Mark Gobell On Gardening Leave
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Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2006 10:40 am Post subject: Baron Dahrendorf: 9/11 and the new authoritarianism |
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Mr Blair was the first to argue that security is the first freedom. In other words, liberty is not the right of individuals to define their own lives, but the right of the state to restrict individual freedom in the name of a security that only the state can define. This is the beginning of a new authoritarianism.
9/11 and the new authoritarianism
While terrorism is being fought in the name of democracy, the fight has, in fact, led to a distinct weakening of democracy
By RALF DAHRENDORF
Five years after the attacks on the Twin Towers in New York and the Pentagon in Washington, 9/11 is no longer a mere date. It has entered the history books as the beginning of something new, a new era perhaps, but in any case a time of change. The terrorist bombings in Madrid and London and elsewhere will also be remembered; but it is 9/11 that has become the catchphrase, almost like August 1914.
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/ralf_dahrendorf/2006/09/post_339.h tml
Published here as an article:
http://www.bangkokpost.com/News/07Sep2006_news23.php
Ralf Dahrendorf on Free Speech: http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/dahrendorf45 _________________ The Medium is the Massage - Marshall McLuhan. |
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