Quote of the Day

[Dave Monroe]

"... in an emergency that tends to release the
unspoken truth, there has been ... much apparently
insane language concerning 'infinite' processes: an
infinite war, infinite justice, infinite
retribution—-sustained in George Bush's terrifying
address to Congress. There he declared, for the first
time perhaps since Hitler's announcement of the Third
Reich, a kind of state of perpetual emergency. He
announced a new sort of war without aims or a
foreseeable end, often to be fought in secret. Those
not with the United States and Britain in the war were
declared to be against them and allied with
terrorists. This is potentially a license for
totalitarianism, and already, for the sake of fighting
a vague conflict explicitly projected to last almost
forever, it has become unquestionable that basic legal
procedures and respect for people's privacy should be
suspended." (pp. 308-9)

--John Milbank, "Sovereignty, Empire, Capital, and
Terror," South Atlantic Quarterly, Vol. 101, No. 2
(Spring 2002), pp. 305-24.

http://saq.dukejournals.org/cgi/reprint/101/2/305

http://www.jesusradicals.com/library/milbank/terror.html

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