Disaster hype: When they scare us, it’s easier to control us
My people are rank with fear, and it is compulsive. Over the last decade I have been watching my people slowly degenerate into a mob of frightened children only interested in their own welfare. I do not understand how my country, the home of the brave, could come to this point where a small earthquake is over-embellished on, or a category 1 hurricane sends the nation into hysterics. I am ashamed to be identified with a people who break down at the hint of the slightest natural occurrence. Watching CNN, I shudder at the effectiveness of sensationalist media over the masses of docile children I call my fellow Americans. The Carolinas didn’t nearly sustain as much damage as the meterologist said they would. A tornado in Delaware took out 17 houses. Many are without power. It rained more than usual. Is this what it takes to frighten and distract you? I saw needless measures taken in New York City that were never needed even when Floyd hit! Remember that? September 1999? It rained! Same as now! Why are you people freaking out? I study political science, so I can only see this in a social way: Do any of you realize how much emboldened some people get when they send crowds of people in inane fear? They are usually the same people who assume that they own you. When they are at that assumption, they can justify any action by relating it to your fears. It’s surreptitious fear-mongering, and it really serves this purpose: to psychologically control people by replacing rationality with emotions. A “shared” disaster (like Hurricane Katrina, San Francisco earthquake, 9/11, etc.) is the focal point of this. Seeing the worst-case scenario brings the revelation that these things happen, but who are the people implying that they can happen quite often, or even worse than before? Did San Franciscans laugh at us when we freaked out over our “earthquake?” Did New Orleanians laugh at us at our “hurricane?” What has happened to us?
Disaster hype: When they scare us, it’s easier to control us???
What a jerk! More 'Hate Your Govt' rhetoric.
Ask the 40 (so far) Americans that died in that storm... I guess their dead bodies are "easy to control". Just think of how many bodies would be stacked up from this storm if the Hate Your Govt crowd of crybabies had their way... no warning, no evacuation, no FEMA to help rebuild.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
Just think of how many bodies would be stacked up from this storm if the Hate Your Govt crowd of crybabies had their way... no warning, no evacuation, no FEMA to help rebuild.
How many bodies would be stacked up from this storm? Help me out with a pre FEMA and post FEMA body count number. All the rescue work that actually SAVED LIVES was done by local emergency workers, not federal. Are you saying State and Local governments couldn't fund and manage their own disaster warning system?
It's killing the BIG government people that Paul is pulling down the curtain of the FAILURES of these federal programs. Anderson Cooper was stumbling and stammering trying to defend all the failures Paul exposed. And Cooper was asking the question and had the time to research his answers, and he still couldn't provide evidence of FEMA success.
Disaster hype: When they scare us, it’s easier to control us???
What a jerk! More 'Hate Your Govt' rhetoric.
Ask the 40 (so far) Americans that died in that storm... I guess their dead bodies are "easy to control". Just think of how many bodies would be stacked up from this storm if the Hate Your Govt crowd of crybabies had their way... no warning, no evacuation, no FEMA to help rebuild.
Gee, look who it is with the 'Love Your Govt' rhetoric.
Ask the millions along the coast that were affected by the storm, and the thousands that are rebuilding and have no home to go back to. Just tell me exactly what warning it was that the government actually gave prior to this entire storm. Personally, it was paying attention to the NON-GOVERNMENT CONTROLLED MEDIA. Evacuations? They only came AFTER the storm, when people were at the most susceptible. They tell them that they have all the answers and herd them around like cattle.
And let's not even go there with FEMA. I wonder, were the crews that I said thank you to for coming in from Michigan and the midwest here because the federal government sent them, or because they heard of neighbors in a state far away that needed help? I think it would be the latter, not the former.
I will give credit where credit is due, there are some of the National Guard that are out there working tirelessly trying to put things back as they were. The problem is that if the government wanted to get involved, they could have always had these people start to evacuate PRIOR to the storm, especially knowing how horrible a storm this was going to be WAY before it got here. And then it's the local, town, county, state governments that should have been making those determinations much earllier than they did, especially in areas that have a history of the issues that they do.
It's not a hatred of the government, it's a discussion about the fact that they're not doing what is needed from them.
As far as the name calling, leave that to the left.
For the folks who have no flood insurance............and since obama declared nys a disaster.............disaster relief will be giving these folks $$$$. Let's just hope that fema gets it right this time and doesn't give money out to the folks who really need it.......not like they did in katrina! FEMA was a total failure in katrina!
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
Maybe Hurricane Irene wasn’t over-hyped after all: the storm is likely to rank among the 10 costliest catastrophes in U.S. history, according to The New York Times, with a price tag of $7 billion to $10 billion. Flooding caused much of that damage, which means it won’t be covered by most insurance policies. Insurance companies normally cover half a storm’s costs but in this case they may cover less than 40 percent. Meanwhile, National Guard helicopters are transporting supplies into Vermont towns that have been cut off by the flooding.
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
Why do people build in flood plains? Why do I pay for people to rebuild in flood prone areas? Is China going to pay for us to rebuild our country now?
This could be the disaster that can help create jobs and lower unemployment...We can borrow .42 cents from China for every dollar of relief funds to pay for the temporary jobs for the rebuild, making unemployment go down, while putting us deeper in debt.
Where is FEMA? Did they save the 40 people? Lets honestly answer- no, they did not. Thank you. Is this Bush's fault?
"While Foreign Terrorists were plotting to murder and maim using homemade bombs in Boston, Democrap officials in Washington DC, Albany and here were busy watching ME and other law abiding American Citizens who are gun owners and taxpayers, in an effort to blame the nation's lack of security on US so that they could have a political scapegoat."
..... 'mother nature' provided jobs without vote/elected incentives.......so would 'mother nautre' be the atleast that the government always offers? nah.....'mother nature' is LIFE.....we can put our feet in the mud left behind, cry our tears, help eachother out and build,grow, breathe, talk etc... unlike the government leaders who would like to tell us that what is inside each and everyone of us isn't enough and the 'atleast' is coming to save us from LIFE.....
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
Irene Ranks Among Costliest Disasters , National Guard helicopters are transporting supplies into Vermont towns that have been cut off by the flooding. p
"In the beginning of a change, the Patriot is a scarce man, brave, hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a Patriot."
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