99% of the media indignation against terrorism is synthetic.
It feeds off the very real sympathy which parents feel when they imagine their own children being the victims.
A similar percentage of the hysteria in the United States (and to a lesser extent in the UK) is intended to create an atmosphere of fear in which civil liberty can be destroyed. "It is necessary to destroy liberty in order to save it."
It consciously creates fear in the population so that torture by the state and imprisonment without trial will be accepted.
You might like to think about how torturing people until they confess to terrorism, imprisoning people as a consequence of such confessions or declaring war on states which are demonstrably not concerned with the terrorist attacks could possibly possibly prevent such outrages from taking place.....they haven't worked so far.
Posted by derekmcmillan
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