".....but there is one difference
between Us and Richard Nixon --
he told his psychiatrist that when he
looked in The Mirror in The Morning,
there was no-one there ....
.....when We look
in The Mirror
in The Morning;
We think We're Too Fat."
Richard Nixon — Paranoia and Moral Panics
This is a film about how all of us have become Richard Nixon
just like him we have all become paranoid weirdos --
It's the story of how Television and Newspapers did this to Us and how it has paralysed the ability of Politics to transform the world for the better --
Once upon a time, politicians believed they could Change The World -- one of them was a Labour MP called Roy Jenkins
"....an attitude of conservatism would be very unbecoming to The Labour Movement.... we exist to change Society...."
In the 60s Jenkins radically reformed Britain -- he used His Power as Home Secretary to help get rid of laws against homosexuality, abortion and divorce, and oversaw the end of The Death Penalty --
The Press and much of The Public hated it; but he refused to bow down to the pressure -- because he was an elitist;
He knew it was good for them.
But then Richard Nixon came to power in America;
He saw himself as An Outsider and he hated Elites
He was convinced that many in the east coast establishment secretly ran America in their own interests : snooty academics, liberal foundations, film stars, Heads of Big Corporations and even The CIA --
In Nixon's mind they were all part of a hidden corrupt Network; and what's more, They were out to destroy him.
So Nixon set up a covert operation to bug and smear all these enemies -- but in 1972 they got caught bugging the Democrats in the Watergate building Nixon tried to cover it up but he was exposed by The Washington Post as a result of Watergate investigative journalists in America and Britain became the heroes of the age in the' 70s they uncovered all sorts of bad people that's your words who often beat them up let's go but then the journalists began to uncover the strangest thing they found corruption in the heart of the elites who ran their country politicians and civil servants took bribes the security Services assassinated people illegally right policemen concocted evidence and sold drugs
I'm here to look into the disturbing case of Mrs Joyce Brown
and even senior doctors covered up terrible mistakes and as the journalists exposed all this they began to sound : like Richard Nixon.
That there really were hidden conspiracies in the heart of The Establishment --
And then in an even stranger twist. the journalists found an unlikely Ally : Mrs Thatcher.
Mrs Thatcher wanted to roll back the power of The State and to her, the professional Elites, the civil servants, lawyers, doctors and the broadcasters -- were all terrible Hypocrites.
They talked loudly of public duty but secretly they were running things in their own interests so she spent the ' 80s attacking these groups as a threat to Britain helped by rert Murdoch who did tested elitism in Britain and America they hate to see someone communicating with the masses they feel that newspapers the written word is not for the masses that should be left to television or perhaps to nobody but there's a great sort of elitism
But then in the 1990s the journalists became even more like Richard Nixon -- like him, they started to see hidden enemies everywhere;
They were enthusiastically supported in this by some members of the middle class Elites : doctors psychiatrists and academics -- who reinvented themselves as experts -- who said that they too could identify dangers lurking just under the surface of our everyday lives that we couldn't see --
Experts uncovered hidden threats like sexual abuse pedophilia and even networks of satanic abuse on a vast scale doctor believes that many multiple personality patients were sexually abused by satanic cults other experts predicted hundreds of thousands would die from the epidemic of BSE cjd medical experts said that millions of people were going to die from different forms of animal flu doctors have discovered a new disease which they say shows a possible link between Autism and the routine childhood vaccine M others said that thousands of children were at risk of autism from the mm arger Terror experts said there was a global hidden network of sleeper cells that had the power to destroy Western society and then it got worse other experts said you couldn't even trust yourself your own body was an enemy obesity is now a disease of epidemic proportions just makes you paranoid you look at yourself in the mirror every day I think people just think I really want to look like that cuz it's just everywhere we're obsessed with food I've actually had my stomach stap and I'm on anti-depressants using all the best available science
Thirty years ago, journalists bravely exposed the corruption of those in power, like Richard Nixon -- but now The News and Television programs have ended up taking serious Threats to Society and exaggerating and distorting them.
By doing this, They have created a widespread mood of fear in society and a suspicion of those who lead us and in the process millions of us have become exactly like Richard Nixon -- paranoid.
And if any politician tried to do what Roy Jenkins did 40 years ago, to change Britain for The Better against public opinion
We, and The Press would destroy them
-- but there is one difference between Us and Richard Nixon -- he told his psychiatrist that when he looked in The Mirror in The Morning, there was no-one there ....
.....when We look in The Mirror in The Morning;
We think We're Too Fat
