For those of you who are not familiar with Southpark, there is an episode called "Imagination Land".

Basically, imagination land is where all the made up characters go. Jesus, fairies, leprechauns, santa, etc etc.

In the three part story, imagination land is bombed by terrorists. When you think about it, we see that terrorists ARE just purely imagined, as they LIVE in the world of the imagination.

I think the the makers were hinting us that terrorism is just a bunch of crap.
I have believed that terrorism has always been just a bunch of media hype. This episode just further affirms my thought.


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Discuss.

Yeah, terrorism is fake if you just ignore all the suicide bombings, training camps, guerilla attacks, beheadings and death squads.

Yes, the media hypes terrorism, but that doesn't change the fact that it's real.

It's very easy to say something is fake when you only see it through your TV screen.

Terrorism is real. It's who we're told is behind it, is the lie.

South park also shows us the truth behind CRAB PEOPLE.

Terrorism is partly true. but the media adds their part to it.

the crab people episode had a point. all those fuckin metrosexuals on TV just turn people into pussies. its part of the jew conspiracy . there the real crab people.

Terrorism is nothing without the media. Think about it.

Its a relative term. Anyone using force to frighten the public at large is a terrorist. I consider gangs to be domestic terrorists, and I'd really like to see them wiped out completely.

Terror works extremely well as a form of mass crowd control, especially on a cultrally insular population. Americans were terrorized into voting Bush into his second term, after being sold the 'John Kerry can't protect you' ticket.

But protection from what, exactly?

The statistical chances of an American being killed by a foreign terrorist are laughably small, where as the chances of dying from lifestyle induced heart disease are massively higher. The doughnut-shaped hand grenade Joe-the-obese-plumber is shovelling down his bloated throat, has got far more chance of killing him than the most demented Jihadi ever will. So where's the War on Doughnuts? Hmmm?

I don't see Krispy Kreme factories being blown up by amped-up American pilots, because the CEO refuses to hand over his Weapons of Mass Obesity (ever think about that; the sugar industry poses more threat to our lives than Saddam Hussein's Sarin, anthrax and VX stockpiles ever could - because he never fucking had any). Nor do I see U.S. Sugar CEO Robert Buker on the top of the FBI's Most Wanted list, despite having probably helped to kill more Americans than Osama Bin Laden.

So yeah, for GWB terror works real well, and a War on terror just ices the cake...

http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=3836 Guess what? He died mysteriously.

If terrorists are real then they could destroy far more than what they have already.

Why are nearly all terrorist attacks suicide attacks? If you are a civilian and you hear that there was a terrorist attack where the terrorists got away - you'd be far more paranoid, scared and less productive than if the attackers died. The 'suicide' part in a terrorist attack is just a regulator. It's so the community doesn't become too paranoid.

Seriously terrorists can remotely detonate bombs. Yet they don't. It isn't this hard in this day and age to build a remotely detonated bomb. All it requires is a mobile phone with the ringer taken out, the wires to the ringer connected to a relay, the high current side of the relay forms a circuit with a battery and a piece of nichrome wire. That seems far more sensible than killing yourself to detonate the bomb.

Terrorists are useful to take our minds off a larger issue. We are no longer nationalistic. We don't have a common enemy and common problems. We are more likely to revolt because we don't agree. The existence of terrorists makes us slightly nationalistic and more in favour of our government.