Showing posts with label fear. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fear. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Donald Trump's 4 Days Of Hate Convention Opens In Cleveland

America's Nationalist party (Republicans) opened their presidential nominating convention in Cleveland Ohio today.  Chaos ensued when the never Trump faction of the party demanded a roll call vote which would have, if successful unbound the delegates allowing them to vote for any candidate of their choice.  Ken Cuccinelli former Attorney General of Virginia  who while serving in that post sought to disenfranchise voters and make abortion illegal led the charge.

After quashing his insurgency a parade of speakers followed a theme that would be recognised by any nationalist. Blame the others: Crime blame minorities, terrorism blame muslims and those refugees from Syria and Iraq who were granted the right to resettle in America, accuse liberals of fostering a war on police,  state without any evidence that  Hillary  Clinton was solely  responsible for the deaths of four Americans at Benghazi in September of 2012 and attributes all the other ills facing America to President Obama.

This is how nationalists operate claim victimhood and accuse the others (those not like them) of being at the root cause of their alleged victimhood.  Nationalists in America see a clear path to solving these problems.   The Immigration Act  of 1924 included the Asian exclusion act which set limits on the number of Japanese that could be admitted into the country the earlier Chinese Exclusion Act was passed for the same purpose.    

Donald Trump playing upon the unfounded fears of older white conservatives as proposed similar policies, with the sole purpose of excluding all muslims instead of those from Asia.


Harking back to 1968 and the campaign of Richard Nixon other speakers sought to portray America as land of the lawless.  Nixon stated that if elected he would return law and order to America.   Who's to blame or who can the nationalists point to and say, this group they caused this slide into lawlessness.  They are? Black Lives Matter. In the nationalists mindset it's these types of organizations stirring up trouble amongst those have been beaten down by the system that must be dealt with.


Donald Trump started this road to nationalism  when he announced his candidacy for President of the United States last year.  


Our country is in serious trouble. We don’t have victories anymore. We used to have victories, but we don’t have them. When was the last time anybody saw us beating, let’s say, China in a trade deal? They kill us. I beat China all the time. All the time.
When did we beat Japan at anything? They send their cars over by the millions, and what do we do? When was the last time you saw a Chevrolet in Tokyo? It doesn’t exist, folks. They beat us all the time.
When do we beat Mexico at the border? They’re laughing at us, at our stupidity. And now they are beating us economically. They are not our friend, believe me. But they’re killing us economically.
The U.S. has become a dumping ground for everybody else’s problems.

















Wednesday, December 10, 2014

It is our indignation, not that of the Arab world, that torturers fear. We are the bad guys too

ROBERT FISK
Wednesday 10 December 2014

The Muslim world has been enraged about these crimes for years

Up to the end, they wanted to keep it secret.
And the vicious psychopaths and sadists that ran the CIA’s torture centres “on our behalf” must be protected, even praised by the Bushies for keeping our civilisation safe. Their lies – to us as well as their victims – were all in the cause of freedom, so let’s have no more talk of Muslims standing on broken feet, bubbling through the mouth after 82 rounds of waterboarding or being fed hummus through the rectum.
And the Republicans and Bushies, sniffing how badly they come out of all this – of course the release of these vile tortures is “ideologically motivated”, just as they claim – now respond with an excuse that almost parallels the weapons-of-mass-destruction-al-Qaeda-links-to-Saddam-Niger-tubes tosh we were fed before we embarked on our slaughter in Iraq 11 years ago. In fact, it’s the same old rubbish they churned out before the obscene Abu Ghraib photos were published. “It will significantly endanger Americans around the world,” the Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell told us.
So we’ve locked up our embassies and put our people on red alert or purple alert or whatever infantile coding suffices to terrorise Americans and their friends, and we’ve concocted the lie – perhaps as poisonous as all the other CIA lies – that the Arab Muslim world will be really, really angry when they learn about the atrocities our chaps committed in the cause of freedom, liberty and the West. That’s what they said about the Abu Ghraib snapshots – these Arab chappies are going to be awfully upset when they see the snapshots of piled human torsos and the guy in the hood strung up with electric wires. And they might be so angry that they might turn violent. Now, it’s the same again with the CIA report.

Wednesday, August 6, 2014

How To Use Ebola To Create Fear-video




Right-wing media are exploiting the recent outbreak of Ebola in West Africa to stoke fears that undocumented immigrants could carry the deadly virus across the southern U.S. border, even though the Centers for Disease Control and other health experts have stated that the likelihood of such an event is "almost nonexistent." Right-Wing Media Hype Fears That Ebola Will Spread Into U.S. Through The Southern Border

Breitbart.com: Individuals From Nations Suffering From Ebola Exploit "Porous" U.S. Border. On August 3, Breitbart.com claimed that it had obtained "a leaked intelligence analysis from the Customs and Border Protection (CBP)" purporting to show that 71 individuals from Ebola-stricken nations had been caught attempting to illegally enter the U.S.:

Among the significant revelations are that individuals from nations currently suffering from the world's largest Ebola outbreak have been caught attempting to sneak across the porous U.S. border into the interior of the United States. At least 71 individuals from the three nations affected by the current Ebola outbreak have either turned themselves in or been caught attempting to illegally enter the U.S. by U.S. authorities between January 2014 and July 2014. [Breitbart.com, 8/3/14]

Infowars.com: "Ebola May Have Already Crossed Border" And "Be Spreading" Across The U.S. On August 4, conspiracy theorist Alex Jones' website Infowars.com pointed to Breitbart.com's CBP report to claim it showed that "Ebola may have already crossed [the] border, hyping fears that "by shipping illegals to various regions of the U.S., the Obama administration could also be spreading Ebola or another deadly disease carried by an illegal immigrant right now across America." [Infowars.com, 8/4/14]

Drudge Report: "Dozens From Ebola-Struck Countries Caught Sneaking Into USA." On August 3, a Drudge Report headline highlighted Breitbart.com's report by linking immigration to the Ebola crisis: [...]

Laura Ingraham: "We Could Have Ebola People Coming Across The Border Right Now," And We Have A "Very Limited Ability" To Prevent The Disease From Spreading. Laura Ingraham, a contributor to both ABC and Fox News, used the Ebola outbreak in West Africa as an excuse to spread fears that Ebola-infected individuals may be illegally crossing into the U.S.:

INGRAHAM: All the people who are upset about the Ebola-infected patients being treated in the United States. I will say this, at least we know who they are and where they're being treated. We currently have a border that is so much like Swiss cheese that anyone could be coming across the border right now, with any type of illness. And, we have a very limited ability to stop them, track them, prevent the disease from spreading. So before you get all upset about Ebola, we could have Ebola people coming across the border right now. [Courtside Entertainment Group, The Laura Ingraham Show, 8/4/14]

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