The revelations about Prism, the monitoring program and generalized U.S. espionage have disturbed oils Washington. And for good reason: their nation that promotes democracy and freedom around the world openly wipes his feet on the international law and civil liberties. And Barack Obama, Nobel Peace Prize in 2009, assumes perfectly. Will be less credible in the meetings of the Board of Human Rights at the United Nations … To restore the plume to the stars and stripes, he had to find a solution, and fast. can not help imagining the meeting of U.S. policymakers, in the manner of Puppets of info more ” Mr. Sylvestre “together in an overheated room of the Capitol or the White House. And as in this sketch, “the greatest idea you’ve ever had was scared.” Fear, an old political mechanism as the world. “Keeping people in fear is keeping them in great power,” wrote Machiavelli. “There is more to tell the journalists to do the promotion, as usual,” even mock the Horns in their skit. It’s easy, but it is not so far away. Returning to our meeting in the overheated room: it is decided, the White House let fuiter information to New York Times , which relays. Promised, swore, spat, the leader of al-Qaida ordered a lieutenant to perpetrate a giant attack early August. The operation is a success. It is clear that without having suffered a terrorist attack in recent days, the White House has managed to terrorize its own citizens and those of the whole world. And drag in off that this vital information was collected through Prism. But of course it is! What better justification for the existence of this program and its ability to thwart a series of attacks? The publicity surrounding the embassy closures is unprecedented side of States, which communicate only rarely on the security measures they take in their diplomatic network. She is also on the side of the press, which has been lately thoroughly honor the conclusions of the Cardinal de Retz: “Of all the passions, fear is one that weakens the more judgment.” citizens, themselves, more or less accept the situation because they get used. And really, everything has already been said about fear, because again it’s a quote that sums up the situation: “There is a tacit collusion between those who fear and those who are afraid,” wrote Victor Hugo. However, does not go too fast. Alerts the last days were suspicious. A little vague. In fact, even if the Western world watched Barack Obama in his psychosis, Francois Hollande and Angela Merkel in mind, no one has had access to information. But, I promise, they are reliable! The most accurate and frightening since September 11, 2001, promises to be Washington. It will be remembered by the great acting skills of U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell at the UN when he said that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, and he had to believe his country speech. It was a big fat lie, uttered for the sole purpose of obtaining a resolution to legitimize the second Gulf War. Meanwhile, terrorism has achieved its goal: to terrorize a company to force it to change. Because the primary purpose of terrorism is not to cause death, but rather, to terrorize the living. And if we count the destroyed or reduced in the name of the fight against terrorism civil liberties was dizzy. The most symbolic, of course, is the airport: ranked as the sheep in endless queues, the brave travelers partially undress and completely by high-tech scanners that show their genitals forms controllers. And it does not bother (almost) anyone. But it is only symbolic. Much more serious are the legislative developments of the great democracies, which now include all the exceptions to the secrecy of correspondence, however, essential to freedom of opinion and expression. Hard won after the excesses of Richelieu in France, the principle that governs our Code of Posts and Telecommunications is no longer applicable on the Internet: Western intelligence agencies are tacitly (Europe) or formally (United States), authorized to search wherever they want. In the physical world, we invented Vigipirate. Its most visible measure is the establishment of military patrols in crowded places (stations, airports, etc..). At first, it was moved to see guns on the street, especially since we did not understand how they would stop the blast of a bomb, but it passed quickly. The population used to live in this constant state of funk, which still seems rarely justified. Since 1996 and the introduction of the modernized version of Vigipirate, expected to last a few months, no government right or left dared to lift the state of emergency in the French Constitution. A beautiful illustration of the prevailing consensus on the Hexagon on Security Policy, for those who still doubt that Manuel Valls is a continuation of Sarkozyism. However, a large part of the population is not aware of these changes is that it “has nothing to hide.” The real backlash will occur when democracies want to apply the principles virtual to the real world, rather than the reverse. That is to say, when systematically open all postal mail to find, perhaps, a letter from millions that evoke a possible attack. Or when close highways because sometimes the terrorists borrow. The problem is that on that day, it will be too late. “Fear is a tool [...] created and shaped by officials (or activists) who hope to gain a political advantage or because it can help them achieve a specific political goal, or because it reflects or gives weight to their moral or political beliefs, when it is not for those two reasons combined. ” Corey Robin, Fear, history of a political idea (given one year as a reference for the entrance examination in Institute of Political Studies).
“Fear is weakening as the judgment”
Our gift to terrorists
“I have nothing to hide,” it will change
