Sunday, August 17, 2008

Setting a Trap for the People

The ultimate job of all of these security agencies, set up and empowered to an incredible degree by the liberal regimes around the world, is to set traps for the people to fall into so that the jails remain filled with legions of lawbreakers. Instead of addressing the root causes of crime and working to eliminate the conditions which give rise to it they seem more interested in keeping the jails full and the security forces active and the so-called “War on Terrorism” has given them the justification they need in the eyes of a docile populace to place more and more people under lock and key. Infinite numbers of flexibly applied laws are exploited to this end – from “breach of the peace” to “resisting arrest” – and the aim is to ensure that anyone can be detained for any reason without calling into question the liberal façade of “democracy”.

The liberal/conservative state in all its power brandishes its weapons against the illiberal while emasculating its own citizens through a domestic ideology of pacifism. Even as it cracks skulls, bombs and shoots it continues to justify it with the same old lie that it is all in the name of peace and security for all – in reality it is evidence of a savage clash of ideologies in every instance with the winning side either killing or imprisoning the other. Ultimately is the prevailing liberal ideology in the West ever seriously questioned by these peaceful protestors and those who make use of the established channels of lobbying and electioneering? Without ideological conviction they pose no threat to the status quo but nevertheless the liberal state apparently relishes jailing them for “breaching the public peace”. Freedom of expression, in any society, always comes with a quid pro quo – never seriously challenge the ruling ideology and if you do it means war. Resistance against the status quo must ultimately be pursued fully or not at all, half measures will only result in your entrapment – the complexity of the legal system only makes it all the more easier for an unknowing public to be abused.

The present obsession with copy-right laws puts a lie to liberal pretensions of defending freedom of information and has transformed freedom of expression into a system of profiteering on an immense scale at the expense of the public. Writers, producers and so-called “artists” of all kinds now produce phenomenally vast quantities of material with only their exclusive profiteering in mind – punishing anyone at all who attempts to undermine this exclusive control through unauthorized distribution. This is not in the public interest and sets a massive legal trap for the citizenry at large whose interest in something may result in heavy fines or jail time if they acquire an unauthorized copy of a movie, song or book. The present artistic elite is clearly only interested in profit and the economic success resulting from their works as opposed to their aesthetic strength and contribution to human culture and this economic focus leads only to waste and intolerable greed as well as stratification.

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