Oh my fucking gawd, the motherfuckers!!!!

[Control-Z]

I just saw an ad on NBC ABC Family - you know, the ones where you need to talk to your kids about smoking, drugs, drinking, abstinence...but it was talking to your kids about terrorist attacks!

I just caught the end. Looked up and saw little kids with big eyes - the narrator asking parents, "What will you do to protect your children....? How will you keep them safe?" They gave a .gov address to get suggestions for "making a plan".

Sorry, I couldn't rewind to get the URL - I was already on a 2 hour delay.

And there was the big Homeland Security Sig at the end.

This is soooo fucked up.

Edit: to change the station that aired it. It was ABC Family.

[Hissyspit]

1. Duck and cover!

And kiss your ass goodbye.

[TahitiNut]

17. "Bert the Turtle" Lieberman - nearly 60 years of "Duck & Cover" service to his barnyard nation.

[uppityperson]

22. Great minds think alike.

[BeHereNow]

2. Insanely EVIL...

Talking about terror attacks with your kids-

More important to talk to your kids about who is behind
pushing terror and these "talk" promos.

The powers that be are completely out of control.
Can I get a witness?

BHN

[Control-Z]

6. Nothing like using children

when the adults stop buying the lie.

[LSparkle]

7. "They want to kill your CHILDREN, David ... "

Right from the mouth of the beast, the most filthy kind of fear-mongering.

[zbird]

3. I think it's www.ready.gov

I've seen that commercial too. Let's make sure the little ones are good and scared!

[Control-Z]

23. From the kid's fun page -

'Terrorism is the use of threat or violence to scare governments into changing their policies. A terrorist can be an individual or a member of an organization. The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, are examples of acts of terrorism.

The word "terrorism" first appeared in France (terrorisme) in 1795.

Talk to your parents or teachers if you have questions about this type of emergency.'

Unbelievable!

[fightthegoodfightnow]

4. Remember the Civil Defense Drills in the 60s when Kids

.......got under their desks to insure their safety from a nuclear bomb.

This soooo much reminds me of that.

[wildbilln864]

18. Yes I know...It makes me think of Lewis Black's....

line about how they would tell the children to hide under wooden desks as if that would protect them from a nuclear inferno! It's so rediculous! It would be funny, but this is our government! :shrug:

[fightthegoodfightnow]

20. And We Know how Ridiculous Our Government Is!!!!

Shame on ABC

[EFerrari]

21. That protective layer of old gum kept us safe!

:rofl:

[formercia]

45. I remember that

Early fifties. They were random surprise drills. If you didn't see the flash, you knew it was a practice drill. Mind-fucking millions of kids.

I also remember being a Guinea Pig in the Polio trials. We had the injectable version. I'm glad it worked.
I bet Herr Doktor Mengele was smiling.

[Feral Libertarian]

54. Yep, I remember them

..... and even then I knew that sitting in the basement of the school, "assuming the position" that this was a bunch of bullshit.

But my parents weren't cowards then either, so I don't know how this might effect kids today when they go home to a pair of cowards for parents.

[spanone]

5. You may note they call it 'The Homeland'. Remind you of anything?

[Control-Z]

9. Indeed, it does.

They're really grasping.

[aquart]

12. Yah. Mein Herr.

[XemaSab]

25. "Patriot" is from "patria":

The Fatherland.

[defendandprotect]

40. Check out Chertoff/Homeland Security FEARMONGERING ---

July 10th, 2007


Chertoff should be fired
By: John Amato @ 7:20 PM - PDT Remember when Chertoff blamed the media for his failing during Hurricane Katrina?

Download (360) | Play (278) Download (281) | Play (159) (small file)

What gives Chertoff the right to tell the country that he has a “gut” feeling that we’re going to be hit with a terrorist attack this summer?

“Summertime seems to be appealing to them,” he said of al-Qaeda. “We do worry that they are rebuilding their activities.”

Still, Chertoff said there are not enough indications of an imminent plot to raise the current threat levels nationwide. And he indicated that his remarks were based on “a gut feeling” formed by past seasonal patterns of terrorist attacks, recent al-Qaeda statements, and intelligence he did not disclose. There is an assessment “not of a specific threat, but of increased vulnerability,” he added.

http://www.crooksandliars.com/

[demnan]

8. I grew up during the Cold War and after close to DC

My brother got ahold of a poster about nuclear attack it showed a guy hiding under a school desk kissing his ass goodbye.

