(it’s obvious someone’s seen Farenheit 9/11…;))
The media THRIVES on bad news. Watching a car accident is infinetly more interesting than watching some fireman save a stranded kitty.
Knowing this, it’s VERY easy to play on this machine of fear – to manipulate the viewer into believing what you’re selling. It’s called good journalism. When you can take something extremely outrageous – ie. revoking constitution-granted American rights to privacy – and make the public buy into it, you’re one hell of a manipulator.
Such is our president, his cabinet, and Congress. It’s been dubbed the war on terror, which is a VERY ironic declaration of state based on how much MORE terror has been caused as a result. The American people are being terrorized – by their own leaders.
Why do you think Bush – an ex coke-fiend with ties to the bin Laden’s and a history of stupidity – has chosen Christian values as his platform? Because the conservative, religious zealots in this country are VERY easy to manipulate. And they have massive voting power. Get in good with them, and you can relax a bit about your chances in the upcoming election. The beauty of backing a major religion is that is transcends both parties.
There should be no mention of any religion on or around anything related to the government – it says this quite clearly in the constitution. So not only is supporting the ten commandments in a courthouse unfair to other religions, it is actually forbidden in the constitution. But what did the founding fathers know, eh?
We’re losing rights and freedoms by the truckload on a daily basis and most people – especially congressmen – have no idea it’s happening. We’re being manipulated by corporations and our “elected” leaders into being fearful of anything that moves.
“Rocking” the vote doesn’t mean a thing when both candidates have their own, corporate-funded agenda. Bush lost the election – but somehow in his brother’s state, under the supervision of a close family friend, he was able to win anyways.
North Korea? No threat. But Iraq! Let’s get 'em! Yeeehaw! Who needs proof of WMDs when you can keep scaring the American people into forgetting to ask about them by saying something about the color orange in a press conference.
Just like Bush on the morning of 9/11 after being informed about the first plane and then the second all while sitting idly in a classroom, we as citizens just sit by reading our book(s), waiting for someone else to make the first move or make the moves for us.
Our country is going to ****, and no one is doing anything about it. Choosing the lesser of two evils is far from the way elections should be in the US – even if we are scared or manipulated into voting for the one that promises the most safety from unseen threats.