Another WAR in preparation!

Over the past several years, it has become obvious to me that,
while watching television that is supported by commercials, a
new twist on commercials was taking shape. Products started being
sold by generating fear and doubt, in you, the consumer, if you
do not purchase a particular product. FEAR and DOUBT.
FEAR. DOUBT.
(That's because you, Mr. Public Man, are stupid. You don't know
Jack about anything. YOU have no control over your life. YOU
are a dumb machine that needs to be told what to do and when
to do it by the more knowledgable flipping the proper switch!)

Products are rarely being sold now on the merits of the product
itself. The shift is to you and how horrible your life will be
without this product. You will lose friends, you will not
succeed in your endeavors, you will not be happy, you may even
die because you do not own this product. Often subtly are you
told these things, but usually with a sledge-hammer.

Fear and doubt in oneself leads to aggression. Its' progress is
steady. The seed is planted into one's belief system. One begins
to notice every little event that supports and nourishes the seed.
One begins to see monsters everywhere. (The seed sprouts and grows.)
"I must do THIS because if I don't, THIS 'may' happen, and I don't
want that to happen. Everyone is against me (the individual
consumer). They are trying to box me in. There is no escape. In
order to break out of and away from this attack, I must fight,
all of them, or someone, maybe you."
(Ah-h-h-h. Goal attained. Fear instilled. Subject ready to go
to war.)

Our president is like a shaft of wheat in an open field. The
shaft bends with whatever wind is blowing its way. Only a few
years ago, the President was slashing money left and right from
any program with a hint of 'altruism' attached to it. Any
program aimed at helping people through, over and out of hard
times. To hell with the needy, we must 'balance the budget.'

Today, the wind is blowing in the opposite direction and the
President has decided that the 'threat' of a 'possible' world-
wide epidemic (like AIDS, maybe?) of a strain of bird-flu
'could' become a 'threat' to humans. The President
has therefore "seen the light" and alloted 7.1 billion dollars ($7,000,000,000.00+) to fight that which does not exist!
IT IS NOW TIME TO GO TO WAR... WITH A VIRUS!
We haven't accomplished his goal in Iraq yet, but forget that,
this war is more important.
To hell with the budget, we must help the 'needy' survive the
coming epidemic.

And here are the unsubstantiated 'fear-factors' plucked from
current news reports (plant the seeds and watch them grow!):

"panicked citizens"
"jittery public" that "Bush sought to reassure" [hm-m-m, I wonder if
we could read this as 'jittery reporters in a news conference?']
"concern is growing"
"could trigger,"
"early warning systems"
"international preparations"
"stockpiled"
"A call for Congress to..."
"Clearly this is the No. 1 public health issue on the radar screen," said Michael Osterholm of the University of Minnesota, who advises the government on infectious disease threats." [Do you think that the fox is really going to tell you how to keep him out of the hen-house?]
"prepare for a flood of panicked patients."
"Bush's strategy"

These are PREPARATIONS FOR WAR!

Ironically, the world wasn't ready for Barry Goldwater because
the media reported that 'the public considered him a war-monger.'
(Was it really the public, do you think?)
And now we have a President that wants to go to war with
anything that moves and at the drop of a ball-point pen.
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Men who send other men to war are afraid, scared, fearful.
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Following the dollar, a contract(s) will be awarded in order to
spend:

"_$1.2 billion to stockpile enough vaccine against the current H5N1 flu strain
to protect 20 million Americans, the estimated number of health workers and
other first responders involved in a pandemic. If a similar bird flu causes a
pandemic, the shots should provide some protection [for health workers] while better-matched versions
are manufactured.

_$1 billion for the drugs Tamiflu and Relenza, which can treat and, in some cases, prevent flu infection. Enough to treat 44 million people and prevent infection in 6 million others is headed for the federal stockpile. States were told to buy 31 million treatment courses, but Bush is funding only a quarter of their anticipated bill.

_$251 million for international preparations, including improving early warning
systems to spot novel flu strains before they reach the U.S.

_$100 million for state preparations, including determining how to deliver stockpiled
medicines directly to patients.

_$56 million to test poultry and wild birds for H5N1 or other new flu strains entering
the U.S. bird population.

_A call for Congress to provide liability protection for makers of a pandemic vaccine, which unlike shots against the regular winter flu would be experimental, largely untested."

(emphasis' mine)

And that contract will be awarded to which company that has ties to what
low-light-level public figure in the White House? (i.e., check past officers of the company to which the contract(s) are awarded and also current holders of substantial stocks in that/those company(s)-see emphisis' above.)

Where-oh-where is the public now?