Neo-Cons and the greatest con of all — Farish A Noor

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These latest security measures have merely confirmed the suspicion of the US’ detractors that the country is making a slide towards authoritarianism, with its government showing decidedly fascistic proclivities

There is a saying that has been attributed to Adolf Hitler: “If you want to tell a lie, then tell a big one.” Granted that telling the difference between lies, half-lies, half-truths and truths deemed too truthful to be told is growing ever more difficult these days, but one still needs to have the will and courage to speak the truth to power as was shown most explicitly in the exemplary life of the late Edward Said, who did so with conviction and not to mention a fair amount of eloquence to boot. But these days the lies are raining down on us thick and fast, and nowhere is this hailstorm of lies so strong as it is in the corridors of power in Washington.

For it is there that we will find Mr Bush Junior — the man whose claim to the presidency of the United States of America remains in question for many — and his coterie of neo-Conservatives concocting some of the most audacious red herrings that have come our way of late. Talk of ‘homeland security’ has blurred the distinction between democracy and a police state, and the newly introduced regulations and procedures regarding the monitoring of foreigners into that country had turned the US into the closest living model of the Big Brother state envisaged by George Orwell. Not even in Stalin’s Soviet Union or the many petty banana republics and dictatorships of the Third World (many of which were sponsored and backed up by the US, mind you) have we seen the development of a state security apparatus as intrusive and obnoxious as what we see in the United States today.

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http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_11-1-2004_pg3_4