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fastpat · 06-25-2006, 07:10 PM

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The Usefulness of Fear
Posted by Lew Rockwell at 01:24 PM

The easiest path to state growth is to "scare the Hell out of the American people," as Sen. Arthur Vandenberg famously advised Harry Truman, who was planning to start the Cold War and worried about garnering public support. No more Red Scare now, of course. We are supposed to get the chills over them Ay-rabs, and anyone who can be connected to them, no matter how implausibly.

Police states typically use the agent provocateur to urge opponents of the regime to commit crimes, at which point they can be arrested amidst great fanfare.

Did that happen in Miami? I don't know, but the ghetto kids held up for our shivering apparently never got beyond loose talk. Gonzalez, are we really supposed to worry about these poor pomade-salesmen-by-day, play-soldiers-by-night? They asked the pretend al-Qaeda (real federal) agent for shoes!

Re: The Usefulness of Fear
Posted by Daniel McAdams at 03:38 PM

Lew: From the indictment, it looks like Deputy Attorney General Pistone's real beef against these guys was:

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"They did not believe that the government of the United States had legal authority over them. They were separatists in the sense of not believing that the U.S. government had the legal authority to enforce certain laws against them."

Smells more like Waco than WTC...

No word on whether it was in fact the US agent undercover "al-quaeda" representative who first suggested the Sears Towers to our shoeless "warriors."

Oddly, these big scares seem to happen in summer and autumn every two years on even-numbered years...

Fear-Mongering
Posted by Butler Shaffer at 08:42 PM

Lew, it's not only the people who are connected with Al-Qaeda that we are supposed to fear, but those who have no such connection whatsoever. After all, "they" -- never "us" -- conspire to do vicious things, and the lack of any evidence to connect people to destructive purposes only shows how effective their conspiracy is, right? Amateurs are probably clumsy enough to leave evidence of their wrongdoing. The really dangerous people are those who carry out their deeds without leaving evidence. So, in what passes for "reasoning" in this post-Orwellian world, it is those for whom there is absolutely no evidence of terrorist participation that the state will ask us to fear.