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They’re burning kids alive over here!
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The fact is, to quote our late unlamented Secretary of Defense …
(Honest to God, Joe, as I’m typing this, I’m overhearing a conversation by some fellow in this corporate office where I’m a contractor — his comment, and I quote, is "Do you know anybody in the Air Force? Because my brother is over there and he called me and said ‘They’re burning kids alive over here!’ We gotta find some way to make people hear this.")
Okay, that was disturbing, but it makes my point. To quote Rumsfeld, "We don’t know what we don’t know." The news media, from NPR to the Washington Post, is owned by the same corporations that are supplying weaponry for this occupation.
It’s the stories that AREN’T being covered that are the most important.
Are Iraqi children being burned alive? If the news refuses to report it, how would we know? Are American citizens being disappeared? If the news doesn’t carry the story, we would not know.
Even when we know of people being disappeared, such as AP photographer Bilal Hussein who has been held almost two years without charges, is it the lead story in the news? Or is it barely mentioned anywhere?
Why not? Because the corporations that pay for the elections of our Congresspeople and that run the news organizations and that supply the weapons in Iraq, these corporations don’t want us discussing Bilal Hussein at the water cooler. They want us discussing Lindsay and Brittney and Madeline McCann, safe, non-political issues.
(Wow, this is weird. Now I just got a text message from a very conservative, non-political friend of mine: "23,000 civilians died in Iraq in 07. Worse than 06. how does this make the usa better than sadham. Geez. Terrible." All original spelling.)
I dunno, Joe. I started this message intending to reiterate Pablo’s warnings. But what I’m experiencing is that some of us DO know what’s going on, and we’re finding our own ways of communicating that news, independent of corporate-owned media.
Maybe that’s what it takes — going AROUND the bastards.
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