A Noble Lie

 

The below piece comes from the respected left-wing activist Kevin Soar, regarding the announcement this week of the government's plan to employ a army of 60,000 citizens to defend and protect everyone else from terrorism...Yeah Right! 

It was found on Indymedia, and fully represents my personal views, so much better than I could ever deliver them!

It seems Gordon Brown and Home secretary Jacqui Smith have now further enveloped themselves in the thinking and dangerous teachings of Leo Strauss and his Neo-Conservative army.

Leo Strauss as most of you know was the key voice in influencing the formation of the anti-left/anti-communist Neo-Conservatives in America. Among other things their main weapon against those they saw as anti-American in their views and ways- and by and by the general public who in their adoption of supercharged individualism and liberalism where destroying America, was the use of the Strauss endorsed 'noble lie'.

The 'noble lie' in its most primal form is a myth fed to society through any obliging media, propaganda and many other deceptive means to, if successful, pull society together (that's the noble part).
'Noble lies' are best deployed when society is at its most fragile and fragmented. At times like this the society will question their leadership and start to feel much disarray, this may lead them to find new leadership or create their own united voice against the current leadership.

This year there has been nothing but talk about the recession and unemployment in the country. By now the people have gone through the emotions of confusion, fear and desperation, its only recently that the people and working population of the country have decided to take a leaf out of their European neighbours books such as the French and the Grecians and take action in the form of strikes, walkouts and protests. The thought of action combined with the new emotion of anger felt by the people must be putting the shivers right 'up em'.

Whatever comes out of this and there are several outcomes all lead to one place for Gordon Brown and Labour and that is doom. By all accounts we do not want the Cameron et al to come in to power but the writing on the wall is there for all to see. The people are fed up and will turn to another party or in a worse case scenario the people will become over cynical with the country's Parliament altogether and avoid voting, paving the way for the Conservatives.
This is a bleak lose lose situation for both Brown and the people. With the G20 summit in London fast approaching, and protests planned for both Saturday and the 1st of April it is time for the people to speak up, what Brown will be hoping is that the rest of the general public don't see the anger and action in the protestors eyes and see this as the way forward.

Cue Jacqui Smith and the 'noble lie' egged wonderfully along by headlines such as the one in the London Paper that reads, 'DIRTY BOMB THREAT TO LONDONERS'.

The government has this week warned that the terrorist threat on London is greater than ever and that everywhere we tread is now threatened by 'homegrown' extremists. In the past the government has always talked about the resilience and well equipped emergency services and military units trained to deal with terrorism threats. But this week on the cusp of seeing a substantial amount of the people stand up and show their in-gratitude at the current treatment brought on them by years of capitalist greed, add to this the flurry of debates on privacy protection and the publics right to it, the government has issued the statement that it is now beyond the responsibilities of just the emergency services and the military, that now we the British Citizen's have to become responsible and vigilant against terrorist attacks.

In a somewhat sickening use of words Jacqui Smith described the 60,000 'everyday working people' who had been trained to fight terrorism as a new "Workers Army" who would now be on the front line battling the terrorists. So the workers sick to death with the way the Government has treated them in the past must come together in arms and march to the front line to fight for their country. Its just another play on words like Boris Johnson before her Smith uses to rouse some kind of imaginary Blitz era British spirit she thinks we all still have. Its pin point perfect use of the 'Noble Lie', which under its banner can involve the uniting of people against an evil, made up exaggerated or otherwise which if effective should in theory deter the people from their current modes of thought and dis-satisfaction with their leadership and join them in fighting this great foe.

Not only does Smith try and deter the working class from being angered by the Governments poor treatment of them in the past by uniting them against this enemy, she is also justifying the intrusive nature of this nations higher powers by aiming her army at British born extremists who live on your street, drink with you in the pub and serve you in the shops. She might as well say "if we don't have all these cameras prying into our lives how on earth will we stop them, they are here amongst us we need this much intrusion to make sure they are not making dirty bombs on our door steps. If the cameras stop rolling, the streets of London will become awash with DIRTY BOMBS!."

By setting up her 'Workers Army', i.e. me and you, against homegrown terrorists (if we are unsure of what they will look like don't worry, the word Muslim was used an unaccountable amount of times in her speech and amongst the columns of several papers) she has gone someway to try and make not only the over pushy airport security and police across the country wary and suspicious of Muslims but also now me and you. Now we are apparently on the front line too fighting these terrorists she has done her bit in making sure the general public will now be seeing every Muslim as an extremist that they must stop.

The 'Noble Lie' it seems isn't just trying to attempt to get the people re-united against a collective evil, get the workers back on side, and get us to accept the prying nature of our government into our lives but its also on its way to succeeding in alienating the Muslim population and due to the ignorance of many the entire middle eastern population of the UK.

Off topic, a damning indictment of Chairman Brown's economic mismanagement has got over 167,000 hits on YouTube since it was broadcast on Tuesday - it was also top story on the right-wing Drudge website.  Admittedly it was a Tory MEP who said it, but no doubt a lot of those on the Left will have some sympathies with those thoughts.

Oh it is going to be a long seven days, Gordon....