Moving Public Opinion Using Fear--The Sheeple Approach Or How Washington Works Now

Fear is a great motivator for the American public to continually give up more of their rights. We see it every day from the IRS scandal, the NSA scandals and the refusal of the government to let us know the real story behind Benghazi. They say they are protecting us, yet we do not know from what.

After the NSA scandal started to get traction, they invented the threat to embassies. They said the information was credible, yet they could not tell us the answers to the time, date, or place. Neither could they tell us the country or whether it was an attack on a building, a subway, rail or anything else.  To us that seemed very un-credible information and we wrote about it. So far, it seems like we are right.

Yesterday, our government closed an consulate in Pakistan out of fear.  We suspect that other closures are forthcoming.  However, this "threat" feels like it is a false campaign by al Qaida to make us look foolish. It is working.

The shepherds in Washington are not going to be satisfied with us and others who are questioning the threat level. We suspect that they will continue to ratchet up the fear until either they orchestrate something ala the Reishtag burning in Germany or there is an actual event. We bet the prior will happen before the latter!

Fear only works when there is something that can make the sheeple fearful and demand that our shepherds protect us more and more. Our Washington "smart people"  know this and are working hard to create such an atmosphere.  When will it occur? We suspect sooner rather than later.

Meanwhile, every action by the government to "protect us" actually makes our freedoms disappear. All one has to look at is the effect of the Patriot Act and the tenacles that it has spread throughout the country. The NSA is only one part, how about the TSA--the gentle screeners at the airport who molest at will? What about the purchases of weapons, ammo and vehicles by Homeland Security? 

Our country is under attack, not by outsiders but by the government itself. Are you standing up for your rights or are you a sheeple?

Be scared, be very scared.  As the late Mark Scott used to say, "I love my country but fear my government."

Conservative Tom

Washington Thinks You Are Stupid

August 9, 2013 by Paul Craig Roberts 

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There’s the old saying that if the government fears the people, there is liberty; but if the people fear the government, there is tyranny. The criminals in Washington not only do not fear us, they do not respect us. Washington looks upon Americans as stupid sheeple.

Washington believes that it can tell the population anything, and the people will believe it. For example, the official line is that the recession that began in December 2007 ended in June 2009. Many Americans believe this even though they have not personally experienced economic recovery. Indeed, they are sinking further into poverty and near poverty.

And don’t forget those nonexistent weapons of mass destruction that Saddam Hussein was alleged by Washington to possess. Or the Gulf of Tonkin fake event when Washington claimed that its warship was attacked by North Vietnam. Really, the list of official lies is very long. Anyone who believes anything that Washington says is too naive to be let out of the house alone. But Americans believe the lies, because that is what they think patriotism requires.

Relying on the proven gullibility of the bulk of the U.S. population, Washington claims to have uncovered an al-Qaida plot to attack U.S. embassies across North Africa and the Mideast. To foil the plot, Washington closed 19 embassies for the past weekend and for this week also.

Washington has not explained how closing the embassies foils the plot. If al-Qaida wants to blow up the embassies, it can blow them up whether they are open or closed.

If al-Qaida wants to kill the embassy personnel, they can kill them at home or on the way to work or later in the embassies when the alert passes.

I check in with the presstitute media only in order to ascertain whether my current estimate of their prostitution for Washington is accurate. Possibly, I missed some expression of skepticism about the latest terrorist threat. But I did hear NPR’s account. Back in the Ronald Reagan years, NPR was an independent voice. Today, it is part of the presstitute media. NPR lies for Washington with the best of them.

The U.S. media has ignored the obvious fact that as soon as the American population, Congress and Washington’s puppet allies, such as Germany, made an issue over the NSA’s clearly unConstitutional and totally illegal universal spying, the Barack Obama regime pushed the fear button and hyped a new terror plot in order to shut up critics and bring Congress and Germany back in line.

Washington proclaimed that a “threat” was discovered that al-Qaida — an organization that Washington is using in Washington’s effort to overthrow the Bashar Assad government in Syria and one that is enriched by U.S. military contracts to affiliated groups in Afghanistan — was going to blow up U.S. embassies in the Mideast and North Africa. Washington did not explain why al-Qaida, a recipient of Washington’s largess, was going to turn off the money spigot by attacking U.S. embassies.

I am surprised that bombs haven’t been set off in the embassies in order to prove the value of the National Stasi Agency’s spying, thereby shaming those in Congress and among the puppet states in Europe that object to the spying.

Once you give a moment’s thought to Washington’s claim, you see that Washington is proving its impotence by hyping such nonexistent threats. Officially, the U.S. has been at war with al-Qaida since Oct. 7, 2001. The “superpower” has been battling a few thousand lightly armed al-Qaida for almost 12 years, and what is the result?

Despite Washington’s claims to have killed al-Qaida’s top leaders, including Osama bin Laden himself, Washington has lost the war. Al-Qaida has grown so powerful that it not only fights in Syria, with Washington’s help, against Assad; but it also has prevented the U.S. military from occupying Afghanistan. Moreover, in addition to al-Qaida’s military success against the “superpower” and the chaos that al-Qaida continues to produce in Iraq, al-Qaida now is so powerful that it can shut down U.S. embassies all across the Mideast and North Africa. The “threat” that was supposed to boost the NSA’s position actually proves Washington’s powerlessness.

We can only pray that soon al-Qaida shuts down Washington itself. Imagine the sense of American liberation if Washington simply were shut down or, even better, if Washington could be put under Punjab’s magic blanket and disappeared. For the 99 percent and the rest of the world, Washington is nothing but an oppressor.