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-   <p>From: pierce@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (Brad Pierce)
+<xml>
+   <div class="article">
+      <p>From: pierce@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (Brad Pierce)
 Newsgroups: alt.conspiracy,alt.save.the.earth,alt.individualism
 Subject: A plutonium economy vs. a free democracy
 <info type="Message-ID"> 1992Nov20.020820.1559@cs.ucla.edu</info>
 Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 02:08:20 GMT
 Organization: UCLA, Computer Science Department
 Lines: 269</p>
-   <p>[From "The Russian Threat, Its Myths and Realities" (c) 1983,
+      <p>[From "The <ent type='NORP'>Russian</ent> Threat, Its Myths and Realities" (c) 1983,
 Gateway Books, London, by Jim Garrison and Pyrae Shivpuri, pp 231-236.]</p>
-   <p> The growing erosion of civil liberties in Western Europe and the
+      <p> The growing erosion of civil liberties in Western Europe and the
 United States is closely linked with the nuclear energy-nuclear
 weapons complex, which mandates a psyche all its own. This complex
 creates the necessity for secrecy on the one hand and greater
@@ -37,7 +38,7 @@ The potential problem with the plutonium economy and its relation
 to human freedom has been succinctly expressed by a statement made by
 Dr. Bernard Feld, Chairperson of the Atomic and High Energy Physics
 Department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology:</p>
-   <p> Let me tell you about a nightmare I have. The Mayor of
+      <p> Let me tell you about a nightmare I have. The Mayor of
 Boston sends for me for an urgent consultation. He has
 received a note from a terrorist group telling him that they
 have planted a nuclear bomb somewhere in central Boston. The
@@ -48,7 +49,7 @@ those who participated in the assembly of the first atomic
 bomb--that the device would work. Not efficiently, but
 nevertheless with devastating effect. What should I do?
 Surrender to blackmail or risk destroying my home town?[9]</p>
-   <p> The dangers are real, so real that government planners in every
+      <p> The dangers are real, so real that government planners in every
 country with nuclear programmes have undertaken steps to be prepared
 for Dr. Feld's scenario. In 1975, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
 (NRC) commissioned a specific study of the problem. One of the
@@ -56,7 +57,7 @@ participants, Professor John Barton, Professor of Jurisprudence at
 Stanford University Law School, prepared a paper entitled
 'Intensified Nuclear Safeguards and Civil Liberties.' The document
 began by stating that:</p>
-   <p> Increased public concern with nuclear terrorism, coupled with
+      <p> Increased public concern with nuclear terrorism, coupled with
 the possibility of greatly increased use of plutonium in
 civilian power reactors, are leading the US Nuclear
 Regulatory Commission (NRC) to consider various forms of
@@ -67,7 +68,7 @@ nationwide guard force, *greater surveillance of dissenting
 political groups,* area searches in the event of a loss of
 materials, and creation of *new barriers of secrecy* around
 parts of the nuclear program.[10]</p>
-   <p> It is important to be clear what the above statement implies. The
+      <p> It is important to be clear what the above statement implies. The
 governments supporting nuclear power are attempting to protect the
 plutonium economy from two perceived enemies: first, those who would
 use the nuclear materials to terrorise the country through some type
@@ -88,7 +89,7 @@ the first country to establish by law a nationwide guard force of
 constables under the direct control of the atomic authorities in
 order to guard nuclear facilities and specifically the plutonium
 stores. This guard force has privileges in relation to carrying
-weapons not granted to any other British police unit. Indeed, so
+weapons not granted to any other <ent type='NORP'>British</ent> police unit. Indeed, so
 sensitive are these privileges that under the Official Secrets Act,
 information about them has not been made available to the public.
