[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

. ... Politicians need fears to control the population. Lawyers need dangers to litigate, and make money. The media need scare stories to capture an audience. Together, these three estates are so compelling that they can go about their business even if the scare is totally groundless.

The whole aim of practical politics," wrote H.L. Mencken in 1920, "is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."

[ronnie raygun]

Let us not die at the hands of idiot fools (demoroids)

[the invisib1e hand]

wow. what a dose of reality: that picture (is it real?) and that quote.