Re: Daily Digest V1 #309

> On the other hand, a superpower cooperation betwween USA and west Europe
> might be agree on the future of the world system: A militarized -
> centralized - emperorship without any democratic component which
> would not
> hesitate to attack any one from rest of the world. This
> probability may come
> true and it is not hard to say that a civil war will follow it.

This is indeed a very real possibility.  It is likely that this war will
only escalate as America's hate mounts.  No one in the media is seriously
asking why such attacks occurred, just who did it for the purposes of
retaliation.  Retaliation will pour fuel to the fire, not address the causes
of hatred.

I've been thinking for some time that should events such as yesterday's
occur, they could become levers that lead to a world-empire, one during its
first stages of formation is led by a self-righteous US government that in
the name of national security and world peace, will gain allied support for
greater military control over the planet, more assassinations abroad,
bombings of rogue states, etc. and civil control over its US residents.
Many US conservatives are putting some blame on civil freedoms here,
claiming the US has too much freedom and not enough of the authoritarian
control that could prevent these disasters.  On NPR this morning one
conservative, whose name I didn't catch but I think was on Bush Jr. staff,
claimed that we must decide how much we need to restrict our freedoms -- not
whether we should or shouldn't.  And he said very eloquently that we must
"stop thinking in terms of shades gray," that this is "a black and white
issue of good vs. evil."  War for peace, control for freedom.  Orwellian
indeed.

Now let's see how the anti-globalization protesters will be handled
physically in DC and image-wise in the media.