Pandering to Public Panic?

The recent spate of warnings to hit the people of NYC have had two effects. The first is to make us all wonder about the veracity of the statements. The second is to further numb us to such statements.

The announcements seemed timed to coincide with Ferrer's attack on Bloomberg's administration, the sort of deflector-shield invoked by Republicans on the national level. To every soundbite, spin, spin, spin.... it will not always lead to win, win, win.

Certainly our Monarch, GWB II sits where he does because he and his cronies knew how to feed the public panic. Let us see if Bloomberg has the right stuff to keep this all spinning in conjunction with the programming on the History Channel and other media outlets that continue to show NYC ablaze.

We no longer know what is real and what is not. When is a threat taken seriously? Who makes them? Who makes them up? We may never know.

For those of us who have had our bags checked by the NYPD and who ride alongside armed National Guard Troops, is there a sense of safety? I for one just don't know. Obviously,intelligence has been faulty. Maybe we should all pray about it and see if God tells us who to kill next.

The linking of religion, a police state and absolute rule have a long history - reaching all the way back to the Near East - Assyria, Babylonia, Egypt, Rome, Byzantium and to modern Germany....

For New Yorkers who are now becoming oblivious to police presence and loaded weapons, will we give over to even more state control?

Tags:   bloomberg, neo cons, nypd, public panic

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Posted on 10/9/2005 ( Permanent Link )
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