Sharks ‘n Terrorists Gonna Kill Us! — Fraidy Cats — Orwellian Government — and D-Day Beaches

© 2015 Peter Free

 

07 July 2015

 

 

Idiotically scared of everything

 

Lt. Colonel (retired) William Astore said:

 

 

Consider the lead stories over the July 4th weekend.

 

The first was the threat of terror attacks against America.  We were told that law enforcement officials were “in no mood for a national party” — that the threat of an ISIS-inspired terror attack was real.

 

That no attack occurred is of no consequence.

 

The second story was shark attacks off the Carolina coast.  Unusual, yes, but hardly a threat to America or to the vast majority of its people, even those who chose to go swimming in the ocean.  “Shark surge!”  “Fear at the beach!”  “High alert!”

 

Of course, Americans were much more likely to be hurt in fireworks accidents than by terrorists or sharks, but the sensational always takes precedence over the mundane in our media.

 

Indeed, if the goal was to safeguard ordinary Americans, we should have been told to stay off the roads this past weekend, but of course that would hurt tourism and the economy, so you weren’t about to hear that advice coming from America’s talking heads.

 

It seems nearly impossible to remember that one of FDR’s Four Freedoms was the freedom from fear.

 

A media that spreads fear facilitates a government of wolves.

 

© 2015 W. J. Astore, The Media Is the Message, and the Message Is One of Fear, The Contrary Perspective (06 July 2015) (extracts)

 

 

A recent visit to Normandy’s D-Day beaches persuaded me that 1944 folk were not much like us

 

They would be ashamed of the fear-inspiring nonsense that American Government and its fawning media incessantly parrot. The United States has become a mewling culture of fraidy cats.

 

 

The moral? — Fear evaporates liberty

 

We cower in shadows and send the Military One Percent to engage dream-concocted enemies, who unfortunately also have teeth. We arguably lose some of our best, while avariciously fulfilling our worst.

 

Every time we hear the call to be afraid, we ought to rebel against it as a matter of fundamental American principle.