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Jun 10 11 10:39 PM
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Agreed with deejay once again, and would further amplify a distinction between the kinds of allowed but meaningless, apolitical, pseudo-expression (the co-option of the potentially game-changing flash mob concept into a cute and cuddly tv show, for instance) and what occurs when real speech is attempted.
An example would be what happened when an elderly veteran (to bring things back to the original intent of the thread) gently stood up and quietly turned his back on Hillary Clinton at a press conference (she's the US Secretary of State for those who may not know) a few months ago.
Having been through a metal detector, and clearly an elderly man in no way a danger (except to the perpetrators of oligarchic, military-corporate control of US policy under BOTH wings of the duopolistic political system), he was tackled, dragged out (unresisting), bloodied, arrested, handcuffed, and had to be hospitalized.
For standing and turning his back on the US Secretary of State.
Freedom of Speech, but you better watch what you say (and to whom you may peacefully turn your back) as Ice-T has opined.
Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama, Clinton - the faces and names (well, not so much the names, at least lately) change, but the Republocrat Party does not.
Clinton didn't miss a beat in her speech, of course, which was to praise the - wait for it! - expressions of political independence in the Middle East then occurring!(!)
And speaking of the Middle East and perpetual war and extended peace...
Whether you experience relative peace or a state of oppression/war depends on where you live, and what color/gender you are, and to whom you pray, or if you pray at all.
If you were the wrong gender (female) in the Eastern part of Germany when the Soviet forces arrived in WWII, you were going to be the victim of violent sexual assault - millions occurred - many (theoretically) AFTER the war ended.
But I'm still waiting for World War II to end.
When the Soviets rolled into Berlin, Stalin - a more ruthless mass murderer than Hitler, though less racist and more the paranoid pragmatist - became the "new" problem. (Of course, Trotsky's pre-war predictions - for which he was at last murdered by Stalin - about exactly what Stalin was about had prefigured all this.)
The Cold War had begun, but really, WWII had continued - like some modern movie cut into two pieces and released as two flicks when really the same story.
When China rumbled on its southern border, the Korean War ensued.
When Iran sought and elected independent leadership, that was crushed.
When nations in Southeast Asia attempted self-rule not in keeping with (departing?) colonialist's wishes/plans for their future, millions in Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam would die at US hands.
South America? The same story, but played out in somewhat more discreet scenes, and over a greater period of time.
Saudi Arabia and Egypt?
Huge recipients of US "aid" (ie: funds to be funneled back into US arms purchases, and used by US-supported dictatorial regimes to terrorize and oppress the populations), and to the same degree as Israel, a nation which has occupied, displaced, and continues to oppress the Arab-Muslim population with full US support. (But at least Israel isn't as brutally oppressive to its women as Saudi Arabia is to its female population, where women may not vote or drive or even leave their homes without a male relative. If sexually assaulted? Blame/whip/imprison the victim.)
The US may tut-tut these things when the inevitable "over-reaction" (mass murder, torture, etc.) by "our friends and allies in the Middle East" occur, but the money and the arms keep flowing.
The protesters in Egypt?
They're being rounded up, tortured, tried and imprisoned by the same military that formerly supported the disgraced figurehead. When the true (military) powers that be saw the people rising up, they simply waited until the heat was off to do what the Mubarak would have done if still empowered by them: round `em up, terrorize `em, torture `em, jail `em, keep `em in line.
All on the US dime.
All with your tax dollars, kids.
And then there's Afghanistan and Iraq...
And let's not forget Libya!
Of course, we don't like Libya's (and also, Iraq's former) leadership, so
those
countries are fair targets - really, Iran too! - and can be bombed, invaded, torn apart, marginalized and so forth.
There are good dictators and bad dictators (and military powers behind them), and the good ones are good because they do what we in the US want, when we want, and how we want it.
The bad dictators? They get it wrong. Saddam invaded Kuwait because he misunderstood what and whom he was allowed to terrorize/kill, and who not. (Kuwait was a no-no, but he could kill all the Kurds he wanted to, of course.)
So all that - and all that I'm not mentioning (in Africa apart from Libya and Egypt, for instance) looks like perpetual war to me.
But forgive me - what I meant to say was:
whassssssupppp? lol-I M sooooooo drunk!?! woo-hoo!
God bless the freakin' USA where Im free to get dronk and hoot at football games (though not during the solemn singing of the national anthem, or the fly-over that follows) and vote for the latst corpoorat candidate who will promiss me--wait? what?> lol--I mmm sooooo dronk
sext me!!!!!!
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