glimpses of the old religion underneath the propaganda, but the aim is to discredit it by tarring everything which might be a threat to power as 'witchcraft'. Now when we have a local baron or warlord who screws his citizens, any sign of revolt is branded "terrorism" to justify repressive thuggery. The witch hunt is on, and any trace of resistance is enough to justify water boarding and indefinite detention without trial. So the 'concerted effort' becomes part of the armory of state repression of its population. As it has now become in the US, where President Obama has betrayed his own principles and those of the US Constitution by refusing to veto a bill which makes suspicion of supporting terrorism grounds to deny trial indefinitely to US citizens in their own country. The power elite in the US clearly fears something more than the bogeyman of terrorism: popular revolt against economic thraldom. People should be under no illusion why even the most fundamental of rights of free men are being stripped away by the wealthy and powerful. That particular shell game has not changed significantly in many centuries and it has nothing to do with militant Islam. For those who demand to know what alternative there is, look at Louis XIV, one of the shrewdest kings France ever had. He denigrated the concept of witchcraft and instead made it a crime to poison or make poisons by means of herbal potions. This would be like saying that terrorism does