A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny,true or false?

Question

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pulie not the point buddy .

missed the a apologies paulie.

if you take the time to be informed it goes miles deeper than emails and cell phones being tapped into .

Answer 1

Not always. Though i read what paulie d wrote and i just can not believe that someone has no idea of history can't understand what happens around him and is so close minded. I believe he watches alot of cnn. Iwill give you an example. I am greek and alot of my relatives live in the USA. during the war in ex Yugoslavia i talked with them on the phone and when i told them that there was a serious war taking place in balkans with the americans bombing around killing soldiers and civillians to they told me come on it can't be so serious here we know things different. Most times you do not know the reason of going to war what kind of freedom is this you have? Americans have tyrrany in their country and force it to the whole world to. Wake up you in the USA close cnn open a book and your minds learn that life is not just making money see behind the facts and become what you all want to be proud of the country of freedom and oppurtunity because now you are to far from this

Answer 2

Your entry here is typical of a world wide consciousness of the connection between the rich and powerful protecting their interests through the use of political power and domestic violence.

I would go further, as I have done in a book, the connection embroils the education service of such a crony State system in devising a curriculum that maintains an image or idea of justifiable violence in the minds of impressionable youth.

In the school I work at they are teaching 9 year olds about the good deeds of war heroes in the 2nd world war and it is SHITE. These kids are being programmed for violence by an academic community belonging to the old school of cultural imperialism. They are doing this right under our noses like wizards casting spells at Hogwarts - but these type of spells have no antidote other than deep psychological surgery later in life.

Remove the cenotaph. A worthless icon of destruction and ignorance. Remove the cancer of the Roman religion of justifying war with lofty words but keep the arch - the only useful thing they produced.

Answer 3

No: If you are talking about the United States. Some personal civil liberates are lost on a temporary basis for National Security reasons.
Now if you are talking about the government listening in on telephone conversations and reading e-mails.
Here is ruling back in the 1970's that might interest you. The United States Supreme Ruled that the air was public domain. It belonged to everybody.
The Supreme Court right after ruled on another case where the highway patrol was listening in to the truckers talking on their CB radios then catching them speeding. The truckers claimed it was an invasion of privacy in filing the complaint.
The United State Supreme rule affirmed the first ruling by saying the air is a public domain and belongs to everyone equally so the highway patrol had just as much right to be on it as the truckers did.
The long and short of that is as soon as the sign leaves your cell phone antenna it is public domain and as much the next guy's as your's

As far as e-mail is concerned. It is the same way with it, if the signal ever travels through the air. It belongs to everybody i.e. it is in the public domain so it belongs to the public. .

What all that means is that Americans have been working under the false assumption of their cell phones and e-mail being secured and it's privacy protected. It is not nor has it ever been. The government has just as much right to it as everybody else.

Answer 4

Read the extracts from Goldstein's book, "The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism" in George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four".

Answer 5

A state of war has historically been the excuse for domestic tyranny in many countries but the United States has prosecuted several wars in it's history without subjecting it's people to any kind of tyranny.

Answer 6

yes agree its true, for example a "war on terrorism" how can this be a war against an unknown enemy and with with no end point that I can see. But a state of terror-alertness allows repressive laws, state surveillance of its citizens, greater acceptance of day to day interference. It allows for Guantanamo Bay internment without trial for those suspected of terrorism. It legitimises torture in the name of interrogation.

Answer 7

When living human kind start jumping ship.
The ships is on fire.
With The Mummy risen from the graveyards with two hands stretching out blindly searching the way back to the graveyards scaring the hell and living daylights out of living human kind in trying to bring them all to the graveyards too in planet of apes.
Others don't want to follow.
So they keep on jumping ship.
While the blind were happily singing "For he's a jolly good fellow"
in following The Mummy back to their early graves in planet of apes.

Answer 8

No, a state of war primarily serves to keep people at war. Anything else is ancillary.

Answer 9

Yep. Also read Will Shakespeare.

Answer 10

Not in Clausewitz's time, and certainly not any more, but in much of the 19th and 20th centuries it could.