whether it was convenient at this stage for the government to let one slip through the net? Given the timing, how many of us would take seriously assertions that our freedoms were being taken from us for our own protection? How many, in such circumstances, would see their only option to be an outright fight for those freedoms?
Even if the government succeeded in a complete clampdown, there would be many who would continue to fight from the shadows.
If such a scenario did come about, it wouldn't matter who was behind the attack and who did the bulk of the manipulating; the result would still be exactly what Bush claims to be trying to prevent - 'a chaotic world ruled by force'..
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