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Why do threats always grow?
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January 2, 2011
Why Do Threats Always Grow?
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Why do threats always grow?
Because threats are growing – not in reality but in the media and the various ‘think tanks’ which are nothing but tools by the elite through their funding, leaders and awe-inspired membership sheeple and, of course, the direct funding and lobbying of politicians.
I meant to post this thought on your previous post but the latest craze is “home grown terrorists” or “home grown terrorism”. I’m not a search engine expert, but what is the best method to search when looking for “homegrown”, “home-grown” and “home grown” combined with “terrorist” or “terrorism”? Any one of these will yield hundreds of thousands of results and much of this in recent stories. Why the emphasis on this lately?
Posted by: Rick Happ | Jan 2 2011 17:31 utc | 1
it has become such an obscene theatre of the absurd except with the bloodiest consequences
Posted by: remembereringgiap | Jan 2 2011 19:13 utc | 2
Growing threats and especially “homegrown” threats are the leading edge of fear-based propaganda; and I suppose the ultimate purpose is to condition people’s minds to the presence of greater regimentation, and police state methods, around them. The changes are described as being necessary to protect society from a host of threats. The sheer quantity of mind-conditioning can eventually lead to a cultural shift in the observed behavior of people.
Experiments in conditioning behavior have relied on an ever-increasing environment of anxiety and uncertainty, which make people increasingly receptive to conversion experiences. Certain kinds of religious conversions and political conversions are made possible by this kind of psychological preparation.
The more frequent tasering of people, by police in this country ( and the acceptance of it ), can be cited as one example of public disregard for the authoritarian practice of inflicting a possibly lethal jolt of electricity upon a person, someone who may not be reacting quickly enough to the orders of a cop.
threats are growing because the empire is faced with geological problems over which the empire has no control… those threats will lower the standard of living of the everyday imperial citizens, and those citizens –if they ever finally came to understand the empire’s plan for dealing with the real threats– would pose an additional threat to the empire.
so imaginary threats are cooked up –9/11 and global terror– that justify the empire’s attempts to deal with the real threats.
meanwhile, the real threats cannot be discussed in public, because public would come to understand that the best way to deal with those threats would be cooperation, and cooperation would put a kink in the imperial psychopaths’ ambitions to achieve benevolent global hegemony… hegemony that the empire needs if it’s to milk the last drop of profit and loot out of the status quo before it collapses.
the greatest threats to western civilization are
(1) zionist domination of america, brought about by a couple generations of jews being exempt from criticism because of the holocaust,
(2) peak oil and the dawning realization that israel must be secured from sea level rise before america collapses from oil shortages and imperial looters,
(3) looters who no longer believe in anything but stacking up enough loot to hide out until the dust settles,
(4) global warming and sea level rise, which will get out of control if we continue to burn enough oil and coal to support the economy that supports the military that’s attempting to secure israel.
the real threats to empire result in actions by the empire that amplify the threats to common citizens, as commoners are impoverished to the point they have to join the military to find jobs, are sent overseas to get shot at by the empire’s enemies… meanwhile, they’re being trained in urban combat techniques that will be useful when the empire has to put down domestic rebellions.
who will the imperial storm troopers side with when they come home? …does anyone have any faith that they’ll side with the people against the empire?
Posted by: flickervertigo | Jan 2 2011 19:46 utc | 4
another threat to western civilization, present in america, would be the growing number of americans who dont believe in the american rat race any more, and are waiting for the monster to devour itself and die so they’ll be free to get back to a decent way of life.
“free to get back to a decent way of life” is the latest manifestation of the “american dream”, and it’s probably no more valid than the original “american dream”.
Posted by: flickervertigo | Jan 2 2011 20:04 utc | 5
“Why do threats always grow?”
For the same reasons that economies must always grow.
Posted by: Enoch Root | Jan 2 2011 21:32 utc | 6
I’ll bite – it’s really just a gimmick used by uncreative writers to give their story a sense of motion. It’s the same rhetorical device used by the insidious “trend” articles in the NYT, et al. See also “growing trend”, etc.
http://www.slate.com/id/2195763/
Posted by: Jeremiah | Jan 2 2011 23:28 utc | 7
Threats to whom?
