infomercials for war

[david turgeon <david.t@xxxxxxxx>]

At 07:51 2001-09-13 +0000, you wrote:
> Ward: Well, now you know that you are in a huge minority tonight 
> [...thinking we shouldn't be hasty with "retaliation".]

HUGE MINORITY???  what a load of shit.  most of the messages i've seen so 
far on every mailing list i frequent talked of compassion & not being too 
hasty.  this "huge minority" is in fact not so huge, it may not even be a 
minority, & the concept itself was entirely constructed by media to begin with.

for a while on mailing lists, the "other" opinion wasn't so different from 
compassion, though it may have been too harsh sometimes in its assessment 
of the problem, that the USA may have just "deserved it"...

the tables were beginning to turn as the TV news unfolded, then you began 
to see people saying "you know, MAYBE THEY'RE RIGHT & we should bomb the 
fuckers AS THEY SAY..."  of course, they're talking of the least trusted US 
administration in decades, but no matter.  all day long, TV news came with 
the same loop...  even in canada.  an infomercial for war is what it 
was.  only seen ONE news item on CBC yesterday along the lines that "the US 
may want to look into the fact that it was really begging for something 
like this to happen".  will the media moguls have the balls to pretend that 
it "balances it"?  & people wonder why i have something against 
repetition.  repetition makes people think they are right about anything 
that is repeated.

if you believe in so-called democracy, then there is one option for 
you.  OPPOSE ALL WAR.

fight the abuse of your brain: give some credit to your OWN reason & don't 
be a casualty of the infowar, like the interviewer quoted above.

to all of those personally touched by the event, my sympathies.

~ david