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The Control Factor: Our Struggle to See the True
Threat
February 8, 2013 By Jamie Glazov Comments (6)

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THE
CONTROL
FACTOR

Our Struggle to See the True Threat

BILL SIEGEL

FrontPage Interview’s guest today is Bill Siegel, a lawyer and
business executive. He has been a producer of several documentary films and assists numerous non-profit
organizations. He is the author of The Control Factor: Our Struggle to See the True Threat.

FP: Bill Siegel, welcome to FrontPage Interview.
Congratulations on this brilliant book. It is without question one of the most vital works of our time.
Let’s begin with what inspired you to write it.

Siegel: Thanks for having me Jamie. As a young boy born in the mid 1950s, I was fascinated with footage
of Hitler and the Third Reich and could never understand how the Jews of the time could not see the evil
that seemed so obvious. Not yet appreciative of the benefit of hindsight, I could not comprehend the
blindness. Following 9/11, like so many others, I began to study Islam, its history, its current movements,
terrorism and so on. As I would learn one stunning aspect after another, I would discuss them with friends
and associates. Rather than confront the facts I would present, they would find one clever way after another
to avoid the frightening truth of what America and the West truly face. Their fear appeared obvious to me. I
began to catalog many of my friends’ different maneuvers to dispel the anxiety that they found so difficult
to endure. The more I focused on their mental processes (as well as my own) the more I began to see a
structure to the mental endeavor and to understand what I had, as a child, found so difficult to explain.

FP: Tell us about the Control Factor, what you describe as “that effort our minds enga ge in in order to keep
us blind” and that “process of a voiding seeing the threats we face.” It’s also about, as you state, trying to

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