[Control-Z]

16. As I recall,

there was at least a possibility of attack. We had ours pointed at them. They had theirs pointed at us.

This - is child abuse - not protection. Of course, I was pretty young during the drop and duck days - so maybe it was abuse then as well.

Edit: I was really young. It was "duck and cover" not "drop and duck".

[Canuckistanian]

34. From an old saying

"Put your head between your knees and kiss your ass goodbye ..."

I used to see it everywhere when I was a kid. On gag ashtrays, wall plaques and joke books.

People actually thought it was funny.

[Az]

10. Whats so surprising about that?

Have you seen most advertising on these days? You are either being sold sex or being threatened with death if you don't purchase the product. And threatening your children is the new high order means by which they scare you into buying their products.

[Control-Z]

13. It's all pretty bad

but this one is criminal.

Fuck these dirt bags for messing with my kids.

[Madspirit]

11. Makes me sick...n/t

[Control-Z]

55. Just when you think they've

stooped as low as they can...

[burythehatchet]

14. duck and cover, hide under your desk

[FloridaJudy]

43. And buy lots of duct tape. And plastic sheeting.

How the hell duct tape and plastic sheeting are supposed to protect you from biohazards and chemical weapons is beyond me. You're going to have to leave that cocoon to breathe eventually.

Maybe a racal suit would be more practical, but I haven't seen those on E-Bay. Hmmm, maybe I shouldn't give the kind of jerks who profit off the terra, terra, terra meme any ideas.

[Initech]

15. Bush = Stalin

If you're talking terms of insane propaganda, that is.

[bdamomma]

19. it is all about control, something that comes out of Goebbels

handbook, keep the masses in fear, fuck that and fuck them. And damn them for using ourchildren for their propaganda.

[XemaSab]

24. ready.gov

:popcorn:

[MorningGlow]

26. I can't even stomach the radio ads

On our Air America affiliate, no less--Ready.gov again, asking "if there were a disaster, would your family know where to meet?" and adults and children answer the question. "We'd meet at the park", "We'd go to our neighbor's house", etc. Every time I hear that I just cringe. Fear! Fear! Be very afraid all the time! Booga booga!
:eyes: :eyes: :eyes: :puke:

[AwakeAtLast]

27. Off to the GP with you!

Not just so I can see that title there (:rofl:) but because I totally agree with you!

[Control-Z]

41. And that was the cleaned up version. (Heehee)

I was afraid it would get deleted - or worse, if I didn't sugar coat it.

[undercutter2006]

28. Like I said before

Terrorism is not a fucking threat to me. If you look at the damage they have done to our country (not phsycological - just strictly material) it's miniscule. It's all in people's heads. If a fucking asshole decides to drive a car into airport to unsuccessfully blow it up once every three years, and burns himself in the process, why should that be the main reason for structuring our foreign policy? this is so stupid

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

29. I'd be grateful if you could get a hold of that, especially if there is a HS tag.

I am generating a collection of the propaganda by this administration and would especially appreciate a reference to this piece.

I'm hoping to talk MM into doing a piece on the propaganda utilized AGAINST our fellow citizens, some day.

[Control-Z]

39. I've set my TIVO to record tonight

but it may not play again until "children's hour" tomorrow. (After all, they've geared it to frighten our children - the fuckers.)

I'll record again tomorrow if it doesn't play tonight. I want to see the whole ad from beginning to end.
I can't believe they're getting away with this.

[SoCalDem]

48. I've seen it too.. The litle kid says "No one told ME what to do"

or something like that :grr:

[Control-Z]

50. Did it chill you to the bones,

like it did me? Not out of fear of terrorists, but of what this administration is planning and what they are willing to do to carry out their plans?

[SoCalDem]

51. We'll see the effects later, I'm sure.

Imagine all the things that kids are afraid of these days..

[Control-Z]

52. I have 3

And when I think about how the world must look from their perspective, sometimes I actually break down and cry. I was supposed to give them better than what I had.

[salinen]

30. Using the oldest play in the book

religion does it nonstop to kids.

[Control-Z]

56. I had hoped

we'd have grown in our wisdom. Children are supposed to be sacred.

