Are moderns controlling us by keeping us in terror?
2007-07-23 09:50:12 · 6 answers · asked by Ryan B 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
This tactic worked well in the past , but nobody is buying it anymore. People realize that chasing terrorists all over the globe has not made us safer.
2007-07-23 09:54:28 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
The Politics of fear always works. Read the following excerpts and notice who spoke the words......
Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally the common people don't want war neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. 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 peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country." Hermann Goering, Nazi
"Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear — kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor — with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it." General Douglas MacArthur
2007-07-23 11:04:36 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Politicians are using fear and terror and paranoia as an excuse to push their own agendas.
Terrorists have been around since the dawn of civilization. They've been called brigands, bandits, huns, barbarians, pirates -- only the names and available weaponry change. And whenever people get scared, they react based on that fear.
2007-07-23 09:55:17 · answer #3 · answered by coragryph 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Yes. Governments always want to control citizens minds. Fear is the best tool for that.
2007-07-23 09:57:11 · answer #4 · answered by wisdomforfools 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I certainly don't spend my days and nights living in terror. I know better than that. :)
2007-07-23 09:58:11 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
But who wants to be be-headed or blown up?
2007-07-23 09:57:34 · answer #6 · answered by wolf 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