CONSPIRACY 'THEORIES' ARE REAL

A writer who specializes on the subject of the seamier side of American (U.S) politics wrote this week that the U.S surveillance programmes that are the subject of worldwide scrutiny these days after the Snowden story broke, may not bother some U.S citizens who believe that they are fine and secure, as long as they have nothing to hide.

He says however that this sense of security is an illusion. That's so because the U.S National Security establishment keeps altering the paradigm. For example, he says people thought that anti-war protests in the 60s were legitimate activities that fell under the description of 'permissible' civil protest. That was until one fine day such protests were abruptly held to be pro-communist and therefore evil activity by the U.S Establishment!

He writes that the same modus operates today. Green activists and anti-surveillance protestors and sundry others are suddenly labeled as terrorists in Obama's America.

That seems to be the way however, that a certain club of nations operates against the other countries and their interests as well. Take the Indo-Lanka Accord. When that alleged legal instrument was imposed on this country in the 80s, the U.S Establishment led by the key U.S opinion makers in the Washington Post, the New York Times etc, wrote that the pact represents an act of hegemonic aggression by a large nation against a smaller neighbour.

Today, the U.S led Western club of nations have forgotten that early assessment and 'changed the goalposts' for Sri Lanka's post-war success. Their leaders did the complete about turn, to take up the position that reconciliation in Sri Lanka is complete if and only if the Sri Lankans implement fully the provisions of the 13th Amendment, which was the legislative instrument piggybacked on the Indo-Lanka Accord.

No country in these people's crosshairs can ever be an exemplar of good governance it seems, as what's deemed good governance today is deemed reprehensible tomorrow, and totally inadequate the day after.

It is simple. Within a country everybody can be made a criminal if the Establishment keeps changing the laws each day, or redefining what is proper behaviour, and in the world, every country can be made a pariah state if they keep redefining what's good governance and effective 'conflict resolution', for example.

A word here is due about all those Sri Lanka opinion makers and so called dissident busybodies including media men and women who have been saying that in Sri Lanka we are all enamoured with conspiracy theories. They say that the Sri Lankan defence establishment for instance cries conspiracy theory for everything, and justifies every arrest or every preventive detention by a reference to some sort of a 'conspiracy.'

Snowden's revelations show however that conspiracy theories are not theories any longer. Big brother IS watching - now, is that a conspiracy theory?

Can Mr. Paikiasothy or any of those banshees in the breast-beat circuit who go behind the U.S to try and crucify the war-winning Sri Lankan Armed Forces please respond to that? U.S surveillance -- now exposed -- the keeping of phone records and spying on foreign leaders, including those of the E.U, is this all part of the grand conspiracy theory or is it not?

The answer to that, dear reader, is blowing in the wind. The theory about the 'conspiracy theory' has unraveled fast. The Snowden issue and its fallout show the devious ways of U.S Imperialistic control and when the lid is blown on the myth that 'conspiracy theories' are false, the word Imperialist also gains currency, if the reader gets the drift of that extrapolation...

What has been considered 'beyond the pale' in polite discourse so-called is very much within the ambit of what's germane for discussion today. It is settled: Conspiracy theories are reality, they are no longer conspiracy theories. Clearly, the goalposts keep changing, the game is rigged as far as global control of the destinies of countries -- and their resources -- is concerned. This is the short end of that opinion. There is much in the detail, that people have to educate themselves about.