Bush mantra: Be afraid, be very afraid

[babylonsister]

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17845.htm

Bush mantra: Be afraid, be very afraid

By JOSEPH L. GALLOWAY
McClatchy Newspapers

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The latest: A plot to blow up the jet fuel pipeline to John F. Kennedy Airport.

Dangerous enemies are out there, but at the heart of all these journeys into darkness were bumbling fools without money, weapons or even a mastermind. Without everything but an FBI informant keeping them talking for a year or so.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in the darkest days of the Depression, declared that the American people had nothing to fear but fear itself. The only thing George W. Bush apparently fears is the absence of fear.

Just as they believe that a lie repeated often enough will somehow become the truth (ask Vice President Cheney about Iraq's non-existent alliance with al-Qaeda for example), so also do they apparently believe that if they cry "wolf" often enough most Americans will willingly trade their freedoms for the illusion of security. That such a deal usually results in the victims ending up with neither freedom nor security seems lost in this transaction.

This administration has injected fear into the American people; into much of the media, whose duty it is to speak truth to power, not cower before the powerful; into a mighty nation's foreign policy; and now even into the Democratic majority in Congress.

Fear saps the will and decision-making power of humans. Fear blurs all that is good and decent, and blinds us to evil being done in our name.

Enough is enough. We have lived for more than six years in fear of our neighbors, fear of a world turned hostile by the words and actions of our own leaders, fear of a future that once was a bright and shining dream.

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[Double T]

1. Fear allows guys like bush and cheney to control and abuse power..........

show NO FEAR!

[MasonJar]

2. The reporters have been afraid to speak out because they might lose

their all important spot or contacts. Well, Helen Thomas stood up and she won.

[Amonester]

3. With the most powerful & destructive, if might be, military machine

to ever even exist in history, one have to ask:

Fear... of what?

Fear... of a few (or even many) terrarist cells invading the U.S. 'til they'd reach Chicago?

Fear... of these "isolated" groups of international criminals killing us all before the Interpol bust them?

Both irrationals don't stand a tiny chance to ever happen.

So, fear... of what?

Crossing streets?

:crazy: