How Long Can the Country Stay Scared?
27Aug2004 Filed under: LinkageOp Ed: How Long Can the Country Stay Scared?
There are two basic ways to terrorize people. The first is to do something spectacularly horrible, like flying airplanes into skyscrapers and killing thousands of people. The second is to keep people living in fear. Decades ago, that was one of the IRA’s major aims. Inadvertently, the DHS [Department of Homeland Security] is achieving the same thing.
[Via kottke again.]
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Tumbleweed
August 27th, 2004 at 2:08 pm
Inadvertently?
Ariel
August 27th, 2004 at 2:20 pm
HA! Amen, Tumbleweed.
mark
August 27th, 2004 at 4:06 pm
This prompted me to remember one of the most powerful hours of radio I’ve ever heard–an episode of Joe Frank’s “Work in Progress” entitled “The Best” which “juxtaposes historical figures against one another to determine who is “The Best.”" . . . the pivotal segment IMHO compares Pol Pot to Charles Manson. Manson is deemed the best because while Pol Pot masssacred people in stadiums, killed everyone with glasses, and emptied cities in a drive to establish agrarian utopia, Manson was able to create intense, widespread fear with haiku like elegance. It’s a Mansonesque world of fear we live in today it’s just being directed from the White House.
https://www.joefrank.com/best.html
leblanc
August 29th, 2004 at 12:05 pm
“The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders . . . All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism.”
-HERMANN GOERING, Nazi Gestapo