Saturday, December 19, 2015

From Democracy To National Security State

The National Security State is a state that has the following characteristics (from Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer, Brave New World Order; Gary Wills, Bomb Power; and Andrew Bacevich, Washington Rules):

1) It is fixated on alleged foreign enemies and the “threat” they pose to the homeland;

2) It uses the “threat” for the justification of any military solutions to “pacifying” those enemies.

3) It maintains political and economic power not primarily in the people, but in the military (and defense contractors).

4) It uses propaganda methods to narrow the parameters of political debate and to put fear in the populace regarding perceived state enemies (e.g. the Truman Doctrine speech of 1947: “Totalitarian regimes” anywhere in the world “undermine … the security of the United States”).

5) It uses many appeals to “national security” as a rationale for its drive toward more expansive hegemony.

You can read the rest (including the five easy steps) @
http://www.globalresearch.ca/americas-transition-from-a-democracy-to-a-national-security-state-in-five-easy-steps/5465206

Sound familiar? It should, since that is now "our" government.

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