The BBC hired producer Adam Curtis to produce a mini series called "The Power of Nightmares". At the launch of the series the BBC told us that international terrorism is an illusion.
In the past our politicians offered us dreams of a better world. Now they promise to protect us from nightmares.
The most frightening of these is the threat of an international terror network. But just as the dreams were not true, neither are these nightmares.
In a new series, the Power of Nightmares explores how the idea that we are threatened by a hidden and organised terrorist network is an illusion.
It is a myth that has spread unquestioned through politics, the security services and the international media.
The series has now been made into a move and is being featured at Cannes.
So it really pisses me off when I find out the BBC have devoted an entire website to propagating this illusion and myth.
The site leads off with a time line of the rise and attacks by a mythical organization called al Qaeda. There's even a who's who of this invented organization and a "Where is Osama", a mythical being, that would do Waldo proud. The BBC website even chastises the US for forgetting the mythical war on terror they created.
Here is a sample of the illusions the BBC maintains.
Zarqawi and Bin Laden: Brothers in arms?
Does Bin Laden still count?
Al-Qaeda three years on
Terror warnings: How much to reveal?
War on terror Africa-style
Al-Qaeda 'role in Kenya attacks'
Bali bombers' network of terror
Indonesia's Muslim militants
Does it piss you off that the BBC are using our money to maintain a website to promote an illusion?
Or, does it piss you off that the BBC would use our money to produce such drivel as "The Power of Nightmares" in an attack on America? Drivel even they obviously don't believe.
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