tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19717539.post6964644888605379859..comments2024-03-29T07:19:33.505+00:00Comments on The Diary of a Geek in Oxfordshire: Bogeyman Bin GoldsteinDungeekinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09181585428709956991noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19717539.post-19288431745879176182009-11-30T12:39:53.584+00:002009-11-30T12:39:53.584+00:00The frightened elite (frightened of losing their p...The frightened elite (frightened of losing their power & position) need a bogeyman to keep us in order.<br /><br />This was excellently put by Adam Curtis in "The Power of Nightmares - The Rise of the Politics of Fear" in 2004.<br /><br />Admittedly it's NTSC, but a DVDDisk image is available foc from http://www.archive.org/details/ThePowerOfNightmaresDVD.<br /><br />If you didn't see it 5 yrs ago, watch it now. It's validity increases as time moves on...Ted Treenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03392121240286596231noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19717539.post-87447086042392498362009-11-30T09:17:42.649+00:002009-11-30T09:17:42.649+00:00The bogeyman is, of course, a corruption of Napole...The bogeyman is, of course, a corruption of Napoleon bonapart.<br />I have news for Mr Brown.<br />I am not scared of Osama Bin Laden nor international terrorism; neither am I scared of swine flu, nor the 'financial crisis' that he keeps trying to make worse; nor striking postmen or the threats of such by useless overpaid public servants. Let them strike, <b> that</b> would save a few quid and might give the disaffected Police a chance to give the teachers and social workers a good kicking, just like the miners got.<br /><br />So what other excuses will he come out with to justify his increasing socialist totalitarianism ?bannedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02406037760273820029noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19717539.post-82766564968833584632009-11-29T21:04:21.790+00:002009-11-29T21:04:21.790+00:00But we did create him,,,,But we did create him,,,,Simon Cookehttp://theviewfromcullingworth.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com