[Marxism] Why do Marxists hold their tounges: Redux

[Douglas MacDonald <dmacdonald94591@xxxxxxxxx>]

It has been said that truth is the first casualty of war. No truer words have 
been said.  Daily, we are subjected to false stories (remember the WMD ?s?), 
embedded journalism and propaganda from governments that justify the war on 
Iraq, and their never ending ?war on terrorism.?    Little room is available in 
the media and even in the peace movement to counter the presumptions of the 
State in this new permanent war.

The bombings in London are used as justification to restrict civil liberties in 
both the U.S and Britain.  In fact, immediately after the bombings, Congress 
renewed the Patriot Act.  British intelligence recently murdered Jean Charles 
de Menezes, an electrician, under a newly minted ?shoot to kill? policy. Why?

Moreover, on Monday August 8th, the Washington Post reported the Pentagon has 
developed plans for extensive operations within the continental United States, 
in which terrorist attacks would be used as justification for imposing martial 
law on cities, regions or the entire country. Do you remember the Pentagon 
directive, as reported by the Los Angeles Times on October 27, 2002, creating 
the ?Preemptive, Proactive Operations Group? in which elite military units will 
foment terrorist incidents in order to ?flush them out??  These stories 
underscore the true nature of the supposed ?terrorist? incidents as false flag 
operations.

Wikpedia defines false flag operations as:

?operations conducted by governments, corporations, or other organizations, 
which are designed to appear as if they are being carried out by other 
entities. The name is derived from the military concept of flying false colors; 
that is, flying the flag of another country other than your own. This was 
considered acceptable provided one lowered the false flag and raised the 
national flag before engaging in battle.?

As long as activists and good intentioned citizens do not try and understand 
the machinations of state power and its misrepresentations in pivotal political 
events like 911, the London bombings, and the Kennedy and King assassinations, 
we are doomed.  For how are we to end a war created by a system that we will 
not even recognize as corrupt and rotten to the core?
The facts to verify the state authorship of all of these events is plainly 
apparent and expounded upon in hundreds of books, articles and movies and is 
largely understood by millions of Americans.  CNN even ran a story on the 
Memphis jury verdict that found local and state politicians and the FBI and 
military intelligence guilty of Kings execution.

There is truly a material basis composed of facts and evidence that exposes the 
hand of the government in many of the seminal political killings and ?incidents 
?of the past 40 years.  The willful refusal, especially by those in the peace 
movement, to weigh and measure such evidence will enslave us to the governments 
anti-democratic polices forever, unless we rise above their masquerade.

These accusations are not without merit and go to the heart of describing state 
power.  We can no longer brush off and ignore the machinations by which power 
is wielded through foreign and domestic intelligence operations that build 
support for draconian policies.  The manipulation of phony terrorist incidents, 
like 911 and the London bombings is used to justify wars of aggression because 
the economy requires it. In order to maximize such aggressive measures both 
abroad and at home martial law plans have been prepared.

As concerned citizens we must be very cautious about our governments increasing 
clamoring to clamp down on dissent.  The US has had plans since the 1980's 
going back to Ollie North under REX 84 to suspend the constitution and declare 
a state of emergency if we were to have invaded Central America.  The military 
manual "Operations other than war" also carefully outlines the targeting and 
suppression of dissent by the military if/when "conditions" require it.

For over 20 years members and former members of the US government have been 
role playing the Armageddon Plan, whereby an unelected government assumes power 
in "emergency" situations, circumventing entirely our constitutional framework. 
 Now the Pentagon is ready to assume policing authority and implement martial 
law when a "terrorist" incident strikes.
The threat of martial law is very real. The peace movement?s dismissal of the 
self-proclaimed threats by the leaders of the ruling class for such policy is 
self-deluding.  This is not to say that it is for certain going to be 
implemented.  But the threat is far greater than most care to believe.

The calls and preparations for martial law largely come from the fact that the 
economy is overly reliant on military and arms production and has little 
remaining productive capacity outside this arena.  The economy is a shell of 
its former self even when compared to what it was a mere 10 years ago. Under 
the auspices of ?free trade? the WTO, NAFTA, CAFTA, etc, billions of dollars in 
manufacturing have been closed and or shipped over seas.  We have no real 
productive capacity remaining other than arms/military industry.  Profits have 
fallen and are only supported through the paper shuffling of finance capital, 
pure speculation and gambling.  This is reflected in the staggering fleecing of 
stockholders and pensioners by companies like Enron, Worldcom et al.   
Therefore creating a permanent war can be seen as the best and only hope for 
the US in the eyes of the current rulers.

As a result of the new demands of the full time war economy and the rapidly 
deteriorating social conditions for the overwhelming multitudes (school 
closures, low wage jobs, increased incarceration, non-existent health care, 
etc.) police-state tactics become required in order to enforce unpopular 
policy.  The policy of war and repression then supports conditions for the 
continuation of the military economy while guaranteeing the stifling of dissent.

Text after text, announcement after announcement state, unequivocally that the 
Pentagon is prepared to step in at a moments notice and assume civilian control 
including implementing martial law during a "terrorist" event.  The staging of 
phony events and the creation of false enemies and the eroding of civil 
liberties and whipping up of nationalism is how power is wielded in today's 
politics.   To simply call for supporting greens and the peace movement while 
blithely ignoring the very real threats of fascist policy supported by both 
corporate parties is simply irresponsible.

The highest stage of capitalism is imperialism and to do it right, martial law 
may well be introduced.  They have the plans and mark my words......martial law 
is not simply an idle threat.


                
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