The Criminalization of the State. The Roadmap to a Police State
By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
Global Research 3 February 2004
Author’s Note
This article first published by Global Research in February 2004
examines the relationship between terrorist attacks (resulting in the
tragic loss of life) and the transition in Western countries towards a
totalitarian police State.
Former CENTCOM Commander, General
Tommy Franks predicted in a 2003 interview with cynical accuracy a
scenario, which would result in the repeal of civil liberties and the
installation of a de facto totalitarian state:
“a terrorist,
massive, casualty-producing event [will occur] somewhere in the Western
world … that causes our population to question our own Constitution and
to begin to militarize our country in order to avoid a repeat of another
mass, casualty-producing event.”1
A “massive casualty producing
event” as described by General Franks will invariably result in a
campaign of fear and intimidation. In turn, politicians in high office
will use the tragic loss of life as a justification for the
implementation of sweeping police state measures including the enactment
of martial law.
