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		<title>Threat Level: Pointless on Feed 44</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Oct 2014 19:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[C4SS Feed 44 presents Daniel Pryor&#8216;s “Threat Level: Pointless” read Christopher King and edited by Nick Ford. The only likely change in behaviour amongst the British public is a greater feeling of dread when they see someone who looks “a bit foreign.” This fearmongering serves the state’s agenda of control and power by applying the timeless...]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>C4SS Feed 44 presents <a href="http://c4ss.org/content/author/daniel-pryor" target="_blank">Daniel Pryor</a>&#8216;s “<a href="http://c4ss.org/content/31213" target="_blank">Threat Level: Pointless</a>” read Christopher King and edited by Nick Ford.</p>
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<p>The only likely change in behaviour amongst the British public is a greater feeling of dread when they see someone who looks “a bit foreign.” This fearmongering serves the state’s agenda of control and power by applying the timeless formula of uniting the population against “the enemy within.” It fits seamlessly into the narrative of xenophobia peddled by successive governments, so successfully that around three quarters of people in Britain are now anti-immigration. In the absence of any sort of protective value, Theresa May’s much-publicised announcement can be viewed as a further attempt to galvanise support for the next election. This support is built on the practice of blaming anyone and everyone but politicians for the country’s economic and social difficulties.</p>
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		<title>Livello di Allerta: Insensato</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2014 11:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Dio mio il livello di allerta a Londra è appena stato innalzato e mi è passata la voglia di uscire :(” Così diceva un sms di un mio amico. La recente notizia secondo cui il governo britannico ha innalzato il livello di allerta terroristico a “serio” riaccende il clima di paura, riflesso sui social media...]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>“Dio mio il livello di allerta a Londra è appena stato innalzato e mi è passata la voglia di uscire :(” Così diceva un sms di un mio amico. La recente notizia secondo cui il governo britannico ha innalzato il livello di allerta terroristico a “serio” riaccende il clima di paura, riflesso sui social media e sui maggiori organi di stampa. Anche ammettendo che sia aumentato il rischio di attacco terroristico, in che modo l’innalzamento del “livello di allerta” può far diminuire le probabilità che avvenga?</p>
<p>Ovviamente, il mio amico non ha cambiato i suoi programmi. Quasi nessuno lo fa. È probabile che l’unico cambiamento nel comportamento delle persone consista in un maggiore senso di paura quando vedono qualcuno dall’aspetto “vagamente straniero”. Seminare paura serve al governo, che ha tutto l’interesse a controllare e dominare la popolazione usando lo stratagemma di sempre: compattare la popolazione contro “il nemico tra noi”. Si adatta perfettamente alla definizione di xenofobia, spacciato dal governo con un tale successo che <a href="http://www.migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/briefings/uk-public-opinion-toward-immigration-overall-attitudes-and-level-concern" target="_blank">circa tre quarti della popolazione britannica oggi è contro l’immigrazione</a>. In assenza di qualunque genere di valore protettivo, il tanto pubblicizzato annuncio di Theresa May si può considerare un tentativo di galvanizzare il supporto in vista delle prossime elezioni. A tenere in piedi questo supporto c’è la pratica di scaricare le colpe dei problemi economici e sociali del paese su tutti tranne i politici.</p>
<p>Chi ha scelto di non prendere sul serio l’innalzamento del livello di allerta ha risposto britannicamente con la presa in giro, con <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/08/29/terrorist-threat-level-raised-twitter-responds-with-jokes_n_5737308.html" target="_blank">numerose parodie di #ThreatLevel</a> che fanno il giro di Twitter. Quando la <a href="http://blogs.tribune.com.pk/story/13262/london-olympics-2012-the-odds-of-dying-in-a-terrorist-attack/" target="_blank">probabilità di morire annegato in una vasca da bagno</a> è quattordici volte quella di essere vittima di un attacco terroristico, questa incuranza per i livelli di allerta del governo è comprensibile. Gli attacchi terroristici sono orribili, nessuno lo nega. Ma che voi (o qualche vostra conoscenza) possiate diventare vittima di un attacco terroristico è incredibilmente improbabile.</p>
<p>È vero che c’è qualche britannico che combatte per l’Isis in Iraq e Siria. Ma è anche vero che tutto questo strombazzare l’innalzamento del livello di allerta non potrebbe nulla se dovessero decidere di compiere un attacco terroristico. Forse se i politici sostituissero queste pose inutili con un esame del fallimento della politica estera, darebbero un vero contributo alla sicurezza dei britannici. Finché questo non avviene, non ci rimane che l’ironia cupa: gli “allarmi terroristici” del governo britannico non aiutano nessuno e, se presi seriamente, servono solo a creare altro terrore.</p>
<p><a href="http://pulgarias.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Traduzione di Enrico Sanna</a>.</p>
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		<title>Threat Level: Pointless</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2014 18:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Man the terror alert for London has just been upped I don’t wanna go out now :(”, the text from my friend read. The recent news that Britain’s government has raised its terrorism alert level to &#8220;severe&#8221; unsurprisingly prompted a renewed climate of fear, reflected on social media and in major news outlets. Yet even...]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>“Man the terror alert for London has just been upped I don’t wanna go out now :(”, the text from my friend read. The recent news that Britain’s government has raised its terrorism alert level to &#8220;severe&#8221; unsurprisingly prompted a renewed climate of fear, reflected on social media and in major news outlets. Yet even if we grant a significantly increased risk of a terrorist attack, how can publicly raising a &#8220;threat level&#8221; do anything to lessen that possibility?</p>
<p>My friend did not change his plans, of course. Few &#8212; if any &#8212; do. The only likely change in behaviour amongst the British public is a greater feeling of dread when they see someone who looks &#8220;a bit foreign.&#8221; This fearmongering serves the state’s agenda of control and power by applying the timeless formula of uniting the population against &#8220;the enemy within.&#8221; It fits seamlessly into the narrative of xenophobia peddled by successive governments, so successfully that <a href="http://www.migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/briefings/uk-public-opinion-toward-immigration-overall-attitudes-and-level-concern">around three quarters of people in Britain are now anti-immigration</a>. In the absence of any sort of protective value, Theresa May’s much-publicised announcement can be viewed as a further attempt to galvanise support for the next election. This support is built on the practice of blaming anyone and everyone but politicians for the country’s economic and social difficulties.</p>
<p>Those who chose not to take the raised alert level seriously displayed the typically British response of taking the piss, with numerous &#8220;<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/08/29/terrorist-threat-level-raised-twitter-responds-with-jokes_n_5737308.html">#ThreatLevel&#8221; parodies doing the rounds on Twitter</a>. When you&#8217;re nearly fourteen times more likely to <a href="http://blogs.tribune.com.pk/story/13262/london-olympics-2012-the-odds-of-dying-in-a-terrorist-attack/">die drowning in a bathtub than as the victim of a terrorist attack</a>, such disregard for government threat levels is understandable. Terror attacks are horrific, and no reasonable person would say otherwise. But you (or indeed someone you know) being a victim of an attack is stupendously improbable.</p>
<p>It’s true to say that a small number of Brits are fighting for ISIS in Iraq and Syria. It’s also true to say that making a huge song-and-dance about raising the terror threat level will do absolutely nothing to prevent them from staging a terrorist attack. Maybe if politicians replaced such needless posturing with an examination of the failures of interventionist foreign policy, they might make a real contribution to the safety of Brits. Until then, we are left with a grim irony; the British government’s &#8220;terror alerts&#8221; help nobody and &#8212; if taken at all seriously &#8212; only succeed in creating terror.</p>
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