2005 was the color coded "Year of the Fear"

[Karlin]

Where is the color code now that it is safe out there?


What could make people do everything that is suggested, make them not protest or disagree with officials, make them support the army in all it does, to vote Republican, and do all of this while there is strong evidence that they are being LIED to about activities that go against their most basic morality?

- FEAR does.

Fears about personal safety, the global warming, flu pandemics, personal finances[debt], illness, terrorism, or even the wrath of god, are perpetrated on purpose by the Bush cabal and all who work for them [often unwittingly] including most world leaders....

Gbl Warming creates stronger fears when the USA govt REFUSES TO CO-OPERATE IN REDUCING EMISSIONS - so they don't, and people have more fears about it....


Whatever they can use to create fears is done for the same reaon - to create 'more afraid' populations.

Fear of color - "Where is the Threat NOW?"

FEAR was reflected , and produced, by the color coded threat alerts in the USA, but where is the THREAT now?

Its was just "color-coded fear-mongering", and the evidence is that there have been no attacks in the USA, nothing since 9-11.

Isn't that just a bit too weird? As if the security handled every single planned attack.

Without the USA being attacked, without there being any real "threat" where is the color coding?

And where is the color NOW?
It will NEVER be green or blue [small or no threat], that would be relaxing the population. They don't want that to happen, we might get up and go outside again...look around...

If our media and our memories were on the ball, we would remember the story then and compare it to the story now, and see that it IS much more than "lying about WMD", the real story TODAY is that YESTERDAY's BULLSHIT fear-mongering was all a big farce, they scared the hell out of us for nothing, and they knew there was no threat.

We went out and bought duct tape and that was all they suggested so then we just festered in our fear and let it grow while feeling helpless [but still went to work each day].

Just like disease makes us weak, just like the description on USA Army bio-weapons says they are designed "to disable, not kill", just like "treating symptoms only" will create chronic illness
- FEAR makes us easy to manipulate.

We swallow lies easier, we do what we aare told more readily.

Will 2006 be another year of fear? or will we smarten up and stop responding to the BushCo lies!!

Just like suffering is a 'chosen' reaction to pain, FEAR is a choice of a reaction to threats that we can choose NOT to have, but first we have to know there is a choice.

Choose NOT to have fear from their lies of threats that do not exist.

 

[jimmoyer]

Karlin, your model of George Orwell's 1984 while
valid, is not complete on this issue of fear.

George Orwell's 1984 is almost a blunt instrument
molding in the face of much more subtle methodology,
and this model of fear and of Orwellian brainwashing
doesn't stand up to what people feel are legitimate
debatable points.

I do believe Amerika is in a bubble, an island nation ---
but within it is a great raging legitimate philosophical
debate that defies simplistic Orwellian narrative.

 

[Karlin]

Not me, I didn't mention Orwell or 1984.

Thats a story, this is real life.

Do you agree that FEAR can be used to drive the public to do certain things? Or are you just saying that it is never used, except in books like Orwells' 1984?

Do you disagree with me that Americans are living in a greatly increased state of FEAR under the BushCo regime?

And that it is that way because Bush arranged it that way,with a little help from his media friends, and thats how he wants the American public to be, afraid, scared, living in fear?

 

[jimmoyer]

I know you didn't mention the Orwell model, but
your post matches up to it.

And no, fear does not rule down here.

What rules here is a very fundamental raging debate
about what we should do.

We can make a cartoon out of anybody, and the
Ugly American cartoon sells best these days.

Take for example Putin tripling the price of heating
oil fuel to the Ukraine on the eve of another election.

What hit the headlines was what people want to hear.
What the headlines focused on was Chavez providing
the poor people of Boston and New York assistance
on heating fuel prices.

Not the poor people of Ukraine who are struggling
to build on their grass roots Democracy Orange Revolution.

We like to hear selective examples of American
crass greed more than we soak in an article about
Putin making the building of a Ukrainian democracy
nearly impossible.

Meanwhile Putin is offering Belarusa cheap fuel prices
in his bid to re-merge that country with his.

Fear really doesn't rule down here.

What rules is the passion of debate.

You got very strong believers on both sides down
here in the States.

 

[ElPolaco]

Fear ruled me for a while down here. However, I live in a one-party area. At the beginning of the war you either loved bush or you were a traitor. I'm still on the "wrong" side of the debate, but at least now I can be tolerated as an eccentric/whako instead of a terrorist sympathizer.

 

[missile]

We all buy duct tape,but not out of any fears..it's just very useful.

 

[Karlin]

Ok, so I don't write it up so good, but damnit man my point is what Micheal Moore was saying about FEAR being instilled into every American so they will put up with more crap.

MM isn't likely a hero to you, but his message and his point are comprehensible.

Why did the color codes never go down to green when it was "green safe" ?

'WHY DON'T THEY EVER RE-ASSURE US like they do for paying customers about to board an airplane "its safer than driving your car there" ; they could say "Terrorism threat is less than driving to the store, go about your days without fear". That would help calm down a frightened American public, its what they need, but not what BushCo wants.

Have you EVER heard them tell us that TERRORIST THREAT is less than crossing the street? or That with terrorism, the likelyhood of YOU personally getting hurt is so small - that there is only a very small threat to you today...

"These pills are safe"
"These cars are safe"
- they keep telling us that dangerous things are safe , but that terrorism is a huge threat so we gotta go to Baghdad.

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Related links that back up my points -
" Exploiting Fear and Insecurity "
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/122805E.shtml
"the national ID campaign against poor Latinos has not succeeded. Using "Arab terrorists" as the scapegoat is, therefore, a tactic that anti-immigrant groups are now using to achieve their goal."


"Fear Destroys What bin Laden Could Not"
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/122905Z.shtml
"a mere terrorist threat [sent] this country into spasms of despair and fright so profound that we'd follow a leader who considers the law a nuisance and perfidy a privilege."

 

[jimmoyer]

Why did the color codes never go down to green when it was "green safe" ?

'WHY DON'T THEY EVER RE-ASSURE US like they do for paying customers about to board an airplane "its safer than driving your car there" ; they could say "Terrorism threat is less than driving to the store, go about your days without fear". That would help calm down a frightened American public, its what they need, but not what BushCo wants.

Have you EVER heard them tell us that TERRORIST THREAT is less than crossing the street? or That with terrorism, the likelyhood of YOU personally getting hurt is so small - that there is only a very small threat to you today...
------------------------------Karlin---------------------------


The answer to your 3 questions ?

Why does the color code not go down to green ?

The answer is not that the administration wants
us in fear, the answer is certainly not about that.

It's about CYA.

If you were a public official and you said those things
to the public and then another disaster happens,
you think you'll have a job ?

And wouldn't you change your tune as a public citizen
raging to be first in line to attack that public official
for encouraging complacency rather than vigilance ?

And just the possibility knowing how target rich
we are as a nation and the impossibility of protecting
it, wouldn't you feel it is wiser to counsel the public
and its first responders to be alert ?

Most people in America, especially the less
politically passionate, have a greater common sense
about these questions, laughing at it mostly,
monitoring the debates occassionally, but doing the
most important thing they should do: go about
their lives and provide for their family.