by Dmitry Orlov
As Paul Craig Roberts has recently reported,
the US government is in the process of launching
an all-out war on truth. Those who express views
contrary to the party line out of Washington will
be labeled a threat. Eventually they may find
themselves carted to one of the concentration
camps, which Halliburton (Dick Cheney's old
company) has constructed for $385 million.
But that may take a while.
In the meantime, we can expect lots of other,
less dramatic developments. Indeed, some of
these are already happening.
Here they are,
listed in order of severity.
listed in order of severity.
1.
Self-censorship. Those who have previously tried to
get
the truth out no matter what become more reticent
and prone to equivocation
when reporting on “hot” issues.
2.
Topic-avoidance. They start avoiding certain “hot”
issues
that they feel are most likely to get them into trouble.
3. Response to
harassment. A few incidents of mild official
harassment cause certain blogs to start watering down their
content, or pulling
down content in response to harassment.
4.
Blacklisting. The officials start censoring content
on a
case-by-case basis, blocking or shutting down certain
internet sites that
they consider seditious.
5. Blocking communications. The
officials start dealing
with the “hard cases” of uncooperative individuals who
remain, shutting down their communications by disabling
their cell phones,
shutting down internet access, and by
imposing travel restrictions so that the
“hard cases” are
forced to remain in places where they can be watched.
6. Detention.
Those found to be truly uncooperative,
who try to circumvent the restrictions,
are rounded up
and shipped off to the above-mentioned camps.
This may seem like a dire prognosis, but
actually I just
want to present a relatively complete list of public measures
for your consideration. Yes, there will be a few “hard cases”
who will insist
on getting right in the face of Washington
officialdom in futile hopes of
somehow affecting the
political process or winning over a few of their
compatriots.
But at some point such individuals become indistinguishable
from people with mental problems. That is because if you live
in the US, actually
know how the political system there operates,
and still think that the US is a
democracy, then you DO have a
mental problem. You can't have it both ways:
either you buy
into the official propaganda, or you don't.
Also, it bears pointing out that the
vast majority of people
in the US are quite happy listening to Washington's
propaganda,
be it from Fox or NPR, don't consider it propaganda, and have
been
conditioned to consider anyone who attempts to tell them
the truth to be tin
hat-wearing conspiracy theorist nut case.
And that means that tin hat-wearing
conspiracy theorist nut
cases have a role to play. They are important to have,
in the
same way that a village idiot is important to have, so that
children can
learn what idiocy looks and sounds like.
So, why bother sending them to a
concentration camp?
And so it seems likely that the village
idiots... ahem,
truth-tellers will remain free-range for the time being,
unless
they really lose it and start tilting at windmills.
But then that becomes a
bona fide mental health issue.
Unless, off course, full-on war hysteria
breaks out.
to be “not winning, not losing” but somehow “keeping America
safe” in yet another wretched part of the world, the internal
goons have to be
kept busy. Rounding up undesirables
would give them something to do.
That's the state of affairs in the
United States and its
subservient territories: Canada, Europe, Australia and
New Zealand and a few others. But Washington's propaganda
isn't working at all
well in the rest of the world, be it Russia
or China or Latin America. In all
of these places, Washington's
message control has more or less failed. This is
why the people
in Washington are in a bit of a panic, and labeling internal
dissidents as a “threat” is just them flailing in search of an
answer. They
can't stop lying, and they can't even pretend
to rule the world if everyone
knows that they are lying, so
their only option is to try to squelch every
voice except their
own. They may succeed at this within the US (some would
say they
already have) but as far as the rest of the world—
good luck!
* * *
An interesting development took place
two days ago in
my tiny patch of the world: an article I
produced together with
Club Orlov's special Kiev correspondent Yu Shan which I
ran a
while ago, then translated into Russian, was published as an
editorial by
a major Russian online daily, VZGLYAD.ru.
In
itself this is not a surprise; my stuff does get published in
Russian once in a
while, and this is an excellent article, which
is why I ran it and translated
it. But what surprised me was
the response it received. Below is a sampling
from the over
100 comments it received in just two days. It is here to
afford
you a peak behind the one-way mirror through
which the world views the US. I
hope that you enjoy it.
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Truth
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