scare tactic

In this newly redefined twenty-first century America, fear has become the main oppressor of freedom. We have an all-out-war against the evils that might contaminate our way of life, spreading the seed of fear through all its citizens. Our system tells us how scared we should be from the outside world by creating an alarmist scale in which color represents the terror alert. Slowly but surely, our freedom is being plucked away, leaving us wondering how democracy will be defined in the future. Big Brother is watching, people are hypnotized by the media, and those who question authority could be labeled as terrorists. Is that a scary thought or am I just being paranoid?
Who does the world really view as terrorists to begin with? I believe the answer to that would be Americans. We are the ones that bombed Hiroshima, we are the ones that lie in order to wage war, we are the ones that hide our true intentions in the name of the democracy. So why do we fear this unseen enemy we call terrorists? Simple, we don’t. They just wants us to believe we are at constant danger so the common people could be easily manipulated into the agendas of those in power. What better weapon of control than to feed fear by the spoonful to a country obsessed not by what is affecting their lives, but by the nimrods that illuminate their television sets at night. Fear plus distraction from what really matters equals less freedom for the common man, simple equation.