Democracy down the drain ?

The Dutch author of this article was accredited as Latin America
correspondent for global media among others in Santiago de Chile, from 1971
to July 1974. Then he was declared "Persona non Grata" by the military
junta of General Augusto Pinochet. During the Vietnam war declared "Persona
non Grata" in Cambodia. After working in South-Africa and Scandinavia until
nov.1987, the author was accredited in Tunisia until 1996, covering
North-West Africa, the PLO and the Middle East. Also sometimes for the BBC.
Declared Persona non Grata five times by governments in East and West,
the latest by Tunisian General Ben Ali in 1996.
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NETHERLANDS NEWS AGENCY : the FOREIGN PRESS FOUNDATION.

The UNITED STATES "POWER COMPLEX" :

Geopolitically seen - and from a democratic point of view - right now there
is only one player in the global field : a forced co-operation between the
US and Israel. Result :

DEMOCRACY DOWN THE DRAIN ?

The NETHERLANDS / FPF-HR - April 2002 - The United States "Power Complex"
is at present still further developing an autocratic form of government,
in which the state involves itself in all facets of our and the world's society.

This includes controlling the daily life of all of its own citizens, but
also of many people living outside the United States. As long as they live
in the Power conglomerate's "field of interest". What's good for the US is
good for the World...?

This totalitarian government seeks with arms to control not only all the
worlds economic and political matters, but also the attitudes, values, and
beliefs of first of all the "home market" i.e. the American people. And -
following this scheme - the populations in the worlds energy-rich countries.
All engulfing waves of TV- and radio "Orwellian Newsspeak" take
electronically care of the overwhelming indoctrination. The earlier known
'Hidden Persuaders' have turned into blunt - socalled patriotic - messages,
clobbered into the minds of people.The mainstream medium not only has, but
"s the message. Thinking in an objective way is not advised. And state
school systems will hardly teach people to do so. Or does anybody know a
government which likes critical journalists ? Anywhere in the world ?

Citizen's loyal duty

Since the Power Complex managers - and the allies - are in effect - and also the
effective - owners of all of the absolutely biggest media channels in the
world, the hammering with propaganda lies and -views is easily done through
the mainstream media, starting by erasing the distinction between state,
church and society. And the biggest publicity firms in the world earn
millions of US taxpayers dollars by selling the totalitarian newsspeak "War
on Terrorism makes Peace". The citizen's loyal duty to the state becomes the
primary concern of the totalitarian New World Order community. Like US
president Bush said : "You are either for us or against us.
No choice was left.

The goal of the United States "Power Conglomerate" is first the replacement
of the existing US society with a society which is "perfect for the state
and its followers". Meaning the very profitable global military-industrial
complex which already has been seen at work for many decades. And has cost
the life's of millions of innocent human beings in poorer countries which
need "rebuilding" as in todays New York Times:

NYT- April 18th-2002 - "Bush Sets Role for U.S. in Afghan Rebuilding :
President Bush on Wednesday embraced a major American role in rebuilding
Afghanistan, calling for an effort hecompared to the Marshall Plan."
End quote NYT.
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"Herrenvolk"-syndrom.

Various totalitarian systems however, have - apart from "rebuilding" -
different ideological goals. For example, of the states most commonly
described as totalitarianÑthe Soviet Union under Stalin, Nazi Germany, and
the PeopleÕs Republic of China under MaoÑthe Communist regimes of the Soviet
Union and China sought the universal fulfilment of humankind through the
establishment of a classless society (see communism); German National
Socialism, on the other hand, attempted to establish the superiority of the
so-called Aryan race, the "Herrenvolk"-syndrom. The US-Israeli Power Complex
combines these features, calling the system "War on Terrorism", leaving all
options open to themselves. Ê

Despite the many differences among totalitarian states, they have several
characteristics in common, of which the two most important are: the
existence of an ideology that addresses all aspects of life and outlines
means to attain the final goal. And : a single mass party ( all f˜r us, not against
us !) through which the people are mobilized to muster socalled patriotism,
tax-money, energy and support. The party is generally led by a dictator and,
typically, participation in politics, especially voting will be tampered with. The
party leadership maintains monopoly control over the governmental system,
which includes the police, military, media/communications, and economic and
education systems. Dissent is systematically suppressed and anybody critical
of the system terrorized by a secret police, enforced by global snooping
systems like Carnivore/Echelon. Autocracies through the ages have attempted
to exercise control over the lives of their subjects, by whatever means were
available to them, including the use of secret police and military force.
However, only with modern weapon- and info-technology has the US-Israeli
government acquired the means to control societies, they think...
Totalitarianism in it's present form : the socalled "War on Terrorism" is a
recent and dangerous phenomenon. As - within soon - the people in the oil
rich countries of Venezuela and Iraq again will find out.

The US-Israeli power structure at present has a monopoly on the global use
of the military power, and on the main forms of mass communication : leading
to the suppression of dissent, especially during times of "home-made
tactical crisis". ÊÊThere is no single cause for the growth of totalitarian
tendencies. There may be theoretical roots in the collectivist political
theories of Plato, Jean Jacques Rousseau, or Karl Marx. But the emergence of
totalitarian forms of government is probably more the result of specific
historical forces. For example, the chaos that followed in the wake of World
War I, allowed or encouraged the establishment of totalitarian regimes. Like
in Russia, Italy, Germany - even Sweden* for a short time, while the
sophistication of modern weapons and communications enabled them to extend
and consolidate their power. Like is happening now.

The United States was founded on the concept that an elite few could not
dictate how the masses should live.ÊUnless the American military industrial
complex begins to reassert that fundamental truth, in no uncertain terms :

Democracy is further going down the drain fast,
and one soon only will find it as a word in a dictionary... Ê

Bibliography : Roland Huntford, on "Sweden : The New Totalitarians",
Publisher: Stein & Day Pub; ISBN: 0812860489; Revised edition (April 1980).
E. Fromm, Escape from Freedom (1941, repr. 1960); H. Arendt, The Origins of
Totalitarianism (1958, new ed. 1966); C. J. Friedrich and Z. K. Brezinski,
Totalitarian Dictatorship and Autocracy (2d ed. 1967).

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