Juror No. 8
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I know you do. The question here is WHY you think that.
Because this is what governments have always tended to do. They grow, because power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. People who get power usually don't want less, they want more. If a government doesn't have an excuse to grow, it will simply create the excuse (War on Terror, War on Poverty, War on Drugs, ,etc...) and then attack everyone who gets in the way.
As Hermann Goring famously put it:
Naturally, the common people don't want war; neither in Russia nor in England nor in America, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy or a fascist dictatorship or a Parliament or a Communist dictatorship... Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.
Of course, you can't just tell the people they are being attacked, you have to show them they are being attacked. That's not so hard to do, especially when you can just have the FBI bribe some desperate, mentally unstable kid with thousands of dollars during a historically bad economy to blow something up he otherwise wouldn't have considered blowing up.
What's the evidence to support it?
To support what, specifically?
Why do you think that, but I don't? What am I missing? Whats the root difference?
In your case, I'm not particularly sure. You might just be brainwashed really well and can't see what's right in front of your face. You might be a disinformation agent. You might also be suffering from extreme cognitive dissonance and, as a result, are in denial.
I don't really know.