While it may be tempting to dismiss the theory that legally elected democracies of the western governments are capable of stage managing acts of terrorism to drive their people to support unpopular domestic policies as delusional fantasies of pot smoking conspiracy theorists, we do so at our peril.
If we look at our world it resembles a New World Disorder. Large parts of the Western world including the super power U.S. have become corrupt oligarchies where an Obama or a Hollande are mere figureheads of a fragile and barely functioning constitutional government. These governments are- in the words of Sheldon Wolin--"inverted totalitarianisms"--in which they have merely the form of democracy while the substance is of fascism.
But real power resides- in the words of Richard Cottrell- in a corporate order composed of big business, financial elites and the ravenous military- industrial complex. [x] This cabal of criminal gangsters or elements of the Deep State play on escalating world tensions driven by global poverty, swelling populations and the finite limit of food, oil and minerals. [xi] Hysterical Islamophobia comes in handy to usher in a National Security State which declares perpetual emergency and endless wars.
The terrible spectacle of random and senseless violence which Paris experienced on the 13th of this month was successful. A state of emergency has been declared with suspension of civil rights for three months and a doubling of the military budget. The French people, suffering from the awe and shock of the recent terrorist violence, have meekly complied. Without conducting any investigation or enquiry France promptly went on a bombing campaign of Syria.
David Cameron- Prime Minister of Britain- a warmonger following the hallowed tradition of another war criminal and hired gun for the Kuwaiti Sheiks-Tony Blair, is all set to go on a quixotic adventure of bombing Syria to the Stone Age without getting any approval from the parliament. Putin of Russia, who is recovering from the shock of the Russian plane with 224 passengers being blown out of the sky by ISIS, is also on a bombing spree of Syria.
Orwellian Big Brother has finally come to roost. If George Orwell, the author of 1984, were to be alive today he would be looking at the sea of bewildered herd cowering behind the barbed wire of the National Security State under the panoptic gaze of Big Brother who ensures their enslavement by endless wars to secure endless peace.
Perhaps, he would have shaken his head and muttered in utter disbelief: "I thought I was writing fiction."
C R Sridhar
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