FEAR

I don't watch much TV but I saw a trailer for a BBC documentary called Cold War, I remember it well, mainly through youthful eyes riveted to Spitting Image puppets mocking World leaders and endless espionage films where the enemy, 'Those Commie bastards' used propaganda and lies to control the masses(sounds so familiar) but their greatest weapon against their enemy, namely the USA and their British co-conspirators, was FEAR. There was public information films and endless TV documentaries explaining 'the effects of' and 'what to do in the event of' a nuclear strike against mainland Britain. This stoked the fires of hatred and fear even more. Later when I was in the Navy there were the hours and hours spent shadowing Russian Naval vessels. Although we apparently came very very close to the almost total annihilation of the human race, in the end fear was the only weapon actually used in great salvo's against friend and foe alike. A war of the mind against the human imagination.

This was a time when the RAF had bases everywhere, when a fleet review saw warships in rank and file as far as the eye could see and we had an army that was the envy of the World, Britain was capable of kicking arse anywhere on the globe at a moments notice. Small boys played war games with toy guns and adults were staunchly patriotic, proud of the achievements of a ruling Empire long gone.

When the World super-powers sat round a table and thrashed out an agreement for nuclear disarmament and started to cut the number of weapons of mass destruction(remember that phrase?) within their arsenals. There ceased to be a recognisable enemy, there ceased to be a 'fear' with which the Government could control the masses by feeding a united national identity. They started a rot that would eat away at the Great in Great Britain, allowing the liberal Do-gooders to convince a nation to distance themselves from the horrors of war, they gave birth to a new mindset and slowly 'national pride' and 'patriotism' was relabelled as 'Nationalism' and deemed reprehensible, eventually that label attracted skinhead racists, fascists and extremists(oh yes, we have them too), slowly growing into something a whole lot worse. After being drip fed on lies concerning the concepts of collectivism and equality, the touchy-feely influence of the caring Do-gooders have encouraged the common people to absolve themselves of their personal responsibilities towards one another and break from the spirit of community, relying more and more on an increasingly all-powerful State to bind society together, and I'm pretty sure it's failed.

2014 will welcome the 100th Anniversary of the outbreak of the First World War, The Great War, The War to End All Wars... but where the Germans attempted(twice) and failed, the Do-gooders have succeeded by stealth, by the over encouragement of multiculturalism resulting in the smothering of our own culture and the erosion of our own ethnicity into a minority within our major cities, the invasion is complete.... and they're still being welcomed.

I have said before that this is no longer the land that our fathers and grandfathers were prepared to die for, they spilled their blood in the soil for freedom, honesty and for a people of common decency and respect for one another. Would they still so willingly go to their deaths to preserve a generation of complacent, egotistical people who cared nothing for the sacrifices they made.

The politicians today still use lies and propaganda in influence the voters by instilling fear, a lesson learned from the cold war leaders, they use phrases like 'National bankruptcy,' 'Cost of living Crisis,' 'Child poverty' and 'Enforced Austerity' .... hmmmm people on the so called breadline, fighting for survival, listen to these words and fear that they may not survive the winter. So they let the kids entertain themselves for a minute on their laptops, iphones and x-boxes so that the parent can flick through the hundreds of Fear spouting channels on one of their super-sized HD smart TV's with surround sound, wondering how they will be able to afford their next tattoo. They end up so depressed that they can't be bothered cooking for the kids and they send out for a bumper sized pizza with all of the trimmings, half of which will end up in the bin. Is life really so bad here?, are we really fighting for mere survival?..... then why do tens of thousands of foreigners give up livelihoods, their homes, their families and their culture to move to Britain for a better existence....

Since the Cold War ended and we as a nation ceased to have a recognisable enemy, the Government with the aid of the media gave us something else to fear.... each other!

I really must watch 'COLD WAR' on BBC 2