What are some examples from history where people in power have used fear as a weapon against its own people?

Answer 1

That governments have permitted terrorist acts against their own people, and have even themselves been perpetrators in order to find strategic advantage is quite likely true, but this is the United States we're talking about.

That intelligence agencies, financiers, terrorists and narco-criminals have a long history together is well established, but the Nugan Hand Bank, BCCI, Banco Ambrosiano, the P2 Lodge, the CIA/Mafia anti-Castro/Kennedy alliance, Iran/Contra and the rest were a long time ago, so there’s no need to rehash all that. That was then, this is now!

That Jonathan Bush’s Riggs Bank has been found guilty of laundering terrorist funds and fined a US-record $25 million must embarrass his nephew George, but it's still no justification for leaping to paranoid conclusions.

That George Bush's brother Marvin sat on the board of the Kuwaiti-owned company which provided electronic security to the World Trade Centre, Dulles Airport and United Airlines means nothing more than you must admit those Bush boys have done alright for themselves.

That George Bush found success as a businessman only after the investment of Osama’s brother Salem and reputed al Qaeda financier Khalid bin Mahfouz is just one of those things - one of those crazy things.

That Osama bin Laden is known to have been an asset of US foreign policy in no way implies he still is.

That al Qaeda was active in the Balkan conflict, fighting on the same side as the US as recently as 1999, while the US protected its cells, is merely one of history's little aberrations.

The claims of Michael Springman, State Department veteran of the Jeddah visa bureau, that the CIA ran the office and issued visas to al Qaeda members so they could receive training in the United States, sound like the sour grapes of someone who was fired for making such wild accusations.

That one of George Bush's first acts as President, in January 2001, was to end the two-year deployment of attack submarines which were positioned within striking distance of al Qaeda's Afghanistan camps, even as the group's guilt for the Cole bombing was established, proves that a transition from one administration to the next is never an easy task.

Answer 2

Every country where there is/was a solider at the border that would/will shoot citizens trying to leave. Every country where free speech is/was suppressed with the rifle. Every country where the learned were either imprisoned or slaughter, books burned or banned
and what ever religion was denied. Every country where education is either denied or ruler controlled.

Blacks and Whites that were slaughtered in America when attempts were made to educate the slaves or free slaves. Fear reigned!

Answer 3

fear as a weapon? I guess I can only speak of those leaders actually killed and slaughtered their people. Stalin was one, in fact Russia is filled with one right after the other of this type of brutal leadership. We can go back in history to dozens and dozens of countries who ruled by fear. They also backed it up if you questioned it. China for example in tenimen square.

Answer 4

What do you think the police and the armed forces are for?

If you are talking about governments blowing stuff up so they can say it was terrorists then steal the civil rights of the populace I'm sure it's been done before.

Answer 5

The Church, before the Great Schism. They had the most power ever over the people in Europe. They bascially said that they decided who would go to heaven and who wouldn't.

No power can top that, none

Answer 6

The best example that comes to my mind is the Communist hysteria during the McCarthy era.

Check it out.

Answer 7

Hitler's third reich

Answer 8

Bush's speech on Monday?

Answer 9

hitler?