This thread is supposed to be about whether Jeff was accurate (prophetic) in portraying the "neocons" as mere patsies, and suggestion that their dominant role in formulating America's disastrous foreign and domestic policies is just an illusion to obscure the TRUE villains, who manipulate them just as they manipulate us. Despite my deep respect for Jeff's knowledge and analysis, I disagreed, I explained why, and I provided evidence.
You don't moderate the standards of discourse on this board, nor is everything anyone says a direct response to you. I think part of what Jeff is getting at is the structure of western societies inbuild trend toward control and violence, probably something inherant in any state structure, ie anywhere an institution is set up to regulate the process of law.
You want evidence for that, look at history. Trying to shout me down cos you don't like what I say won't work. Either will pulling that "shut up - your contribution means nothing and you have no right to speak" crap.
I guess my point is that the neocons are just a particularly nasty and virulent stain of the virus that is a federal administration. But their dominance wasn't there during the Clinton administration. Not as earth shatteringly horrible as Bush jrs reign but no picnic for the rest of the world either. US based global theft, i mean corporate capitalism ran riot during the 90s without the need for a neocon influence in the US.
There is an aspect of the neocon right wing movement that doesn't even pay lip service to the rule of law and constitutional democracy, and at this moment in time that suits global capital. previous admins have claimed to work within the constitution, bill of rights and the like.
The state is primarily an institution for the exercise of power, so it functions best for ordinary people when those powers are seperated and limited. And that only happens while ordinary people make an effort to maintain that process and police it.
The neocons and a US populace who as a whole don't take any care for policing their government have come together to make a disaster for the rest of the world, but some elements of the worlds elite profit from this disasterous situation and are pushing their own agendas with it.
They are not all about Israel and Zionism
perhaps that is a part of what jeff was getting at when he referred to the neocons as patsies.
They will fall, and the same structures of power and cash will be in place, behind the next guy and using his agenda and everyone's revulsion at where the neocons led them to further their own agenda yet again.
No one takes responsibilty for their own situation now. They prefer to blame everything that seems obvious, those who have power will take advantage of that.
Your specific arguments are valid, but I think jeff was actually making a deeper point. perhaps the middle east would be quieter without Zionism, Israel, Oil and Neocon warmongering, but it would be happening somewhere else, and unless we start dealing with the dynamics of why this happens we are as a culture going to repeat one disaster after another. All of them with victims who suffer horribly and for no good reason.
of course you prefer to see this attitude as:
some empty babble, requiring neither thought nor research, just a complete lack of feeling for human victims, disguised as analysis.
Oh and
If you agree that these related events are worth studying, and if you have some valuable data or relevant arguments, then believe me, even if I disagree with your conclusions, I will appreciate your contribution.
Bullshit, you have refused to do so before even when other board memebrs called you on it.
The zionist project and the Project for a New American Century, for which 9/11 was a prerequisite, are crucial to understanding the malignant forces shaping the nightmare that seems to be inexorably swallowing our planet.
perhaps PNAC is but whatever I have said on that subject you tend to write off anyway. Any wonder people end up thinking "why bother".
Ever think of how Micheal leeden could be a patsy and who for? Perhaps that is something worth considering in the context of neocon patsies.
Perhaps not.
Like I said before, Michael Ledeen is one among many, many examples I could have provided, of neocon/zionists whose malignant influence on global trends and events can objectively be proven.
Exactly but you are missing the deeper pooint about whether this person is being a patsy and how and for what.
Its all Zionism?
As for Secret Nazis - what is P2 if not a bunch of nazis? What planet do you live on, there is no secret about it. The nazis are real and there. And embedded in every capitalist state.
Well more accurately, the Nazi party and Mussolini's mob, and that mad Pom whose name escapes me right now, plus right wing anti socialist/unionist movements in most countries
are political organisations manipulated and controlled by those who want corpporate power and unfettered profit.But you claim Nazi's are hidden. And its all about Israels plan and neocon will to power.
Which I actually agree with and give my take on it yet you still slag me off...
BTW You keep bringing up my mum, the first female student to gain a PhD in science (botany) at Uni of Tasmania. If you bothered to read my posts instead of just skimming an reinforcing your prepositions you would note that one of my, and her whinges about CD is that the numbers for free fall times are wrong. The claim of a collapse taking X seconds when it actually takes 1.5X seconds is the first and most obviously wrong part of the CD argument.
It sticks out like dogs balls and distracts from other potentially more valid points. As I have said time and again. you prefer to see it as "some drunk guy in a bar" or "my mum said" instead of what it is - an obvious innacuracy being used to represent CD. Something that obviously damages CD cred in the publics eye.
Anyway I have said all this before so I have no hope of it getting thru to you now.
BTW
No, of course not, since "the whole planet is being genocided", why should we bother to discuss any specifics, to inform ourselves about anything? God forbid that any PARTICULAR "aspect of it" should upset you.
Secret, hidden nazis, meth, "the state", satanists, or maybe just a deep sigh, a wise look and a meaningful pronouncement that "shit happens"?
soulsurvivor, I know nothing about UFO's and/or chemtrails. Never seen any, don't really believe in them. Although their sovereignty has been severely eroded, I think countries still exist, and don't think every person who walks the earth is close to being controlled, especially those who don't drink the koolaid dispensed in the infotainment media and your local pharmacy.
"Outside this scientific and logical reality" is where the baying dogs howl, my friend. I'll stay inside, if you don't mind. Good luck.
You don't have much time for other views on stuff do you?
So I guess you don't think there is anything in the deeper view of th west today, as an immature ego obsessed culture that acts like a spoiled child or teenager. Selfishly and with an idea that power is to be used for inflicting ones ego driven desires on others, not to control ones own desires and serve others with ones talents?
Nor that said idea can have any relationship to why a series of power abusing "patsies" lurch from small to large disaster to greater disaster to the eventual ruin of all of us?
Its obviously irrelevent and contributes nothing.