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Why The Surprise?: "I Want To Be A Pilot So That One Day I Can Bomb Americans!" |
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by Rick Giombetti
Email: rickjgio (nospam) spekeasy.org (unverified!)
Address: Seattle |
12 Sep 2001
Modified: 09:30:23 PM |
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Who saw it coming? |
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See also:
www.nonviolence.org/vitw
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Reactions (to article and to IMC 9/11 meeting. |
by M.K. Brussel
brussel (nospam) uiuc.edu (unverified) |
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12 Sep 2001
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A good statement! I digress but...
What the IMC should be doing ought to differ from what the general public is already being asked to do in response to the Sept. 11 bombings (e.g., giving blood, going to prayer meetings,…). As a media organization it should promulgate the idea that if we decrease the number of people who (have reason to) hate us, then we can be that much more secure. That is, if we change our policies against the oppressed and poor of the world, then we will have less to fear from them. We need to show the desperation which so many people live and which is a cause of their desperate actions. I.e., we need to emphasize the well springs for these terrorists' actions.
Bush et al. talk of war. This is an effort to condition the American people to accept that whatever we do is acceptable, state terror included. It also allows the US to promote a condition in which civil liberties are withdrawn and military budgets flourish. The security state is the cousin to the totalitarian state.
Colin Powell speaks of those who support terrorism, and who must be eliminated. He of course willfully ignores the USA record here, i.e., our training facilities for repressive régimes to teach them how to deal with (terrorize) their opponents.Remember the School of the Americas.
We also need to reveal what Norman Solomon has called the "hidden truths" unexposed in the reporting of U.S policy. Thus, when the Taliban or Osama Ben Laden is demonized, we ought to point out that he and the Taliban were in the past creatures of U.S. policy. Other examples of a similar nature abound.
Such ideas as these ought to appear in the news from the IMC, in letters to the N-G and elsewhere, and in remonstrances to our congressional representatives. |
