Even if it was an inside job on par with the burning of the Reichstag, the Machiavellian beauty of 911 is that we are all now a hostage audience.
It's a mistake to think that the Chinese are not offended at the racism that insulates Western arrogance against the threat they pose to our access
to dwindling resources. They're adoption of the free market economy has not opened up the political system in any substantial way. The poor are
being ousted from land that is being bought up for private enterprise with no recourse and they have no due process in their system. Now, neither do
we.
They have a booming manufacturing economy, now we have the export of raw resource and a consumer market run on debt. The preemptive strike that bin
Laden justified has been more advantageous to the East than the West, it's driven up recruitment for militants in the East and squandered resources
with no substantial gains made in the winning of hearts and minds, or land. Most people can sense there's a fight coming up. China has already
marched, there is the nasty little invasion of Tibet.
The adoption of torture and discarding due process has destroyed whatever moral ground the West had to stand on. Wars are won on the higher moral
ground. Does something for the soldiers and the resistance fighters. South America will not be our ally. Each anti-christ has risen out of some
kind of political turmoil and had a target for that rage. Napoleon guillotined monarchs, Hitler gassed Jews, the next one will have it in for the
poor. But it probably will have a nice spin on it at the outset.
Diebold evolved from Nazi technology. It's a ridiculous position. The unmitigated thrust towards global free market capitalism is nothing but the
rise of the global fascists. Frankly I would rather take my chances on an American totalitarianism than Chinese, probably stand a better chance of
fixing it sooner, given the historical precedents. China has spent the last almost 100 years under a Stalinesque type of political communism. There
have been so many internal purges and the encouragement to rat out one's neighbor for advancement destroys the moral character of a nation. Despite
the ease with which the same tactics are being implemented in North America (calling a disturbed child a terrorist) our historical traditions provide
at least an opportunity for debate. Mind you leadership has imparted that the hurling of insults is a valid form of debate and true to the
encouragement of emulating power, citizens follow suit.
Where are the men.
[edit on 5-4-2007 by clearwater]



