fear factor

After watching V for Vendetta again for the first time in a long time, I was struck by the grim realities of its proximate foreshadowing. “Fear” is a definitive word in American culture, a word pulsing subtly in the media, the minds, and homes of everyday people. I’ve begun to understand that fear doesn’t have to equate to its extreme definition of conscious awareness of immediate harm. Fear comes in different shapes and forms and in various degrees of intensity. The 20th century experienced a half a century worth of sterilization of over 60,000 “mentally ill” people to help eliminate crime. For some reason America thought this was a solution to the increasing crime rate, and their fear drove them to make a horribly drastic preventative (although I believe it to be a pathetic preventative at that). In America today, I conjecture that our most prized possession is our health. Nothing can be more blatantly obvious due to billions of dollars being used for diet programs. Anything not labeled “natural” is almost abhorred as being detrimental to our health. The rise in various diseases pressures man to point blame at anything capable of suggesting bad health. I see propaganda that says “second hand smoking kills” and I’m having a hard time finding anything that PROVES a child was lost to second hand smoking. Now the big enemy is Trans fats! Instead of individuals choosing to limit foods with trans fat, the people of New York gave the government the power to OUTLAW trans fats! Does this not bother anyone? The government is now telling us what to eat!! We are infected with fear (mostly unaware). For the sake of “security” (if I can even call outlawing trans fat much of a secure law), votes placed power in the governments hand to outlaw a certain food (hmmm, McDonald’s fries).
In V for Vendetta, “real” butter was outlawed because it was unhealthy. Solution? Power was passed on to the government. Now California is facing having the government tell people how to raise their children. Anyone recall a woman crying out to have a law passed for people to not spank their children? Psychologists are afraid that spanking will “damage the psyche” of the child. WHAT?!
Fear gives power to the hungry. Is the “global warming” issue really a “moral” issue, as Al Gore put it? First off, any “smart” politician recognizes the last presidential election was won over “moral” issues. Gore recognizes this and labels global warming a “moral” issue. Tell me, Mr. Gore, what is really a moral issue here: Tens of thousands of children dying every year due to starvation, or the ONE “INTERPRETATION” you choose to believe that equates to “global warming”?
Global warming is an issue of power, not morality. The person who gets elected for his agenda to “cure” supposed “global warming” will be placing massive power in his hands. Industries will have to comply with “global” friendly regulations and civilians will eventually have to get rid of their cars after 50,000 miles. Every company, building going under construction, and national park will have to yield to the laws being passed by the “Global Warming Committee” (or whatever they might call themselves). Misleading facts have been so implanted in our minds, we actually succumb to thinking global warming is a real threat (notice there are TWO sides to the debate for reasons we usually ignore), thus out of fear we give up some of our freedom for “security”. Security always comes at a price: freedom.
The government needs to stay out of affairs that are none of their business. But it is everyday people like us who are ultimately responsible for the power governments get. Governments are the ones to be afraid of the people, hence why they should serve them.
There is talk in Massachusetts saying that kids should be brought into school at age three to determine (through some psychological analysis) of whether they should be put on Ritalin! Plus there is talk about how kids should be taught in school how homosexuality is okay and that they should accept it. DAMN ANY GOVERNMENT WHO DARES TO EXERCISE SUCH TYRANNICAL LEGISLATION!!! I will raise my child in the way I believe is right, not by some “policy”. I can’t stand by and watch some of these things happen any more. I will do my part as best I can.

My rant and ravings sounds very much like our Founding Fathers who fought against "Tyranny". But we seem to be blind to it in America because it is slowly drifting in our midst, gently turning our heads in the other direction. I can't believe how blind I've been to it.

In the words of V when telling the public who was responsible for the tyranny of the government................“You only have to look in the mirror”.



post script: I LOVE MY WIFE!!!