Zizek on iraq

[Carl Remick]

>From: BrownBingb at aol.com
>
>CB: Zizek seems to suggest a conspiracy theory here.  Anyway, I think it's
>likely true to the extent that there have been members of the national
>security state sitting around thinking how to use 9/11 to further their
>domestic agenda, not that the "war on terror" was invented whole clothe as 
>a
>cover for instituting domestic quasi-fascism. So, domestic dictatorship is
>"a" , rather than "the" true goal of all this. It should be noted that this
>latest specific plot is an effort to take another step in this direction
>after the steps taken by the Burger and Rehnquist Courts' erosion of the
>small civil liberty gains from the Warren Court and the development of the
>prison-industrial complex. ...

U.S. National - AP

War Means Rights May Be Scaled Back

Tue Mar 18,10:46 PM ET

UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS, Ohio - The government has room to scale back individual 
rights during wartime without violating the Constitution, Supreme Court 
Justice Antonin Scalia said Tuesday.

"The Constitution just sets minimums," Scalia said after a speech at John 
Carroll University in suburban Cleveland. "Most of the rights that you enjoy 
go way beyond what the Constitution requires."

Scalia, one of the court's most conservative judges, was responding to a 
question about the Justice Department's pursuit of terrorism suspects and 
whether their rights are being violated.

Scalia did not discuss what rights he believed are constitutionally 
protected, but said that in wartime, one can expect "the protections will be 
ratcheted right down to the constitutional minimum. I won't let it go beyond 
the constitutional minimum." ...

<http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030319/ap_on_re_us/scalia_rights_2>

Carl

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