The Power of Nightmares : The Rise of the Politics of Fear
http://polidics.com/cia/top-ranking-cia-operatives-admit-al-qaeda-is-a-complete-fabrication...

INTRO:
In the past Politicians promised to create a better world. They had
different ways of achieving this, but their power and authority came from
the optimistic visions they offered their people.

Those dreams failed, and today people have lost faith in ideologies.
Increasingly politicians are seen simply as managers of public life.

But now they have discovered a new role that restores their power and
authority. Instead of delivering dreams, politicians now promise to protect
us, from nightmares.

They say that they will rescue us from dreadful dangers that we cannot see
and do not understand. And the greatest danger of all is international
terrorism. The powerful and sinister network with sleeper cells in countries
across the world. A threat that needs to be fought by a War on Terror.

But much of this threat is a fantasy which has been exaggerated and
distorted by politicians. It's a dark illusion that has spread unquestioned
through governments around the world, the security services and the
international media.

This is a series of films about how and why that fantasy was created, and
who it benefits.

At the heart of the story are two groups: the American Neo-Conservatives,
and the radical Islamists. Last week's episode ended in the late 90's with
both groups marginalised and out of power. But with the attacks on September
the 11th the fates of both dramatically changed.

The Islamists, after their moment of triumph, were virtually destroyed
within months. While the Neo-Conservatives took power in Washington. But
then the Neo-Conservatives began to reconstruct the Islamists.

They created a phantom enemy. And as this nightmare fantasy began to spread,
politicians realised the new power it gave them in a deeply disillusioned
age. Those with the darkest nightmares became the most powerful.

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Ending of Doco

Lord Hoffmann in the UK House of Lords:

"I do not under-estimate the ability of fanatical groups of terrorists to
kill and destroy. But they do not threaten the life of the nation. Whether
we would survive Hitler hung in the balance. But there is no doubt that we
shall survive Al Queda.

Spanish people have not said that what happened in Madrid, hideous crime as
it was threatened the life of their nation. Terrorist violence, serious as
it is, does not threaten our existence as a civil community."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Hoffmann%%2C_Baron_Hoffmann

Because in an age when all the grand ideas have lost credibility, fear of a
phantom enemy is all the politicians have left to maintain their power.

But the fear will not last. And just as the dreams that politicians once
promised turned out to be illusions, so too will the nightmares. And then
our politicians will have to face the fact that they have no visions, either
good or bad, to offer us any longer.

...because I'm free, nothing's worrying me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHPm0hsSNFo

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