Posted on 05/03/2004 11:42:06 AM PDT by raysol
> > by Charley Reese > > If you step back a moment and think about it, you will realize that you are > constantly being propagandized to approve of war - not just the wars in > Afghanistan and Iraq, but war generically. > > We should resist. War is killing, maiming and disfiguring human beings. It > is so disgusting and horrible in reality that even the most "realistic" > Hollywood movie sanitizes it. The news media sanitize it. The government > sanitizes war because it doesn't want you to see the coffins. Most of all, > it doesn't want you to see the bodies before they are put in the coffins. > The Bush administration's real beef with the Arab television station > Al-Jazeera is really nothing more than the fact that Al-Jazeera shows the > bodies. > > No, the Bush administration doesn't want you to see the bodies - not the > bodies of our men and women, and not the bodies of Iraqi men, women and > children. The administration wants you to see the war as an electronic game > with bright lights in the distance and good sound effects, or close-ups of > our brave warriors firing their guns at an invisible enemy. It doesn't want > you to see the torn flesh, blood, intestines, feces, urine. If you did, you > might not support the war, and billions of dollars depend on your support. > > The government line is that if you don't approve of the war, you are > disloyal. If you don't agree to give the Pentagon whatever it says it wants, > you are disloyal. If you don't agree to surrender your civil liberties to > the Patriot Act, you are disloyal. If you disagree with the Bush > administration, you are disloyal. If you disagree with the chicken-hawk > demagogues on radio and television, blathering about the war from the safety > of their studios, you are disloyal. > > This entire glorification of war - as if the whole and only purpose of the > government and the country were to fight wars - smells of fascism. The news > media glorify the war and militarism; we get the same dose on television, in > the movies and in video games. If the American people aren't careful, they > will wake up one day to find out they've become a nation of mindless > heel-clickers. > > America should not be about war. War is justified only in self-defense. > We've been involved in many wars, but the last war fought in self-defense > was World War II. That was also the last war that was constitutional, with a > formal declaration of war by Congress. Not one single poor soul of the more > than 100,000 Americans who have died in the Cold War and the hot wars since > 1945 has died in defense of America. > > The sad thing is that when the last soldier leaves Afghanistan and Iraq - if > that day ever comes - we won't be any better off. Afghanistan will still be > Afghanistan. Iraq will still be Iraq. There will be more graves, there will > be more Americans without arms and legs, but nothing will have changed. > Politicians will be searching diligently for more "bad guys" for the next > generation to fight. First it was the fascists, then the communists, now the > terrorists. Who's next? God only knows. > > We should not equate peace with weakness. We ought to be like the Swiss. > Their policy is armed neutrality. They have a sound defensive force and can > be in the field in 48 hours, but they will fight only if they are invaded. > They do not send their sons to foreign countries to die for political or > economic reasons. > > We should emulate the Swiss. No American should ever kill or die except in > defense of this country. And no corporation should be allowed to make a > profit off the blood of American soldiers, as is now happening in Iraq and > has happened in every war. > > An old Marine general had it right when he said, "War is a racket." Let us > all learn to hate it as it deserves to be hated. > > May 1, 2004
SCI Codewords are not double spaced. It should be:
T O P S E C R E T VIKINGKITTEN
Or if Kitten is a subdivison of SCI Viking it would be:
T O P S E C R E T VIKING KITTEN
Well, actually it was whan he withdrew his support from GWB, which was a year or more earlier.
Wonder if that's why he's gone from the Sentinel?
Good question. But I hadn't heard that before.
Okay, why did I
just visit Amazon for
"Catcher in the Rye?!"
Why does Swiss cheese have holes in it? Missy Dear Missy: A search on "swiss cheese holes" revealed that gassy bacteria are behind all that holey cheese. In order to make cheese, you need the help of bacteria. Starter cultures containing bacteria are added to milk, where they create lactic acid, essential for producing cheese. Various types of bacteria can be used to make cheese, and some cheeses require several different bacteria to give them a particular flavor. Propionibacter shermani is one of the three types of bacteria used to make Swiss cheese, and it's responsible for the cheese's distinctive holes. Once P. shermani is added to the cheese mixture and warmed, bubbles of carbon dioxide form. These bubbles become holes in the final product. Cheesemakers can control the size of the holes by changing the acidity, temperature, and curing time of the mixture. Incidentally, those holes are technically called "eyes," and the proper Swiss name for the cheese is Emmentaler (also spelled Emmental or Emmenthaler). Swiss cheese has been in the news recently because the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) created new guidelines that regulate the hole size of domestically produced Swiss cheese. The USDA reduced the standard size of the holes by half because new cheese-slicing machinery got caught on larger holes. The Swiss weren't pleased by the revised guidelines and insist that Emmentaler must have large holes. Considering how iconic those eyes are, we think they have a good point.
Just speculation.
But he really has changed his style since leaving the Sentinel. Far more ardent in his opposition to Bush.
I imagine that the editors in Orlando had imposed some restraints on him, and now that he's syndicated, he can express his views more freely.
Which leads to the question of media censorship.
That, obviously, goes two ways, left and right.
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