Imagine this
Terrorism isn’t just bombs and guns, and doesn’t just come from angry foreigners.
Imagine an administration that periodically tells its citizens they should be frightened of random attacks, and even tells them how frightened they should be. “Normally, we tell you to be rather frightened,” they say, “but today, based on new intelligence, you should be very frightened.” And suddenly, everywhere they go, people see heavily armed and armored police and military personnel on the streets. All around, people are wondering: “Will we be attacked today? Will I, or someone I know, be dead come tomorrow morning? Is that man on the street corner plotting my demise?”
Imagine it’s election season and the incumbent leader tells people if they re-elect him, he’ll protect them from this unknown foreign menace, but if they vote for his opponent, he’ll be “weak on defense” and they won’t be protected. Imagine what these people, already very scared because he told them they should be, will feel. “I’m frightened of not being protected,” they think. “In fact — I’m terrified.”
Just imagine.
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And imagine if his opponent really were weak on defense, and was going around promising people he’d solve all the problems by rolling back things to exactly the way they were when all the problems started.
Yes, just imagine.
Imagine there’s no countries,
It isnt hard to do,
Nothing to kill or die for,
No religion too,
Imagine all the people
living life in peace…
““but today, based on new intelligence, you should be very frightened.” ”
While adding, “Go about your daily lives to send a message to the terrorists.”