An incident occurs, real or "could be real, really soon", manufactured by the media.
Two people on 34th and 8th indicate on newscamera that they are scared and don't feel secure.
Media reports on how people are not secure.
Government leaders see media report on how "people are scared" and perform security-enhancing activites, including overseas.
Overeseas, or at home, "an incident occurs"...
And so on. Soon I'll install a security camera in th' crapper to make sure no terrorists get me while I'm on the can.
-TD
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Gutmann) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Fatherland Security agents above the law? Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 18:10:24 +1200
"Tyler Durden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>"The Fatherland Security troops are publicly embaressed and showing their >brown shirts." > >Well, I'm not convinced you guys have detected the right intended message >here. > >Basically, the real message may be: "it's impossible to protect Americans >through local policies alone".
I thought it was "The news media will do anything for a story, even if they
have to manufacture it themselves". Given that the US is currently obsessed
with terrorism, creating a sensationalist story related to it is a sure-fire
winner, even if the more accurate wording of "ABC ships expensive yacht
ballast to US" would get less attention.
(Come to think of it, I'm sure I could raise at least a moderate stink over
here by letting it slip that some of the America's Cup yachts that were here
earlier in the year may have had (shock, horror!) dangerous radioactive
uranium in their keels, in violation of the government's anti-nuclear
stance).
Peter.
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