Re: (TV) Well...

["J.Germaine" <jpg55@home.com>]

Right On!!

> From: DonaldMallen@webtv.net (Donald Mallen)
> Reply-To: tv@obbard.com
> Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 21:05:52 -0400 (EDT)
> To: tv@obbard.com
> Subject: (TV) Well...
> 
> In reply to all of the commentary regarding 9/11, and the response, as
> posted in TV# 494, I add the following (not ot, but here I can express
> myself freely without getting shot by some "patriot").
> I found the attack to be truly abhorant, and yes, it demands "justice",
> but I find the frenzy of the public utterly frightening.  Am I the only
> one to see the spector of "1984" here, with the instantly designated
> enemy, the media-orchestrated moments of hatred mixed with sorrow mixed
> with lets-all-be-united-and-wallow-in-our-trauma, jr. prez making the
> most of an opportunity not to look like the befuddled asshole he truly
> is and, "make no mistake about it", failing miserably (would you really
> trust this guy to wage a barbeque let alone a war?).
> Don't get me wrong, I pray for the dead, I grieve for the family &
> friends, and I'm all for efforts that make all (I include everyone here
> - our English and Swedish friends, European, Asian, and Arab friends as
> well, since the threat affects us all) of us better human beings instead
> of cretins -- I just have to be skeptical when I get the feeling we're
> being manipulated.  I get dumbfounded & pissed when I hear "normal"
> folks talk about thrashing some guy because "he's from 'over there'";
> or when a neighbor states that I'm not patriotic because I'm not flying
> the flag (while we're standing behind my car with the "combat-wounded
> veteran" license plate); or when our attorney-general (the last
> Confederate general) tells us that in order to protect me he has to
> suspend my civil liberties.
> I fought with the Marines in Vietnam: it infuriates me to hear the
> clamor for war when it comes from those who not only have no fucking
> clue what war is, but know damn well they ain't going to have to fight
> in it!  
> If it was up to me (there's an amusing thought!), it'd go down like
> this: develop positive intel (money buys you ANYTHING), then take-out
> the guilty, including those who are working on becoming guilty.  I can't
> see killing some ordinary joe Afghani bustin' his ass trying to feed his
> family just because Ofuckme bin laden bought-off the Taliban and is
> using his inheritance to make the world more horrible than it is.  And
> I'd also take-out the Taliban while I was at it, for all the horrors
> inflicted on their own people.
> I'll shut-up in a moment.  Just need to say that shit happens, even bad
> shit, but life grinds on.  For the sake of all who've died, as well as
> for those of us still here, pick yourself back up and get on with the
> business of living.  We'll be joining the departed again eventually.
> 
> Don Mallen
> 
> (while it's still up to me, I'd also declare Television to be a national
> treasure, Tom Verlaine to be poet-laureate, the Star Spangled Banner as
> performed by Jimi Hendrix to preceed all sports events, and marijuana to
> be not only legal but mandatory)
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