On Sat, 07 Oct 2006 17:04:31 -0600, Rich Travsky <traRvEsky@hotmMOVEail.com>
wrote:

Doubledown wrote:

"Jan Panteltje" <pNaonStpealmtje@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:eg7sk2$irv$1@news.datemas.de...

The idea is to, in case nothing materialises in SETI, to create
an artificial threat.
This will then lead to the arming of every citizen in the world,
construction of a space fleet, many completely new kind of weapons,
and a large budget allocated by Congress to finance all this.

Not the same but similar to The Outer Limits series, "The Architects of
Fear". I think the idea was to bring the peoples of the earth closer
together to focus against a common enemy.

And the plot of The Watchmen graphic novel.

And Howard Fast's story "The Martian Shop"

http://www.trussel.com/hf/marshop.htm