Causality
When you start doubting people's motives, rather than arguing about their policies, you get stuff backwards.
I can't say how many times I've heard George Bush is using the war on terror as a pretext to destroy our civil rights. So he was always planning to pass the Patriot Act, it just got a lot easier after 9/11? If he is destroying our civil rights, he's doing it because he believes it'll help fight the war on terror.
On the other side, a common line from conservatives is the Left is using environmentalism to bring us socialism. It sure seems to me thaf if they're bringing in socialism, it's to fight global warming and the rest, not as an end in itself.
posted by LAGuy @ 12:16 AM
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Come now, destroying our civil rights was just a by-blow of their true aim, which was to preserve the military-industrial complex by elevating some cave-dwellers as a global threat equivalent to to the Soviets/global communism so as to maintain "our way of life" for a whole bunch of powerful folks who risked becoming obsolete in a non-Manichean world.
(Do you think they'll remake "the Parallax View" anytime soon ?)
The first step is to, in the words of The Clash, know your rights.
p.s. anonymous #1 is my new champion in any duel against CG's anonymous hero from a few months ago.
p.p.s. does using the phrase "war on terror" non-ironically give you even the least bit of an orwellian wrench to the gut, LAGuy? I know it does for me.
I agree, Anonymous #1 did excellent work.
And yeah, the Clash, supporting your rights through Marxist revolution.
Anyway, you got a better name than War On Terror? It was actually chosen to be diplomatic. And the only thing that's Orwellian about it are those who try to deny that there's a real and serious threat.
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