 This force is mandated not only to guard against possible terrorism
@@ -99,14 +100,14 @@ general populace because it is specifically designed and intended to
 be used as inconspicuously as possible. In America, political
 scientists refer to this technique as the "politics of the iron fist
 in the velvet glove." "What the ruling groups prefer", he says,</p>
-   <p> is to produce a situation in which no one dares oppose their
+      <p> is to produce a situation in which no one dares oppose their
 plans. Their favourite methods are therefore to exploit
 people's dependence on consumer goods and on their jobs and
 exercising prevention controls by means of intensive
 surveillance. In the event of open conflict breaking out in
 spite of that, they would hope at least to contain it by
 'limited operations.'[11]</p>
-   <p> What needs to be remembered in assessing this state of affairs is
+      <p> What needs to be remembered in assessing this state of affairs is
 that plutonium, if it is to be used, must be protected by police
 state methods. We just cannot have something that can be used for
 nuclear bombs and can damage and mutate human life with the
@@ -128,7 +129,7 @@ environmental impact statement for the plutonium economy in the
 United Kingdom, known as the Flowers Report, he made it quite clear
 that Britain could not have both plutonium and civil liberties.
 Rather, he said, to adopt the plutonium economy would make
-'inevitable' the erosion of the freedoms that British people had
+'inevitable' the erosion of the freedoms that <ent type='NORP'>British</ent> people had
 fought for over the centuries and have come to assume and accept as
 inalienable rights.
 What is happening to Western Europe and the US should not be seen
@@ -154,16 +155,16 @@ all-out growth, dictated by the need for capital accumulation and
 profits, has been creating problems that existing institutions, be
 they national or international, are simply not equipped to handle.
 These include:</p>
-   <p> * the alienation through and ruthlessness of the
+      <p> * the alienation through and ruthlessness of the
 multinational corporations;</p>
-   <p> * the frustrations of an economy where automation and
+      <p> * the frustrations of an economy where automation and
 machinery are replacing human skills and ingenuity;</p>
-   <p> * the gnawing fears and anxieties aroused by the 'diseases
+      <p> * the gnawing fears and anxieties aroused by the 'diseases
 of affluence,' notably cancer, heart disease and stress;</p>
-   <p> * and the looming threat of environmental destruction, be
+      <p> * and the looming threat of environmental destruction, be
 it at the local or planetary level, from chemical
 pollution, or the plutonium economy.</p>
-   <p> As long as the boom lasted, and Western affluence was sustained
+      <p> As long as the boom lasted, and Western affluence was sustained
 these pressures could be ignored. But that 'boom-balloon' has burst.
 The energy crisis is deepening. The economic reality of increased
 unemployment and inflation is becoming more and more depressing. The
@@ -234,7 +235,7 @@ either through carelessness, disobedience, or 'terrorism.' This
 cultivated attitude enables the Western technocrats to represent
 themselves to the public as the guardians of the society in the
 emergency situation they themselves inspired and engineered.
-The tragedy of the Russian people is the suffering of individuals
+The tragedy of the <ent type='NORP'>Russian</ent> people is the suffering of individuals
 endowed with a passion for personal freedom so profound as to verge
 on the anarchic, and yet who have been forced to live under a
 despotism resolutely intent upon the suppression of that freedom.
@@ -245,15 +246,16 @@ themselves subservient to those few who wish to build a national
 security state supplied with nuclear energy and armed with nuclear
 weapons. Our leaders are depriving us of the very liberties they
 have been entrusted to defend. Moreover, they are manipulating the
-'Russian threat' to justify such actions, all the while claiming that
+'<ent type='NORP'>Russian</ent> threat' to justify such actions, all the while claiming that
 they are protecting democracy. Never before have so few asked so
 many for so much for the sake of so little.</p>
-   <p> [9] In Robert Jungk, "The Nuclear State," trans. Eric Mosbacher,
+      <p> [9] In Robert Jungk, "The Nuclear State," trans. Eric Mosbacher,
 London, 1979, pp. 118, 19.</p>
-   <p>[10] "Intensified Nuclear Safeguards and Civil Liberties," Nuclear Reg.
+      <p>[10] "Intensified Nuclear Safeguards and Civil Liberties," Nuclear Reg.
 Comm. Cont. No. AT(49-24)-0190, Washington, DC, 31 Oct. 1975, p. 1.</p>
-   <p>[11] In Jungk, "Nuclear State, op. cit., p. 132.
+      <p>[11] In Jungk, "Nuclear State, op. cit., p. 132.
 
 [12] In Ibid., p. 142
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