The situation we see today has many of the hallmarks of a great scam.
Find an excuse to invade a country whose "democracy" we want to ensure (but coincidentally, whose oil we also need) and in the process, enable a continued western military presence in that country as a "peace keeping force" (but coincidentally also because it suits our stategic interests) because we made it so darned unstable in the first place. Clever, eh?
butter wouldn't melt, would it?
further to the process, our actions cause the displacement of many refugees fleeing to the west whose net effect is to force the price of labour wages ever lower, meanwhile competing for housing, thus forcing the price of houses ever upwards.
and, because of the risk of terrorists entering along with the refugees, or along with the fact that our actions cause domestic radicalisation towards "terrorism", well, we just have to increase surveillance of our civillian population and boost our securtiy teams and issue them with bigger guns and more bulletproof vests and capsicum sprays to use on dissenters while making it illegal for ordinary dissenting civillians to protect themselves with masks, bulletproof vests and helmets or capsicum spray.
it's a riot.
A riot watched on television, or on cctv, from the safety of gated and maybe also heavily guarded "communities" who watch on aghast as the "mob" tears itself to pieces, ultimately providing us with the excuse to find a final soultion?
Many good words are spoken while at the same time oh so many really bad actions are taken. In whose interests?
Who you gonna vote for? . . what you gonna do?
To quote the late Gough Whitlam (even if out of context), "What can you bloody do?"
We're being scammed and lied to, and threatened to cast our vote for politicians who do not have our best interests at heart.
It's been a very successful scam so far. and when you're on to a good thing . . .
