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Quote for the day – January 13

14 Thursday Jan 2016

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“Richard Hofstadter’s essay linked an interest in conspiracies or conspiracy theories with paranoia and with the loony radical Right. Hofstadter thus helped to contaminate the subjects for the liberal-left which then – and now – is unwilling to be associated with almost anything on or of the Right. For ‘serious’ people – academics, journalists, politicians – large areas of political inquiry have been contaminated ever since by an association with conspiracy theories. Hofstadter’s essay appeared just when questions were being asked about the assassination of JFK and his essay helped to shore up the ‘lone assassin’ verdict offered by the Warren Commission”.

Robin Ramsay, Politics and Paranoia

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Quote for the day – January 7

07 Thursday Jan 2016

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“The system will always use the shock of terrorism as a psychological weapon with which to bludgeon the population into obedience”.

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Quote for the day – December 20

20 Sunday Dec 2015

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“Presented with a universal duty to defend public order, everyone is invited to inform, to grovel, to fear: for the first time in history cowardice becomes a sublime quality, fear is always justified and the only kind of ‘courage’ which escapes scorn is that of approving and supporting all the abuse and infamy of the state”.

Gianfranco Sanguinetti, On Terrorism and the State

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Quote for the day – December 3

03 Thursday Dec 2015

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“The British national security system has for too long operated not as a system to guarantee the security of British lives, but rather to guarantee the security of powerful vested interests to which the state appears irreparably beholden. This raises serious questions about the predicament of British democracy, the role of the state in the ‘war on terror’, the state as an instrument of corporate interest as opposed to public choice, and the ability of citizens to participate meaningfully in policymaking, relevant to their own security”.

Nafeez Ahmed, The London Bombings: An Independent Inquiry

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Quote for the day – December 2

02 Wednesday Dec 2015

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“The war is not meant to be won, it is meant to be continuous. Hierarchical society is only possible on the basis of poverty and ignorance. This new version is the past and no different past can ever have existed. In principle the war effort is always planned to keep society on the brink of starvation. The war is waged by the ruling group against its own subjects and its object is not the victory over either Eurasia or East Asia, but to keep the very structure of society intact”.

George Orwell, 1984

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Quote for the day – November 28

28 Saturday Nov 2015

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“The reasoning currently in vogue is simple: if you love democracy, you have to defend it; to defend it you have to fight its enemies; to fight the enemies of democracy, no sacrifice is too great: the nobility of the end justifies every means; no democracy for the enemies of democracy! Something which was never essentially a democracy has now visibly ceased being so”.

Gianfranco Sanguinetti, On Terrorism and the State (1980)

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Quote for the day – November 23

23 Monday Nov 2015

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“I have never said that the secret services were behind every single attack, given that these days even a Molotov cocktail or a workplace sabotage are considered to be ‘attacks’: but I have said, and I have been saying for nearly ten years now, that all spectacular acts of terrorism are either remote-controlled or directly carried out by our secret services”.

Gianfranco Sanguinetti, On Terrorism and the State (1980)

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