Comments on: Home-truths personified http://antonyloewenstein.com/2007/08/01/home-truths-personified/ Mon, 13 Feb 2012 08:39:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Iqbal Khaldun http://antonyloewenstein.com/2007/08/01/home-truths-personified/comment-page-1/#comment-205106 Iqbal Khaldun Wed, 01 Aug 2007 09:49:13 +0000 http://antonyloewenstein.com/blog/2007/08/01/home-truths-personified/#comment-205106 This is the world we live in. We obliterated Iraq for weapons it did not possess. And then we supply stupendous amounts of the same weapons of mass destruction to regimes, Jewish and Arab alike, with horrendous human rights records. Oppression in the 21st century has been institutionalised such that even the most wicked contraptions devised by human minds can be palmed off as instruments of peace. This is such madness. It is worth contrasting this with the Haneef scandal. Basically there's a lot of attention on a man who did nothing wrong, and yet is ostensibly still considered a possible security risk by the Australian Government. So effectively, whether or not you shrug it off as leftie conspiracy theories, what we have is an elaborate system which creates phantom menaces while very real menaces, like the boost in the militarisation of the Middle East, remain hidden. This is the world we live in. We obliterated Iraq for weapons it did not possess. And then we supply stupendous amounts of the same weapons of mass destruction to regimes, Jewish and Arab alike, with horrendous human rights records. Oppression in the 21st century has been institutionalised such that even the most wicked contraptions devised by human minds can be palmed off as instruments of peace. This is such madness.

It is worth contrasting this with the Haneef scandal. Basically there's a lot of attention on a man who did nothing wrong, and yet is ostensibly still considered a possible security risk by the Australian Government.

So effectively, whether or not you shrug it off as leftie conspiracy theories, what we have is an elaborate system which creates phantom menaces while very real menaces, like the boost in the militarisation of the Middle East, remain hidden.

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