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Jerusalem Quartet will perform to full house in Edinburgh (25 mins ago)

Last month I posted about the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign’s effort to block a performance by the Jerusalem Quartet from Israel at the Edinburgh Intern...

Harry's Place

Find the missing Labour bloggers (34 mins ago)

Back in the early days of B4L, before the Labour blogosphere was fully mapped, I could rely upon a handful of very helpful people to seek out bloggers I hadn't yet com...

Bloggers4Labour

Free speech on the internet - an issue for trade unionists (1 hour, 27 mins ago)

Blogging is fairly new. It may prove useful for trade unionists. When I started blogging it occurred to me that, although I thought what I was doing – in reporting ba...

Jon's union blog

Sunday, September 09, 2007

Bin Laden speaks - no comments

Perhaps Osama's softening in his old age:
"It has now become clear to you and the entire world the impotence of the democratic system and how it plays with the interest of the peoples and their blood by sacrificing soldiers and populations to achieve the interests of the major corporations".

"I invite you to embrace [X]," the speaker says.
If you substitute X, you've got a pretty standard argument used by dictators and their acolytes throughout the past century, and which can be seen all too regularly from the kind of people who hang out at Comment Is Free (thanks to PooterGeek for this observation). A belief that freedom is a sham, used to perpetuate or disguise the power of shadowy forces, is the perfect start on one's journey to authoritarianism.

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