{"id":18578,"date":"2010-11-13T13:44:33","date_gmt":"2010-11-13T18:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=18578"},"modified":"2010-11-13T13:44:33","modified_gmt":"2010-11-13T18:44:33","slug":"government-of-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/11\/13\/government-of-fear\/","title":{"rendered":"Government by Fear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KIza1amabkA<\/p>\n<p><em>This ridiculous artifact is so not-Canadian that it would be laughably dismissible except for the very real intimidation tactics it reveals.\u00a0 The message to Canadians in this and a whole string of other commercials is fear, fear, fear and still more fear.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Anyone living in Canada will know that the Harper government has deployed a battery of government funded television ads to tenderize the public for an upcoming election.\u00a0 The ads have an unmistakable common theme: national emergency preparedness, kids taking drugs, elder abuse, victims&#8217; rights &#8212; and, of course, bringing it all together, the military interception of a ship whose cargo is drugs: drugs that would otherwise be fed to our children and escalate crime (including attacks upon the elderly) to national emergency levels.<\/p>\n<p>This not-so-subliminal advertising is particularly distasteful coming from a government that set the stage for <a href=\"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/2010\/11\/13\/thugocracy\/\" target=\"_blank\">unprovoked police violence<\/a> against its own citizens last June.<\/p>\n<p>It isn&#8217;t that the issues represented in these ads are not important &#8212; they most certainly are &#8212; but they are exaggerated, de-contextualized, and unrelenting.\u00a0 They represent the only message this government wishes to relay to the public it is supposed to serve.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s ugly.\u00a0 And it&#8217;s an abuse of the public trust to use tax dollars to promote propaganda calculated to demoralize citizens rather than enlighten them.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the whole lot.\u00a0 Imagine being subjected to them around the clock every day.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kR7jafdUvi4<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Is Your Family Prepared?&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=90rw7_6cUDE<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Anti-Drug Strategy&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OP0sZB9jRlA<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Senior Abuse&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jmYd1b_Nh10<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Victims Matter&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KIza1amabkA This ridiculous artifact is so not-Canadian that it would be laughably dismissible except for the very real intimidation tactics it reveals.\u00a0 The message to Canadians in this and a whole string of other commercials is fear, fear, fear and still more fear. 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