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”.

Weak Democracy and Entertainment

For the majority of people in the West it appears that democracy has lost its meaning as a means of political participation and is now seen as a kind of freedom to have fun or to be entertained – a right upheld and maintained by massive security forces, harsh anti-terrorism laws, vast corporations and increasingly powerful executive driven governments. While democracy continues to exist as a political and social ideal for so many oppressed peoples in the Third World, in the West it has become a matter of preserving the luxuries we currently enjoy against any perceived threat – from terrorism to global warming. Under such circumstances it is no wonder that democracy is not in good condition and largely exists in name only, not only in the corrupt states of the Third World, but within the increasingly decadent heart of the West itself.