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come on...
[edit]: apparently, the metaphor and my usual diatribe stylings made it difficult to tell: I'm commenting upon the recent attempt to use scaremongering to promote a political party by saying "our lot makes you safer from terrorists". Despite taking us to war.
Seriously, though: If you were a schoolkid again, and a medium-popular kid with a new job as hall monitor and reputation for being quite the liar, came up to you and started waving his hands and jabbering excitedly about how you were likely to get beaten up on the way home by some new and terrible bully on the block, what would you think?
Wouldn't you find it suspicious and convenient that this bully showed up the same time as the righteous hall monitor whos job was made safer by the presence of this threat?
Wouldn't you want some proof this bully even existed?
Wouldn't you want to hear why, if he did exist outside of the fevered imagination of the hall monitor, the bully would picky YOU, personally, above others to attack?
Wouldn't you be fucking angry and turn round and beat down upon this hall monitor, this self-interested scaremonger and gossip, when you discovered that if the bully exists, the reason he would pick on you in particular was because some toffy-nosed prick had been showing off, threatening and bullying other kids and giving out your name? Claiming he was doing it with the mandate of your school?
Would you listen to him?
Or would you beat the living shit out of him?
Seriously, though: If you were a schoolkid again, and a medium-popular kid with a new job as hall monitor and reputation for being quite the liar, came up to you and started waving his hands and jabbering excitedly about how you were likely to get beaten up on the way home by some new and terrible bully on the block, what would you think?
Wouldn't you find it suspicious and convenient that this bully showed up the same time as the righteous hall monitor whos job was made safer by the presence of this threat?
Wouldn't you want some proof this bully even existed?
Wouldn't you want to hear why, if he did exist outside of the fevered imagination of the hall monitor, the bully would picky YOU, personally, above others to attack?
Wouldn't you be fucking angry and turn round and beat down upon this hall monitor, this self-interested scaremonger and gossip, when you discovered that if the bully exists, the reason he would pick on you in particular was because some toffy-nosed prick had been showing off, threatening and bullying other kids and giving out your name? Claiming he was doing it with the mandate of your school?
Would you listen to him?
Or would you beat the living shit out of him?
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I was referring to the climate of terror issue in the news at the moment, and referred to in my previous post.