The Explosive Truth about American Government: The Causes and Goals of Citizen Submission Often people don’t realize when they are being manipulated, but it actually happens quite frequently. When being manipulated, the average American citizen is often in the dark and doesn’t really know what is actually going on. By opening up a discussion of the complexities of government control, light can be shed on this manipulation that plays in our everyday lives. The American government often forces and manipulates their citizens into submission without them even realizing it. The American Government gains control through scare tactics such as nuclear weapons, the concept of the Pan Opticon, and the NSA’s regulation of the internet; citizens need to take charge and
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Nuclear weapons were created to kill, nothing less, and they are the most dangerous machines ever invented. Not to mention they extremely difficult to manage. The Pentagon has long claimed that only 32 serious accidents have occurred with American nuclear weapons, but a document that was obtained through the Freedom of Information Act listed more than a thousand accidents involving US nuclear weapons just between the years of 1950 and 1968 (Schlosser). Almost 70 years have passed since the destruction of Nagasaki, the last time a nuclear weapon was used against a civilian target. During the destruction of Nagasaki, everything within a half of a mile of where the bomb was dropped was completely obliterated and all Japanese homes within one and a half miles from the drop site were destroyed. There is no longer a need for such a killing machine to exist on this earth, and this incident should be a morbid lesson learned
Nuclear weapons were created to kill, nothing less, and they are the most dangerous machines ever invented. Not to mention they extremely difficult to manage. The Pentagon has long claimed that only 32 serious accidents have occurred with American nuclear weapons, but a document that was obtained through the Freedom of Information Act listed more than a thousand accidents involving US nuclear weapons just between the years of 1950 and 1968 (Schlosser). Almost 70 years have passed since the destruction of Nagasaki, the last time a nuclear weapon was used against a civilian target. During the destruction of Nagasaki, everything within a half of a mile of where the bomb was dropped was completely obliterated and all Japanese homes within one and a half miles from the drop site were destroyed. There is no longer a need for such a killing machine to exist on this earth, and this incident should be a morbid lesson learned