From the Open-Publishing Calendar
From the Open-Publishing Newswire
Indybay Feature
This is NOT pearl harbor (not News)
is the reichstag burning?
IMCers MUST make it a point to stop the distortions that are already happening to this morning's attacks. this is NOT a "second pearl harbor", regardless of how many corporate news jackals and politicians say it is. this is the kind of language that justifies war and, as of this writing, there is NO NATION-STATE responsible (except the multinational corporate state itself).
whenever you hear anyone use the "pearl harbor" analogy, remind them that FDR knew about the japanese attack in advance and allowed it to happen so as to galvanize the US to enter WWII. feel free to extrapolate from there and draw your own conclusions about what happened this AM.
keep a clear head, stay focused, and avoid inflammatory jingoism.
Courage!
whenever you hear anyone use the "pearl harbor" analogy, remind them that FDR knew about the japanese attack in advance and allowed it to happen so as to galvanize the US to enter WWII. feel free to extrapolate from there and draw your own conclusions about what happened this AM.
keep a clear head, stay focused, and avoid inflammatory jingoism.
Courage!
We are 100% volunteer and depend on your participation to sustain our efforts!
Get Involved
If you'd like to help with maintaining or developing the website, contact us.
Publish
Publish your stories and upcoming events on Indybay.
Topics
More
Search Indybay's Archives
Advanced Search
►
▼
IMC Network
FACT: people die every day because of corporate decisions
FACT: today is no different
families, et al. when I state what should be obvious: that
what occurred today was both horrible and inevitable.
There are over 6 billion people on the planet and a very
small number of them are served by that monument to
capitalism once known as the world trade center. It was
only a matter of time before the building would once again
be a target of a terrorist attack (as it had in 1993). It
is somewhat naive to be surprised by this. As for the
Pentagon . . . nothing more need be said.
Today one of the national news outlets showed a clip of
people in Palestine celebrating the vulnerability of the US
by waving their arms in the air and flashing victory signs.
I fear that this sentiment will be terribly mis-understood
by the casual observer deeply shocked by the tragedy and
manipulated by those maudlin attitudes of the newscasters.
I keep thinking of this: what had happened to these people
that they would loose their humanity in dancing on the
graves of thousands of innocent people? I don't blame them
you understand, I have no enmity toward their feelings, I
am only disturbed that they have been brought to embrace
such feelings in the first place. We must ask ask
ourselves how have we come this far?
But the corporate news is focusing on other questions
clearly. I hear that this is an 'attack against the US' as
if it is the equivalent of the Japanese attack on Pearl
Harbor (one station repeated this ad nauseum). Was it as
bad as killing all those civilians at Hiroshima? Nagasaki?
And what about the killing of the first Americans?
Doesn't that constitute a domestic terrorist act of far
more damaging proportions? As usual true terrorism is seen
as only that which happens to us. Listen to how it is
characterized as 'cowardly' and how retribution is the
theme of the day. Is that the worst thing you can say
about someone is that they are cowardly? Are we supposed
to dig out the corpses of the hijackers from the rubble at
the WTC and kill them again? Revenge takes precedence over
justice once again. Will this nation ever learn justice?
Just a thought. Let's try to not get caught up in the
'spectacle' of reporting re:today's events. Already I hear
national security advisors quick to circle the wagons. The
border to first Mexico and now Canada has been closed?
Undoubtedly the fear of terrorism will be used as
justification for the suspension of many of our civil
liberties. Dissent, hardly tolerated in the first place
here in the US, will now be found as downright
un-patriotic. Mark my words: in a state obsessed with
terrorism the first casualty is always freedom.