Excerpts from a comment by Keith Olbermann on MSNBC. Do read the full story…
Tonight, a special comment on the advertising of terrorism – the commercial you have already seen.
It shows images of Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri;
It offers quotes from them—all as a clock ticks ominously in the background.
It concludes with what Zawahiri may or may not have said to a Pakistani journalist as long ago as 2001: His dubious claim that he had purchased “suitcase bombs.” The quotation is followed (by sheer coincidence no doubt) by an image of a massive explosion.
“These are the stakes,” appears on the screen, quoting exactly from Lyndon Johnson’s infamous nuclear scare commercial from 1964.
“To fill or overpower with terror; terrify. To coerce by intimidation or fear.”
By this definition, the people who put these videos together—first the terrorists and then the administration—whose shared goal is to scare you into panicking instead of thinking—they are the ones terrorizing you.
Eleven Presidents ago, a chief executive reassured us that “we have nothing to fear but fear itself.”
His distant successor has wasted his administration insisting that there is nothing we can have but fear itself.
Full story at https://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15392701/
Ka pawm ve zawng tak a ni. The US Govt just scares everyone so that they can get everything done their way.
And you can read his comments on the signing of the Military Commissions Act at https://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15321167/
We have been here when President John Adams insisted that the Alien and Sedition Acts were necessary to save American lives, only to watch him use those acts to jail newspaper editors.
American newspaper editors, in American jails, for things they wrote about America.
We have been here when President Woodrow Wilson insisted that the Espionage Act was necessary to save American lives, only to watch him use that Act to prosecute 2,000 Americans, especially those he disparaged as “Hyphenated Americans,” most of whom were guilty only of advocating peace in a time of war.
American public speakers, in American jails, for things they said about America.
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June 20th, 2011 at 11:16 pm
First…!! Ve teh mial
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June 20th, 2011 at 11:28 pm
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June 20th, 2011 at 11:48 pm
Kum 5 dawn comment-tu a lo nghak a ni maw? A lo va riang em! Ka han 3rd ve hram ang e
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