Mickey Z
Cool Observer
Monday, June 20, 2005
We don't need no stinkin' memos...
Mickey, what you say is too true. U.S. citizens don’t need the DSM because they don’t need the facts. The truth has become irrelevant. The fact the so few are concerned about all of the civilian deaths in Iraq, shows us who we have become. We are a nation that takes glory from and celebrates the slaughter of innocent civilians. That is who we are. We have become Death.
Posted by rosemarie jackowski on from 06/20 at 07:55 AMright, we didn’t care much about exterminating Native Americans, slaughtering Filipinos, obliterating Hiroshima and Nagasaki or napalming Southeast Asia (etc., etc.)...so we’ve been Death from the very beginning.
Whether you look at Iraq Body Count (25,000) or the Lancet study (100,000 +++), the average US citizen hasn’t batted an eye. Not to mention the fact that this is just the beginning, even if we left today death would continue for the foreseeable future in the chaos we have created and because of the DU we have scattered throughout the country.
No stinkin memos are going to change a damn thing.
The lack of outrage is criminal.
Posted by James on from Puerto Rico 06/20 at 08:43 AMRosemarie may be too modest to point out her writing, but here are some related comments on her latest article:
http://www.pressaction.com/news/weblog/comments/1740/Posted by Mickey Z. on from Astoria 06/20 at 10:04 AMHi Mickey -
Yes, you’ve hit a nerve, here. People simply aren’t paying attention. Chomsky believes it is because people are generally convinced that everything is twisted and corrupt and that they have no power to effect any changes. He says the Elites are delighted that people have “given up” and feel a generalized “hopelessness.” From their point of view, it’s all the better.
Some people, unfortunately, have lapsed into a sort of strange militarism. I read an e-mail at 3rd World Traveler, recently, where a guy said: “I’m sorry, I just don’t care about the 3rd world. If we weren’t already bogged down in Iraq and Afg., I’d say we should just nuke the whole bunch of them - they’re useless anyway.” Wow.I read Rosemarie’s piece - a nice job, eh? You two are inspirational, MickeyZ!
I also read your piece at Counterpunch. Very nice work. Very scary stuff. You know, I read some stuff about the physicists who worked on the Manhattan Project. Before the initial test, many physicists truly felt that the explosion might ignite the ( hydrogen? ) in the atmosphere, and that a huge area and maybe the entire earth could be vaporized by the blast. Some of them were betting on whether or not Nevada, at least, would be fried. The horror is that they exploded the bomb, anyway! This puts some of the insanity of our sending plutonium / nukes into space into “context,” eh?
Nice work, you guyz. Thanks. - joe
Posted by joe on from Oregon 06/20 at 03:52 PM
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