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Monday, August 21, 2006

Paranoia

My jaw just dropped when I read some of the Lizards (Little Green Footballs) comments about the removal of two Asian looking passengers from a flight from Malaga to Manchester via LGF Watch - Beware the beards of doom! , I think its appalling the way those plane passengers behaved, how two innocent men were thrown off the plane simply for the colour of their skin.

Its this kind of mob mentality which led to pogroms, The Burning Times and the communist witchunts of the 1950s, people become completly irrational,reason gets thrown out the window and mass paranoia takes over.

This brings to mind an excellent season three episode of Buffy The Vampire Slayer

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Joyce Summers joins her daughter on a nightly patrol and discovers the bodies of two dead children. After Giles concludes that the children were killed as part of a cult sacrifice, Joyce organizes a group of parents dedicated to ridding Sunnydale of witches and other evil-doers. Their first act is to tie Buffy, Willow, and Amy to stakes and set them on fire, along with as many of Giles' occult books as they could get their hands on. Giles and Cordelia rescue the girls by revealing that the dead children are actually a demon that feeds on communal fear. Unfortunately, they arrive too late to stop Amy from turning herself into a rat to escape the angry mob.—Short synopsis by Fluff.
This exchange between Buffy and her Watcher Giles should give you pause for thought

Giles: (sits on the table) Some demons thrive by fostering hatred and, and, uh, persecution amongst the mortal animals. Not by, not by destroying men, but by watching men destroy each other. Now, they feed us our darkest fear and turn peaceful communities into vigilantes.

Buffy: Hansel and Gretel run home to tell everyone about the mean old witch.

Giles: And then she and probably dozens of others are persecuted by a righteous mob. It's happened all throughout history. It happened in Salem, not surprisingly.

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