When people start to link fears of being under surveillance, with fears about current events, and personal anecdotes and incidents they find troubling, the issue is no longer the possibility of surveillance or real-world crisis, but the necessity to seek help in dealing with the emotional burdens that have clearly reached a point where the deserve primary attention.
It is a tough time for everyone. You need to take time to shore up your sense of identity and safety.
I know I am sometimes glib or react in anger on this list, but I have been doing counseling in this area for over 20 years. Fears are generated in our society where oppression and repression are a daily reality for many people.
Please do not take this a put down or as patronizing. You need to take a break and talk to someone you trust to get a sense of perspective and personal safety. In the current period this is a good idea for many people.
Best wishes.
-Chip Berlet
----- Original Message ----- From: "pms" <laflame at mindspring.com> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Saturday, September 22, 2001 2:56 PM Subject: It Can't Happen Here
> Just this morning I realized how much the media was in on this, how badly
> and statigically they were lying. And suddenly, it only makes sense if the
> govt has been taken over by ultra-right-wing extemists who, with the help of
> the media, intend to see many countries taken over by "muslem extremists",
> ie, violent, corrupt dictators with the Koran to guide them. We've told
> Pakistan to go ahead and built some more nukes and a blank check. We're
> going to install our own govt in the butthole of Russia/China/Iran. The
> other night on PBS, I thought it was kind of odd that the news went directly
> into a Bill Moyers thing that had a parade of people, trying to sound calm
> and scholorly, trying to explain what a disaster looked to be in the making.
> I guess I was counting on NATO allies but they are being misrepresented and
> ignored. Some things in my personal life that made no sense, some people.
> But they would if I were being surveyed. And had been for sometime. This
> is just sinking in for me. I'm going to a cook-out were this person will be
> today. He's been dating my best friend (and really only family, and her
> large family) for maybe a coupla years. I don't see him much and had just
> seen the true dual-ness of his personality. Sounds nuts but with all those
> billions, how hard would it be to engage people who subscribed to certain
> mags, etc. It would explain so much buggling too. Not everybody of course.
> But if 20% of the US and Pakistani power structure is in the hands of
> extremists, a co-operative media, others are sweep along. I hope I'm
> really, really wrong about all this
>
> With love and Respect
> Paula
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