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Najib and Deception for Politics

May 7, 2012

Najib as well as Deception for Politics

by Hazlan Zakaria@www.malaysiakini.com

COMMENT: I was scanning the Internet for my weekly fix of weekend readings from various news lists when an article upon the alternative news website AlterNet.org, patrician 'Leo Strauss' Philosophy of Deception' held my eye.

The article seems to describe the reactions as well as poise of Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak as well as the supervision of late to the tee, generally their actions before to, during as well as post the BERSIH 3.0 pro-electoral remodel rally.

The article was written by foreign policy writer Jim Lobe, as well as sum what is believed to be the neo-conservative swindling to secure the advance of Iraq as partial of an agenda to maintain carry out over the American public.

It was never proven which there was any weapons of mass drop (WMD) in Iraq, yet until today the United States has confirmed this pretext for invading the Middle-eastern nation.In his article, Lobe modernized the theory which there is the swindling inside of the halls of power to invent the pretext which WMDs exist in Iraq so which an advance is justifiable.

The swindling was purportedly orchestrated by men as well as women in the George Bush Senior administration, who as Lobe puts it, "are disciples of the reflective thinker who believed which the chosen should make make make use of of of deception, eremite enthusiasm as well as incessant fight (or conflict) to carry out the undeveloped masses".

The reflective! thinker in question was Leo Strauss (right), the German exile to the United States, the kind of modern-day Machiavelli as well as proponent of complicated day fascism, who believes in the sequence of the chosen over the rank as well as file as well as was contemptuous about the need to make make make make use of of of of deception, the power of sacrament as well as assertive patriotism to maintain the hierarchy as well as status quo.

Strauss, as Lobe described, "had few qualms about regulating dishonesty in politics, he saw it as the necessity". While sacrament was seen as "absolutely necessary in sequence to impose moral law upon the rank as well as file who differently would be out of control".

'Manufacturing an outmost threat'

Lobe additionally quoted the Strauss critic, Shadia Drury, who wrote in her book which "Strauss thinks which the domestic sequence can be stable only if it is joined by an outmost threat. Following Machiavelli, he confirmed which if no outmost hazard exists afterwards the single has to be manufactured."

According to Lobe further, Drury went upon to describe which "the neoconservative prophesy of the United States' attribute with the rest of the universe as well as their attribute as the statute chosen with the masses."They unequivocally have no make make make use of of of for liberalism as well as democracy, though they're conquering the universe in the name of liberalism as well as democracy," Drury said.

NONE Replay the events heading to, during as well as after the hugely popular convene organised by the electoral remodel pressure group, BERSIH, as well as the single cannot assistance though see the tie in between the BN-led government's actions as well as the supposed swindling to invade Iraq.

One wonders why Najib would unexpected cry wolf which the peaceful criticism is an attempted coup, as well as for the resounding chorus of agreement from former Police chiefs (Musa Hassan, Rahim Noor as well as Haniff Omar), plus the single ultra-conservative ex-Prime Minster's caustic addendum.

In some ways, it is only similar to when the US announced about supposed WMDs in Iraq. It smells of the pretext, the make make make use of of of of dishonesty so favoured by Strauss. A predecessor to an additional Ops Lalang, perhaps? While an additional facet which mirrors the Straussian principle is the make make make use of of of of sacrament as the whip to cow as well as carry out the masses.

Observe the National Fatwa Council's recent edict opposite demonstrations as well as the most 'specially tailored' sermons during Friday prayers in mosques. Add the single Defence Minister who pronounced which the pilgrims may be banned from the Muslim holy city of Mecca for allegedly bringing the BERSIH criticism to the sacred site. Nothing short of eremite blackmail.

'Machiavelli would be proud'

While zero paints the some-more contemptuous picture of assertive patriotism than the loud cries of 'patriots' who unexpected came out of the woodwork to express await for the Police as well as government, not to discuss UMNO-linked NGOs similar to PERKASA as well as PEKIDA adding their own chants. 'Patriots' who claim to represent former Police personnel as well as armed forces veterans as well as the rebirth of the so called "Communist threat", "gay as well as lesbian scourge" as well as "pluralist liberal legion" as bogeymen. Niccolo Machiavelli himself would b! e proud, maybe Strauss, too. Hey presto, an outmost hazard has only been "manufactured".

Besides the government, the Election Commission which it has change on, as well as Najib appear to be hopping around claiming to be the champions of democracy, as well as yet questionable developments in the commission as well as acts of the powers-that-be roar otherwise. Add to taste the Prime Minister who believes which acts of assault opposite reporters do not constitute the defilement of press freedom, according to media reports.

A Prime Minister who additionally seems to wish us to hold which his democratically elected supervision is underneath hazard from the peaceful sit-in as well as whose claimed await of approved leisure is overshadowed by the allergic-tear-gas-and-chemically-laced-water-spurting-reaction to the approved right of mild public as well as leisure of expression.

A perfect fit maybe of what Drury pronounced of Strauss, as it seems which the government, too, has no make make make use of of of for liberalism as well as democracy, though they're cracking down as well as suppressing legitimate gainsay while claiming to await liberalism as well as democracy. One wonders if there have been one, two or some-more in the Najib Administration who "are disciples of the reflective thinker who believed which the chosen should make make make use of of of deception, eremite fervour, as well as incessant fight (or conflict) to carry out the undeveloped masses".