[The Gunslinger]

31. Thats why we have to bomb Iran Johnny

The bad terror muslems live there.

[bonito]

32. Check out this link

http://www.thefamousquotations.com/subjects/fear-quotations.htm

[Control-Z]

37. Great link

This says it all:

'No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.' Edmund Burke


I'll be curious to see what more they've added a few months from now.

[Control-Z]

38. Dupe

[babylonsister]

33. You're right; very fucked up. It'd be really interesting to know who sponsored

that 'helpful' info.
Is that what Chertoff was doing with the adults tonight, terrorizing us with his 'dreams'? Ugh.

[CTD]

35. Yet another reason to turn of the TV permanently.

We still have a TV, but it's hardly ever on. Kids can't get subjected to propaganda, whether it's from the government or just fast food or cola companies, if the TV is off.

I agree this is evil. But for once, you have the power to make it go away. Turn off the TV. Permanently.

[and-justice-for-all]

36. We all know this fearmongering is bullshit....nt

[undergroundpanther]

42. They started this

Fear &protect your children tripe when the tapes of dogs being gassed was put on air long ago.They have since than gradually cranked up the fear..
http://archives.cnn.com/2002/US/08/19/terror.tape.chemical/index.html
http://upits.pitas.com/082302.html

[StarryNite]

44. They have started ramping up the fear

again. I shudder to think what they are planning.

[Scriptor Ignotus]

46. actually I live in NYC

and I think there haven't been ENOUGH public service announcements about what to do in case of another attack.

If we get hit again, there will be the same mass panic as during 9/11. No one will know what to do, where to go, etc. I think most New Yorkers will be able to fend for themselves, but it'd be nice if we knew about some formal disaster plan in case of another blackout, explosion, Godzilla, etc.

People just aren't going to go look for this information on their own. I would agree that this info can be presented to the public without the "fear" card though...

[Control-Z]

49. If they had a plan

and any real desire to implement it, they would present it to the adults, in any number of ways, other than through our children. They are leaving our children in charge of the planning - in the hope of regaining some of that good old fashioned, healthy controlling emotion, fear.

[deaniac21]

57. But we were hit by our own government on 9/11.

[Scriptor Ignotus]

58. i thought it was 19 Islamic extremists

have I been mistaken this whole time?

[Control-Z]

59. Sorry to break it to you this way

Oh, wait. It was deaniac21 who let the cat out of the bag.

[The Stranger]

62. "If we get hit again . . . "

Given what has happened these past years, that is an amazing phrase.

[Control-Z]

47. The security chief has a gut feeling, after all.

Got to back that with an ad to "legitimize" and "help us", the ignorant, to understand his fears for murica.

Impressive plan to frighten, foresight and concern, eh?

[seabeyond]

53. it is my job to take care of you.... keep you safe, not yours to worry

i have been telling the kids this since about 4 yrs old due to preschool putting fear in my babies about being kidnapped, drugs, abuse, terrorism and all the many other things our pc buddies like to feed our very young in the attempt to keep our babies safe.

this is not new. it is not just terrorism. and i wish all our educated would understand how we do this so many ways with our young, at their expense to appease us adults in our own fear.

i have found no need to put the fear of god in my children to keep them safe. at age appropriate times they received the supervision from me to keep them safe.

my job

and having at their young age making it clear these were not their concerns, i have children 12 and 9 that can look at the horrors of this world and allow fear to sit in proper perspective..... ergo more balanced and honest about the reality of worold, without having hopelessness or unreasonable fear

[jeffrey_X]

60. where is the commercial about what to do about school shootings?

those are more prevalent, right?

[The Stranger]

61. BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU.

[AnnInLa]

63. Don't you think it is telling that it was on ABC Family network,

and not on CNN, MSNBC, ABC, NBC or CBS? ABC Family is bland, vanilla, family-values programming. That's where alot of the morans hang out, I'm sure (altho I have watched some of their movies, lol!)

[Control-Z]

64. Quite telling

My daughter (13 yo) loves the reruns of Sabrina (teenage witch) and Gillmore Girls and is exactly why it has pissed me off as much as it has. Not so much for my kids - they are politically a bit more savvy than the average kid - but think of all the innocents being brainwashed while mommy cooks dinner.