There have been some cases of Americans busted for having huge stockpiles of all manner of lethal guns, ammo and other weapons in their homes or on their property in the last several years, together with membership or support of various militia-type groups or other groups hostile to the United States constitution, that did not make the mainstream headlines. Yet when the FBI or some other enforcement agency manages to entrap some knuckledheaded muslim youth, or black youth, or fill-in-some-other-blank “other” type of person in a trumped up accusation of terrorism charges based on some alleged plan to blow something up (through copious help from paid informants or government agents), the headlines go on for days. Its a “growing threat” to us sheep then, we’re told.
Posted by: Maxcrat | Jan 3 2011 0:20 utc | 8
I feel like the following could have been put under any of half a dozen posts of late, but upon looking over which one to post it in, it occurred to me, that, indeed, the threats grow, because, we (a small cabal) want the threats to grow, the more enemies we make the better the business of war becomes. In other words, the it’s job security, if your in the club, as the late Carlin was to have said.
WikiLeaks’ Most Terrifying Revelation: Just How Much Our Government Lies to Us
Posted by: Uncle $cam | Jan 4 2011 14:15 utc | 10
And YOU, ain’t in the club…
Forgot the synopsis above…
WikiLeaks’ Most Terrifying Revelation: Just How Much Our Government Lies to Us
Wikileaks has shown that our government and military form a ‘vast lying machine’ that perpetrates mass murder in our name.
January 3, 2011 |
“Try as I may I can not escape the sound of suffering. Perhaps as an old man I will accept suffering with insouciance. But not now; men in their prime, if they have convictions are tasked to act on them.”
— Julian Assange, 2007 blog entry
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Do you believe that it is in Americans’ interest to allow a small group of U.S. leaders to unilaterally murder, maim, imprison and/or torture anyone they choose anywhere in the world, without the knowledge let alone oversight of their citizens or the international community? And, despite their proven record of failure to protect America — from Indochina to Iran to Iraq — do you believe they should be permitted to clandestinely expand their war-making without informed public debate? If so, you are betraying the principles upon which America was founded, endangering your nation, and displaying a distinctly “unamerican” subservience to unaccountable authority. But if you oppose autocratic power, you are called to support Wikileaks and others trying to limit U.S. Executive Branch mass murder abroad and failure to protect Americans at home.
These two issues became officially linked for the first time when former U.S. Afghan commander General Stanley McChrystal explicitly stated that the murder of civilians increases rather than decreases the numbers of those committed to killing Americans, and actually implemented policies — since reversed by General Petraeus — to reduce U.S. murder of civilians. McChrystal said that “for every innocent person you kill, you create 10 new enemies.” By so doing he made it clear that killing civilians is not only a moral and war crimes issue, but — in today’s interdependent world — also threatens U.S. national security.
As important as is the issue of free speech, it is the question of whether the U.S. Executive is in fact protecting the American people through its mass murder abroad that really lies at the heart of the Wikileaks controversy. Executive Branch officials justify persecuting and threatening to murder Assange on the grounds that he has damaged U.S. “national security.” If McChrystal is right, however, it is the past decade of U.S. Executive mass murder in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, now revealed beyond any doubt by Wikileaks, that is the real threat to U.S. national security.
The chilling fact is this: whether you believe that September 11, 2001 was due to incomprehensible fanaticism or genuine grievances, it seems likely that U.S. leaders’ murder of countless Muslims since 2001 will cause the next 9/11 should, God forbid, it occur, The recent suicide-bomber in Sweden who came perilously close to succeeding taped a message saying “so will your children, daughters, brothers, and sisters die, like our brothers, sisters, and children die.” Similar sentiments were voiced by the Times Square bomber, and it is likely that those responsible for future American deaths will also be motivated by revenge for the hundreds of thousands of Muslims for whose deaths U.S. leaders are responsible since 2001. ………….(more)
Posted by: Uncle $cam | Jan 4 2011 14:19 utc | 11
Perhaps it is the language — “receding threat” yields 409,000 entries. 🙂
Posted by: Bea | Jan 5 2011 21:56 utc | 12