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Turning the screws: America in a Vice

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tjm

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Date Posted: 12/15/05 9:12:51pm
In reply to: pjk 's message, "Re: re-vise" on 12/15/05 11:38:13am

it's an informative esay for those who have not read about these things or for those who are naive enough to think that the US has been given a magic wand by the grace of flowering kharma to do away with the dark side of human nature.

unfortunately one has to deal with enemies in this world. i am not suggesting that torture be used or forgiven. and ms. klein is right to compose the essays that drive forward her cause.

information is good.

i will suggest that there is a segment of intellectuals and journalists today in this country that seem to be gratified most when the US and republicans [whoever they are] are in their vice and squeezed.

it's quite easy to do actually. when god was invented, they forgot to tell him to make the world perfect. when you are at the top of the heap, those below tend to try to knock you down. it's not a complicated phenomenom to understand.

i excuse nothing or no one.

but i do excuse myself from self-feeding such a steady diet of negative and myopic writings that stop at nothing to paint the picture of the US as the source of most of the problems in the world today when in reality the US has part of the solution for most of the global problems for a long time.

discussions about the 'dirty wars' and 'the school of the americas' and the nuns and priests killed in the southern worlds deserve all the attention of the world. but our direct roles in theses episodes seems to pale in the face of the sacrifices we've offered the world time and time again.

one does not approve the other.

but this camp of thinkers pounds and pounds at the
underbelly of possible worsts and spray paints the slogan

"we suck and we don't even know it!"

wherever the acrylic will stick.

there's propaganda in our midst again. you just have to choose how much of it you want to eat. if you eat enough asparagas, your expirations will turn green.

i seek a well balanced diet so i graze from a many pastured field.

i do appreciate the link to the article. thanks pjk. i like peoples' thoughts too.

i do feel that there is a lot of self-flagellation in certain intellectual circles. it drives an agenda that i am not a part of so therefor so many of the missives put forth from these camps strike me as jaded and bitter.

i interviewed Daniel Berrigan once as the sole non-credentialed person at the press meeting when he spoke at our campus in 1982. the moronic questions that were put to him were so insulting, he just cringed and tried to disappear in his chair over the span of the interview. they tried to make statements that were, in my memory negative towards US policy and wanted him to say 'uh-huh' and they'd print it as his words. it was an eye opener. then he said to me, 'don't you have any questions?' and, well, i did. i opened my little moronic poetry journal and read some questions to him and let him talk and talk and the session took off and i wrote it down as best i could but recorded it and wrote a transcription for the campus paper. some of the best quotes he gave were in response to my stoned brained know-nothing questions that i got from reading his poetry and writings the days leading up to the interview. my point is: the professional journalists there who got paid to do what they do only wanted one thing: for daniel berrigan to help them make THEIR f$%^&*g point, not his.

they do their job and i'm glad somebody does it but personally i have lost so much respect for writers in places like the Nation, NYT, and the like and it's become so predictable with the biases and the agendas...i just feel alienated and unhappy about it. to me that's a form of abuse of power.

mirrors don't speak in tongues of half-truth.

but i keep moving.

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