Peter Dale Scott __NAILS__ the "war on terror"

[moodforaday]

This is one of the most insightful things I've heard said on the so-called war on terror. I don't know if Peter Dale Scott has ever put this in writing, but you can find it in this Google video at about 29:40 mark:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4784922735418561675&q=peter+dale+scott+copa

"You know the much-used phrase, "clash of civilisations"? Well, civilisations don't clash - barbarisms clash. We are being rapidly barbarized, losing the marks of a civilized legal system. That is essentially what the war on terror has meant."

-- Peter Dale Scott, during Q&A session at Coalition on Political Assassinations conference, 2006-11-18

[BeHereNow]

1. Great Clip! Thanks for posting it!

BHN:toast:

[moodforaday]

4. The whole Q&A session

and Peter Dale Scott's speech that preceded it (linked from the video page) are fantastic, but this particular quote is just priceless.

[peacetheonlyway]

2. sums it up

thugs chasing thugs.

couldn't have been more eloquent, enjoyed the bit about suspending habeous corpus.
been in place since 13th century, but we let bush put us back to the middle ages in 6 short years.

[wildbilln864]

3. Kicked and recommended! n/t

[BeHereNow]

5. Kick it! Recommend it!

BHN

[reprehensor]

6. Hey, that's MY video!

Don't miss Part 1:

"JFK & 9/11: Insights Gained From Studying Both"
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7404458118476453937&hl=en

[BeHereNow]

7. Thanks Rep!

Still in Dallas?
Lets have another at the Blue Mesa!
BHN

[moodforaday]

10. Thanks for taking the time

to post those!

[reprehensor]

12. No sweat.

There were less than 100 people at his presentation, now his talk has been viewed by 16,000.

Berkeley will be publishing "The Road to 9/11" later on this year, which is going to be a benchmark in 9/11 research.

I'm hopeful that many 9/11 threads will be tied with that book.

[wildbilln864]

8. Thanks for posting ...

great clip! :hi:

[scarletwoman]

9. Peter Dale Scott is one of our little recognized treasures. Check out his writings here:

http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~pdscott/

His elucidation of the concepts of "deep politics" and "parapolitics" is absolutely ESSENTIAL for all progressives: http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~pdscott/para.html

sw

[reprehensor]

11. What she said.

Here's a shortcut to getting a handle on what "deep politics" means, Scott gave this his blessing before I posted this at Wiki;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_politics

This is good too;

"The War Conspiracy"
http://gnn.tv/videos/8/The_War_Conspiracy

(Scott does not make the claim that the CIA suppressed his book, rather, it was understood by parties friendly to the CIA that the book never see the light of day.)

[scarletwoman]

13. Oh, THANK you for posting that gnn link! I used to have it in my bookmarks, before my hard drive

fried a few years ago.

I was trying to find it to put into my post, but wasn't having any luck. It was through that GNN interview that I first heard of Peter Dale Scott. I was SO impressed! The whole concept of "deep politics" put into words what I had been feeling for so many years. A life-altering event!

I really hope people with follow your links!

Many thanks again,
sw

[reprehensor]

16. High-Quality D/L here...

http://www.archive.org/details/war

[moodforaday]

15. Scott has a new book coming out

this year, though it's not listed on Amazon yet. It's going to be called "The Road to 9-11". He talked about it briefly during the "Intellectuals speak out" presentation on the 9-11 book he co-edited with David Ray Griffin, in Berkeley last year, and he also mentions it in the video.

(and oh, Berkeley... From down here in Poland, where I am, it's my paradise lost :)

[scarletwoman]

17. Thanks, I'll definitely keep an eye out for it.

I only visited Berkeley once, and it was many, many years after the 60s heyday (mid/late 70s). It was an excellent visit, however, and I retain an affection for the place.

I'm in my own paradise now, however -- in the woods of northern Minnesota, watching the heavy wet snow piling up on the pine boughs outside my window. :-)

sw

[Jcrowley]

14. K&R

http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~pdscott/

http://www.flashpointmag.com/scottse.htm