is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations. Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried, not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is revealed. It conducts the Cold War, in short, with a war-time discipline no democracy would ever hope or wish to match." Icke elaborated on what we ALL must urgently do right now to stop this attack on our basic freedoms that will affect many generations: "We got into this situation by not paying attention...  We've also gone through this process of, well, if it doesn't affect me, it is not my problem.  But, when you do that, eventually it does become your problem.  That's what we are seeing now.  So, please people, those who have NOT been paying attention, those that have been looking the other way, those who have been saying that it's not my problem because it doesn't affect me immediately,  look at what's happening as a result of that.  We need to change.  We need to start paying attention, and we need to start getting involved." "We need to start to realize that everybody's injustice is our injustice, because if it's not, in the end it will be when they've picked off all of these other groups and societies, all of these other nations, all of these