Snowdon is a dummy

True, but the way things are going in Europe you will all be eligible for citizenship in Russia whether you want too or not.

Speak for your self. The correct response is I have the government I want.

Fear seems to dominate many people's perception even though there have been very little terrorist violence in the US.

Russia demands Internet users show ID to access public Wifi

Was that directed at me?

I keep my identity secret, with good reason, I've got children and their safety is paramount.

Do you think the BBC documentary is provocative? It's meticulously researched and highly academic. Personally I think it should be compulsory viewing. It makes a change from the reactionary bullshit a lot of people are told is fact.

To misquote Orwell some people's speech is freer than others. If you use your free speech to do something other than whistle Yankee Doodle Dandy, God help you.

I think you're right, the muckrakers have done more to protect freedom than the flagwavers who tell us to be more trusting and less critical.

No amount of Frank's platitudes will convince me that the United States Government in general and the CIA specifically, is benign. There's too much evidence to the contrary.

The Power of Nightmares, subtitled The Rise of the Politics of Fear, is a BBC documentary film series, written and produced by Adam Curtis. Its three one-hour parts consist mostly of a montage of archive footage with Curtis's narration. The series was first broadcast in the United Kingdom in late 2004 and has subsequently been broadcast in multiple countries and shown in several film festivals, including the 2005 Cannes Film Festival.

The films compare the rise of the Neo-Conservative movement in the United States and the radical Islamist movement, making comparisons on their origins and claiming similarities between the two. More controversially, it argues that the threat of radical Islamism as a massive, sinister organised force of destruction, specifically in the form of al-Qaeda, is a myth perpetrated by politicians in many countries—and particularly American Neo-Conservatives—in an attempt to unite and inspire their people following the failure of earlier, more utopian ideologies.

The Power of Nightmares has been praised by film critics in both Britain and the United States. Its message and content have also been the subject of various critiques and criticisms from conservatives and progressives.

We have the government we want, ci. We have the government we demand!