Mickey Z
Cool Observer
Monday, June 20, 2005
We don't need no stinkin' memos...
Much has been made of the now infamous “Downing Street Memos” but anyone who was paying attention doesn’t need a memo to tell them what they already know.
(Thanks to Latuff: http://www.deviantart.com/view/19655330)
It reminds me of an essay I wrote over two years after giving a talk on the 1973 U.S.-sponsored coup in Chile (speculating what that coup would be like if undertaken today).
Excerpt:
In today’s heavily conditioned American society, our ruthless leaders needn’t worry about something they say in private one day coming back to haunt them. Today’s architects of war would merely paint Allende as the “next Stalin,” Pinochet would hire a PR firm, and CNN would design a nifty “Showdown with Salvador” logo. A new moniker would be needed for The Red Hot Chili Peppers. Cartoon character Chilly Willy might become Free Willy.
In 2003, the policies of the U.S. government (and the corporations that own it) are carried out overtly, in plain sight...complete with press releases.
To read the complete article, please click here:
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Articles2/MickeyZ_RegimeChange.htm
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