Thread: Al-Qaeda doesn't actually exist, it's just fear-mongering on the part of the American goverment

Al-Qaeda doesnt Exist

There's no such thing as al-Qaeda. It's a fraud perpetrated on the British and American people by the governments to scare us into submission. This is a clip from the excellent three-part BBC documentary "The Power of Nightmares"

Basically, the documentary talks about how America and other countries have been using fear to create phantom enemies and 'evils' since long before the cold war in order to gain public support to drastically change laws, go to war, strip freedoms, and now arrest people going entirely off of ASSUMPTIONS with having ABSOLUTELY NO EVIDENCE. All, to perpetuate this fear and scare the public into believing in an imaginary enemy, so they can then turn around and use that for political gain and power. While some of the threats may have been justified at first, everything is now being blown completely out of proportion, and is totally imaginary. Politicians now believe that, even though we can't see it and there's nothing pointing to it's existence, doesn't mean that it's not there or that we shouldn't be acting as if it doesn't exist. In other words, action without evidence is justified...the Precautionary Principle. Say WHA!? Sounds like some conservative religious people's circular logic for the existence of god.

The problem with this way of thinking is, once you start imagining the worst of what might happen there is no limit to what you can imagine. What if they had access? What if they could effectively deploy it? What if we weren't prepared? What it boils down to is a shift away from the scientific, WHAT IS evidence based decision making, to this speculative imaginary WHAT IF based worst case scenerio.

Here are some facts taken from that three-part documentary:

Of the 664 people arrested under the terrorism acts since Sep. 11..none of them have been convicted of belonging to al Qaeda.

Only 3 people have so far been convicted of having ANY association with any islamist groups, and none of those convictions were for being involved with a terror plot. They were for fund raising, or possessing islamist literature.

Even the 'dirty bomb' threat the media loves talking about isn't as deadly as they hype it up to be. But, good news, is bad media...and bad politics...

All I ask, is for you open your eyes and ears before you go blindly defending America's retarded decision making and foreign policies. Don't get me wrong, I don't hate America. I'm actually from Washington D.C., but I really find all this stupid blind patriotism coming from some ignorant americans quite disturbing and disgusting...Stay informed...not ignorant...