Prof James F. Tracy: The Framework for Suppressing Information!

The police states framework for suppressing information and opinion arguably threatens all forms of independent thought and appears poised to intensify as the war on terror continues. As the recent emergence of US plans for indoctrination in reeducation camps reveals, Western governments actual enemy is the capacity for a people to exercise critical thought en rout to intervening in and altering political-economic processes. Public opinion, defined by 19th century English political thinker William MacKinnon as to that sentiment on any given subject, which is entertained by the best informed, most intelligent, and most moral persons in the community is fundamentally at odds with police prerogatives, also exemplified in recent US Department of Homeland Security documents. The technocratic mindset of agencies such as the DHS and Federal Bureau of Investigation that oversee federal, state, and local policing procedures seeks to short-circuit and quell dissent by identifying transgressive thought that deviates from an assumed normalcy, then interlinking it with perceived threats or violent actions against the state. In a grand governmental exercise of Freudian-style projection, the DHSs usage of inflammatory terms such as "terrorist and extremist" are routinely utilized to emphasize the nature and degree of various activist groups alleged deviant ideologies. This practice proceeds in light of the fact that most every terrorist act within the US since 9/11 has been carefully guided by the FBI or, as was the case with the initial underwear bomber, Western intelligence likely working in concert.