The Fear Factor

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Scared at the prospect of running your own country? Terrified about what the future holds? Haunted by nightmarish visions of deep uncertainty?

Explore your fears with this series of short films by Rough Justice. Here's the first one:

[youtube]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=xgkCXONOrg8[/youtube]

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Fear Factor #2 - 'Part of the Union'

We wax lyrical about the good old Union. You can't beat it. Even when it's created the 4th most unequal society in the developed world, a housing crisis, a banking crisis, a decade of war and Margaret Thatcher. An independent Scotland on the other hand...

[youtube]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=UaMw5GiXgWQ[/youtube]

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Fear Factor #3 - 'The Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth'

If only we could have an honest debate! This film looks at why this simply isn't going to happen. For starters an honest, rational conversation would make it impossible for fear, negativity and smears to remain the only subjects that get coverage (even when they didn't exist in the first place).

[youtube]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=YHmrpQ3wvM4[/youtube]

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Fear Factor #4 - 'Mean Scotland Syndrome'

The world's a scary place: terrorism, climate change and Tony Blair, have all served to destabilise a world in which everyone is out to do bad things to each other. This vision of the world is of course a by-product of the way that modern news media operates. In Scotland, where everyone gets murdered at some point in their life, it's even more frightening.

[youtube]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=cmys6YjYipw[/youtube]

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Fear Factor #5 - 'The Artists, The Press and the Black Black Oil'

Sometimes scary things do happen. Take for example oil baron Ian Taylor's attempt to censor a leading website for Scottish artists after they questioned his £500,000 donation to the no campaign. The Scottish press was too absorbed in its own death throes to notice.

[youtube]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=y1ls_0oxja4[/youtube]

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Fear Factor #6 - 'Attack of the Cybernats

Every day in Scotland thousands of pious unionists are abused online by vile Cybernats intent on forcing them, through tweets and blogs, to vote Yes. Strangely though, examples of this widespread behaviour are a bit thin on the ground. However this final instalment of the Fear Factor doesn't flinch from exposing this nasty side to the independence debate.

[youtube]http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=gP9Mr6zK5Vw[/youtube]