Those that fail to learn from history…
Far too many transgressions against human rights, freedoms, morality – even just common decency – are committed in the name of “National Security” and rationalised by resorting to the argument “The end justifies the means”.
However there’s a major flaw, both logically and morally, with that argument.
I had a rant about it some years ago when I was active in the anti-Iraq war movement, and the essence of what I said then still holds good today…
“Y’see, that’s the fallacy with the ‘end justifies the means’ argument – we can never truly know what the real end will be, or even when…
…’The end justifies the means’ can only ever work if we extract a slice of time and arbitrarily (i.e., to suit our own purposes – in other words, whatever’s convenient) determine ‘this particular point is the beginning’ and ‘this other particular point is the end’.”
(www.tiltingatwindmills.org.uk/imo/niggles.htm)
The Secret Government: The Constitution in Crisis, by Bill Moyers
This is the full length 90 min. version of Bill Moyer’s 1987 scathing critique of the criminal subterfuge carried out by the Executive … all » Branch of the United States Government to carry out operations which are clearly contrary to the wishes and values of the American people. The ability to exercise this power with impunity is facilitated by the National Security Act of 1947. The thrust of the exposé is the Iran-Contra arms and drug-running operations which flooded the streets of our nation with crack cocaine. The significance of the documentary is probably greater today in 2007 than it was when it was made. We now have a situation in which these same forces have committed the most egregious terrorist attack on US soil and have declared a fraudulent so-called “War on Terror”. The ruling regime in the US who have conducted the invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, are now banging the war drum against Iran. We have the PATRIOT act which has stripped us of many of our basic civil rights justified by the terror of 9/11 which is their own doing.
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