The Occupation Isn't Over.The War isn't Over.The Media is still our Enemy.

[frank frankly]

This is the stuff that makes me CRAZY. Did you have any idea that 14 soldiers died in the last week? Look at the number of dead soldiers used in this article. Look at it!

:mad:

Has the media no concept of consequence?

Do they think this level of corrupt stupidity can endure?

Can they not see that the ignorance and hatriotism they are sowing will eventually find THEM, even in their gated communities and country clubs?

I was at the Kerry announcement yesterday in Pittsburgh and I considered screaming at the assembled media wretches. I said to my friend that there is the enemy and I am silent. And I know that they are just people, many of them are of average to good intelligence, and they have bodies and homes and kids and they eat, sleep, and shit. I understood their humanity and the murdering ways of the fascists they are against.

I really considered it for a minute. I stared at them on their stage and I felt a mixture of things, including my own cowardice, a lack of the right words, shyness, stupidity, etc. I am not a black and white person and I labor to avoid saying things without qualifiers and asides and questions...as many here understand, it is hard to shout metaphysics. I didn't know how to do what I wanted to do, but, now, thinking about it, I wish that I had known what to do and that I had screamed at them. Because they should be screamed at.

When I read this GARBAGE about 644 dead soldiers, I feel only rage. I'll try to remember this feeling next time I see the media.

They need to be screamed at. They need to be shook out their fog. Fuck their haircut and cellphones and human worries. They need to do their goddamn job or we are going to be killed.

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http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200407/s1148503.htm

Four US marines killed in Iraqi operation

Four more United States marines have been killed in action in Iraq's restive Al-Anbar province, the US military said, taking its death toll in the region to 14 in just over one week.

<snip>

An Islamist website later carried a statement attributed to a Zarqawi group claiming responsibility for the deadly attack.

<snip>

"Thanks be to God, the toll was two helicopters down, including an MH-47 Chinook, and two Humvees destroyed with their occupants on board," it said on the a website.

<snip>

The latest deaths raised to at least 644 the number of US soldiers killed in action in Iraq since last year's US-led invasion.

[Mistress Quickly]

1. key phrase:

killed in action





parse parse parse - nothing to see here

:grr:

[frank frankly]

4. yes, that's how they do it. such lousy lousy lousy motherfuckers.

the kindergarten kids klub that is ABC loves to play with numbers.

maybe we should just send them all back to pre-school.

[tom_paine]

5. This is an old story, frank. The media are aware of NOTHING

but their own "human concerns" as you put it.

The Busheviks have forced corporate sea changes inthe media, changes that go to it's very core. They flooded the Free Press, with Mockingbird, Liars, Propagandists, and PR people, beholden to no ethic but the Party Interest.

Yes, they are the enemy. Yes, they will continuously downgrading casualty numbers in that gentle "Managed Democracy" way and continue injecting their Master's Will onto the Public Mind.

Hell, for all we know, that number was insreted by some of the Psyops Boys working in the Copy Room.

There are many ways to propagandize, there are many ways to subvert Free Institutions, and we would have to be crazy to think we know or understand them all.

They are like the "Monkeys and Cocaine" experiment, in which monkeys given equal and total access to food and cocaine took the coke until tehy died of OD and starvation. They feel nothing but the warm rush of Capital up their veins (and this from somone who very much agrees with Capitalism as economic system) and the self-reinforcement of the clink of champagne glasses at elegant parties. They see nothing nor care nothing of us unwashed Serfs.

And they cannot imagine where their derilection of duty will lead.

And yes, if current trends are any indication, we are all going to be something-ed. Maybe killed.

[frank frankly]

9. right on, tom paine!

"They feel nothing but the warm rush of Capital up their veins (and this from somone who very much agrees with Capitalism as economic system) and the self-reinforcement of the clink of champagne glasses at elegant parties. They see nothing nor care nothing of us unwashed Serfs."

THAT IS SO GODDAMN ACCURATE. We are the subject of relentless, nonstop propaganda. There should be no chance for us at all. Looking at those boundless pyramids, how can a human being feel anything except hopelessness? We are outmatched and the other side kills our leaders.

But here is the thing that my body/soul immediately conjures when I read your devastating words:

The ONE thing these fascists, in all their incarnations and varieties, have NEVER understood is the essense of the human spirit. Yes we are monkeys and monkeys are a fucked up animal. They aren't cats or dogs or horses. They like to laugh. Especially at pain. WE hurt each other and lie and steal and do things when no one is watching that we would not do when people are watching.

But we love our children. Almost everybody loves their children. And despite our cruelty, we are not inheriently cruel as a hobby. Cruelty is not what we are born craving. We are born craving love and warmth and...

They've never understood us. These gray zombies who have clusterfucked themselves into the cabal that is the Bush Administration are the last pharoahs. They are dead men and they want to bury us in the tomb with them.

But we don't want to go with them and we never have.

[cthrumatrix]

2. Different "puppet"...same master. Of course the media ignores it all

now...it's not thier sons and daughters dying for what?

[Minstrel Boy]

3. Just wait until they start counting the number of dead since

the "handover of sovereignty."

That's the point at which my head explodes.

[CWebster]

6. And they accuse Moore

of lies and propaganda.

[frank frankly]

11. yes they do

and they are lousy fuckers because of it

[Jacobin]

7. Wanna see the media in action?

Wait until Kerry is sworn in and the repukes start another attempted coup.

They will report like dogs on every slip, every single solitary thing that even looks bad, even if its not.

Fear not. The media will come alive and report all the bad things, blame Kerry for anything anywhere that happens and will decry his handling of IraqNam.

[TahitiNut]

8. Please note: This "ABC" is Australian Broadcasting Corporation

:shrug:

[frank frankly]

10. OOOPS!

i was talking about the Australian media all along...

;)