Sleepwalking into a police state

It appears that the public support the introduction of the bill for 42 days detention without charge (as they do hanging by the way). I have been listening to the debate in parliament about this and it becomes more and more obvious that the government have absolutely no argument whatsoever to justify this. It is purely to avoid Gordon looking weak. They don't actually give a fig about civil liberties, in fact they have used 9/11 and 7/7 repeatedly over 7 years to increase the power of the state; not just for this government, but whatever nightmare of a government we get next, and next, and next. Do they really think we are taken in by this now? It has gone way beyond a joke, and as some MPs have pointed out, into the realms of oppression. They have already used the RIPA act to spy on people who are trying to get their children into a preferred school, what will they do with this one? Certainly not make us any safer from the terrorists who only exist in their fevered imaginations - or far more likely in their plans to get the people of this country under their control should there be (or rather when they declare that there are) circumstances in which they want or need to clamp down on unrest. This will very probably happen when the US back an Israeli attack on Iran and oil prices double again.

Concrete evidence

There is now concrete scientific evidence emerging that the three skyscrapers which fell on 9/11 were controlled demolitions. Leaving aside the many arguments surrounding motive and method, the architects and engineers who have been investigating have some solid facts about the pieces of the buildings which were rescued, and also some dust which was sent by local residents in New York. This interview (3 parts) with the very believable and non tin-hatted Richard Gage lays some of it out.
Of course the real problem is the media. As he points out, 90% of the tv/radio/papers is controlled by those with a vested interest in control of oil and prolonged wars, and getting anyone in the mainstream to take a risk on blowing this wide open is a real struggle. Hence the growing grassroots campaign by people like the architects, and we are change, who are taking it onto the streets and confronting those in power. The constant argument from the supporters of the official conspiracy story too, is that someone would have blown the whistle. How pray, when the media are tied up tight as I just said? Who would confess to mass murder anyway, or complicity? And the number of people needed to achieve it would have been frighteningly small - the military has a structure of compartmentalisation which enables each person to carry out orders which are trickled down from above without comprehending what the bigger picture is. This method can be used in any large operation. Add to this the fact that on 9/11 there was a massive exercise simulating terror attacks (vigilant guardian) which would have provided an explanation to the vast majority of those involved of most things which were out of the ordinary, at least until the reality of the situation became clear.
My previous post about Jim Corr provides some of the much wider picture which you need to begin to grasp if the sense of all of this is to become clear. What is going on beneath the radar? How do we place things like the 42 days vote in parliament this week in all this? Is it relevant?
Did you know, for instance, that near Washington this weekend there is a large, secret meeting of 140 of the world's most influential people (the list itself makes fascinating reading), discussing we know not what, because it is completely absent from our news? Does it matter? I believe it does.