Reality TV - Triumph of the Thugs

[donsu]

http://www.counterpunch.com/rhames01062007.html


To welcome in the New Year, the United States goon squad currently dismembering Iraq murdered its president. Mr. Hussein spent his last night being taunted by his jailers and executioners. Reportedly, he asked only that he be allowed to sleep. But instead he was heckled, and the reputed noose which would soon break his neck brought to his cell and displayed. Early in the morning he was taken from his cage, his hands bound and his legs hobbled so that he could only shuffle to the gallows.

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I saw the thing on TV only once. But I was struck by the image of this guy, this dignified guy, surrounded by these other burly guys who were all dressed up to Knock-over a liquor store. They had the black leather jacket thing going, the black ski masks----you know, they looked like "our kinda guys." Yes---Freedom Fighters. But it got worse. Shortly, another video surfaced. Its quality was crude and jumpy, apparently shot by a cell phone camera, smuggled into the death chamber.

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But it seems to me that the furtive video (combined with the official one) offer a provocative window through which the uninitiated and distracted American public might get a sense of what the $1.25 TRILLION being spent on this campaign has bought.

There's some interest. Former Pfizer Vice President Peter Rost, M.D. was one of the first to post the cell phone video. He reports, "Out of the thousands of visitors viewing the video on my site, those visitors included CBS News, the Department of Defense, and the Department of Homeland Security. After all, they couldn't view what happened through any official channel." And predictably, there's now great enthusiasm for tracking down the culprit who revealed the state secret that our national treasure has brought to power a brutal mob of knee-cappers, assassins, and yes-men.

A picture is worth a thousand words, it's said. And these pictures, revealing as they do the assertive composure of Mr. Hussein----surrounded by our entourage of creepy jackals and stone killers, all hopped-up on their dark work---- ought to tell us something. If, that is, we still have any capacity left with which to comprehend reality.
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drag them out of our White House, our (ugh) Pentagon, our Capitol, and the bought Media and throw them into prison, (not the private owned prisons).