Former MI5 officer: Easy to persuade fearful people to give up hard-won liberties

[DeSwiss]

RT ·Published on Dec 18, 2013

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- This is the reason they keep killing babies and women. Why wedding parties are ''mistakenly'' droned. What better way to assure a continuing supply of ''threats'' to democracy. They're doing it for the economy.....

[Ace Acme]

1. Indeed. Atrocities provide job security

... for the Military-Industrial-Congressional-Security-Media-Lobbyist complex.

[iandhr]

2. I think its ironic...

...that RT (the mouth peace of the Kremlin) is talking about "hard-won liberties"

[JDPriestly]

4. It isn't RT. It is a former member of British intelligence.

RT is just interviewing her. RT is like other stations. They interview people and get their opinions.

[JDPriestly]

3. When I think of the risks my ancestors took when they crossed the Atlantic to come to the US,

when I think of the risks they took in settling and starting families in uncharted wilderness areas of the US, when I think of the many women who became pregnant in lonely farmhouses and log cabins in the prairies in spite of the high risk of death in childbirth, I am horrified at the fear of Americans living in cities with helicoptered machine-gunned police forces to fight off the bad guys should any appear.

I wonder if our vulnerability to fear itself is some sort of memory of the fear of our ancestors. It sounds like a crazy theory, but compared to the fear that the early Americans rightfully knew, how can we claim to be afraid. Terrorists? Personally, I think we can take care of them very well. Americans are intelligent, resourceful, creative, tough, strong and resilient. At least, the Americans in my family are.