Globalizing paranoia production

Lisa & Ian Murray seamus at accessone.com
Fri Feb 2 23:20:16 PST 2001


A nominally British group, the Defense Evaluation Research Agency <http://www.dera.gov.uk/index.php3> is now running a "documentary" on the future of terrorism on The Learning Channel. Bioweapons, yaddah yaddah yaddah. Anybody know more about their history than what's on the website? Bush' buddies aren't wasting any time. http://www.nssg.gov. This is some f****d up stuff we need to pay real close attention to.

Ian

"But consider the definition of a racketeer as someone who creates a threat and then charges for its reduction. Governments provision of this protection, by this standard, often qualifies as racketeering. To the extent that the threats against which a government protects its citizens are imaginary or are consequences of its own activities, the government has organized a protection racket. Since governments themselves often constitute the largest current threats to the livelihoods of their own citizens, many governments operate in essentially the same ways as racketeers." [C. Tilly "War Making and State Making as Organized Crime"--from Bringing the State Back In edited by Peter Evans Dietrich Rueschemeyer and Theda Skocpol, Cambridge University Press]



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