[lbo-talk] the usual suspects?

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sun Mar 14 16:04:35 PST 2004


Joseph Wanzala wrote:


>The attacks appear to be closer to a 'strategy of terror', where
>groups associated with those in power use terrorism threats against
>civilians to put political pressure on the politicians - in this
>case, welcome political pressure - to lead the politicians to enact
>right-wing legislation banning dissent and increasing the power of
>the police state, all justified by the necessity to fight the 'war
>on terrorism'.

Hmm, didn't work out too good, did it? Or was engineering the Popular Party's loss part of the strategy?

Doug



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