2012: ‘The Year of the Scare’

Judi McLeod

2012 is about to come hurtling into our lives.  If the coming New Year could be defined, before even being played out, it would be called ‘The Year of the Scare’.

With a myriad of sources vying to capture the attention of everyday people, it will get very difficult sorting out what is true and what is false.

Stories about government watch lists will join warnings about coming communication blackouts, the death of the worldwide web, the return of the plague, contagious influenza with the power to kill off world populations, bloody revolutions on the street imposed by shady powers behind the well funded, media darling Occupy Wall Street (OWS) Movement.

By the time a modern day Samuel Pepys happens along to make sense of it all, events will have frightened some people from coming out of their homes.

People are being deliberately kept on the edge.  People kept on the edge are not as productive as they would be on an even playing field.

Seeping already into the ongoing exchange of ideas is a strong sense of embitterment that can be seen on website comment sections, and one steadily making enemies of longtime friends.

Political arguments are gathering heat and screaming matches are replacing what were once only political disagreements.

Over the months leading up to Election Year, a not so subtle shift has taken place.

Thanks to the embittered Clintons, carping Hollywood stars and all those ready to blame their personal life failures on anyone else, the Enemy of the State was George Bush, who political replacement Barack Obama has done a stellar job keeping blame on for the steady decline of the United States of America.

But blaming Bush is only an astroturfed political convenience.  The biggest and most dangerous shift that has come into the public arena is the one that lets off the hook the first and only president who has publicly promised the fundamental Transformation of America.

How does this shift survive in the light of day?

How did it happen that more heated opinion and embitterment follow presidential candidates than the man under whose watch the economy failed, the free market was effectively suppressed and where jobs disappeared into a sink hole and still disappear daily?

As challenging 2012 unfolds to November 6, people will be hard pressed to escape Obama and the Czars many coming Friday “fright nights”.

Much of what is coming for patriots will be based on fear mongering.  Most of what the power-hungry government sends out is based on the strategy of wanting you to thinkwhat hey are going to do.

The Government wants you to think it, worry it and sweat it.

They are shutting down the Internet?

Nobody needs the Internet more than the government in Election Year.

They are now stocking FEMA camps in which to herd people?  The only sensible answer for that is: “We’re not going anywhere”.

OWS activists are sending out their version of ‘Survival for Dummies‘ because they are predicting bloodshed on the streets?

The Rule of Law prevents it.

A virulent new flu strain is going to wipe out the entire population?

The United Nations has come up with several influenza scares since Obama took office.

With the mainstream media now dancing along the same party trail as some of the major conspiracy theorists, how to distinguish between truth and propaganda?

Apply the beloved Ronald Reagan’s lifelong rule of thumb: “Trust, but verify”.

The world unfolds now as it has through many other dark and trying eras.

Survival does not come from Czars or OWS.  Survival is for those who believe in themselves and mostly from a belief that has never faded over time: “In God we trust.”