does this current us government put fear into the people it represents?

Answer 1

it's all they know how to do.

Answer 2

I think they like soo many use fear as a persuder of those they want to have follow and ask fewer questions. Even to the point if you disagree with them the fear of being unpatriotic. It, for some reason works even on the most educated and intellegent. Only through ignorance is a man persuaded fear over facts. The BOO tactic is old and overused instead come out and tell the truth of what is happening in the middle-east. the same opposition will be present as is the lies, or sub-truth. It's logical to what we are still there trying to keep in place what we set out to start. Under present conditions of discisions by this administration with the opposition of congress by, especially the ones arrogant yet ingnorant to military, will fail. Trying to accommidate politicians such as nobody Hillary is the downfall of accomplishig anything in Iraq.

Answer 3

No. The radical Islamists and the liberals put fear into me. The radical Islamists want in the door and the liberals want to open it for them. The liberals have cotten in their ears about this danger and claim that Bush is someone to fear. Well Bush is not a jihadist, and I don't know why liberals can't see that. I have been watching the History channel and the jihad idea has been around for a long time, only now Muslims are spreading around the globe. We were all told that they were peaceful people and we bought it. Now you can see otherwise by doing searches on the internet. Is the internet news around the globe considered propaganda too. I think not.

Answer 4

Not entirely. A fearful people don't spend. This government really wants a "healthy" economy, whatever the cost to our future, so the folks deciding such things really don't want Americans being that afraid. This is why we still had a Stupor Bowl yesterday.

Answer 5

No all it is doing is turning good peoples patriotism into hatred to take the focus off themselves. 911 focused the hatred on Iraq ( it could have been anyone ) but Chaney wanted the Oil. This is not new, they are giving people something to do besides look for the 2.3 trillion missing from the pentagon. The evidence or most of it was destroyed by a missile into the pentagon and building 7 at the WTC.

Answer 6

Yes, and they're very good at it.

In 1984(Orwell) the Ministry of Peace revolves around the principle of perpetual war. If the citizens have a well-defined enemy, then they know who they hate, and constant homeland propaganda helps to convince them to vent all their unconscious rage for their own country against the opposing one.

“Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.” — Nazi Reich Marshal Hermann Göring while in his jail cell during the Nuremberg Trials

Answer 7

It tries to. But it can only succeed so far as the people allow it. Most people know that the dangers posed by terrorist attacks are slim and thus take the warnings and scare tactics of the government with a grain of salt. For example, how many people went out and bought duct tape and plastic sheeting as protection against possible chemical attacks that the public was warned against shortly after 9/11. I used to work in a home improvement supply store, and I can tell you that those of us who worked there got a good laugh out of the few people who made unnecessary purchases that were instigated by overblown government warnings.

As for Bush thinking that his signing statements are worth anything, or that he has unlimited Constitutional power - that's a load of hogwash. Even one of our own senators from Texas, John Cornyn, who used to be the chief judge of the Texas State Supreme Court, has said that they carry no legal force. They are merely the bellowings of a power crazed loon, who thinks things are so just because he says they are. Just wait until things go before the U.S. Supreme Court and see how quickly his assertions will evaporate. They have already ruled against him in several significant cases. No doubt they will rule against him in more.

In the end, I believe that several of the laws which have been passed during Bush's tenure will either be repealed or severely watered down so as not to trample on the rights of the people. Notice that the Bush Administration is finally relenting on the matter of data mining of U.S. citizens' telephone calls. That's because they no longer have rubberstampers in charge of Congress and the writing was on the wall that their little party was about to end, with massive doses of looking over their shoulders about to be meted out to them. So, once "Dopey" is out of Washington, say so long to the Un-Patriot Act and others, or at least to significant portions of them.

Answer 8

Yes. Bush has allowed the government to read our emails, our mails, and to listen in to phone calls. Bush said it was ok to throw out the writ of Habeas Corpus and to hold American citizens indefinately without redress and without access to an attorney. Bush has called liberals in general and Democrats in particular "traitors", while he himself has lied to the American people to get us into war. He has said that his signing statements are legal even though they usurp the legislative function of Congress, and says that the courts cannot tell him if what he does is Constitutional or not. If this isn't enough to make someone concerned, nothing will.

Answer 9

Bush Rules by Fear http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4041651714150495394&q=bush+f*ck
3 1/2 minutes

...and people say he's stupid.

Answer 10

YES. George Bush MAKES the wacky Islamic fundamentalists kidnap civilians and chop their heads off. He MAKES them demonstrate in the streets, looting and rioting, burning things, chanting "death to cartoonists." He MAKES them commit suicide bombings.

He uses the same machine that he uses to start hurricanes.

Answer 11

Liberals do. See the recent global warming hype. Just wondering when people are going to put the past predictions of the environmentist movement up against reality. You'll see that they have no credibility.