Shouting a resounding “Boo!” to the Fright Meisters

Telling `Ghost Stories’ around the camp fire holds children enrapt to the teller of tale tales; an innocent enough past time before the tellers of tall tales became the agents of Big Brother governments. We now live in a world where governments stoop to attempts at frightening the masses for control. Mother Nature has long been the biggest star in true life horror stories, but now that government is living up to the principle behind no crisis should go unwasted, we’re beginning to see the foggy bottom at the end of the rabbit hole.

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Fear mongering by irresponsible agents of the government is a fast-growing cottage industry. This time last year it was the world wide Avian Flu pandemic scare. When the UN-controlled World Health Organization (WHO) put the bird flu back in their scare box of fright tools, many not only wondered where Avian Flu went but where it might hit next. Does anyone find it more convenient than coincidental that Avian Flu has turned up in Chiba City, Japan--arriving at about the same time as Friday’s devastating earthquake and tsunami? “First came the 9.0 earthquake, which was followed by a tsunami, which was followed by damaged nuclear energy plants. Now comes news of Avian influenza infection on Sunday among chickens at a poultry farm in Chiba City, Japan.” “Local authorities began culling about 35,000 birds at the poultry farm and restricted the movements of another 869,000 birds being raised within a 10-kilometer radius of the farm in question.” Chickens in Chiba must be immune to 9.0 earthquakes and tsunamis. How’s this for comment from Chiba Governor Kensaku Morita referring to the powerful quake during a press conference: “This is a very severe situation as damage from the huge earthquake is also serious.” Also serious? That could be the understatement of the century. Fear mongering fright 2: “A congressman is calling on the Obama administration to expand by 10 miles its distribution of anti-radiation pills to people who live within 10 miles of a nuclear plant in the event of a crisis like the one that has now gripped Japan.” (FoxNews, March 15). “Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass, wrote to President Obama’s science adviser, John Holdren, this week to begin enacting a 2002 law he authored that would have forced the Bush administration to expand distribution of potassium iodide pills--which protect against thyroid cancer after radiation exposure--to millions of people who live outside the 10-mile radius of the nation’s 104 nuclear power plants where distribution is limited to and at the will of states.” In those days politicians worried about al qaeda nuking nuclear power plants. These days it’s radioactive clouds coming over the seas to American’s west coast from Japan. The scare mongering seems to be working as one drug supplier says it has sold 250,000 anti-radiation pills to people in the U.S. concerned about possible exposure from Japanese nuclear reactors. And on the same day Obama’s hand picked U.S. surgeon General Regina Benjamin advised people to buy Iodide as a “precaution”. Things are going so well in the scare mongering department that Obama finds time to play hoops and golf and videotape his choices for March Madness before his trip to South America this weekend. White sheet draped `ghosts’ are shouting Boo! from all government portals. They hint that if radioactive clouds floating this way from Japan don’t kill you, global climate change will. Meanwhile, there have always been two meanings for the word “Boo!” one is to incite fear the other to verbalize disdain. It’s time to take the other “Boo!” out of mothballs and to shout it anytime Obama or any of his czars show up to scare monger in the public square.