Clockwork Orange: is "fear" a Karl Rove election ploy?

[veracity]

An interesting analysis of the alerts and their effect on the electorate:

CLOCKWORK ORANGE
TVNL LOOKS AT THE FEAR FACTOR

“…the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror…"

On four separate occasions during 2003, Americans were notified by their government that the color of the day had changed. Only this wasn’t summer camp, and no one was playing games. On each of these days, the nation was being warned that our lives were being threatened more seriously than the day before. The codified threat alert had changed from Yellow to Orange. There was nothing we could do. There was nowhere we could go. It was only a change of color, but it did the trick: Americans everywhere were being introduced to the color of fear! .....
http://www.tvnewslies.org/html/clockwork_orange_.html

[KissMyAsscroft]

1. 8 years under Clinton without a successful attack...

Didn't need the mindless colorcoded paranoia than!

But one attack gets through (albeit it a very bad one) and now we just freak out and live in perpetual fear and hand over all of our rights? Fuck that.

They almost succeeded in 93 trying to bomb the WTC, and we didn't freak out and give Clinton unlimited powers to abuse.

[Champion Jack]

2. I think this sums it all up

Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine 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 to 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
----Hermann Goering