If we're going to glorify 9/11 then...

[Hubert Flottz]

Why not remember the great BP/Halliburton attack on the Gulf of Mexico?

I'm sick of seeing Bush on my TV again every day!

[pinboy3niner]

1. 'Glorify' is not the best verb to use

'Commemorate' is probably a better and more accurate word. And no, a corporation's irresponsible--but unintentional--harmful actions don't quite compare to the intentional mass murder of several thousand human beings at once.

Unbridled (unregulated) capitalism does a lot of human harm. But if they were actualy trying to kill people, they'd do an even much better job.

And we are all sick of seeing Bush on our TV's again. :puke:

[Hubert Flottz]

5. 'Commemorate' yes but...

The cable networks who are into the nonstop 9/11 'Commemoration' Stop right when the first and second airplane are about to hit the buildings and try to sell you Progressive car insurance or Viagra. The corporate media bastids are using the deaths of all those people to push their goods and to promote the idea that only the GOP can ever save the country from more of what happened on 9/11. Bush WAS THE HERO! And all Bush did was head for the West Coast...

[VWolf]

2. Turn off the TV

It really does help.

[truebrit71]

6. I did that last week 'cos i was on vacation...and it really works...

...makes relaxing so much easier too...

[hobbit709]

3. There are two controls on the TV you can use.

1. Channel selector
2. On-off switch

[Hubert Flottz]

4. I picked OFF!

[Octafish]

7. Get with the, uh, program, Hubert Flottz!

Doncha know it's patriotic to kill kill? BP/Halliburton are entitled to make a killing, too.

My solution? More television. You'll feel fine in no time at all.

:sarcasm: for those addicted to watching the daily orgy of mass consumption, sandwiched between super-sized servings of violence, despair and hopelessness.



Something for those with the ability to still read:

Television Eye

Television Eye,
hypnotizing me in my bed.
I’ve got no time to sleep,
my eyes are turning bloodshot red.
You’ve got me in your eye,
staring at your many channeled head.

Television Eye,
before you got me hooked,
I used to read.
Now you’re by my bedside,
shining empty lights on me.
‘Round the clock commercials,
Trying to sell me things I’ll never need.

It’s hard to turn you on,
even though you’ve never turned me on.
Trying to slow my thinking,
I feel my mind is nearly gone.
Television Eye,
You’ve had me in your power too long.

I’ve got to be crazy or something.
It’s just ridiculous.
Why am I wasting time watching you?
I’ve got better things to do.
I’ve got to leave…

-- John Mayall



Now, IMFO:

If you can control what people think about, you can control what they do.

This is the essence of public relations, marketing and psyops.

And it is why the Bushies and the satanic turds they serve spend so much time and money “catapaulting the propaganda,” to borrow a phrase from an incurious monkey.



The nation's Founders mention only one business by name in the Constitution -- a Free Press. They knew, for a democracy to survive -- for our Republic to succeed -- required an informed citizenry.

(That was in 1776 -- before radio or photography, "General" Alberto Gonzales.)

Frank Capra explained it perfectly: “A free press means a free people.”

Meaning, the more the People know -- the more Truth -- the better the government.

And that is why the Press is no longer free. It is owned and operated by the BFEE.

So people don't hear the facts about Bush lying America into war. Or about his family and cronies profiting from war. Or about torture being employed on a mass scale. Or about spying on Americans... It's also why public education and the arts are de-funded and ignored.

As you and many DUers know, Hubert Flottz, an educated populace is harder to mis-lead. That makes us who've caught on to what spews from the TV during the 9-11 sale-a-bration the enlightened enemies of the fascist state.

[Hubert Flottz]

8. Managing the human herdism...

It worked for the Nazis by just using the radio the cinema and the newspapers...since the TV came along it's all right there at the flick of a single button. Why burn books anymore, nobody reads them? Too busy worshiping the American Idol.

Bush used 9/11 to turn America into a police state.dictatorship. The next republican in the White House might declare himself Fuhrer...on Live TV. All they need is another Pearl Harbor.

Edit to add:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1N4HPj85vjw

[Octafish]

11. I love John Prine! And that bassist's legs!

Sweet Revenge, Baby. Sweet Revenge. Without Fail.

[Hubert Flottz]

12. I'm a long time John Prine fan and...

"Those legs, go from the ground all the way up to Heaven," Porky Gerwig, pile driver, Navy veteran and adventurer.

[pinboy3niner]

9. One reason I don't relate to 9/11: Vietnam

Many who were profoundly affected by 9/11 had no connection to the Vietnam War.

But many who are older have connections to a far more devastating experience. Some of us fought in Vietnam. I did, and I knew more than 60 guys who died there. They were only a fraction of the more than 50,000 we lost, and the more than 1 million our "enemy" lost.

We feel the losses of 9/11 just like everybody else. But our perspective includes something far more horrible--and in many cases, far more personally devastating.

[Hubert Flottz]

10. I lost friends in Vietnam too and it was a sad time indeed.

So was 9/11. I saw so many people who "Were The Lucky Ones" that came back from Vietnam in bad shape too. Some came back with tons of time left in the Army and lots or problems that the Army tried to ignore. The Army had very little compassion or understanding for the returning combat vets that I served with in the US and in Germany.(70-71) I saw bad things happen to some combat vets that should have had help instead of scorn and ridicule.

I'm glad you made it back.