How Three Threats Interlock: "Three minority extremist groups - the militant fundamentalist Islamists exemplified at the far edge by Al Qaeda, certain activist elements among America's reborn Christians and neoconservatives, and the most inflexible hard-line Zionists from Israel - have emerged as dangerously destabilizing actors in world politics. Working perversely to reinforce each other's ideological excesses, they have managed to drown out mainstream voices from all sides. Each has the aim of changing the world according to its own individual vision. "

The threat facing "us" ordinary people these days is not just the danger of a terror attack, it is polarisation that leads to extremism. And it is not just Al Qaeda which is polarising "us".

Our own government's policies are pushing us further and further apart. Where once we valued freedom of speech and dissent as part of our democracy, the Bush administration glories in its extreme measures to fight the "war on terror", without realizing that they are feeding into the spiral of extremism that Al Qaeda is actually trying to provoke. In this way, our own government is colluding with Al Qaeda in an escalating dance of extremism, each deliberately instilling fear into "us" to separate us, and thereby provide support for their escalating violence.

This is paradoxical, I know, but we need to wake up and realize it now, before we spiral out of control into any more violence.

Do I expect the US population to accept this? No. They don't get enough insight and information to wake up from the trance they are in. But there are enough of us who see the truth to make the difference. And there is an election coming along. And there is the power of truth and humanity.

Bush is powerful, and extremist. But he is not all powerful. And his excesses are too many to escape from. He is weaving a net of his own deceptions. It is hard to see if it will be a lie or a corrupt connection that will bring his house down, but I believe that his house will come down. After all, its foundation is rotted with corruption.

How long will the truth be distorted and hidden before it comes back to haunt the Bush people? Think Keen Commission into 9/11. Think Hutton inquiry in Britain, which could bring down Blair. Think investigation into naming of CIA operative by White House officials, to punish agent's husband who was critical of White House. Think Howard Dean. Think independent media, bloggers, brave citizens who demand truth, independent courts who will assure people get access to lawyers when they are imprisoned, and UK media like www.guadian.co.uk. Think of your God and pray. This too shall pass.


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