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 Introduction This study arose from a search for a comparative overview of the different ways that evidence may be distorted. The purpose is to find a means of positioning the evidence used in current efforts by western countries to justify curtailing civil liberties and due process in response to terrorism. The three approaches to comparing evidence envisaged here are: kinds of evidence that may be distorted and the fallacies to which this may give rise examples from different historical and socio-political contexts as case studies, and notably by extending the coverage to include legal, scientific and other concerns with evidence The conclusion was initially foreseen in the form of a table of case studies from a variety of sectors and times with an indication of the incidence of particular forms of distortion in the face of dissent. Such a table would help to give a sense of the diversity of forms of evidence to which appeal is made. Following inability to locate such a comparati...

  (RightWing.org) – There were several changes in Washington DC on January 20, 2021, most notably, newly elected President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris being sworn in and assuming their offices. What had not changed was the insistence of the Liberals to put their Agenda before the truth. Here are a few of the whoppers we were forced to endure. 1. Abandoned in Afghanistan President Biden reneged on a deal made between former President Donald Trump and the Taliban terrorists. This act triggered a military offensive on the part of the insurgent forces, which saw them quickly overrun large swaths of the country, quickly closing in on the capital city of Kabul. Faced with the enemy virtually knocking on the door to the Kandahar airbase, President Biden began a rushed evacuation. On August 20, Biden did promise to get all Americans and all the Afghan internationals who assisted the US in the war effort out of the country. But when the last airplane went wheels up from the a...

Binary thinking According to Colin Powell (16th September 2001), the response required of other governments is "yes or no". It is "binary" he asserts -- reflecting the "excluded middle" pattern that characterizes the poverty of western conceptualization in comparison with others. Do the intellectual elites of the USA genuinely believe that using this highly restricted conceptual framework is adequate to address cultures notably characterized by the higher dimensionality of three- and four-fold logics? Tony Blair asserts (3 October 2001) that: "It is to be a battle with only one outcome -- our victory, not theirs". Constrained by the binary thinking of the coalition, is he willfully ignorant of the other "outcomes" of previous conflicts undertaken with such enthusiasm -- such as World War I and the Gulf War (from which the CIA estimated that a million civilians subsequently died, and without removing Saddam Hussein)? What will be the ...