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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (398969)	1/2/2010 3:58:04 PM
From: Terry Maloney	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

Looks interesting, thanks. Meanwhile, Greenwald today has some interesting thoughts on scaredy-cat nation ... "A citizenry drowning in fear and fixated on Safety to the exclusion of other competing values can only be degraded and depraved. John Adams, in his 1776 Thoughts on Government, put it this way: 'Fear is the foundation of most governments; but it is so sordid and brutal a passion, and renders men in whose breasts it predominates so stupid and miserable, that Americans will not be likely to approve of any political institution which is founded on it.' As Adams noted, political leaders possess an inherent interest in maximizing fear levels, as that is what maximizes their power. For a variety of reasons, nobody aids this process more than our establishment media, motivated by their own interests in ratcheting up fear and Terrorism melodrama as high as possible. The result is a citizenry far more terrorized by our own institutions than foreign Terrorists could ever dream of achieving on their own ..." salon.com