most of our elder statesmen are all war criminals. "fog of war," a documentary about robert macnamara, addresses that very well in a very unsettling portion where he describes the planning of the firebombing of japanese cities. i recommend it. also there is a film called "the trials of henry kissinger," which i haven't seen, but hear is good. also, please read "passionate declarations" by howard zinn so you can save me the trouble of typing the entire book into my livejournal.
i rarely discuss politics anymore with strangers or casual acquaintances. as the above exchange proves, its too easy to start a fight. when i try to explain to people what i know (and what i feel like they should know too) about how the world works, i feel like a white missionary in the jungles of africa, not sure if the antsy native will take the translation of the bible verse wrong and boil me alive for insulting his god. and its not even a "i know i'm right, you should agree with me sort of thing" --- i just hate having such subjects as the ones discussed above turned into stupid tit for tat arguments. well bush this and kerry that and saddam this and rumsfeld that. for once i want people to take a huge fucking step back from everything, and just think about how life works and how we feel about it.
think about what it'd feel like to be decapitated by terrorists. think about how it'd feel to have a cluster bomb dropped on you from a b-52 coasting 30,000 ft above. how it'd feel to have everything, or nothing at all. how it'd feel to lose a loved one as a "unfortunate" casualty of progress or change, for "freedom" or for islam.
i want to believe, for the future of our country (and mankind as a whole), that if someday when everyone can get the facts and see the things that have been hidden, and know the lies that have been told, and the shrouds pulled over their eyes finally disappear --- we might start to make decisions that don't involve suicide bombers or carpet bombing or freedom fries or first strike capabilities.
take for instance, jerusalem. conventional wisdom tells you not to try to make sense of the Isreal/Palestinian conflict, because they are all "animals out to wipe each other out." but would a rational, free thinking person look at it the same way when they take into account the billions of military aid isreal recieves from the U.S. one doesn't have to look any farther than the west bank to see that bush's brand of reactionary, kill em all foreign policy will never stop a terrorist threat. after all, those are u.s. built choppers firing rockets into palestinian ghettos, and they haven't done a damn thing in 50 years to stop some poor, desperate kid from strapping a bomb to his chest to make his god proud, his family rich, and take one for the team.
i don't know man, maybe i'm just being optimistic thinking that there's a good person in all of us. maybe if the convenient orthodoxies (lies) we've been weaned on were stripped of us, the majority of us would just move on to clinging to the thinner, more pathetic ones. at the very worst, i imagine many of us would resort to the tough guy, dog-eat-dog attitude aptly portrayed above, and insist on stubbornly clinging to immoral beliefs and ideals because, well fuck, what else are you gonna believe in.
if it weren't for Bush, we'd all be speaking German right now...aeromatic500July 30 2004, 08:02:59 UTC
But seriously, we're Americans, we're better than everyone. Those fucking diaper heads had it coming to them. I say kill 'em all, let God sort 'em out. Those faggot-assed left wing pussies are going to get us all killed.
Thank god we've got heroes like you who bravely stride forward when duty calls Just slow enough that people can still whisper in your ear And if compassion means biting your lip And posing for the cameras Then bravo! Well done Skull and bones.
If what it boils down to is that "you're either for us or against us," I guess I've got a tough, tough choice to make. 'Cause hollow patriotic actions and re-enactments don't move me. And mostly this 21st century brand of propaganda and rhetoric, Co-produced by Disney, and sanatized by CGI. Just makes me sick. And when I peer through. Through the red. Through the white. And through the blue. I can see people like you. Using tragedy to to advance your own narrow moral crusade.
i rarely discuss politics anymore with strangers or casual acquaintances. as the above exchange proves, its too easy to start a fight. when i try to explain to people what i know (and what i feel like they should know too) about how the world works, i feel like a white missionary in the jungles of africa, not sure if the antsy native will take the translation of the bible verse wrong and boil me alive for insulting his god. and its not even a "i know i'm right, you should agree with me sort of thing" --- i just hate having such subjects as the ones discussed above turned into stupid tit for tat arguments. well bush this and kerry that and saddam this and rumsfeld that. for once i want people to take a huge fucking step back from everything, and just think about how life works and how we feel about it.
think about what it'd feel like to be decapitated by terrorists. think about how it'd feel to have a cluster bomb dropped on you from a b-52 coasting 30,000 ft above. how it'd feel to have everything, or nothing at all. how it'd feel to lose a loved one as a "unfortunate" casualty of progress or change, for "freedom" or for islam.
i want to believe, for the future of our country (and mankind as a whole), that if someday when everyone can get the facts and see the things that have been hidden, and know the lies that have been told, and the shrouds pulled over their eyes finally disappear --- we might start to make decisions that don't involve suicide bombers or carpet bombing or freedom fries or first strike capabilities.
take for instance, jerusalem. conventional wisdom tells you not to try to make sense of the Isreal/Palestinian conflict, because they are all "animals out to wipe each other out." but would a rational, free thinking person look at it the same way when they take into account the billions of military aid isreal recieves from the U.S. one doesn't have to look any farther than the west bank to see that bush's brand of reactionary, kill em all foreign policy will never stop a terrorist threat. after all, those are u.s. built choppers firing rockets into palestinian ghettos, and they haven't done a damn thing in 50 years to stop some poor, desperate kid from strapping a bomb to his chest to make his god proud, his family rich, and take one for the team.
i don't know man, maybe i'm just being optimistic thinking that there's a good person in all of us. maybe if the convenient orthodoxies (lies) we've been weaned on were stripped of us, the majority of us would just move on to clinging to the thinner, more pathetic ones. at the very worst, i imagine many of us would resort to the tough guy, dog-eat-dog attitude aptly portrayed above, and insist on stubbornly clinging to immoral beliefs and ideals because, well fuck, what else are you gonna believe in.
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who bravely stride forward when duty calls
Just slow enough that people can still whisper in your ear
And if compassion means biting your lip
And posing for the cameras
Then bravo! Well done
Skull and bones.
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I guess I've got a tough, tough choice to make.
'Cause hollow patriotic actions and re-enactments don't move me.
And mostly this 21st century brand of propaganda and rhetoric,
Co-produced by Disney, and sanatized by CGI.
Just makes me sick.
And when I peer through.
Through the red. Through the white.
And through the blue.
I can see people like you.
Using tragedy to to advance your own narrow moral crusade.
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