Hunting Witches in the ‘War on Terror’ http://consortiumnews.com/2011/11/01/hunting-witches-in-the-war-on-terror/
America’s decade-long hysteria since 9/11 has taken on some characteristics of the European witch hunts of 500 years ago, with incineration of targets after a sham “due process,” albeit now with Hellfire missiles from the air not stake-burnings on the ground, as Mary Beaudoin explains.However, today’s politically motivated hunts are no longer predicated on the fear that people actually possess supernatural powers — or are they? The modern mentality no longer holds such irrational beliefs as demonic possession — or does it?It might be worth comparing some of the characteristics of that era when we think about what’s happening today — characteristics such as:–Grand scale of the hunt: The Great Hunt of contemporary times like that of the earlier period is conducted on a grand scale. It was initiated by U.S. authority and is accompanied by the rising power of NATO.It takes on various forms with the whole world as hunting grounds: there are fishing expeditions to identify foreign and domestic enemies, hunts to apprehend undocumented people and alleged terrorists, and hunts for declared enemies in other countries.
–Belief in evil powers: A declared enemy in another country often takes the form of an “evil dictator,” characterized by possessing such enormous capacity for evil that his power and reach are far beyond that of mortal men.
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